Sentences with phrase «with human failures»

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Driving this communication failure, says Mackenzie, is simple human nature: «We like to agree and to be agreed with, and we like to be liked.»

But the most important lesson he brought with him from the academic world, he says, is that humans learn far more from failure that they do from success.

True innovation, Peter Diamandis says, means accepting risk — and failure Peter Diamandis sees a future filled with brilliant innovation — with cars that drive themselves, software that can diagnose illnesses and humans populating new planets like subdivisions — but not without a lot of failure before we get there.

Do you agree that with Goldfein that this is one of the only approaches that can actually stop your company from succumbing to the inevitable human fear of failure?

Writing about the Russian Revolution's failures, Orwell imagined a rebellion led by two pigs and farm animals against their human owner that replaces him with a commune of animals running his farm.

While Syria is equipped with a relatively sophisticated air defense system, a lack of training, command and control and other human factors are probably responsible for the failure of the system during the attack.

I agree with L.Nielsen's sentiment that you are «almost there» — close to realising that this is the only life you have and that all your effort should be directed at living it well for it's own sake, close to realising that you are strong enough as an individual to face the world without the psychological crutch you call god, close to realising that you are a good human being in your own right, close to realising that your own successes, failures, loves and fears are yours and yours alone, not attibutable to an imaginary creator.

rather than seeing these as an imposed set of rules, we can see these as a benediction, empowering us to be better... a bit like visions, rules can make failures of us, where as with a benediction we are not bound, but free to become more human.

These gifts combined with a free university education to so many people for whom there were then no appropriate jobs, as well as a civil war, led to the failure of the experiment failed, but in a time when it is clear, at least to me, that global pursuit of more and more wealth is suicidal for the human race, I think it would be worthwhile to study such efforts.

He paid the price of a bitter death, rather than weaken the intimacy of his relationship with the human lot, with all its suffering and failure.

Jesus» language in all its vigorous overstatement still reflects a sense of divine fury over the failure of the divine purpose to work itself out in the actions of human beings that does not compute with our urbane, 20th - century middle - class liberal Christianity.

For Jesus» language in all its vigorous overstatement still reflects a sense of divine fury over the failure of the divine purpose to work itself out in the actions of human beings that does not compute with our urbane, 20th - century middle - class liberal Christianity.

The society's «failure» to put homosexuality on a moral par with heterosexuality is not a result of homophobia, as that term is now recklessly used, but of a human refusal to accept the end of history.

At this stage, it is Catholic teaching itself which is felt in some obscure way to be responsible for the abuse, rather than human failure at the individual and institutional level, and other Christian denominations are beginning to wake up to the fact that this is a brush with which they too are ultimately tarred, since (C. S. Lewis again), most Catholic teaching is simply Christian doctrine.

Plato's account of the slavish / tyrannical soul - type cultivated in the population by a tyrant would suggest that a darker vision of human failure than Hobbes» nightmare is possible: perpetual tyranny, with only dynasty changes possible for a population utterly debased in soul.

Therefore the tradition has spoken insistently of judgment — or to use perhaps a better word, appraisal — both moment by moment and at the conclusion of every human life, with a further appraisal made when the entire created order is evaluated in its contribution or failure to contribute to the advancement of the divine purpose in the world.

Human patience is tested throughout the farming operation with unproductive land, problem of weed, failure of rains and attacks from pests, and enemies of crops (cf. GThom.9).

To fail to be one's true human self is to fail in maintaining on one's part the right relationship with God in the divine intention for mankind and at the same moment a failure in right relationships with other men and women and children, characterized as it should be by the caring, sharing, giving, and receiving which brings about a condition of peace and concord — which is shalom or abundance of life.

Her question — why — is also in a sense God's question because God is once again forced to deal with the result of a complex, interwoven history of human failure and sin.

The claim of Christian belief is not first and foremost that it offers the only accurate system of thought, as against all other competitors; it is that, by standing in the place of Christ, it is possible to live in such intimacy with God that no fear or failure can ever break God's commitment to us, and to live in such a degree of mutual gift and understanding that no human conflict or division need bring us to uncontrollable violence and mutual damage.

This is indeed the case with human love, which is mortal and under the conditions of that mortality can not be «perfect», while at the same time it is under the «condemnation» of failure.

Confession becomes prayer when it is made with a consciousness of the limitlessness of the possibilities of goodness against which every human achievement must appear as a relative failure.

Fourth, the prophets saw with utter clarity the persistent fact of sin, and saw it not as maladjustment or even as failure to «hit the mark» of some objective human standard, but as sin against God.

It makes human beings with the deepest personal identity responsible for their actions, successes and failures, without denying the urgency of the struggle for social, economic, and political pre-requisites of righteousness, equality, and brotherhood.

The possibilities which are presented are blessedness which comes from self - fulfillment and the acceptance by God of that self - fulfillment — all of this, of course, in relationship with others and not in any presumed human isolation of self hood — or the disintegration or failure which comes from self - destruction or rejection by God because there is nothing to be received by God in His consequent nature for the furthering of His purpose of good in the course of the process of creative advance.

Thus for each of us, the exacting and inescapable question, which must be faced and answered, is the question of our total mortal life as we are now living it, a question which arises from our mortality with the responsibility which that entails, which puts itself to us in the form of our measuring up to the possibility of becoming authentically ourselves, and which issues in our realization (not so much in thought as in deeply felt experience as existing men) of blessedness, as we know ourselves becoming what we truly are, or in destruction or damnation, as we know ourselves both frustrated men and failures in our human fulfillment.

Without casting Enlightenment rationalism as categorically evil, Wright details some of the problematic consequences of Enlightenment assumptions regarding the biblical text: false claims to absolute objectivity, the elevation of «reason» («not as an insistence that exegesis must make sense with an overall view of God and the wider world,» Wright notes, «but as a separate «source» in its own right»), reductive and skeptical readings of scripture that cast Christianity as out - of - date and irrelevant, a human - based eschatology that fosters a «we - know - better - now» attitude toward the text, a reframing of the problem of evil as a mere failure to be rational, the reduction of the act of God in Jesus Christ to a mere moral teacher, etc..

Failure to take into account the principles of the right to development in agreements between states and the World Bank, IMP and commercial banks with regard to external debt repayment and structural adjustment frustrates the realization of the right to development and of all human rights.

A weak moral structure will lead to individuals who act for themselves or with disregard to the needs of the society, resulting in internal conflict and the likely failure of the society if the members aren't capable of completely independent survival (and humans aren't).

The italics are Teilhard's own; and the succeeding pages of the essay from which the quotation comes show that for him «what has gone wrong» was the failure of much traditional Christian teaching and preaching to see that the world — the whole created order in its materiality, along with man's grasp of the importance of secular effort and achievement — is an ongoing movement in which significance is given to human life.

Having pointed out the failure of Hasker's various attempts to show the apparent advantage of process theism with regard to moral evil to be illusory, I turn to his attempt to show the same with regard to natural evil, understood as evil not caused by human agents.

Similarly, near the start of this century, Berry had challenged the left with his essay «The Failure of War,» offering stirring words about the humanity of an unborn «baby» — whom he called «an innocent fellow human,» not «an enemy - in - the - womb.»

While I view table fellowship with God as the constant over the whole range, atoning for human failure is at least a part of what God provides for in sacrifice.

These movements were criticized in the further development of theology for their naive identification of Christianity with a social programme and their failure to recognize the limits set by sin to any human accomplishment.

Talk about provision for human failure, and I see Jesus stumbling up a wilderness trail with a cross on his back.

Another kind of failure can occur when the full dignity of human personhood with its spiritualvocation is not accorded respect or attention.

With all its failures, Christianity provides a more realistic and hopeful basis for approaching the real issues of intercultural life today than does the Enlightenment way of affirming human dignity.

Our present concern, however, is not with this obvious and distressing manifestation of disharmony in social life but with the disharmony itself — that is, the failure on the part of men and women to discern that true community and sound relationships within it can be found only as each of us has his or her place in a wider grouping of humans, where there is vivid contrast because each is valued as being precisely this or that person while the community as a whole has goals or ends (what used to be called «ideals») that are worthy, upbuilding, and enriching.

Thus, the difficulty has been that in much philosophical thought, with its influence upon other ways of thinking and also upon our ways of acting as humans, there has been a failure to grasp adequately the peril of talk about individuals and equally about substance.

Speaking to Princeton students, the late Adlai E. Stevenson once declared: «What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty boils down to something like this: the knowledge that he has acquired with age is not the knowledge of formulas... but of people, places, actions — a knowledge not gained... by words, but by touch, sight, sound, victories, failures, sleeplessness, devotion, love — the human experiences and emotions of this earth; and perhaps, too, a little faith and a little reverence for the things you can not see.»

But the latter abound so that we can afford to overlook the innumerable failures and self - deceptions that are mixed in with them (for in everything human failure is a matter of course), and we can also overlook the verbiage of a good deal of the mind - cure literature, some of which is so moonstruck with optimism and so vaguely expressed that an academically trained intellect finds it almost impossible to read it at all.

if someone does nt respect or rather insults horribly a man who has worked 20 years for the same brand with full dedication, he is just a failure as a human being in my eyes!

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This is an established aspect of human physiology,» says Huggins, who has herself worked with several families who saw their infants lose or fail to gain weight after following the feeding advice in «Babywise,» including one pair of newborn twins who were diagnosed with «failure to thrive.»

For new mothers who still don't get the message, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has come up with a more strident approach: a breast - feeding awareness campaign that equates failure to breast - feed with risky behaviors like smoking and drinking during pregnancy.

He noted that Nigeria was gifted with tremendous human and natural resources, but regretted that «failure of some of the leadership we had in the past led to our not being able to capitalize on resources to improve the lot of the people.»

IOSH is keen to work with decision - makers, helping them to upskill and reap the many benefits of effective risk management across supply chains — reducing human, economic and societal failure costs and ensuring business sustainability and success.

On the other hand, being part of the Council of Europe is also a way for Russia to occasionnaly point at other (western) european countries failures about Human Rights and embarass them, or to keep an eye on how Russian (or Russian speaking) minorities are dealt with in (eastern) Europe.

There was an outcry from human rights groups last week when the Home Office proceeded with the deportation despite signs he was experiencing organ failure following a 90 - day hunger strike.

Its failure arises as a result of its inconsistency with fundamental codes of human conduct.