Sentences with phrase «is closer to the truth of»

In this story we have the making of a tragedy, and tragedy is closer to the truth of the gospel than any morality play.

What is even funnier is that it seems be closer to the truth of whatever is happening up there in London Colney.

Not exact matches

«I think the way in which he acts, especially his corrosive effect on norms — truth - telling being the most important of them — has that staining effect on institutions and people who are close to them.

Of course, these two models do not model every possible dynamic, so it is certainly possible that they are wrong and Stanford's estimates are closer to the truth.

Short interest is a useful indicator, but the put / call ratio of SPX options on the Chicago Board Options Exchange could be closer to the source of truth.

ragansteve1 I couldn't reply to your comment below, but the Israeli point of view of Hamas is propaganda, and is no closer to the truth than any of the other lies.

Reminds me of Gandhi, who I think was closer to the truth when he said that we need to trust God for the right results of our right actions.

His thesis is that integral truth (the combination of intuited truth, reasoned truth, and truth experienced through the senses) comes much closer to absolute truth than reason, alone and he gives a lot of examples of how truth has been intuited by Scientists, Mathematicians, artists, etc. throughout the ages to make his point.

No close - minded and hateful = those who believe that only they know the truth, refuse to listen to anyone who think differently than they do, and regularly says that people are going to he.ll unless they «convert» to their specific brand of faith.

Augustine points out how difficult it is even for the wisest and most detached humans to discover the truth among lies — and how even husbands and wives in the closest of human bonds misunderstand each other so often.

I know of no better way to get closer to what is probably the «truth.»

in truth the «accountability» consists of sauna's with one of my vicar friends and a couple of others, a monthly trip to the pub to discuss life, the universe and everything, a few close christian relationships which are open and honest.

It is important for us to go back constantly to the basics, to the raw truth of things, and through a close reading of the original realities to recover or gain a genuine appreciation of those things in all their uniqueness.

I am not qualified to offer much of a philosophical treatment of it, but personally, it feels almost perfect and very close to the «truth», as dimly as we can hope to glimpse it; it just clicks with my intuition.

As a matter of interest, you were closer to the truth than you realized.

Did u watch the muslin version just to criticize it was that your one hundred prescient why, I'm possitive that each in one of u have a.10 % doubt in Christianity and that lead u to watching the Muslim version because u love hearing the truth and know it makes sence but choses to close ur hearts and follow.

It is absolutely fair for Wheaton to assess the theological implications of her statement, not only to assess their truth, but also to decide whether such an statement is an open handed or close handed issue for the college (such as baptism, etc.).

In truth it is impossible to keep one's gaze constantly fixed on the vast horizons opened out to us by science without feeling the stirrings of an obscure desire to see men drawn closer and closer together by an ever - increasing knowledge and sympathy until finally, in obedience to some divine attraction, there remains but one heart and one soul on the face of the earth.

With its concern for historical truth and invocation of the need to facilitate the cultivation of the human person and society, «Mapping» at this point comes tantalizingly close to this vision only to fall back into statements that «the fundamental sources of value in a culture are neither necessary nor universal.»

Though they held different views of Church government, they were quite close on their view of what was Christian truth and how it was to be preached and taught.

Its close connection to costliness and truth in the description of Jesus, however, also reminds us that this grace should not be an excuse for indulgence or presumption.

Thomas Aquinas thought that knowledge is in and of itself always good, since any act of knowing «feeds» truth to the intellect, which brings the intellect, and hence the soul, ever closer to perfection.

That is the goal of science to get closer and closer to the absolute truth.

I don't always come out on the side of the author but I always come closer to God — even if it's just to realize that I'm struggling with a particular truth Funny thing is, God always encourages me and loves me in my honesty.

They may even incorporate some of the truths discovered in other governments into their own... to not do so would be closed - minded and shallow.

And yet modernity was also understood as a philosophical and theological system that displaced, or at least threatened, what could be called the praeambula fidei — the «preambles of faith,» which include the truths of natural reason, particularly on philosophical issues close to sacred doctrine.

I have had a great deal of awe for Buddism since I was a child and heard the closest thing to the truth about God that I had ever heard.

The truth is the truth, regardless of your opinion... if your sons believe in God while you don't, then they are closer to the truth than you... «even the devils believe, and tremble.»

I do agree that the Church does keep their cards close to their chest as they see us lot as to weak to receive the truth, to me it always have been a form of control and I wont have anything to do with it, so I don't blame you for having a pop at them.

Prayer is a truly reflective state of mind which should bring us closer to some kind of truth about ourselves, who we are.

At one point, you did get close when you wrote,» unregenerate unbelievers have no ability to understand, respond, or believe the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ,» but you incorrectly linked this with Satan being in control of the world.

We are closer to the truth, I believe, if we acknowledge that the debates in which we are embroiled are the products of moral, cultural, and political change.

In fact, it may be closer to the truth to say that the refinement and ennoblement of personality and the advancement of civilization are in proportion to the degree of discipline and control of sexual appetite.

As some Muslim and Christian thinkers come close enough to each other to understand the truths of experience which are enshrined in long - held doctrines, they find themselves grappling with same mysteries.

Barth is the hero of Hauerwas's lectures, and the closing chapter gives a prominent role to Marshall's case for conceiving the Christian God as the truth, though it also suggests that Marshall underestimates the problem of cultural accommodation in modern theology.

Any Christian that disagrees is too close minded, too indoctrination, too dogmatic to understand the very simple reason why... Truth, so far as religion is concerned, is in the eye of the beholder.

Going back to the three models I presented you with at the start of this talk, which one is closest to the truth?

I'm learning the truth of Psalm 34:18: «The Lord is close to the brokenhearted.»

A century later, we are living in the closing years of a pontificate that has, above all, taught Catholics not to be afraid» afraid of those who hate the Church so that we do not honestly contemplate the failings of our own past; afraid of the progress of science so that we needed to be reminded by the Pope «that faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth.»

God will lead anyone to Him who is willing to hear the truth, and He designates certain people that He can use as tools to bring those people closer to Him, however, He also designates people to encourage and proclaim the liberty of fellowship to those who are already saved.

That way of putting the question is very close to Pilate's «What is truth?»

It was a tragic but in the end richly productive life of a great genius who near the end of his life came fairly close to what I consider the central religious truths.

Closest to this word is word Mayhem in English, meaning KARMA or spirit of truth.

Robert Lawrence Kuhn is the creator and host of Closer To Truth, the long - running PBS / public television series on science and philosophy.

To speak of a «hierarchy of truths» simply means that some of the truths the Catholic Church teaches are closer to the Paschal Mystery of Jesus Christ crucified and risen than are other truths the Church teacheTo speak of a «hierarchy of truths» simply means that some of the truths the Catholic Church teaches are closer to the Paschal Mystery of Jesus Christ crucified and risen than are other truths the Church teacheto the Paschal Mystery of Jesus Christ crucified and risen than are other truths the Church teaches.

The reality of divine revelation is a truth closer to the center of the faith than is the truth that religious freedom is a right of persons that should be recognized in law; but both are true.

The Church teaches the truth of the Virgin Birth and the truth of Mary's Immaculate Conception; both doctrines are true, but the Virgin Birth is closer to the Paschal Mystery than is the Immaculate Conception.

The cosmic end of God I marvel at, but the near end of God I love the Divine close to us wherever there is beauty, love, integrity, truth.

This is an ongoing, ever - deepening process that truly takes work — the power of the Holy Spirit, who is actively, consistently, gently and lovingly drawing you into truth and closer to Christ.

Texts would solve this if (a) there were extant texts for all historical events, which there obviously are not and (b) those texts that do exist were guaranteed to be the true, the whole truth and nothing but the, and this of course is also not even close to being the case.