Sentences with phrase «with human weakness»

Crooker, «It would have made a wonderful difference in the ministry of penance to ordinary, good people struggling with human weakness: the discipline of regular confession, instead of falling into general disuse, would have found fresh vitality and fruitfulness.»

Sometimes such prayers are tainted with human weakness, as in David's rejoicing that God had put Nabal out of his way by death.

Not exact matches

You might agree with the Times about how a wizard of Dumbledore's moral superiority should be immune to the weaknesses of human sexuality or you may side with some of Rowling's fans who think a strong gay character is leap for gay rights.

Don't look at it as a weakness, understand that you are only human and with this comes many needs, including interaction with others.

Pope Gelasius I (492 - 496) expressed his vision of the West in a famous letter to the Byzantine Emperor Anastasius I, and, even more clearly in his fourth treatise, where, with reference to the Byzantine model of Melchizedek, he affirmed that the unity of powers lies exclusively in Christ: «Because of human weakness (pride!)

In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word became flesh, so yes, my Deity was human and understand our weakness, though He was without sin.

In portraying Rodrigues's struggle to reconcile this idealized vision with the concrete reality of the Japanese people, Endō and Scorsese wish us to see the universal experience of human weakness.

He belongs to our race, sharing our propensities and temptations, bearing our human responsibilities and enduring our human weakness; yet in him the sin of Everyman, the inward - looking self - centeredness which bars the way to communion with God because it tries to establish and justify itself over against God, is overcome.

For this reason, Paul understands man with all his strengths, weaknesses and temptations: «Human nature, the common nature of the whole race of Adam, spoke in him, acted in him, with an energetical presence, with a sort of bodily fullness, always under the sovereign command of divine grace, but losing none of its real freedom and power because of its subordination.

It includes that, to be sure, yet it is more extensive: it signifies this concrete human nature in which we find ourselves, with its weaknesses, limitation, brokenness.

They are executed by human individuals, with all their weaknesses and even their own wickednesses.

Through this brush with death my awareness of how God's strength is made perfect through human weakness has deepened.

And yes, there will be much chaos and many hard cases to deal with in the meantime, but we are not free to compromise the teaching of Christ for the weakness of human beings.

Against the parching certitudes of Marxism - Leninism, Solzhenitsyn sets the sort of thinking that gives life — the affirmation, not of the idea of humanity and its destined perfection, nor of endless and irremediable brutality, but of the reality of the human individual with his simultaneous weakness and dignity.

Though the problem is so rooted in the nature of both Church and secular society that it is always present, yet it has a peculiar urgency for the modern church which is confronted with unusual evidences of misery in the life of human communities and of weakness within itself.

They might take the preacher more seriously if he would be honest about what he has to offer, namely, that sometimes he has little to offer, and can only stand humbly before the human question with the hope that God will be able to speak and act out of his honest weakness.

Just as Jesus took on human flesh with all its weaknesses and limitations, so also God, in the Old Testament «incarnated» Himself into the affairs of humanity with all of our weaknesses and limitations.

So, Paul plays around with the words: «For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength» (1 Corinthians 1:25).

«But as soon as I try to express this truth with my words it is inextricably caught up in the weakness of all human activity, loses all absoluteness and can only be treated as human.

But then, through the help of a spiritual director I am forever indebted to, I began to realize that even with all my faults and weaknesses, I am a wonderful human being and a great person.

But St. Paul's use of that term (II Corinthians 4:7) is in reference to human weakness brought on by a Christian confrontation with opposing forces of the sin of the world, not of himself.

It appears a core weakness in humans where one heads toward a heart filled with hate and the another a heart filled with hope.

I am struck with the observation that perhaps the reason Mark ended his Gospel on this strange note of fear was «to emphasize human inadequacy, lack of understanding, and weakness in the presence of supreme divine action and its meaning.»

much like when a country can't divulge highly classified information publicly for obvious economic and military reasons, a professional soccer organization must keep certain things in - house so they don't devalue a player, expose a weakness, provide info that could give an opposing club leverage in future negotiations and / or give them vital intel regarding a future match, but when dishonesty becomes the norm the relationship between cub and fan will surely deteriorate... in our particular case, our club has done an absolutely atrocious job when it comes to cultivating a healthy and honest relationship with the media or their fans, which has contributed greatly to our lack of success in the transfer market... along with poor decisions involving weekly wages, we can't ever seem to get true market value for most of our outgoing players and other teams seem to squeeze every last cent out of us when we are looking to buy; why wouldn't they, when you go to the table with such a openly desperate and dysfunctional team like ours, you have all the leverage; made even worse by the fact that who wouldn't want to see our incredibly arrogant and thrifty manager squirm during the process... the real issue at this club is respect, a word that appears to be entirely lost on those within our hierarchy... this is the starting point from which all great relationships between club and supporters form... this doesn't mean that a team can't make mistakes along the way, that's just human nature, it's about how they chose to deal with these situations that will determine if this relationship flourishes or devolves..

Now imagine a child, roughed up by his own bad choices or suffering at the hands of her own human weaknesses, hoping to find a safe harbor in a parent's healing embrace, but instead being punished, spanked, or sent to isolation in a corner or in their room... leaving them all alone in a stormy sea of human emotions when what they really need in that moment is to reconnect with us.

The Steering Group agreed the terms of reference for the review and, in consultation with the UK Human Geography community, appointed an International Panel of leading international experts, chaired by Professor David Ley, University of British Columbia, Canada The International Panel visited the UK for one week in May 2012 and met with about 150 stakeholders in UK Human Geography Prior to its UK visit, the Panel was provided with a range of background data including: Overviews of research trends and outputs since 2000 completed by representatives of the nine Human Geography sub-disciplines Two - page assessments by Heads of UK Geography Departments of strengths, weaknesses, overall health, and future opportunities and challenges to Human Geography in the UK (15 submissions were received) A statistical profile of UK Human Geography: Briefing Document: Statistical Overview and Commentary by Paul Wakeling (2012) Bibliometric Data for the ESRC International Benchmarking Review of Human Geography by Thomson Reuters (2012) A Short Introduction to UK Research Funding Policy by David Mills (2012) Survey of Users of Human Geography Research by Steve Johnson, David Gibbs and Ian Mills (2012).

Being human, you definitely have your soft spots and for that matter weaknesses but placed on a weighing scale, your positive side will far outweigh your negative part thus signifying a self actualized man with respect for human dignity.

Aware of the ruling class's despotic regime, those with mutations become renegades who live underground and reproduce among themselves to breed humans without genetic enhancement, and without the weakness gene.

In a final set of experiments, the researchers used necrostatin - 1 to treat mice with axonal damage and hind leg weakness, a telltale sign of axonal demise similar to the muscle weakness that occurs in the early stages of ALS in humans.

Human studies indicate that people with higher serum D3 levels have a decreased risk for falls and muscle weakness as well as less insulin resistance and diabetes.

And while «High - Rise» doesn't give Tom many chances to tug on the audience's heartstrings — the film is far too hip and postmodern to concern itself with such petty human weakness — «I Saw the Light» is a different prospect.

The freemium model has exploited this human weakness, but not all games are created equal and NimbleBit are back on the scene with their latest title, Pocket Planes.

I don't think I try to poke holes at the idea that Arctic warming is «likely driven in part by the global greenhouse effect» but I do seek out weaknesses with suggestions that it is driven entirely, or to some very large degree, by a human - enhanced greenhouse effect (at least at the current time).

I don't think they understand that we will take our chances for now with a highly unpredictable outcome of the future climate compared with the utterly predictable destruction and catastrophe that will result from this totalitarian course of demagoguery, fear - mongering and lying which arises from the human character's weakness for the love of power.

HR should let younger managers realize that they have much more in common with their direct reports than they think.They both still have career aspirations, fears, strengths, and weaknesses — they're both human.