Sentences with phrase «act upon his mind»

The mighty objects he beholds, act upon his mind by enlarging it, and he partakes of the greatness he contemplates....

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How such a spirit of sobriety expresses itself, not simply in literary or philosophic reading lists, but in platforms and party rhetoric that can resonate with 21st century Americans, I to a large degree leave to others (our Pete comes to mind), even if my turning here to the example of Solzhenitsyn reminds me that faith in God's promises will be necessary to sustain us in the quite possible event that even our grasping and steadfastly acting upon the «most precise» political prudence might yet fail to stop catastrophe.

A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell - mouths mercy, and invented hell - mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!

To read the gospel with an open mind is to see beyond all possibility of doubt that Jesus came to bring us new truths concerning our destiny: not only a new life superior to that we are conscious of, but also in a very real sense a new physical power of acting upon our temporal world.

To science «a thing is where it immediately acts,» and our minds do act immediately, by all the evidence, and at definite places — upon parts of our bodies.

Santayana would reject the principle in both forms since he holds, as we have just seen, that there is no special immediacy about mind's knowledge of itself: What is ordinarily, and properly, called «knowledge» is, for Santayana, the intuition of an essence combined with an act of intent directed upon some reality beyond which this essence is taken as a description.

a man can not reasonably, and by himself he can not possibly, be regarded as merely a system of cells acting upon one another, for he is directly aware of «himself» as, at the given moment, a single unit of action, a single mind or will, exerting force upon his bodily parts and thence upon the world.

Some commentators warn against making too much of this meaning in this context, yet it remains true that the simple act of turning usually and logically follows upon a change of mind.

When the mind goes dark, one can with confidence fall back upon acts of kindness toward one's immediate neighbor.

Furthermore, if one keeps clearly in mind the all - important time factor of Hartshorne's societalism, it becomes clear that an actual whole can never act upon the actualities of which it is composed at any given moment but only upon subsequent actualities.

«Sometimes these stories become so implanted in our minds that they act back upon us, directly and powerfully.»

«There's no question in our minds that the governor supports this act,» said Miller who says it's now «incumbent» upon her group and other pro choice advocates to demonstrate the depth of the support.

«One of the most important things we do in life is to build models of other people in our minds that we can act upon,» says Read Montague at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.

His actions in this area brings to mind the political genius of Lyndon Baines Johnson in pushing through Title IV of the Civil Rights Act and, much more recently the pressure put upon Congress by President Barack Obama to get a comprehensive health bill through a Congress as sharply divided as the body confronted by Lincoln.

It's an eloquent moment, and it comes just before the second act of the film, during which a cascade of ridicule and recrimination descends into revelations of adultery, betrayal, and racial invective, laying bare the core of unrest in the hearts of minds of hard - court heroes, once upon a time.

i use my mind and they act upon as i think.

Journey with an open mind and gentle heart Accept with grace and gratitude the diversity I encounter Revere and protect the natural environment which sustains all life Appreciate all cultures I discover Respect and thank my hosts for their welcome Offer my hand in friendship to everyone I meet Support travel services that share these views and act upon them and, By my spirit, words and actions, encourage others to travel the world in peace

Though, my mind was blown open and feasted upon by the simple fact that the first worthwhile act in the game involved going left.

We call upon conservation minded nations to act decisively to set a course that leads to an end to commercial whaling.

It is incumbent upon each and every motorcycle rider and all the drivers of cars to consider safety and to act in accordance with the safety of everyone in mind as they navigate the streets of Chicago this and every year.

The requirement for neutrality does not require judges to discount the very life experiences that may so well qualify them to preside over disputes... True impartiality does not require that the judge have no sympathies or opinions; it requires that the judge nevertheless be free to entertain and act upon different points of view with an open mind.

Upon his resignation, Nixon was given a Presidential Pardon by President Gerald Ford, an act which was very unpopular at the time, but is today viewed by some as an act of healing the nation (keep in mind, Nixon won all but Massachusetts in the last election so his ousting was deeply hurtful to the nation.

However, feedback is only valuable if you're willing to receive it with an open mind and act upon it.

It is becoming increasingly difficult to be considered an open - minded, unbiased, and ultimately professional and effective practitioner without taking into account and acting upon various ideas, findings, and techniques that are applicable to a particular client, and not be too focused on one particular theory of psychotherapy.

Those that can train their minds to see the future, prepare for the opportunities and the challenges what lies ahead and take the steps to act upon the positive change they want to see in their own lives.