Sentences with phrase «humility because»

Any good scientist has tremendous humility because he knows how little he knows.

This will always be about the concept of continuous improvement, continuous engagement, and framed within the understanding that we all require humility because the work of progress is, by its nature, a work in progress.

«You need humility because you know you can be wrong, and when you admit that you stress caution by assigning a margin of safety to your investments so that you don't overpay for them.»

It also requires practicing humility because we all have lots to unlearn and learn.

It's an excellent way to say «hell yes I was right» while still maintaining a sense of humility because you're not going all the way and bragging about it.

That is not humility because you believe that man can know or will know or that it was anything but God at the point of creation.

I think the Church today lacks humility because the narrative is that American evangelicals are awesome and they've always been right.

I am saying tread with humility because these are extraordinary accusations to make of anyone.

Plus, the gospel rejects such false humility because it makes real objective claims about real life.

Not exact matches

Own your mistakes and move forward with humility, knowing it's okay to make mistakes because you are human.

He took the lowest road, the humblest form, the surest pain — all because He is truly great, and that greatness led Him to the deepest humility.

It was because of his loving confidence and his humility (cf. Numbers 12:3.7 - 8) that Moses was called to the summit of the mountain to be with his God and hear his word.

Should forgiven man cease being humble because the bourgeoisie has exploited humility?

I must concede this because regardless of my confidence in my reasoning, I can not know for certain and in order to maintain some smidgen of humility and intellectual integrity, I have to acknowledge the possibility of gross error on my part.

Indeed, we are perhaps in greater danger, because we think that our theorizing is the same as a true Christian life of prayer, faith, self - denial and humility.

Jeremy, My hair is almost as long as yours now, because the self - flagellating attitude displayed in your last comment has inspired me to try to better your humility.

Most won't do it because it requires the humility to admit that you are spiritually blind.

he insists IT IS harder for a Rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven because of all the «stumbling blocks» that are «part and parcel» of being rich (Greed, lack of humility, trust in wealth for protection, etc, etc, etc).

@Lucy Mother of Jesus is not a idol although demons can use sometimes appereance of saints, that's why a gift of distinction is important and all humility, because demons are masters of deception, they lie if they can...

As a group, Christians and others may come to understandings on love or compassion or certain universal concepts... but even they wouldn't say that the «god» they know is exactly as they describe him... in part because you can't have that kind of universality without also haveing the humility to know you only have partial comprehension in the face of an infinite, and ultimately unknowable, god.

Catholicism / Christianity seems to be more challenging for me because it requires work, discipline, forgiveness, change, humility, repentance, obedience and prayer.

Although I never met him, I know from mutual friends that Leff's Yale Law School colleagues revered him because he combined acute critical intellect with an unusual measure of humility and sympathy.

It's because you don't know about the silent «B» Catholic's use in the word «humility» which is really spelled «humbility» or the ability to hum, which is very important for their choirs...

Interesting, because for me I'm more awestruck by simplicity and humility in many places of worship than I am in what usually manifests in excess splendor, and grandeur.

It is ironic, really, because in the church calendar, the seasons of Advent and Christmas call us to reflect upon and celebrate what Christians believe was the most radical act of humility of all time - the incarnation.

But it is easier, in a way, because our minds crave leaping about rather than stillness, and our egos savor intellectual dominance more than humility and un-knowing.

My perfect church — the one I conjure up in my head and hope becomes a reality in the future — exists because of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and proclaims that truth with humility and joy.

«I think the devil loves believers who lack humility, so because I want to follow someone who is faithful and pure of heart, I'm trying to be that someone.

The competitors who capture our hearts are those who achieve greatness because of their sacrifice, humility, and what the Greeks called arête, or heroic courage.

May they be remembered not only for their acts of cruelty in this camp... but balance against their cruelty the fruits we have reaped under the stress and in the pain; the comradeship, the courage, the greatness of heart, the humility and patience which have... become part of our lives because we have suffered at their hands.

Because Israel has rejected the shalom Yahweh gives, because they have neglected the justice and loyalty and humility that are fundamental to Because Israel has rejected the shalom Yahweh gives, because they have neglected the justice and loyalty and humility that are fundamental to because they have neglected the justice and loyalty and humility that are fundamental to shalom.

Philip encouraged frequent Communion among his followers, but, crucially, also insisted on frequent Confession — not least because Confession is a means to humility, and Philip, like many of the saints, taught that humility and purity almost always go hand in hand.

I use the word only because «humility» has become an applauded virtue, and «meekness» is misunderstood.

But she also doesn't shy away from words like sacrifice and humility just because those words can be used against women.

It is no scandal that such a redeployment of Christian teaching has not existed until the present time, because only now, in misery, fear, and frustration are all the tribes of the earth disposed to listen in humility and with sincerity.

It makes us sane because it's an act of humility and truth telling.

(And yet Hans Urs von Balthasar, who in many respects appears more cautious in his theology than either Rahner or Schillebeeckx, has endorsed, through his reflections on Trinitarian theology, the notion of a suffering and dying God much more strongly than most other Catholic theologians: «the death, and the dying away into silence, of the Logos so become the centre of what he has to say of himself that we have to understand precisely his non-speaking as his final revelation, his utmost word: and this because in the humility of his obedient self - lowering to the death of the Cross he is identical with the exalted Lord.»

Mary's humility is noteworthy because all generations will call her blessed, for as her cousin Elizabeth proclaims, she is theotokos, mother of God (Lk 1:42 — 3), and the earthiness of the nativity scene magnifies the wonder of the one who is actually born.

Because of its task, metaphysics must combine boldness and humility (PR 25).

Because of the financial demands of commercial broadcasting, the electronic church can not afford to talk much about suffering, shared need, or requirements of the cross, about justice and humility, and giving one «s self (not just one «s checkbook) in love to one «s neighbor.

Love is humility and respect: I was going to say love means tolerance, but tolerance has the ring of superiority to it... like, «I, because I am right and you are wrong, will tolerate you in your error until you finally see the light like I did and come around to my way of thinking!»

@mk: No, I call him «Holy,» because he walks the streets of New York BAREFOOT, and because he has enormous humility, as you have seen here in his self - effacing apology.

Apparently for this atheist, it worked because of her humility that she isn't that big, but quite small.

Because White folks are responsible for much of the pain, it takes White people with humility and courage to step up and be willing to be Jesus (for real this time).

And it seized him just because repentance was forgotten, because the improvement toward society was not the resigning of himself to God, so that in the humility of repentance he might remember what he had been.

You don't want to go too deep down this rabbit hole because the fact is that you weren't born here and that's not a mistake — but it can be helpful in adopting an attitude of humility.

I had a student tell me she had rejected her childhood Christian faith because of its emphasis on humility and self - abnegation; she then took up with a Buddhist group whose practice involved making hundreds of prostrations.

Paul exhorts people to humble themselves because humility is an honest and objective reflection of our real relationship to God.

I think this is because most Christian activities don't cultivate an environment of humility, authenticity and freedom to really look at ourselves.

Many Christian writers, especially after the fourth century, avoided the language of friendship altogether — perhaps, Konstan suggests, because the classical notion of friendship, which required a mutual awareness of virtue, seemed incompatible with Christian humility and with the sense that all of one's virtue was ultimately the fruit of God's grace.