Sentences with phrase «human centeredness»

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He belongs to our race, sharing our propensities and temptations, bearing our human responsibilities and enduring our human weakness; yet in him the sin of Everyman, the inward - looking self - centeredness which bars the way to communion with God because it tries to establish and justify itself over against God, is overcome.

The third and most important cause of confusion and conflict in the moral enterprise is the human tendency toward self - centeredness.

If I can never adequately state the significance of my relationships with those whom I love in this world, or give a neat description of how I can overcome the alienation and estrangement of myself from another, or describe with any fullness what it means to be accepted by another and loved in spite of my deficiencies and my self - centeredness, I can never state in other than symbolic idiom the opening of further human possibilities with the overcoming of human deficiencies in my relationship with God — a relationship that has been broken by my willfulness and sin.

Systemic suffering and social malfunctioning, therefore, are caused by human greed, self - centeredness, an illusion about power and control, racism, sexism, imperialism, ethnocentrism, and other factors.

But human greed, pride, selfishness, self - centeredness, and alienation make it necessary for Christian theology to combine faith and reason in the quest for transformation and reconciliation.

Being finite and fallible human beings, we need to guard against the conclusion that there is no self - centeredness left in us.

In even our best acts, we humans seem to have an inescapable self - centeredness that causes us to deify ourselves, our cultures, our religions, institutions, sacred books, the things we make....

It is the demand inscribed into infinitely aspiring human nature by the Creator; its perversion in idolatry, hostility and self - centeredness is the heart of man's tragedy; its reconstruction, redirection and empowerment is redemption from evil.

Human spirituality can be either true or false - either related to the ultimate meaning and fulfillment of life revealed in Christ or simply created by people in their self - centeredness and rejection of God, and therefore idolatrous.

By providing us with One whom we may love and serve without reservation, Christ delivers us from self centeredness, that turning - in upon ourselves which is the root - meaning of human sin.

In our present state of human nature, lust accompanies our sexuality and, if not countered, prevents sexuality from being a school and a means of love, and turns it into an obsessive form of self - centeredness that tends to make others into objects of gratification or exploitation, and not persons to be respected or loved.

I agree with the latter group because I take seriously the theo - centrism or «God - centeredness» of that faith and the obvious fact of human finitude.

Prayer, like worship, is a purifying of self, a disinfecting of human life from the germs of false self - centeredness.

Tawney said that the man who «seeks God apart from his brethren is likely not to find God, but rather the devil, whose face will bear a surprising resemblance to his own» That is, unless we broaden our perspective and correct our idiosyncrasies by sharing with our human brethren, we are in peril of conceiving God simply as ourselves writ large, with all our peculiarities, self - centeredness, and imperfection.

Its founder, Rudolf Steiner, looked into the future and saw that, in order to combat an age of growing materialism and self centeredness, a new approach to education was needed — one that took into consideration the spiritual nature of the human being and the cosmos — one that considered the interdependence of the natural world and the spirit.