Sentences with phrase «which is close to the truth»

From the great diversity of the Old Testament, he chose the prophetic strain as that which is closest to the truth, as that in the light of which all the rest must be interpreted.

On the other hand a Metro report has rubbished this theory and claimed that the problems of Arsenal are much bigger than missing just one player and that the Spaniard is not the sort to help the Gunners to win games, so which is closer to the truth?

It is as if they have to fit 24 hours worth of activity into just a few hours of time, which is close to the truth.

As an organizing conceit, Excerpts beats Hodgepodge or Airing Out The Storage Racks, both of which are closer to the truth, but that's not to say the exhibition doesn't beg interesting questions.

Pekka, I agree you can't tell just by looking at difference in adjustments which is closer to truth.

Not exact matches

«I think the way in which he acts, especially his corrosive effect on norms — truth - telling being the most important of them — has that staining effect on institutions and people who are close to them.

in truth the «accountability» consists of sauna's with one of my vicar friends and a couple of others, a monthly trip to the pub to discuss life, the universe and everything, a few close christian relationships which are open and honest.

Thomas Aquinas thought that knowledge is in and of itself always good, since any act of knowing «feeds» truth to the intellect, which brings the intellect, and hence the soul, ever closer to perfection.

And yet modernity was also understood as a philosophical and theological system that displaced, or at least threatened, what could be called the praeambula fidei — the «preambles of faith,» which include the truths of natural reason, particularly on philosophical issues close to sacred doctrine.

Prayer is a truly reflective state of mind which should bring us closer to some kind of truth about ourselves, who we are.

We are closer to the truth, I believe, if we acknowledge that the debates in which we are embroiled are the products of moral, cultural, and political change.

As some Muslim and Christian thinkers come close enough to each other to understand the truths of experience which are enshrined in long - held doctrines, they find themselves grappling with same mysteries.

don't fool your self any longer, your serving the creature not the creator, that feeling your getting is as close to the truth as you can get which is not near god.

Going back to the three models I presented you with at the start of this talk, which one is closest to the truth?

A century later, we are living in the closing years of a pontificate that has, above all, taught Catholics not to be afraid» afraid of those who hate the Church so that we do not honestly contemplate the failings of our own past; afraid of the progress of science so that we needed to be reminded by the Pope «that faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth.»

Which is why fundamentalists are not typically drawn to truth but instead seek to closed mindedly defend their dogma at any cost.

(See Carl F. Burke, God Is for Real, Man [New York: Association Press, 1966], p. 39) A generation ago, a viable model was «Railways to heaven,» which at least was closer to the truth than «God is my co-pilot.&raquIs for Real, Man [New York: Association Press, 1966], p. 39) A generation ago, a viable model was «Railways to heaven,» which at least was closer to the truth than «God is my co-pilot.&raquis my co-pilot.»

Texts would solve this if (a) there were extant texts for all historical events, which there obviously are not and (b) those texts that do exist were guaranteed to be the true, the whole truth and nothing but the, and this of course is also not even close to being the case.

And the relationships that have meant the most to me, that have brought me closer to the Table, have been those in which we talk to one another like normal people, employing the language of our shared faith tradition when it illuminates the truth, but not when it obscures it.

He speaks of «a weak objectivity that includes the transcendental conditions of establishing truth» (p. 299), which is very close to Bernard Lonergan's discussion in Insight of the contingency of judgments about the material world.

What Jesus did was to pick out of the vast treasury of Jewish religious thought those insights which, he said, came closest to the truth about God, and to discard other ideas which he held to be false, misleading, or unworthy.

In this regard, they were encouraged by the words of Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI: «Our quarreling ancestors were in reality much closer to each other when in all their disputes they still knew that they could only be servants of one truth which must be acknowledged as being as great and as pure as it has been intended for us by God.»

Before he became pope, Benedict wrote that «our quarrelling ancestors were in reality much closer to each other when in all their disputes they still knew that they could only be servants of one truth which must be acknowledged as being as great and as pure as it has been intended for us by God.»

Henry Murray describes «cognitive and convictional functions» of myths, which must be credible to their adherents, though he considers these secondary to other functions.28 Even though a living myth is closer to daily life than to metaphysical speculation, it does seem to presuppose some sort of truth - claims which can be examined.

Time will tell which cross-section is closer to the truth, but my money is on Sounders front office, because it appears to me that the cynicism I keep reading is chasing short - term narratives.

It seems that the truth here may be wenger that like so many employers in our past he has not managed to retain anything close to being a healthy rapport with monaco which could explain the reason we're left to hope and wait our turn at the back of a queue — announce lemar fgs

There will be a lot more Arsenal transfer rumours for us Gooners to wade through over the coming weeks, until the winter transfer window shuts down at the end of the month, and it is anyone's guess which of them will be true, close to the truth or downright fabrication.

This gave Everton a lift and made the game closer than it needed to be for the second half, Arsenal continued to play their football, as did Everton which made for a really enjoyable game of football, in truth either team could have scored the next goal, and both had opportunities to do so, Grioud denied by the bar, Ozil by the post and Lukaku by the post, Delofeu was was also denied by a good block by Cech with Kozzer and Nacho in close attendance.

The former is mostly not used at all while the latter is mainly used in making jokes, most of which are not even statistically close to the truth.

He closes his talk with another important truth which is that creativity has two sides to it.

The truth is, smaller operators are nimble and very close to their operations and their purchasing, which allows them to seek out the best deals and more easily procure from smaller, more local suppliers.

George Osborne brought the festive season to a decisive close today, with a speech in which he revealed the Conservatives will be spending the year confronting voters with «hard truths».

Truth is that most of those selling the change mantra after election have been less than average in their performances.At the national level, there is evident tardiness and inexplicable clumsiness.But the bulk of the mess rocking the party is at the level of thestates which incidentally are closer to the people.

Which of the various data sets of average annual global temperature anomaly is closest to the truth?

And finally, if you are counting calories, you don't necessarily have to be deadpan accurate with it (which is impossible anyway)-- as long as you're close enough, like 10 - 15 % within the truth, that's good enough to facilitate long run progress, especially if by doing so you make the process easier and thus more sustainable.

With This Is 40, Apatow gets closer to making his quintessential dramedy — one which may not deftly express the universal experience of midlife (as if there even is one), but moves past its veneer of autobiographical verisimilitude and rings with something like real trutIs 40, Apatow gets closer to making his quintessential dramedy — one which may not deftly express the universal experience of midlife (as if there even is one), but moves past its veneer of autobiographical verisimilitude and rings with something like real trutis one), but moves past its veneer of autobiographical verisimilitude and rings with something like real truth.

Because it's a LaBute picture, closer to the truth that Lakeview Terrace is a film about misanthropy — that no matter the cloth, the uniform is the general shittiness with which we treat each other — and, more, how easily we shed the raiments of civilization when confronted with the brute, caveman essence of competing for sex.

This is a superhero film which opens and closes with funerals and requires the world's finest detective and an avatar of truth and justice to batter each other (and everyone else) senseless for two - and - a-half hours.

Annihilation is closer to a slow - burning Sci - Fi, much like Ex-Machina, which slowly questioned the truth behind robot AI.

The story did not discern which observation hewed closer to the truth, leaving the impression that an all - out assault (the first sentence) was entirely possible, and maybe it is.

The truth is that 3 seconds is closer to the mark, because achieving the fastest time requires you finding the Rizla - thin window in which the battery is in its ideal operating conditions.

Given his passport photo Pearce could have claimed to be an Arrow Shirt model, which would have been closer to the truth, but the blood - covered face was starting to swell in the midday heat, and while it was definitely Pearce, it was no longer photogenic.

The truth then is that very few authors receive a proportion of a publisher's net revenue from home sales which is anywhere close to the rusty standard of a 25 - percent net receipts ebook royalty.»

Sticking around for 5 years makes me the internet version of a dirty old man, which is actually pretty close to the truth.

As she gets closer and closer to the truth, however, she will be forced to confront her worst enemy — that which she does not, or will not see.

Here it comes in the form of a pale, 1960s Wallace Berman image of the moon's remote surface overlaid with cryptic writing; a black - and - white Vija Celmins screen - print of the vast, horizonless ocean that appears to carry a faint «X,» as if the printing plate had been canceled; a ragged piece of fiberglass painted with a Tiepelo - like sky by Joe Goode, who seems to have ripped it from either the actual heavens above or a movie - studio set; and a photographic close - up of shifting desert sand, over which actual sand and colored pigment has been applied by David Benjamin Sherry, as if reality were a veil obscuring camera - created truth in our mediated universe.

That's why I avoided offering an opinion, which would be futile here and would prevent the attempt to come somewhat closer to the truth.»

Do you think knowledge of «absolute truth» global average temperature would help to evaluate which model projections are closer to reality?

The «consensus» position encompasses a range of estimates, produced by research, none of which is true (or closer to the truth) by virtue of its proximity to others.

«Paul Homewood says: September 24, 2013 at 2:49 am The difficulty is finding for a best estimate — some curve which is most likely to be closest to the truth.