Sentences with phrase «transcends human understanding»

«We often say that the nature of God is a mystery which transcends the human understanding.

But to say that something transcends the human understanding is to say that it is unintelligible.

A peace which transcends human understanding.

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He outlines three forms of consciousness: the simple consciousness of animals and humans; the self - consciousness of humans, which includes reason and imagination; and cosmic consciousness, which transcends factual understanding.

What we know in Jesus Christ is that God loves us in a way which is reflected in, but transcends, our human understanding.

But the «anagogical» interpretation is perhaps most useful: Fairies represent forgotten human possibilities and strange philosophies that we might grow to understand, to transcend, or to embrace.

Non-rational aspects of belief are to be defended because God transcends every possible human understanding.

This eternal significance, this meaning which transcends all human meanings, is the sovereign act of creation through which God speaks to us and brings us into being, an act which is completely «over our heads» — beyond our powers of rational understanding.

In 1946 Niebuhr published his second book of sermonic essays (Discerning the Signs of the Times) elaborating the two facets of Christian hope — belief in the realization of God's will in human history and an understanding that the Christian hope transcends the limits of history.

God is the «subjectivity of the subjectivity of man» which is understood especially as the «freeing freedom of human freedom ’13 or the «transcending willedness of the will» which is «the ground of every particular self - realization» of the will 14 God is the ground and origin of the will by being the end, the fulfillment toward which it is called.

I was not aware that Carl Jung had said such a thing... maybe he understood some things about human beings that transcend religion.

Emerson's perfectionism places too much faith in human capacities and fails to understand human limitations, according to Reinhold Niebuhr, who said that «the ultimate fulfillment of human life transcends the possibilities of history» (Beyond Tragedy).

The relation of love to the intellect proceeds from three assumption: first, that faith transcends rational categories through God's self - revelation in Christ; second, that intellectual understanding is necessary for the guidance of human life; and third, that both seek the same object in God's being and His revealed truth — namely, that it is through agape with its consequent repentance, humility, and understanding of human limits that the intellect can appropriately function.

So there is a gap between human choice and divine foreknowledge, a gap that transcends understanding and that helps define God in my mind.

Human existence therefore is said to «transcend» nature in that it has a dimension of personal freedom that is not easily understood in terms of the sciences that deal with nature.

If revelation has sought to teach us of the mysteries of the Trinity transcending human reason, we must remember that its reflection began in the effort to understand just how God and the person of Jesus are to be related, and must make allowance for the partial or total eclipse of specific revelational content by the overlay of philosophical speculation.

At the heart of our education lies the goal to bring students to an understanding of the commonality of the human experience of all of the world's people, transcending the stereotypes, prejudices, and divisiveness of classification by race, religion, sex, nationality, and ability.

Learn how to nourish your mind to optimize its potential, take charge of your life, understand the mind - body connection and transcend the limitations of human suffering.