Sentences with phrase «than the perfections of»

Since B3 there has been a steady decline in the series with an unecessary addition of new things for the sake of it, rather than perfection of what was already there.

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 stronghold.

According to Nataly Kogan, author of Happier Now: How to Stop Chasing Perfection and Embrace Everyday Moments, «There are more than 11,000 different studies that have shown that if there is one habit that we can all adopt to improve our physical and emotional well - being, it's the practice of gratitude.»

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.

The Lutheran Simul captures our reality better than do visions of perfection or divinization or anticipation of the eschaton.

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.

If you think you, or I, or anyone is capable of fulfilling God's law of perfection, than I really don't even know what to say.

Perfection of their strenuous exercises helped the Romans be more disciplined, physically fit, and healthy than any other army of their time.

when you strive for perfection and you find everything around you less than perfect you construct something that is capable of being perfect and that is god.

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.

Brene Brown TED talk on vulnerability and perfection may have saved some of these disasters through history, but alas, they only listen to themselves because there is no one more brilliant than they.

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.

So the God of A might really and consistently have even less perfection than the human race, or whatever the atheist regards with such reverence as he may feel.

Once we establish the idea that Eden was perfect, rather than it being Good and at best, Very Good, we begin a frantic journey of a restoration of perfection and salvation is finding a way to forgive fallen broken creation for its lapse from perfection so we can be loved by «God» again.

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.

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.

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.

If God is love, and that love is perfect, then, rather than detracting from the divine perfection, the changing aspect of the divine nature is the supreme instance of sensitivity and responsiveness to the needs of all creatures.

Luther's teaching on forgiveness, when preached apart from the context of 16th century Catholic emphasis on perfection, can easily lead to a retarded spirituality of sin, claim your forgiveness, sin, claim you forgiveness,... and a retarded spirituality where sanctification becomes an eschatological hope and no more than a legalistic fulfillment of the Law.

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.

Why is it not intelligible to think of God as acting purely altruistically, rather than to increase his own perfection or bliss?

The perfection of everything other than God is a potentiality which God brings into an actuality.

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.

Perhaps even more significant than this replacement of human labor is the extension, classification, and perfection of the human powers of thought made possible by automatic machines.

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).

A real girl has more infinitely more perfections and imperfections than the dream image of a real girl, and great architects sometimes make the mistake (like the Ellen Page character) of thinking that natural constraints artificially limit them.

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.

W. E. Sangster, whose study of Wesley's doctrine of perfection we have noted, is closer to the pietist tradition, and he affirms the possibility of love more unequivocally than does Niebuhr.

perfection of love, which men can not reach on their own, since, naturally we love our family members more than others, don't we... Not like Jesus whose family merely consists of those who do the will of God (Mk 3:35) which is LOVE — again.

This is due to the Roman interpretation of sin «as the privation of an original perfection, rather than as a positive corruption.

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.»

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.

None of us can be more perfect than Jesus; therefore, Jesus is the standard by which our perfection is measured.

Absolute perfection would have to mean the complete actualization of all possible values and seems to be no more imaginable than a greatest possible number.

Practical reason, therefore, presupposes the self - evident proposition of the immortality of the soul, rather than the resurrection of the body, to enable the moral faculty of human being to achieve its perfection.

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.

When an occasion of experience does not attain, or at least aim to attain, a higher perfection, the occasion embodies that which is less than the best of all possibilities.

Salvation is actually much more than the sum of any individual 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.

He can not give us a higher identity than the status of 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.