Sentences with phrase «human goodness»

I was moved to tears by this story of human goodness and the courage to do what is right.

Whenever human goodness and wisdom acknowledge their limits, justification begins to make sense out of life.

However, this simple human goodness of the family is fragile.

With his innate sweetness and basic, self - destructive belief in human goodness regardless of the horrors that beset him, he's a fit Gen Y Eddie Bracken here for Gomez and Steinfeld's manic conceits.

So comparatively to Wolfe and Percy, the agrarians appear as a relic and perhaps (at least in some cases) too one - sided in their «phenomenological» descriptions of the way that the problems and the possibilities for human goodness if not greatness appear today.

However, combine this with the irrefutable observation of humanity that would see human evil as universal in its scope, and combine this with the fact that the VAST majority of human beings disagreed with your interpretation of essential human goodness, and the force of the conviction steels itself.

Which means that this definition of grace might actually make Christianity worse than other religions in which human goodness is critically important.

All the others depend on human goodness.

Anyhow, neither of these men seems to believe in natural human goodness or perfectibility.

The new church, in spite of whatever human goodness it may foster, can be henceforth counted on as a staunch ally in every attempt to stifle the spontaneous religious spirit, and to stop all later bubblings of the fountain from which in purer days it drew its own supply of inspiration.

He regarded himself as a loyal member of the Church of England and was a zealous attendant at Divine Service; yet with his views about the impersonality of the deity and the mere surpassing human goodness of Christ, he can hardly have taken the Apostles» Creed literally.

As a Christian, I embrace him not because of my belief in universal human goodness or my perception of the commonality of our faiths, but because I am trying to follow a Master who came to me, a stranger, and embraced me as a brother, and who bids me do the same to others.

However, they also highlight the immense capacity for human goodness present in the midst of this complexity.

Helen, I've been thinking about your statement about grace being necessary due to how we frame the question about human goodness.

Only if it can be shown that human values exemplify a basically different structure from that defined by the primordial nature of God is it true that Whitehead's God is irreconcilable with human goodness.

The Christian «vision» that frames this principle disposes practical thinkers to adopt a «realist» stance in public life, resisting both naïve illusions about the possibilities for human goodness and cynical dismissals of moral accountability.

We have to reckon with the precariousness of human goodness; I say to reckon with it, neither plunged by its recognition into despair, nor evading its acknowledgement in order to defend against all criticism that goodness whose reality we feel menaced, if once we admit the threats that hang over it.

«Theology in a Time of Disillusionment» (1931) notes that, while earlier liberals placed their faith in human goodness and in progress, Niebuhr's contemporaries are disappointed with humanity, its politics, its machines and its science.

About human goodness: Jesus» words imply that he cares a great deal about human goodness.

Notice, if human goodness is prompted by something less than the full demand of the universal community of good, then no matter how courageous and high - minded it may be, Somewhere this limitation will be revealed.

However bitter our disillusionment with human goodness, there are stronger scientific reasons than ever before for believing that we do really progress and that we can advance much further still, provided we are clear about the direction in which progress lies and are resolved to take the right road.

If teachers of status, whether priests or layfolk, do not accept themselves and do not teach to others the doctrine of life and human goodness that Jesus taught on earth and still teaches in His Church, they will not form within others the true identity of the real, the living Jesus.

Important as this struggle for relative justice is, it betrays the inadequacy of human ethics and human goodness to establish a righteous order.

Pacifism need not be politically naive, nor need it place undue faith in human goodness.

But the Church of Christ is convinced that sexual relationships outside marriage are not the authentic expression of loving and that such actions constitute an erosion of human goodness and a negation of human dignity.

For it denies that there is any analogy between divine and human goodness themselves; it asserts only that divine goodness is to God's nature as human goodness is to man's nature — in other words, that each is good in away appropriate to its own nature.

With great performances all around, including from Stacy Keach as an old frenemy of Woody's, the film is pitch - perfect in its observations of human goodness and venality.

Spielberg will never sidestep his longing for human goodness, so who would have guessed that he could wear misanthropy so well?

The Compassionate Instinct: The Science of Human Goodness.

Last Light occasionally gives you a flash of hope, a moment of human goodness, but it's also more than willing to show the bad as well, to show the helplessness, sadness and horror that nuclear war could bring down upon us all.