Sentences with phrase «of human weakness»

While many wish all of Christian tradition to be true and accurate, the failings of human weakness are rife in all religious teachings.

I leave it to one of the greatest minds of all time who wrote... Quote: «The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weakness, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still purely primitive, legends which are nevertheless pretty childish.»

Not much experience is needed to be fully aware of human weakness and to understand that human beings and especially the young, who are so exposed to temptation need incentives to keep the moral law, and it is an evil thing to make it easy for them to break that law.

While we may find this type of behavior outrageous, this is something that happens every day with just about anything as there are people willing to pay an extra to be first or just so they don't need to wait; the seller is simply taking advantage of human weakness.

Shorn of human weaknesses like the need to eat or sleep, computers are now speed - reading through not only the vast academic literature but also CT scans, electronic medical records, and mountains of data from clinical trials and genomic studies.

«But I sincerely believe that Jesus wants a Church attentive to the goodness which the Holy Spirit sows in the midst of human weakness, a Mother who, while clearly expressing her objective teaching, «always does what good she can, even if in the process, her shoes get soiled by the mud on the street.

Bonhoeffer says that the one who «puts a halo on his own head for being a zealot for the truth can take no account of human weaknesses.

Pope Gelasius I (492 - 496) expressed his vision of the West in a famous letter to the Byzantine Emperor Anastasius I, and, even more clearly in his fourth treatise, where, with reference to the Byzantine model of Melchizedek, he affirmed that the unity of powers lies exclusively in Christ: «Because of human weakness (pride!)

His depiction of a Christ who has moments of human weakness (he's physically exhausted after performing miracles) and carries a heavy burden raises all sorts of interesting and thought - provoking theological questions.

Moses did this not because he believed it was the perfect will of God, but rather as a concession to the demands of human weakness.

In portraying Rodrigues's struggle to reconcile this idealized vision with the concrete reality of the Japanese people, Endō and Scorsese wish us to see the universal experience of human weakness.

The details of his suffering are also something imposed by the conspiracy of evil that He confronts when rescuing us from the power of the Devil - who is not an imaginary personification of human weakness, but a spiritual and personal power of corruption and malice.

Despite the disaster and setbacks of human weakness, this tradition grows in depth and clarity, pointing with ever more urgent expectation to the coming of someone who will be the fullness of revelation and the end of history.

Graham Greene created trademark characters full of human weakness, but their dignity nevertheless shines through their failings.

For me God is the creation of human weakness... «you are your own» this adage is from bible....

While all the different rites convey the very same reality, nevertheless because of the limitations of human weakness the spirit of the world can very easily enter into the liturgy.

«By this ingratiating treatment of human weaknesses, what is base and mean is generated ever anew.

A priest's feelings on a particular day did not change the liturgy, which was consistent, operative and effective in spite of human weakness.

B concludes the paragraph thus: If it was not unbearably wicked then it was dismally stupid, a horrifying example of human weakness.

We are pained by the loss of unity, the outcome of human weakness and of sin, which has occurred despite the priestly prayer of Christ the Saviour: «So that they may all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I in you... so that they may be one, as we are one» (Jn 17:21).

The love of Christ should be recognised as the wise expression of God's plan in the Incarnation, not just some unanimated affirmation of human weakness as a sort of afterthought on God's part.

He is also a sign of the paradox which is ourexperience of human weakness and God - given strength.

Asghar Farhadi's devastating drama, the recent Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film, expertly measures the slow drip of human weakness.

This joins a trend for historical quotation — from Huyghe's and Althamer's witty takes on modernist sculpture to the Chapman Brothers» vapid faux - gothic Madonna and Child installation «The Milk of Human Weakness II» at White Cube — so prevalent that it looks desperate.

As Albert Einstein wrote: «God is nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish.»

Not much experience is needed to be fully aware of human weakness and to understand that human beings — and especially the young, who are so exposed to temptation — need incentives to keep the moral law, and it is an evil thing to make it easy for them to break that law.

After all, religion would've never taken such a hold on humanity if it didn't take advantage of some of the human weaknesses.

He did however, say this: «The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish.

«The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends,» Einstein wrote in German in a 1954 letter that will be auctioned on eBay later this month.

«The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish.

Just for you, Tarver... «The Word of God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish» — Albert Einstein

«The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish.

«The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish» - Einstein, penned letter on January 3 1954

«The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends.

To quote Einstein: «The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish.»

Albert Einstein: God is a Product of Human Weakness The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish.

«The truth of scripture...» You mean the scripture that was written by MEN, with all of their human weaknesses and biases and prejudices and fears?

A letter written by Albert Einstein in which he referred to religion as the «product of human weaknesses» sold for $ 330,000 (170,000 pounds) to a private collector at a London auction.

In 1954, a year before his death: «The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish.»