The fallible judgment respecting outward relations affects only the accidents of morals, though the essence of scientific truth.
Fallible men make mistakes and commit injustice, sometimes greater than that which they are seeking to prevent.
The assessment of taxes has to be intrusted to men with fallible judgment, imperfect knowledge, and selfish interests.
There must be a supreme and sovereign authority in the church which is infallible, and which can guide, direct, restrain, and correct all inferior and fallible exercise of authority.
A fallible head to an infallible hierarchy, a fallible guide to an infallible church, a falliblesupreme teacher, a fallible Vicar of Christ!
An infallible church cannot be subject to a fallibleteaching authority.
I am a sincere Christian; and yet I regard the Old Testament and the New Testament alike as the work of fallible men and of poetical minds.
Women had the fallible idea that they could read human nature, and never found out their mistake until after they were married.
Never before had she known other than momentary indecision; and it irked her to find that her clarity of vision was fallible and human like the rest of her.
What is this but to say, that although we can prove the Bible to be fallibleon every point capable of proof, we are still blindly to believe it to be infallible where demonstrated error is, from the nature of the case, impossible?
The inspiration of Scripture receives its death-blow; for if fallible in one point, we have no reason to conclude it to be infallible in others.
Driven by inexorable fact to allow the Bible to be fallible in everything in which we can test its assertions, they, by a clever strategic movement, remove their defence to a post more difficult to attack.
These books are not infallible and divine, they are fallible and human; but they are immeasurably superior to any books that supernaturalists can offer.
If the foundation be fallible the superstructure must be fallible also.
If later critics would seek to realize the amount of information possessed by fallible mortals at the time of their decisions, the world would be spared floods of censure.
There is no end to its disputes, for it has nothing but a fallible vote as authority for its oracles, and these appeal only to fallible interpreters.
Human laws are the product of fallible human judgment; they can direct only such acts as are external, and they are unable to forbid or punish many evil deeds.
Church is but a congregation offallible men, no better able to judge than I am; I have a right to my own opinion.
But the infallible Pope conducted himself like a proud, irascible, exceedingly fallible mortal.
They come to us through the minds of those who recorded them, neither machines nor angels, but fallible creatures, with human passions and prejudices.
Instead of relying upon the ONE standard which God has given him in his Word; should he build his hope upon a human system he could be certain only that man is fallible and subject to err.
Events were only known by rumour, from pilgrims, or by letters carried In couriers to the parties interested: the public did not enjoy even those fallible vehicles of intelligence, newspapers.
The decisions of these Councils represent the opinion of the majority of fallible men composing those assemblies, and no number of fallible parts can make an infallible whole.
People [10] give me too much attention of the misguided, fallible sort, and this misrepresents one through malice or ignorance.
Our love is not the love of God, which is guided by infallibility; but the love of man, which is guided by the dark and falliblediscerning of a man.
Indeed we trust them, not absolutely as saints, but with a mixture of distrust, as fallible and faulty men: and so as to trust our own circumspection above their words, when we know not the persons to be very just.
Frohschammer, having fallen into this vulgar mistake, argues that because the authority is fallible the truth must be uncertain.
The same principle which, in certain conjunctures, imposes the duty of surrendering received opinions imposes in equal extent, and under like conditions, the duty of disregarding the fallible authorities that uphold them.
