Sentences with phrase «human conscience»

An unjust law, however, «is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law,» and therefore has no binding power over human conscience.

The rule of law normally guarantees justice, yet in individual cases, strictly enforcing the law may upset human conscience in creating injustice or disproportionate consequences.

That this provision has now been challenged by a health board is deeply troubling and symptomatic of an aggressive pro-abortion regime; it is also a sign of a weakening in regard for human conscience as the safeguard of human dignity.

Without anger, she adds, even the praise of God dissolves into a «dreadful cheer,» a smiling blindness to the world's woe, a gleaming - gummed oblivion to what Luther called the bruised human conscience.

Fading fast, too, are the chances of ascribing individual criminal responsibility to the patrons of such crimes, who are given a far too liberal reign to reshape the borders and histories of entire nations without the necessary scrutiny called for by a fragile human conscience and a full and impartial review mandated by law.

In recent years, researchers have addressed such thorny questions as: why would altruism evolve, how did human conscience emerge, why does it feel good to be nice, and what causes us to give in to prejudice and hatred?

Here, as in other pursuits, human ingenuity has a way of outrunning human conscience, and some things we do only because we can — forgetting to ask whether we should.

But standing in that crypt chapel in Kraków, one is reminded that the young priest saying his first Mass in that same dimly lit chapel back in November, 1946 was not Blessed John Paul II, the Pope who saved Poland and led the charge of human conscience that vanquished communism.

Others don't even discern the conflict since the human conscience, like the human intellect is not infallible.

Such goodness, wherever we find it, comes from the prompting of God through the human conscience which naturally seeks Him, even if we do not recognise it at the time.

While this relativity can be interpreted to mean that values are wholly defined by the circumstances of culture and are merely expressions of cultural exigencies, the insistent pressures of the human conscience, oftentimes in contradiction to accepted cultural norms, render this interpretation doubtful.

There is no sphere of life where God is not active through the law that impinges on the human conscience.

God speaks the law through the structures of creation, impinging on the human conscience.

The Nine are beings that have come to earth in order to bring forward a shift in the human conscience.

That law speaks in the human conscience and is expressed by the Ten Commandments.

Second: Someone once said, «the human conscience is immune to coercion».

This is the question that must be forced upon every human conscience by our increasing awareness of the tide of anthropogenesis on which we are borne.

Regardless of one's position on the theological issues here, it's plain to see that if the members of the Southern Baptist Convention intend to hold to their exclusivist position consistently and condemn as dangerous all who seek to harmonize scripture with the human conscience, then it's time for them to confront their own theological accommodations and declare the unconverted child as hopeless as the unconverted adult.

Any effort to understand what is now taking place in the human conscience must of necessity proceed from the fundamental change of view which since the sixteenth century has been steadily exploding and rendering fluid what had seemed to be the ultimate stability — our concept of the world itself.

Further, we can not leave out of our consideration the action of the human conscience, however variable and misguided it may sometimes be.

Well some believe that we live in a world that just randomly put together and that the human conscience or whatever you want to call it just randomly enter or form or how ever you think just come into existence.

As Newman is always being quoted as a vindicator of the human conscience, it is instructive to see how he viewed the episcopal authority which was placed over him when he was a member of the Church of England and in particular with reference to the government's role in the question of the Irish episcopacy and the foundation of a bishopric in Jerusalem.

As Newman is always being quoted as a vindicator of the human conscience, it is instructive to see how he viewed the episcopal authority which was placed over him when he was a member of the...

Long - term, the human conscience will not.»

This severing of public and private morality, of capital and community, generates new costs of its own unrelated to unemployment — costs to human conscience.

It is a kind of shock therapy, appealing to the human conscience in the same way that Gandhi's willingness to suffer sought to awaken his opponents shame and repentance.

Driving an S.U.V. or eating a 24 - ounce steak or illuminating your McMansion like an airport runway at night might come to be regarded as outrages to human conscience.

There is a danger that the human conscience of consumers is dissipated by the simple fact that, for the majority of people, farming and slaughter processes are frankly out of sight and out of mind.

Maya astronomers sought to predict eclipses, which they likened to the galaxy taking a breath and which influenced the human conscience.

Playing something like High Noon meets «The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street,» 1945 replaces the Cold War paranoia of Fred Zinneman's anti-Western and Rod Serling's Twilight Zone classic with a thoughtful meditation on the inescapable grasp of the human conscience.

However, Pearl has managed to hold onto her human conscience, and she relates that she is not the only one this has happened to.

Human conscience must play a distinctive role in how we determine the ethical consequences of out actions in the future, and this, of course will affect the future of cultural globalization.

It implies that when there is no existing law specifically on point, weapons that «shock the human conscience» can be regarded as unlawful in anticipation of an explicit ban.