Sentences with phrase «of human limitation»

As an existential counselor, I encourage self - awareness through self - expression while embracing human potential, and remaining realistic through the recognition of human limitation.

The headless winged everyman of Vlassis Caniaris's Big Swing (1974) recalls both Icarus and Bud Cort's mad character in the film Brewster McCloud (1970), whose defiance of human limitation seems to end in tragedy — or does it?

Tugging away from restraint in search of resolve, «Halfway to Equilibrium» tests the capacity of human limitation.

Along the way, Anderson through the persona of Mick takes on big business, imperialism, the police, the class structure in Britain, Cold War politics and paranoia, scientific irresponsibility, and bourgeois hypocrisy, while also building a sweeping vision of human limitation.

H. Richard's view of human limitation is expressed in his understanding of God as the structure in all things, «the rock against which we beat in vain, that which bruises and overwhelms us when we wish to impose our wishes, contrary to his, upon him.»

Again, the unspoken assumption is that what is important in the differences between religions has nothing to do with how close their theological descriptions of God correspond to reality, either because those differences don't exist or because they are impossible for us to judge, differences too subtle to be detected by us, lost in the «noise» of our human limitations, personal history, genetics, and so on.

This should be taken not as an assertion of human arrogance or superiority, but as a confession of human limitations.

Just maybe God has set this human existence up in a way that all the world prays to a different Savior or «God» not knowing who he is But all the prayers — whether they come from Muslims, Buddhists, Jews, and the diverse christain beliefs of Catholics, Protestants, Baptists, Evangelicals et al all end up going to the same Savior or God — and when we get to the afterlife, the Savior — God — Messiah — will reveal himself and greet us by saying - you were all praying to me and did not know it was I becasue of your human limitations

Speedrunning isn't just a celebration of games; it's a test of human limitations.

With these new, expansive works and series of embroidery paintings, Filomeno persists in his investigation of human limitations and our continuing attempts to transcend them.

The astonishing craftsmanship required in producing Matelli's hyper - realistic sculpture is met with an equally potent narrative cocktail of existential dread, a fatalistic sense of human limitations, and a contrarian's dark humor.

Bodies become symbols which tell not only of our inscrutability, but of our human limitations as well.

Not exact matches

«An amazing investigation into the world of competitive memorization that turns into an in - depth study on the capacity, and limitations, of the human mind.

The idea that these grand concepts can not be scaled up cheaply or quickly due to physics or other severe limitations of Nature is anathema to a faith in the unconquerable power of human ingenuity and open markets.

It was Facebook CEO's Mark Zuckerberg's comments to the New York Times and Wired, though, that laid out the limitations of A.I. and the need for human hiring.

There are some limitations to this theory, of course, because a larger company has more human resources to create more content.

Like many quants, they understand the limitations of the human brain, which has led them on their search for evidence - based investing.

The limitations of AI and other forms of digital automation are the same in retail banking as they are in other financial functions mentioned earlier — the human touch.

Alternatively, the Prime Minister's Office has tried to assert a statute of limitations on the human memory.

Your point speaks to the limitation of human knowledge.

What we do know about all claims for God's existence, and supposedly inherent qualities, is that they are all indelibly stamped by the fears, wants, prejudices, errors, and limitations of their obviously human authorship.

If you believe that Christian doctrine is essentially an attempt to capture dimensions of human experience that defy precise expression in language because of personal and cultural limitations, then the truth about God, the human condition, salvation, and the like can never be adequately posited once and for all; on the contrary, the church must express ever and anew its experience of the divine as mediated through Jesus Christ.

When progress is achieved, it is through prudent recognition of the limitations of human nature.

We can «know» with a lesser or greater degree of probability, but, without the attribute of omniscience, the human intellect will always have its limitations.

That is, while Griffin acknowledges that Plantinga affirms limitations on God's power in relation to possible worlds containing free human beings, he believes Plantinga to hold «that an actual world devoid of beings with some power of self - determination would be possible» and thus that God could have created a world containing no evil simply by creating a world containing no self - determined beings (GPE 271).

Of course, we are engaging a Mystery in the deepest sense when we seek a direct encounter with God and existentialism has its serious limitations as do all human attempts at understanding; but I am drawn to Kierkegaard's insight into prayer:

He took into account the audience's ability to perceive in the ultimate sense — by flinging aside his deity and becoming the Word, one of us, living in our cramped planet within the limitations of a human body.

Nonetheless, human beings are naturally religious when by that we mean that they possess, by virtue of their given ontological being, a complex set of innate features, capacities, powers, limitations, and tendencies that give them the capacity to think, perceive, feel, imagine, desire, and act religiously and that under the right conditions tend to predispose and direct them toward religion.

Insofar as Christianity is a religion, it suffers from all the limitations of any religion as a way human beings try to save themselves.

The extraordinary, however, is always disciplined to the inexorable limitations of human dramatic growth in time.

It has been an attempt to suggest that the Western novel is haunted by the story of Jesus, in the sense that like the hiddenness of God in that human life, the image of human life in the Western novel is one in which human beings grapple with the transcendent through the inexorable limitations of historical existence.

We recognize that some societies and cultures have unjustly limited women's full participation, but biblical, church, and secular history record countless women of vision and tenacious faith who, through prayer and perseverance, overcame limitations of every variety to influence the shaping of human history.

The Qur» an limits the human mind only in basic beliefs and principles of legislation, a wise limitation which is necessary to guide the people's faith and bring them to submission to Allah.

The Christian pastor will find nothing alien to his concern in any human experience, in so far as his limitations of skill and human insight will permit.

At most the scientist may employ that word to indicate the limitations of his knowledge, but to make a universal statement about the development of the human race in terms of randomness far transcends the evidence.

«The experience of absolute control over another being, of omnipotence so far as he, she or it is concerned, creates the illusion of transcending the limitations of human existence, particularly for those whose lives are deprived of productivity and joy.

Now although Christianity leads human thoughts and aspirations far beyond the limitations of this present stage of existence, and is thus in a sense an other - worldly religion, it is also incurably earthly.

We must recognise the historical and cultural limitations of the human aspects, and also the absolute and unchangeable nature of the divine aspects.

If you can not distinguish the truth being communicated from its culturally and historically conditioned manner of expression, then it seems impossible to cope with advances in human knowledge which show up the limitations and inaccuracies of the earlier ideas.

The reason for doing this is because humans as they stand now are not capable of laying eyes on the Nines true astral forms due to the limitations of the collective whole your race has put into place that you know as your reality.

For given not only the sinfulness but also the limitations of human beings, there will always be a difference between the official morality proclaimed by the Church and that which is practiced by the average Christian.

But yet, the fact remains that in man's «common» experience, in those very human and historical — and sinful — limitations we know so well, we have the right to find in parabolic fashion creaturely representations of that which God is, and that which God has done, and that which God purposes to bring to pass in and for and through and with and to this his world and the men and women whom he has placed in it.

'' be transformed by the renewing of your mind» indeed and any thoughts we have about God are not God yes, and these thoughts have human limitation.

Rather, in my view, they are most faithfully engaged with as a collection of books written by fallible human beings whose work bears the hallmarks of the limitations and preconceptions of the times and the cultures they lived in, but also of the transformational experience of their encounters with God.

And religious faiths often inspire individuals and communities to transcend their limitations in acts of reconciliation and justice through human rights campaigns and acts of mercy.

Leading thinkers have recently placed emphasis on the radical limitations of science and especially upon the inherent impossibility of applying scientific techniques to the true understanding and effective control of human beings both individually and socially.

The religious ideology would no longer be necessary when its source in human feelings of finitude and limitation had been overcome by man's success in organizing his world.

Did you ever think when you are typing words, gathering your thoughts, deciding / choosing what to say, and using the best intellect you can find in your brain; that you are conscious in these thoughts / decisions, and that your eyes / hands / brain synapses, are all part of the lense (of the human body) that you are able to see and control to the limitations inherent in its essence?

Atheists claim that, given the inherent limitations on human knowledge, there is no evidence supporting the existence of a god, and therefore we reject the claim that there is one.

Moreover, it is possible to accept this limitation of the historical consciousness without relinquishing the Christian faith's distinctive insights about the meaning of human existence.