Sentences with phrase «in human arrogance»

Historically Lutherans have thus tended to look askance at impatient attempts at vast social improvement, rightly seeing in them human arrogance.

I think it was Barth who argued over and over that to be so confident of our plans, to be so sure of the effects of our causes is the ultimate in human arrogance.

Not exact matches

But RIM's downfall is the result of very human mistakes — complacency, hubris, arrogance — that the current crop of startups needs to avoid repeating in order to succeed.

Most of us instinctively assume that technology relentlessly marches forward, but there have been times before now in human history — after the Egyptians built the Pyramids, for instance, or after the multiple advances of the Roman Empire — when the civilizations that followed could no longer do what had been done before, and perhaps there's a complacency and arrogance in assuming that this won't happen again.

Usually our good fortunes, such as our physique, wealth, education, intelligence over others, etc. will cloud our minds and create arrogance in us, which is an ugly human characteristic.

Nick, arrogance in the extreme is claiming to understand God's motives, reasons & justifications or personifying him with human emotions like jealousy, vanity & vengance... Between athiests & believers, who do you think does this?

I suffered a terrible car accident... during 3 weeks I almost died «many times»... Now I can read a beautiful article like this one and agree with it... Believe me... no matter your faith, your fortune or whatever you may be involved with... on the face of death if you are human you will only care about your loved ones... you will remember about the moments you were happy together and dream they happen again... you will remember your childhood like you were 7 again... you will ask forgiveness and try to show your love, no matter how hard you are... In the face of death we realize that nothing more then our family matters... For the professor, once his life of arrogance reaches an end, he will then understand what is the meaning of family...

It is human arrogance at its finest to believe an omnipotent being has some stock in the outcome of the number of times a ball is on either side of a field.

Much as we may dislike the doctrine of original sin — and indeed it has often been formulated in a way that must antagonize any man of sense and good will — there would appear to be in human beings the seeds of selfishness, arrogance, brutality, callousness, the lust for power, jealousy, hatred and all the rest of the miserable host of evil.

«The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.»

However, it will refrain from the arrogance, the bad manners, and the assault on human personality sometimes found in connection with religious zeal.

He explained the significance of Psalm 23, saying, «It's a picture of human humility in the face of our helplessness, the very opposite of the arrogance.»

As Niebuhr described it, the favorite strategy of avoiding the paradox is to claim the achievement of perfection (which in turn becomes a source of human arrogance).

It is still the calm, clear voice of Jesus in the magisterium that destroys the house of cards that human arrogance substitutes for the truth.

«JC in Western U.S.» channeled the spirit of these Puritans (and of Barth) when he wrote, «If there is a God, and if He is omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient, it would be the height of arrogance for any mere human to claim to know His will.»

Religion is just arrogance in hyper - drive... «not only are we better than the animals, we are better than those other humans over there».

He's NOT god he's NOT infallable, fine we are all only human but to deny there are better players out there than the ones he has is 1) arrogant and 2) a plain lie To justify the teams failing using the same old rhetoric year in year out while attempting to justify why improvements were not made (by stying in budget and spending the touted «war chest money») is again pure arrogance, (I would say stupidity but AW is far from stupid) and then to blame this seasons failure on the fans attitude is just blatantly direspecting people who in a large part pay part of his wages.

«DEP's failure to cease releases from the Ashokan reservoir in time to allow sufficient transit time for released water to exit the Esopus Creek prior to the onset of the hurricane clearly demonstrates a callous arrogance to human suffering and a disrespect for the residents of Ulster County,» Myers added, suggesting that the governor replace DEP Commissioner Paul Rush.

Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma, for example, said: «The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what [God] is doing in the climate is, to me, outrageous.»

There's a lot in the interactions between them about human arrogance and frailty and ultimately obsolescence, but mostly it's about David being the Vampire Willow to Walter's regular Willow during that one Buffy episode.

Such thinking is insane, yet such thinking is exactly what we apply in the case of animals being murdered, and because of our human animal egotism, selfishness and arrogance, we allow to be done to other animals, what we would be outraged at, if it were done to US or to someone WE loved.

The arrogance inherent in this harsh contrast between the elegantly designed period furniture and this painful relic of human injustice is heightened by a series of reward notices on the wall.

Furthermore, it takes disrespect if not arrogance to ignore the skills and creativity of humans when it comes to coping with any kind of climate found on Earth and even in space.

In other words, we must approach the topic with humility, rather than with hubris and arrogance about human control over nature or over technology.

I think this is human nature in some cases, personal arrogance in others, and unfortunate in every case.

It is the heighth of hubris and arrogance to think humans, in the space of 150 years, can change thermal cycles that are thousands of years long and have existed for millenia.