Sentences with phrase «ordinary human weakness»

And though in the Fourth Gospel the notes of agonizing struggle, or even of ordinary human weakness and suffering, are muted, if not hushed, and the death is, as Vincent Taylor says, «no longer a (Greek word) but a shining stairway by which the Son of God ascends to his Father,» (The Atonement in New Testament Teaching, p. 215.

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Crooker, «It would have made a wonderful difference in the ministry of penance to ordinary, good people struggling with human weakness: the discipline of regular confession, instead of falling into general disuse, would have found fresh vitality and fruitfulness.»