Sentences with phrase «in human frailty»

Its most interesting moments are mired in human frailty — in sex, death, betrayal, jealousy, and intoxication.

Although in our human frailty we may not perceive His love for us, this bears no relation to the fact of His love for us.

Lying is wrong, furthermore, because it violates our covenant with God, a covenant that sustains us in our human frailty.

He opens our eyes to things that we, in our human frailty, didn't think were possible.

Total surrender to a God who loves us will result in our being lifted up and rescued from that nothingness simply because he loves us beyond anything we can imagine, BUT, we do have to test that fact, in our human frailty.

Not exact matches

«It is a human frailty which we all possess in some degree that becomes the investor's and speculator's greatest enemy and will eventually, if not safeguarded, bring about his downfall.

Since atheists and agnostics are just as prone to human frailties as the religious, I don't doubt that there * are * evil people who are athiests... but facts and numbers show that these «evil atheists» are a bunch of pikers compared to the violence and viciousness of those who promote hatred and violence in the name of their God.

The essence of all religions is to be good and do good but sometimes people get carried away by human frailty that results in undesirable actions.

In addition to painting an engaging picture of the saint who, in all his human frailty, followed Christ's example and died a martyr to charity, De Volder systematically addresses the debates over Damien's life and spiriIn addition to painting an engaging picture of the saint who, in all his human frailty, followed Christ's example and died a martyr to charity, De Volder systematically addresses the debates over Damien's life and spiriin all his human frailty, followed Christ's example and died a martyr to charity, De Volder systematically addresses the debates over Damien's life and spirit.

We tend, quite properly, to relativize human frailties in terms of a social and psychological situationalism.

Both in the secular world and in the church, our characteristic approach to human frailty is not chastisement and dire threats, but understanding; not calling people to repent their sins, but teaching people the gentle arts of self - acceptance; not an ethic of cross-bearing, but an ethic based on the value of self - actualization.

I can not imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own - a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty.

God doesn't create us in sin; He creates us in the curse, that is, frail and human and (in Pauline terms) «of the flesh» (cf. Rom 7 - 8) but we then act on this frailty and break God's holy law, which, once again, renders us sinful.

It should be the guide of life, not merely a technical exercise in the analysis of logical problems, but a bold attempt to grasp the structures of reality within the limits of human knowledge and frailty.

As the author notes in the beginning, this volume is not intended as a homily, but rather as a companion; and like a trusted companion, it does not simply conduct a one - sided soliloquy over history and texts, but behaves dynamically: telling stories, empathizing with human frailty, and anticipating questions.

However, they were each going through seasons in their lives where their human frailties were obvious.

Flesh refers to human beings in our naked frailty and need.

the possibility and necessity of living in a dimension of meaning in which the urgencies of the struggle are subordinated to a sense of awe before the vastness of the historical drama in which we are jointly involved; to a sense of modesty about the virtue, wisdom, and power available to us for the resolution of its perplexities; to a sense of contrition about the common human frailties and foibles which lie at the foundation of... our vanities; and to a sense of gratitude for the divine mercies which are promised to those who humble themselves.

And where else but in the agonized decision over abortion are women given a unique opportunity to face the frailty and finitude of human life?

It is marked on its negative side by the rejection not only of the symbols of the creation, the fall and the salvation of men, but also of the belief in human dependence and limitation, in human wickedness and frailty, in divine forgiveness through the suffering of the innocent.

«I can not imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own — a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty.

It abounds in «quotable quotes,» with many a sly dig at such human frailties as laziness, gossip and argumentativeness, and not a little humor.

Having lived in solitude for so many years, the ascetic has touched the pains and joys of being human and is humbly aware that no one is excluded from frailty, weakness and sin.

Even when He did come in the person of Jesus Christ, He came masked in human flesh, cloaking Himself in humility and frailty.

Solemn and penitential in nature, it was explicitly a concession to human frailty and lacked the signs associated with sacramental marriage (in the eastern Churches, the Crowning, the singing of certain prayers, and the sharing of the Eucharist).

When for reasons of human frailty or tragic sickness and premature death the love of one or the other of the parents is lost, there is in the life of the offspring a tremendous need for compensation.

«Although God entrusted me with such an important task and he helps me, he didn't free me from human frailty,» he said in the letter signed 16th March.

Monday's YouGov for the Standard will determine london media momentum in the run up to Thursday... Livingstone all over the media doing his Hillary tearful human frailty act... We are starting from a huge huge base in the locals, most of which take place in labour heartlands... And we always **** up bye - elections.

Unencumbered by human frailties, Curiosity — like the rovers Spirit and Opportunity, which survived on the Red Planet years longer than expected — will be free to hunt for E.T. «If we find evidence for life on Mars, boy, are we just gonna go wild with speculation about how common it is in the universe,» says Lou Friedman, a former scientist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena and cofounder, with Carl Sagan, of the Planetary Society.

Robots are resistant to these human frailties, which is why they're perfect for scrutinizing the patch of Arkansas swamp where an ivory - billed woodpecker — a bird scientists thought had been extinct for decades — may have been spotted in 2005.

For all the CGI light shows and magical whizbangery the movies have delivered over the years, the series is finally about human frailty in the face of organized darkness.

Love, grief, and the frailty of the human condition are all brought to the fore as Gemma Will and Paul are caught up in a descent into violence, both psychological and ultimately physical.

Long before Star Trek, and truth be told, actually better made than ALL of them, comes this opportunity to cinematically philosophize about the frailty of the human condition while wearing color coordinated jumpsuits, holding a ray gun in one hand and some scientist's half - naked daughter in the other, while backed by weird electronic noise (naturally)- or Manifest Destiny in Deep Space.

Though this is a drama first and foremost, true to form he blends in liberal doses of humour (both visual gags and subtle, character - based material), showing the very human frailties of the lead characters but never ridiculing them.

But most important, in its early episodes — I've only seen the first four — Hawley's Fargo has managed the tricky tonal balancing act set out by the original film: the black humor (occasionally quite funny), the bursts of sudden savagery, the moments of human frailty and genuine sadness.

Villainy comes in the caped form of Australian actor Ben Mendelsohn, whose seething callousness and desperate lust for power make him a truly malevolent figure (though his human frailties are exposed in one memorable encounter with a certain Imperial Lord).

On one hand there are the hysterical gags, a particularly compassionate representation of human frailty, a refreshing take on female bonding and one of the few genuinely affecting romantic comedy plots in years between Wiig and the adorable Irish Chris O'Dowd (The IT Crowd) that will have viewers swooning.

The story is one that needs to be told, and here it is told well, with a script eschewing large - scale action set - pieces in favor of exploring the human frailty behind geopolitically significant moments in history.

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.

James Caan appears late in the game as a President incapable of pronouncing «nuclear,» but the thrust of the picture is documenting human frailty and celebrating the value of grace when the easy road is paved with rancour and snark.

That attitude, I urge, is not one of passivity in the face of human frailty.

A novel of breathtaking ambition and power, it is rich in moral paradox, insights into human frailty, and storytelling brilliance.

I can not imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own — a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty.

Set against an exquisitely rendered Italian countryside, The Light in the Ruins unveils a breathtaking story of moral paradox, human frailty, and the mysterious ways of the heart.

Tam Van Tran's newest exhibition «Exodus» at Susanne Vielmetter represents a meditation on duality wherein forces in nature collide with our own human frailties.

This is accentuated by the different heights of the pillars, as though they represent different stages in life and — by way of their imperfect stacking and fissured forms — evoking human frailty.

She homes in on the dancer's performance anxiety but also captures the audience as they react to the human frailty on display before them.

Zeng lived next to the hospital and would recall in his early paintings, scenes of doctors and fearful patients in emergency rooms, and the proximity between humans and flesh to underscore human frailty.

issues of sexual communication, dysfunction + human frailty are imbedded in her work; themes which are explored + executed with such truthfulness + raw honesty.

Through his piercing expressionism, Azaceta depicts the frailty of human existence in a world full of social anarchy, historically mandated violence, and natural chaos.