Sentences with phrase «human self assertion»

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Human self - adoration and self - assertion as the measure of our own truth and goodness is actually the negation of that destiny, the rejection of the One in whom it is given.

The most important application of this assertion is to the human soul or self, but I have taken it to have universal application.

The sixth Christian assertion tells us that human existence is in defection from its proper potentiality, from the true self, from God, and from other human beings.

Of course the sexual aspect of human life can become (as Augustine saw, and as Freud and others have reiterated in our own time) an area in which proud assertion of self for self alone brings disastrous consequences.

Niebuhr quoted with approval a comment that most «religion» is unbridled human self - assertion in religious disguise.

Since there is no escape from self - assertion in human life, there is no escape from conflict, nor from coercion which is covert conflict.

He believes that in the human situation we are inevitably involved in the sins of pride and self - assertion.

The other truth is that in all human conflict there is probably an element of sinful misuse of freedom and of self - assertion at the expense of the real good.

The gospels indicate that like all humans he struggled with the temptation to self - assertion, but that he conquered the urge to make his own personality into a cult object.

First in our consideration of the process - relational view of the self is the assertion that the human person is a highly complex psycho - physical organism.

The human impetus to create self - prints can be as simple as a child's finger painting, and as poignant and poetic an assertion of one's presence in the world as the stenciled, silhouetted outlines of human hands found in prehistoric cave paintings — both gestures seeming to declare: «I was here.»