Sentences with phrase «own human imperfection»

Perhaps the most insidious of all human imperfections often lies hidden in the weeds most of our lives.

The absurd injustice of this infinite punishment is even greater when we consider that the ultimate source of human imperfection is the God who created them.

When we stopped teaching the contemplative mind in a systematic way about 400 to 500 years ago, we lost the capacity to deal with paradox, inconsistency, and human imperfection....

In the human imperfection there has always been a slavery.

They combine a longing for grace and redemption with a deep sense of human imperfection and sin.

Ordinary human imperfection on the other hand has an inbuilt aspiration, prodding us to continue searching, probing, questioning.

To this extent, our understanding of God's perfection is how we think we would be if we were perfect, But projecting from human imperfection is not necessarily the best way to understand divine perfection.

The State is indeed the reflection of human imperfection.

Museums are indeed wonderful, but while there are no easy answers to the antiquities question, there may be more compelling explanations for human imperfection than the fact that not enough people spend afternoons at the Met.

In similar vein, the author writes of Ward himself: «Ward's view of the Church was always triumphalist: no matter her human imperfections, she was the ark of salvation and the locus of divine truth, and nothing could diminish his respect and loyalty to her.»

But the truth is that teens are just people like the rest of us, subject to human imperfections and simply trying to find their place in the world.

I think we can show that science isn't an elite club hoping to turn away prospective members; it's a warm and inviting field that recognizes human imperfection.

Artistic metaphor for divine favor, or realistic image of human imperfection?

i just want a normal man with human imperfections.

Attempts to right wrongs in the face of human imperfection and all that.

Failure is simply a natural byproduct of our human imperfection.

It's human imperfection at its «best» really.

Between them, the works study the major abstract Modern movements on the 20th century, geometric abstraction, painterly gesture and the elements of human imperfection which can find expression in artwork.

«So great effort is made in pursuit of uniformity, but it is human imperfection that is embraced and highlighted with each action... Holly Miller's practice offers a visual tactility we can see floating before us, but never touch»

In Interfacing however, Saville celebrates human imperfections and the idiosyncratic beauty belonging to each person.

Richmond's mix of focus and distortion, precision and human imperfection, come

If there are three things certain in life, these would be death, taxes and human imperfection.

We can commit to treating ourselves with compassion and acceptance despite human imperfections.

The resulting positive perspective is about seeing each other's real beauty and loving each other despite human imperfections, even when the going gets rough.

When we take responsibility, there is an audible sigh from those around us, as if they are saying, «Oh good, it's okay that we are not perfect too... [now] we can all relax together in our own human imperfection!»

Not exact matches

humans are flawed either due to imperfections through evolution or all humans are flawed because of imbreeding from two seperate events.

Human beings are imperfect, and everything we create contains elements of our imperfection.

Now, these religious persons, places, and things have their imperfections because they are human.

The highest cause may be (1) in every sense or aspect «uncaused,» in no sense or aspect the effect of anything else; or it may be (2) in some aspects uncaused, and in others causally influenced, but its manner of both acting and receiving influences may be the highest conceivable, hence absolutely «perfect,» although even so its whole being may not in every sense be perfect, because the influences as coming from other causes, say human beings, may be less admirable than they might be; or the supreme cause may be (3) in no sense or aspect uncaused, independent of other powers, hence in no way wholly exempt from the imperfections of the latter...

It seems as if the Almighty had spread before this nation charts of imperial destinies, dazzling as the sun, yet with many a deep intestine difficulty, and human aggregate of cankerous imperfection, — saying, lo!

The ability to be affected is a sign of human finitude and imperfection.

On the other hand, if we decide for the model of love, thinking of God as more like a human lover (but with defects, imperfections, frustrations, distortions removed), it will follow that whatever power is exercised by Him will be loving in its essential quality.

At first, I could only see her extra chromosome as evidence of imperfection, as a series of limitations that were different and worse than my own human limits.

Humans are an imperfect species, and anything they create similarly contains their imperfection.

Welcome to the human race with all its imperfections.

That's due to the imperfection of human beings (New York Times, January 30, 1982).

In effect, Ting is telling his hoped - for Marxist reader that the imperfections of the human spirit will produce imperfections in socialism.

God sends suffering as part of the process of our redemption from spiritual and moral imperfection, and it is particularly through suffering that human souls are purified and made perfect.

In the words of an ancient prayer, it is the visible expression of «that wonderful and sacred mystery» which speaks to us and works on us, through the very imperfection, weakness, error, and even the sin of the empirical institution, to manifest in the world of time and space the abiding reality of God's operation in the event of Christ for human wholeness.

But I guess it is human nature to look for the flaws and imperfection and magnify them.

We are to seek a perfection that lies beyond the imperfections of human systems of law and order.

Radicals are the permanently unsatisfied among us — nihilists of the Utopian vision, restless with the imperfections of humanity as we know it — who clamor for a future in which human beings will be different from what they are and the world transformed, for a world in which racism and evils like it will be purged from the species forever, and of course for the time when radicals like themselves will inherit the earth.

Surely he would have known that it would have been better for those humans to never have been born (in fact, the Bible says this very thing), and surely this all - compassionate deity would have foregone the creation of a universe destined to imperfection in which many of the humans were doomed to eternal suffering.

Niebuhr's realism required «recognizing that the imperfections of the world stemmed from fallen human nature, that the social implications of human selfishness had to be reckoned with, that to improve the world it would be necessary to work with human limitations and not dream of obliterating them.

I get the impression the «vows» smack of human composition, and with the imperfection of people, are easily ignored and / or broken.

Hence we must go on to speak of prayer as the confession of our human failings, imperfections, distortions of the divine goodness, and unwillingness to let ourselves be used as channels for that goodness in the decisions we make and the acts we do.

Tawney said that the man who «seeks God apart from his brethren is likely not to find God, but rather the devil, whose face will bear a surprising resemblance to his own» That is, unless we broaden our perspective and correct our idiosyncrasies by sharing with our human brethren, we are in peril of conceiving God simply as ourselves writ large, with all our peculiarities, self - centeredness, and imperfection.

It accepts the imperfections of human beings.

A mature approach accepts the inevitability of incomplete knowledge and the imperfections of human beings.

So then, human love comes under the same kind of imperfection as human institutions and it takes something other than that.