Sentences with phrase «than perfection in»

The Pope, quite sensibly, thinks that perfection in charity is more important than perfection in jurisdiction, and my article was an attempt to show how this might apply to the question at hand.

What I love about Luther, besides his rather curmudgeonly and down to earth personality, is his emphasis on forgiveness rather than perfection in life between now and our complete restoration in the fullness of Eternity.

Not exact matches

In late May, when Edward Yruma of Keybanc Capital Markets downgraded the stock, his reservations had more to do with its shares already being priced for perfection at a time when its strategy seemed to be shifting toward testing new products and markets more than driving sales in its yogawear strongholIn late May, when Edward Yruma of Keybanc Capital Markets downgraded the stock, his reservations had more to do with its shares already being priced for perfection at a time when its strategy seemed to be shifting toward testing new products and markets more than driving sales in its yogawear strongholin its yogawear stronghold.

That doesn't always (ever) result in perfection but it does result in truly impressive results from time to time, like the recent AirPods, which are an incredible weaving together of Apple's hardware and software teams to produce something that works so much better than what came before it's laughable.

Yet Christians are commanded to be «prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you» (1 Peter 3:15), and unless one is determined to do no more than mutely wave people towards the nearest church, this can only be achieved by giving some account of the coherence (not perfection) and development (not fulfillment) one discerns in one's own life.

While I am glad for the new and more accurate translation of the Mass, which is not perfection but closer to it than one deserves in an imperfect world, a far more important reform would be the return of the ad orientem position of the celebrant as normative.

«[T] he perfection of priestly love and its true specific fullness can not be achieved in the married state, any more than it could have been achieved in a married Christ.»

Some of them are closer to the perfection of love than others - the perfection of love is, of course, found in God.

Shatter, my God, though the daring of your revelation the childishly timid outlook that can conceive of nothing greater or more vital in the world than the pitiable perfection of our human organism.

The fact that those who honestly felt that they had attained perfection in love found later that they were not in this condition adds weight to the assumption that there is more to human experience than what can be discerned by honest introspection.

Sin did no real harm whatever in the universe, since the absolute perfection which the universe involves in its cause could never be more or less than absolute.

One might try to make perfection positive in another way, by using the notion of surpassing all things rather than of being surpassed by none.

Concerned primarily with categories proper to «things,» theists have traditionally stressed God's liberty of indifference — God's perfection as an incommunicable supposit rather than as person in outgoing self - relation.

Some have said; «Jesus went and visited sinners» That's true, and so should we but to tell the gospel was His objective not to go along in their sinful activities to win them or that could have compromised His perfection as the Son of God plus He is the Son of God way more mature than we will ever be.

But there is something which would have me be in closer fellowship with lowest of the low, the sickest of the sick, the most sinful of the sinful, than someone who thinks he is approaching perfection in terms of his motivation.

Inasmuch as the will - power of contemporary man is not in itself more vigorous or unswerving than that of a Plato or an Augustine, and individual moral perfection is still to be measured by steadfastness in pursuance of the known good (and therefore relative) we can not claim as individuals to be more moral or saintly than our fathers.

Other nations have in certain respects achieved a higher perfection of democratic aims and practices than have Americans.

But as mainline denominations moved away from dependence on revivals and mass evangelism, they came to apply the optimism of perfection more to the arena of social transformation than to the sphere of personal sanctification.17 The result was that Methodist devotion to entire sanctification had to find expression outside the denomination in so - called Holiness groups.

His inability to accept anything less than perfection and his total disinterest in the glamour and social capital of gaining access to one of the world's most famous entertainers.

Descartes conjectures: «But maybe also I am something more than I would imagine; maybe all the perfections that I attribute to the nature of a God are in some way in my power, albeit that they are not are not yet evident and are not made manifest by their actions» -LCB- Meditations, 37).

It [Perfection] can not depend upon anything else [in particular] for its own existence — not that it could exist solitary, but its existence is entirely neutral as between alternatives of particular existence other than its own.

Rather than giving up when our hard work fails to result in perfection or to accomplish our goals, we are able to see that improvement in justice or compassion or social conditions can make a difference in the lives of our fellow human beings that really matters.

In The Case Against Perfection, Michael Sandel writes, in (despite himself) a kind of Rawlsian spirit, that «if our genetic endowments are gifts, rather than accomplishments for which we can take credit, it is a mistake and a conceit to assume that we are entitled to the full measure of the bounty they reap in a market economy.&raquIn The Case Against Perfection, Michael Sandel writes, in (despite himself) a kind of Rawlsian spirit, that «if our genetic endowments are gifts, rather than accomplishments for which we can take credit, it is a mistake and a conceit to assume that we are entitled to the full measure of the bounty they reap in a market economy.&raquin (despite himself) a kind of Rawlsian spirit, that «if our genetic endowments are gifts, rather than accomplishments for which we can take credit, it is a mistake and a conceit to assume that we are entitled to the full measure of the bounty they reap in a market economy.&raquin a market economy.»

Perhaps finding one's identity in God's love rather than in attainment of some extrinsic standard of perfection is more than the living out of a truism — perhaps, in this climate of intensive mothering, it's more like a survival skill.

Such a principle will help us on this occasion to decide, among the various attributes set down in the scholastic inventory of God's perfections, whether some be not far less significant than others.

I would like to propose that married couples who engage in sexual intercourse with recourse to infertile periods do so in no less perfection than when intending pregnancy.

I'm not in favor of spending a lot to finance fantasies of Christmas perfection, nor do I endorse the sort of gluttony and the psychological overload of «special moments» that makes us feel as though Christmas is a celebratory marathon to recover from rather than savor.

In such a spiritual exercise, one finds oneself both nearer to God and farther from perfection than one would like!

We are called to find completion in Christ rather than strive for unattainable perfection.

This doctrine was important to the Greek - oriented theologians and Church Fathers who were unable to explain the perfection of Jesus in any other way than absolute perfection.

And the next following Sunday, while she was thanking God for this favor, behold the Son of God, more beauteous than thousands of angels, takes her in His arms as if He were proud of her, and presents her to God the Father, in that perfection of sanctity with which He had dowered her.

(The doctrine of the sin of the human race has often been misused because it has not been noticed that sin, common though it is to all, does not gather men together in a common concept, into a society or a partnership («any more than out in the churchyard the multitude of the dead constitute a society»), but it splits men into individuals and holds every individual fast as a sinner — a splitting which in another sense is both in correspondence with and teleologically in the direction of the perfection of existence.

Though far from perfection, and with each manifesting much to be done before liberty and justice for all are fully served, such societies afford protections for basic rights more broadly and efficaciously than was ever accomplished in any traditional, pre-modern, pre-capitalist, or pre-republican society.

-LSB-...] «steams» whole sweet potatoes to soft, tender perfection in less than 30 minutes.

To serve this at your Memorial day barbecue or another gathering, just have the watermelon prepped in a separate container than the other ingredients, then stir them all together and refrigerate an hour before serving and you'll have a bowl of salsa perfection ready to wow your guests.

Your pretzels are absolute perfection — even better looking than the ones you find in bakeries!

The result of your efforts will be melt - in - your - mouth, disappear - quicker - than - you'd - wish, perfection.

While eggs can be made to taste more disgusting than I ever thought possible, they can also be creamy, protein packed perfection and in the case of the baked egg cup, they are just that!

The chicken is than pan fried to a golden perfection on both sides in butter and olive oil.

Your blog is one of my favorite blogs — absolutely stunning photography, genuinely touching yet humorous stories, and recipes that result in nothing less than perfection.

I made only plain polenta, but followed the recipe and — perfection in 5 minutes plus less than 10

800 Degrees utilizes specially designed wood - fired stone hearth ovens that burn almond wood with temperatures reaching 800 degrees Fahrenheit at the oven base and 1200 degrees Fahrenheit at the roof so that each pie bakes to perfection in less than 90 seconds.

The customized pizzas are then stone oven fired to perfection in less than three minutes.

In fact, it was better than perfect; it was perfection three times over.

In every area of the field Chelsea have been close to perfection and the stats all but back this up, as not only are Chelsea the league's leading scores with 25 goals, four more than Arsenal in second, they've conceded a miserly 2 all season, that's five fewer than next best SunderlanIn every area of the field Chelsea have been close to perfection and the stats all but back this up, as not only are Chelsea the league's leading scores with 25 goals, four more than Arsenal in second, they've conceded a miserly 2 all season, that's five fewer than next best Sunderlanin second, they've conceded a miserly 2 all season, that's five fewer than next best Sunderland.

She wears the trendiest clothes, styles her hair and makeup to perfection and has oodles of male friends she'd love to be more than friends with, but has never been in a serious relationship.

I am the mama who does not care about perfection (I used to in my pre-kids days) so I would rather my kid make her own art (although indistinguishable) rather than we do it for her to make it «just right» (yeah one day a mom who does this with her kid told me «sorry» my kid's work did not come out great — to which I replied «Yes, but it is all her work!»)

This is not about perfection, this about remembering that we are living in delusion and the delusion is that we are separate, that our children are lesser than us; that the other man who believes in a different God or a different religion is lesser than us; that there is such a thing as «lesser than us».

The problem is more the parents than the manufacturer — we spend so much time reveling in the perfection of our tiny babies that by the time they become toddlers, we stop checking to make sure everything's okay.

Encourage your child to create the display and resist the urge for perfection — when your child creates something they are more interested and invested in it than when you do it for them.