Sentences with phrase «acting upon them when»

It acts upon you when you read it.

Not exact matches

And when this expanse occured what was the net force that acted upon certain areas of this expansion that caused those areas to congeal so to speak and create nebulas that would become stars?

It is also the logical culmination of a process that began some decades ago when the Court untethered itself from the text of the Constitution and began to sit like an omniscient council of elders uniquely empowered to intuit and act upon the aspirations of the people.

When you look at it on an emotional level it was a tragic act upon the Native Americans.

But when we act upon the violence in our hearts, we make ourselves feel better by blaming God for it.

When natural disasters like floods, earthquakes, and hurricanes come upon neighborhoods, towns, cities, and countries so that homes are destroyed and lives are taken, we call these horrible events «acts of God.»

First, when Jesus «became sin» and died upon the cross, I tend to get the visual of Jesus acting as a spiritual sponge....

When Islam is exposed to such hardships, its believers are permitted, and indeed it is made incumbent upon them, to repel aggression, to restore peace, and to establish a just situation in which people can think and act freely.

And then, Lord, at that point where all things are set ablaze, do you act upon me though the united flames of all those internal and external influences which, were I less close to you, would be neutral or ambivalent or hostile, but which when animated by an Energy quae possit sibi omnia subjicere7 become, in the physical depths of your heart, the angels of your triumphant activity.

It is entirely possible that, at a time when very important decisions have to be made and acted upon for the good of humankind and the planet as a whole, far too many people will focus their attention on their own immediate vicinity and insist on claiming their individual right to act within it as they wish.

In its origin, the Church was the society that developed when followers of Jesus made an act of faith in him, Its continued existence has depended upon others reiterating that act of faith in Jesus throughout its entire history.

27 Love necessarily involves suffering, which may well occur when one allows the consequence of [223] being acted upon by the other, wherefore Williams wrote of the «suffering love of God»:

Living by faith is taking God at His Word and acting upon it — even when it makes no sense to the rest of the world.

Given how brutally she was being treated at home, it's amazing how well Patty functioned outside it, when called upon to act.

An act has positive moral value when it is based upon the whole - hearted assent of the person to it, that is, when there is a congruent relation between the act and the total personality structure of the one who acts.

In some cases, there may be people that are born with differences that are problematic when they act upon them, such as psychopathology... however even this is tricky.

In one of the more moving moments of the 1992 presidential campaign, Bill Clinton tapped the power behind the American wish to live in community when he told his audience at the University of Notre Dame, «Most of all we are in a crisis of community, a spiritual crisis that calls upon each of us to remember and to act upon our obligations to one another.

When Plato acted it was probably in the belief that his freedom to act could only affect a small fragment of the world, narrowly circumscribed in space and time; but the man of today acts in the knowledge that the choice he makes will have its repercussions through countless centuries and upon countless human beings.

That Aristotle included in some forms of sensing experience an awareness of being acted upon becomes fairly obvious when we compare his account of sight with that of touch.

He did not press the point, but there was no need to do so since when he came on the scene it was generally accepted that sensing is «a sort of being acted upon.

Reason came into importance in dealing with these forms, and even when it was turned upon itself and upon the soul as a whole, it had no other kind of categories by which to think than those which were achieved by this psychic act of distancing.

When we take God's word and act upon it, we can show women that their worth is far more than a pregnancy test.

All that a Religious Freedom Restoration Act does is initiate a balancing test when a private citizen feels that their religious freedom has been infringed upon by the federal government.

When Luke uses the word «saved,» he is not referring to receiving eternal life, but is referring instead to receiving and acting upon God's rule and reign in our life.

That is, they are under both ethical and epistemic obligations to argue for the truth of what they take themselves to believe when they are faced with religious others who appear to believe something different and to act differently based upon such difference in belief.

It is state in which which our brains are acting as if called upon to interpret real sensory input when actually experiencing much less coherent stimuli than reality provides.

Can a husband say the marital act is free except when he forces himself upon his wife?

Act 19:6 And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.

2 - 3), and whether it is apt to celebrate communion in the morning when Jesus instituted the Eucharist after supper (16.1 - 17.1), the pastor in Cyprian returns at the end of the letter to assure forgiveness to those who may have erred in good faith in the past (18.4), and requesting his people to recognise that since Christ's «second coming is now drawing near to us,» (18.4), it is incumbent upon them to act so that «He may find us upholding what He has counselled, observing what He has taught and doing what He Himself has done.»

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

«Truth is one, but men seek it in different ways depending upon their background, education and environment; the only reasonable way for any modern man to act when faced with this pluralism of ethical and moral thinking is to seek to know the truth held by the other person, but with love and respect and openness.»

For example, when someone I went to high school with and had not spoken to in 20 years found out I was a SAHD, he took it upon himself to send me email after email about how I was acting outside of God's will.

When we do get around to evaluating sex acts, we ask three simple questions, based upon 1 Corinthians 6:12 in the Bible: 1.

Leclerc believes that when the subordinate entities in a compound act upon one another in a fully reciprocal way, so that they share in one another's constitution, the whole attains a unity that is not attributable to its parts.

Entropy, when acted upon by external forces, such as gravity, will allow smaller mass to coalesce into more complex and larger objects.

In so far as people in our culture act in segmentalized roles are defined and required by organized groups able to apply social and economic power, the church that makes no demands upon its members, gives them no stronghold from which to fight, and is afraid to use its own institutional power when it is necessary is simply eliminated from the struggle.

God's initiatives are always distorted when we try to act upon them, not just because we are sinners but because we are not God.

Abram hears these promises when he is still living in Haran, and so in verses 4 and following, He acts upon the promises and sets out.

When a bishop acts in persona Christi, fulfilling his duty to teach on matters of faith and morals by identifying propositions to which he calls upon the faithful to assent, he presumably means to state truths that belong to one and the same body of truths: primarily, those entrusted by Jesus to his Church and, secondarily, those necessary to preserve the primary truths as inviolable and / or to expound them with fidelity.

People are free to believe what they want and personally act upon that by, for example, not using those birth controls but when you run a for profit business you should be required to abide by the law in this case insurance coverage of these birth controls.

«Formal discourse becomes politically powerful when it becomes ideology; when it articulates and fuses into effective formulations opinions and attitudes that are otherwise too scattered and vague to be acted upon; when it mobilizes a general mood, «a set of disconnected, unrealized private emotions,» into «a public possession, a social fact»; when it crystallizes otherwise inchoate social and political discontent and thereby shapes what is otherwise instinctive and directs it to attainable goals, when it clarifies, symbolizes, and elevates to structured consciousness the mingled urges that stir within us.

Beecher spoke for a vast majority of the American Protestants when he said that these groups «constitute a sort of disciplined moral militia, prepared to act upon every emergency, and repel every encroachment upon the liberties and morals of the State.

When Archbishop Athenagoras Kokkinakis of Thyateira and Great Britain asked Ecumenical Patriarch Demetrios of Constantinople whether the Patriarch of Alexandria's bestowal of the honor upon a non-Orthodox churchman was proper, the Ecumenical Patriarch supported this act of ecclesiastical economy as a sign of things to come.

The Red Devils have cost themselves plenty of points and it goes without saying that is the case — but there's also no denying that officials have made that quest far harder by failing to act when called upon to do so.

Once there, our impact can be significant — as we hope it will be when the Government digests and acts upon the Riots Commission's recommendations.

Your husband also appears to have selective deafness when it comes to hearing something he'd rather not act upon.

When practicing Elimination Control, EC for insiders, the parent or carer looks for a baby's cues that it needs to go and then acts upon it by holding baby over a bowl, potty or toilet.

And honestly, when you are taking it upon yourself to repeal a piece of legislation called the Human Rights Act, it's not a matter of fact which requires much substantiation.

When actors behave unexpectedly and question a prior consensus, their personalities, motivations and belief systems, rather than structural patters or logics of action, might be a better indicators for whether they will act upon their campaign promises.

It is truly disappointing to see that when a real chance to act upon unfunded state mandates presents itself, and that effort has been scrubbed of all potential political disagreement, some of my colleagues seemingly prefer to engage in political gamesmanship.