Sentences with phrase «powerful reading of»

Graham's powerful reading of this searing title, which examines the origins of the Ku Klux Klan, moves fluidly between the deftly woven text and numerous quotations.

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«I read this memoir when I was in my 20s, and to this day it remains one of the most powerful human survival stories I have read,» she raves.»

See what the co-author of «No B.S. Guide to Powerful Presentations» thinks you should read to succeed in business.

The same can't be said of Ottawa, which is trying at once to attract investment and diversify Canada's export markets without ceding control of our resources to companies controlled by powerful foreign governments (read: China).

Focusing on your communication skills — from reading body language to summing up your value in a few sentences — is one of the most powerful things you can do to advance your career and success.

At Fortune's 2013 Most Powerful Women Summit, Cool said she spends the majority of her time reading and visiting Berkshire's operating companies, learning about their inner workings and occasionally getting involved in the operations — a role that sometimes includes the unpleasant task of firing management.

Tyra Banks and Chelsea Handler, who met Buffett at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, Tweeted their regards and urged their millions of followers to read his Fortune essay about Women.

For more on Bresch, read Fortune's 2015 feature, «Why Wall Street Loves to Hate Mylan's CEO» and «Why the CEO Behind the EpiPen Controversy Remains One of Fortune's Most Powerful Women.»

You might be more comfortable reading from notes, but as Trump has learned, you're a far more powerful and persuasive speaker once you've mastered the art of speaking authentically.

If you want to hear a powerful example of this in action, read this story about actor Robert Downey Jr..

Since people retain almost 80 percent of what they see but only 20 percent of what they read, these quick to read and easy to share visual pieces can become powerful ambassadors for your brand.

Have you ever read a good rant and chuckled at the precision of well articulated venom - it can be powerful and hysterical too.

If you're still flailing around professionally, it's probably worth a read in full, but here are a few of his most powerful suggestions in brief.

«I've read the most powerful books on the Law of Attraction... but I still had some questions unanswered.

Read the full list of 36 powerful men accused of sexual misconduct in the wake of Harvey Weinstein here.

ProtonMail, an open - sourced encrypted mail service founded by MIT and Stanford engineers at the CERN research facility, has suffered from a series of extremely powerful DDoS attack from unknown hackers,... Read more»

For those of you who've followed me on twitter @sfemerick or read my blog or book, The Most Powerful Brand on Earth, you know I believe the most successful brand advocates are those who gain visibility and trust by sharing their expertise, and the most successful brands are those who build systems around these experts to align and scale impact for the brand.

If any of the questions above catches your interest; then read on as I share with you 10 simple but powerful customer retention strategies that will keep your customers happy and loyal.

It is one of the most powerful social media tools for businesses for inbound... [Read more...]

(Surveys, lab experiments, and brain readings all show that, for better or worse, schadenfreude is a powerful psychological force: at any fixed level of income, people are happier when the income of others is reduced.)

Perry's «racking the shotgun» parable is the most powerful idea I have ever read about the act of actually being involved in sales

It's not that I don't feel like I can, I can... but is that in the vocabulary of the one who I worship, if it's not then why would I as His Son want to take on what is not His, my Father's nature... The versions of the Bible I've read seem to think that words are powerful and speaking them is an action and can even change physics if used properly... Again, the scriptures speak for themselves and circumventing the topical study with christiany cliche come - backs doesn't answer or annul anything that the Word has to say on the matter.

I have read all the books cover to cover, here is the reasoning; (Purport) there is knowledge in my brain (Purport) there is evidence to confirm that knowledge in my brain (C) therefore one categorically conclude that the knowledge I have is all powerful and full of «knowledge»

The Christian god, a being powerful enough to create the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies, reads your mind (or «hears your prayers» if you prefer) using some kind of telepathic powers.

Some of repulsive tactics employed in this campaign of repression were described last month in a powerful article in First Things by a Chinese Christian convert, Yu Jie, that ought to be required reading in the Holy See's Secretariat of State.

Of great interest to me, as with all documents written during the first three centuries of the church, is to read what things were like before the conversion of Constantine when Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire, and transformed from a simple way of following Jesus into the powerful Christendom that still rules todaOf great interest to me, as with all documents written during the first three centuries of the church, is to read what things were like before the conversion of Constantine when Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire, and transformed from a simple way of following Jesus into the powerful Christendom that still rules todaof the church, is to read what things were like before the conversion of Constantine when Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire, and transformed from a simple way of following Jesus into the powerful Christendom that still rules todaof Constantine when Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire, and transformed from a simple way of following Jesus into the powerful Christendom that still rules todaof the Roman Empire, and transformed from a simple way of following Jesus into the powerful Christendom that still rules todaof following Jesus into the powerful Christendom that still rules today.

In addition to the 25 free printable ornaments that coordinate with the daily readings in The Greatest Gift (adult edition) and Unwrapping the Greatest Gift (Family Read Aloud Edition), DaySpring has beautifully created Jesse Tree Ornament Sets, in either embossed, pearlized card stock or as a sculpted heirloom set, as a powerful & memorable way to celebrate the lineage & majesty of God's greatest gift to us — His Son, Jesus Christ — through the timeless Advent tradition of the Jesse Tree.

If you read your bible it will tell you that the all powerful creator of everything HAD to do that so he could judge us the way he wanted to when we die.

By now, everyone who reads contemporary fiction will have heard of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel's acclaimed historical novels about Thomas Cromwell, the powerful advisor to Henry VIII who all but single - handedly disestablished the Catholic Church in England.

It was one of the most powerful essays I'd ever read.

An all powerful creator would not make an excuse by putting it back on the people... wouldn't he search for a way to help them understand instead of accusing them of not having faith... trust must be earned by anyone asking for «faith»... an all knowing god would understand this... if no trust... no faith can be had... reading a book does not fulfill even the barest minimum of building a trust which is necessary if you are to ask for «faith».

Yet when we read her powerful interpretations many of us find that she has shown us something in the texts we had not seen before, but which we will not be able to ignore on future readings and which gives us a better understanding of what we read.

He gives several accounts of such experiences, his own and those of others — experiences that alerted him to the potentially powerful effects of reading.

For this reason, he advises that we read the Dogmatics with Mozart's melodies playing in our ear: «It is in this way that one should read, for example, those pieces that seem like the powerful finale of a symphony: the end of Barth's doctrine of election..

It is a powerful read and I'd love your impression of it.

But I took it back to my carrel and began to read, and was absolutely stunned by Yoder's powerful analysis and critique of Barth.

Trusting that God had not abandoned Israel, he wrestled with scripture and found his way to a powerful new reading of God's promises.

If we read Romans 3 with this in mind, it becomes «for all of us are terrorists and fall short of the glory of God», and is much more powerful.

I can not say the book is great literature, but it is a good read, and it provides a powerful feel for the day - by - day pressures exerted by a regime bent upon extinguishing any independent force of possible opposition, and especially any force appealing to an authority transcending the state.

Why would anyone worry about a guy that wants to be leader of the most powerful nation (save China) on the planet and believes a weird fairy tale about Jesus Christ coming to America to preach to the native peoples and golden tablets that can only be read with special glasses that all then conveniently disappear.

Yet it seems that according to the reading of 2 Timothy 3:16 which I presented, God does something through the reading of Scripture which makes it powerful and profitable once again.

In between the photo dumps and product placements were some of the most honest, considered, and powerful essays I'd ever read, essays about things that really mattered: faith, doubt, feminism, race, mental health, addiction, community, friendship, mindfulness, grace and the unique joys and challenges of raising children in our highly - connected, yet increasingly isolating culture.

This week, in light of even more women coming forward with stories of being abused and harassed by powerful men, she tweeted this: «If you want to know how Jesus felt about women & treated women, read the Gospels.

But along with the praise, Wilson offers insights about the reasons these books are powerful: Lewis's generosity toward the authors he discusses, the way he finds passages that make them seem interesting; his sense of «wonder and enjoyment» in all he reads; his willingness to take up the great themes that engaged his authors, to put to work in criticism his «creative intelligence.»

The church back then taught that the Word of God was too powerful, too dangerous and too complex to be read and taught by just anybody.

The fact that such large and powerful churches are led by people who are are more concerned with being seen to be strong and right than with reading the Bible humbly and seriously is scary, and so far from the example of Jesus and the witness of the Bible itself.

If you consider the fact that the Bible is still the most widely read book in the world, touching the lives of millions of people every day, and that it has served humanity as a guide for living for the past 3,000 years, it becomes clear that religious institutions could take a powerful leadership role in environmental repair.

And why follow the reading of a tiny minority of manuscripts in II Corinthians 5:3 against the powerful witness of the vast majority, when the latter reading (and RSV) makes better sense?

Though irony is not often used today as a method for theological inquiry and challenge, I would love to see it implemented more, as it makes for great reading while at the same time making powerful and pointed thelogical critiques of one's opponents.

If you are reading a book written by the all - powerful, all - knowing, all - loving creator of the universe, wouldn't you expect to be stunned by the brilliance, the clarity and the wisdom of the author?