Sentences with phrase «human fallibility»

What we need to do in order to grasp its meaning is to give full recognition to both elements, and the divine message will shine through with greater richness and power if we understand something of the channels of human fallibility mixed with high insights through which the message comes.

Besides, no theocracy was ever established by human hands and whenever it was it was always a human work sustained by human fallibility, injustice, error, and oppression.

To think that we actually achieve otherwise, no matter how ideal, is admirable, but unreaonsable given human fallibility.

As Don Browning, director of the Religion, Culture and Family Project at the University of Chicago Divinity School, has argued, churches that have articulated a normative theology of the family, tempered by a strong emphasis on human fallibility, are often better equipped to speak frankly about departures from their ideals and to offer services to members who have fallen short of those ideals.

The divine message will shine through with greater richness and power if we understand something of the channels of human fallibility mixed with high insights through which the message comes.

The book is something more - close to perfect, I would say - but since both incarnations emphasize the importance of tolerating human fallibility, I won't make too much of the discrepancy.

In becoming incarnate, God's sovereignty assumed human fallibility.

Having uttered one of the most moving speeches in all of Shakespeare's plays, he is deaf to another, Portia's «quality of mercy» speech, which closes with a reminder of universal human fallibility: «Therefore, Jew, / Though justice be thy plea, consider this, / That in the course of justice, none of us / Should see salvation.

It's letting you read this right now, because the internet is magic — but we're also learning the horrors of what happens when technology is paired with regular human fallibility.

Coach Daugherty of Michigan State had a calculated plan for victory, but at the last moment human fallibility spoiled it

Smart cars that need no driver could be the solution to human fallibilities behind the wheel (20 July, p 3).

Thayer set out to understand why people aren't always rational when making economic decisions and to design a model in which market outcomes consider human fallibility and cognitive biases.

When Ona explains the Guinness World Records to Belle and Quinn, she observes: «How tranquilizing it was to arm yourself with information, how consoling to unpack the facts and then plant them like fence pickets, building a sturdy pen in which you stood alone, cosseted against human fallibility.»

No general contractor can possibly oversee every one of these elements, and the very nature of human fallibility dictates that some mistakes and oversights will occur, even when the most talented and best - intentioned tradespeople are involved.

Peters» merging of the ancient and contemporary is often irreverent, with allusions to sex dolls, ventriloquist dummies, puppets and aliens, undermining the authority of the past, highlighting human fallibility and questioning notions of power.

While legal publishers use their best efforts to deliver current content, economic reality and human fallibility impose practical constraints on what is delivered.

After struggling with the issue, the Court erred on the side of protecting the almost sacrosanct attorney - client privilege, holding that, «[o] n balance, and perhaps with some indulgence for human fallibility,» defendant satisfied his burden of showing that he took reasonable steps to preserve the confidentiality of the communication.

This book addresses how organizations can deal with human fallibility in order to create space for excellence at work.

Given human fallibility, that is inevitable and unremarkable.

A strong case has been made by F. J. E. Woodbridge that Plato not only does not seriously regard his «perfect state» as realizable, but that he means to make us see the error of imposing perfection too rigorously on human fallibility.3 Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward illustrates the utopia which becomes a persuasive call to radical social reforms.4 It also illustrates one of the functions of utopian thought as a medium of realistic criticism of the present.

The book is something more — close to perfect, I would say — but since both incarnations emphasize the importance of tolerating human fallibility, I won't make too much of the discrepancy.

But «Killing Them Softly» is also pleasingly anti-macho in presenting the world of gangsters as a chaotic shit - show forever undermined by human fallibility.

Where are the professors... who will stand up and declare that the presumption of innocence rightly gives expression to both the belief in the dignity of the individual and the awareness of human fallibility?»

For all of us human fallibility, accidents, illness, political events and death overtake what we imagine should be the normal course of our lives.

Babies know about as much of human fallibility and dependence upon God as they will ever know — and perhaps even more than we will ever know.

While I agree with your overall premise that it's ok to show one's human fallibility, I'm afraid I have to take issue with some of your points.

But this statement makes no sense, unless there is some way of finding out within the limits of human fallibility that there are times when we do not make a mistake.

Another way to put that is to say that organized religions compel their members to embrace history, including historical relativism and human fallibility, including their own limited, historically predetermined selves.

argued that the American experiment, rooted in Aristotelian prudence and a sense of human fallibility and evil, is a bracing corrective to the ideological and utopian thinking of Europe.

This feeling of confidence is central to decision making, and, despite ample evidence of human fallibility, the subjective feeling relies on objective calculations.

Primal Scream's «Loaded» not only plays during the opening credits but uproariously provides the words for Gary's eventual climactic defense of human fallibility.

Alex Garland delivers a visually stunning, coolly affecting allegory for life, loss and human fallibility.

«Dear White People»: Justin Simien's debut film sputters and sizzles with energy, making for comedy that says something and drama that finds the humor in human fallibility; it's been a long time since a debut by an American writer - director showed so much coordination between its ambitions and execution.

All of these reasons are cases of human fallibility.

She continued to «hand make» her paintings, allowing slight imperfection to refer perhaps to human fallibility.

Something about the cheery, bright colors in Walter Robinson's work evokes the dreamy pleasures of childhood at the same time that it plunges us into adult - size recognition of the eternal recurrence of human fallibility.

But they can also be pushed into different depths, their heads can overlap and they can stick out at slightly different angles, although the variation of angle, because it's barely exploited, is probably just an accident of human fallibility.

Although they are mostly without human subjects, his images offer evidence of bad luck, failure, misplaced faith, tenacity, and human fallibility.