Sentence examples for human doubt from inspiring English sources

Orpheus, like Jason, is a character whose authority as a mythical figure is bolstered by his demonstration of recognisably human doubt, uncertainty and even (in the case of that fatal backward glance) weakness.

That complexity may help people to hang on to faith in a secular society, when they need a God who is in some ways insulated from human doubt about religion.

Most insidiously, this myth determines who and who is not given the benefit of the human doubt.

A poetic, bittersweet meditation on faith, family, and belonging, Lila embraces the depths of human doubt and misery while uncovering hope through the power of grace.

It's all there in our hands and the energy is right there and we hold it, but our human doubt instills fear and fear keeps us from flying.

Even Christ endured 40 days of temptation in the desert, clouded by human doubt.

Reading Carson's account, the abiding impression given is of some extremely talented men (and, with the exception of Hope Powell, the England women's team manager, this remains a very masculine enclave) who combine all too human doubts and insecurities with a robust sense of belief in their team's innate ability that would do the most high-flying CEO proud.

Sharing in his own mind and heart all the human doubts and fears that haunted others around him and elsewhere, and knowing to every hideous detail the consequences of a mistaken move, he pledged the whole destructive power of the United States to back his demand, but in making it thus necessary for Mr Khrushchev to keep the peace, at the same time he made it possible for him to do so.

With a fierce line, he depicts human doubts and uncertainties, animating the twisted scenarios of our insecurities and obsessions.

It might be said that the genius of Plato's Socrates was to embrace ordinary human uncertainty and doubt, and fashion it into a flourishing way of life.

Even if we assumed we had a robot that was otherwise exactly like a human (I doubt we could build this, but let's pretend like Asimov did), since we built it, we could make sure that its "mind" was backed up constantly by wifi, so it wouldn't be a unique copy.