Sentences with phrase «beyond human power»

The continuing sins themselves, the root desires that prompt them, and the guilt we bear for making such brutal response to God's good gifts — all these together separate us from God and are far beyond any human power to mend.

But the next thing astonishes me, it makes my head swim, for after having made the movement of resignation, then by virtue of the absurd to get everything, to get the wish whole and uncurtailed — that is beyond human power, it is a prodigy.

Those who propose to liberate human beings by reducing them to their naked individuality and destroying the bonds that connect them with principles understood to reside beyond human power risk arrogating to themselves the right to forge new and tighter chains.

Not exact matches

The most distinctive form of power in human affairs extends beyond the acquired responses of mind, to the self - transcending action of the human spirit.

God in His will through history had into reality seemingly illogical or cruel events to happen in our world, but no one is spared if the purpose is for the good of humanity, wars pestilence even the holocust has a reason and purpose beyond our comprehension at our times but will be reveald in the future, The Phillipine catasthrophy for example is viewed by some as Gods punishment, we experienced the brunt of natures punishing power but it also unveiled the true feelings and concern of the whole world in helping us materially and spiiritually by aiding and consoling us that was unprecedented in history, The whole world had demostrated, to me, a kind of humanitarian concern and love that trancends races and culture, A kind of demonstration by higher being the we humans is one with Him.The cost of human lives and misery is nothing in history compared to its positve historical consequences

The aversion to supernaturalism or to any appearance of dualism that seemed to threaten or to undo the assumption of «one - world order of meaning» has rendered the modern consciousness peculiarly insensitive to the great themes of Christian faith that have meant to point beyond man's own human powers and resources.

Those who recognize the signs of the times will move beyond the outmoded doctrines that the State has a divinely delegated power to kill and that criminals forfeit their fundamental human rights.

A possible real connection with the animal kingdom is itself of relatively little theological importance, for anything in it that would be important for the theological interpretation of human life in the present, can also be known without it, that is to say, the vulnerability of man in face of the powers of this earth, man's temptation to see himself from the point of view of his animality, his liability to death, man's dynamic orientation and task of developing to his perfection from below upwards, beyond his beginnings.

Its experience of the extent to which human brutality can go, of the fury that can be unleashed when the human animal is attacked, its acceptance in wry cynicism of the venality of great and small; its acceptance, too, of a psychological analysis that tends to show how slight the power of reason, how great the strength of obscure passions; how corrupting of children the possible love of mothers and the wrath of fathers; its portrayal of men and mankind in bitterly disillusioned novels and in shuddering chronicles of man's inhumanity to man — in all this the 20th century has perhaps gone beyond anything that Edwards said in dispraise of men, individually and in the collective.

Once spoken, the power inhering even in the human word is released beyond recall.4 How much more so with the Word of Yahweh in the mouth of the prophet!

This eternal significance, this meaning which transcends all human meanings, is the sovereign act of creation through which God speaks to us and brings us into being, an act which is completely «over our heads» — beyond our powers of rational understanding.

In the face of the marvel of what can be called the immensely small world of the atom, and the immensely great world of the cosmos, the human mind feels itself completely surpassed in its possibilities of creation and even of imagination, and understands that a work of such quality and of such proportions demands a Creator whose wisdom is beyond all measure, and whose power is infinite.

The human will is thus itself a cause, an uncaused cause, whose creative power points to a greater creative power beyond itself — in short, to God.

Our lives are embraced by a universal intelligible order which makes possible a human social existence in which something beyond arbitrary whim and power is operative.

There is a goal of redemption which however vast and beyond our power to comprehend, still has an intelligible meaning in relation to our human values.

They have accepted the fact that vast numbers of members of the human race have spoken or written about some such awareness, however it may have been conceived, of a presence which is believed to be more than human, and they have told us that they have experienced a power that seems to come from beyond, above, and below the level of human enabling.

As the messianic events of liberation in the Old Testament were not a result of human efficacy but rather a gift, an act of power that transcended the given possibilities of history, the Christian communities saw in Jesus an act of God's freedom... the power that creates a new future is something new, it is freedom from beyond history that is freedom for history.

Jesus restores, through his human will in union with the divine, the «willed concession» [26] or the «ecstatic power» of suffering [27] that allows the action of grace to elevate man «beyond nature» into the divine nature itself.

Shame implies the peculiarly human concern with self - perfection, guilt the sense of personal responsibility, whereas awe recognizes powers not under human control and beyond human comprehension, before which we feel shamefully small.

The question does take us beyond the scientific method, which may make someone like Dawkins uncomfortable because human beings can not answer it from our own mental powers.

But if we are to find a religious system which can not be outdated or outgrown, from which the acids of modernity can only remove accretions and encrustations, a religion which properly practiced produces the highest forms of human behavior, and offers both supernatural pattern and spiritual power beyond human endeavor, then I believe we shall have to take a fresh look at Christianity.

They have their creeds, their heresies, their acts of worship, their reliance upon powers beyond anything human, their prophets and messiahs, their demands for faithfulness unto death, and their promises of salvation.

(We recall the analysis of Paul Tillich: «This is the great function of symbols: to point beyond themselves, in the power of that to which they point, to open up levels of reality which otherwise are closed, and to open up levels of the human mind of which we otherwise are not aware» (Paul Tillich, «Theology and Symbolism,» in Religious Symbolism, ed.

as humans advanced and became more knowledgible of natural events, we had to find a new task for «god» to control and the only area left open for a «god» was the concept that our consience would exsist beyond this life, aka a soul to explain why we needed a god... as time progresses humans will eventually shed the need for a higher power and step into the light of own responcibility, not governed obedience.

If God has ordained President Buhari to be in power beyond 2019, human effort to stop it can only end in futility.

«Whereas, the movement further resolved to be inspired and motivated by the ideals of social democracy, with great emphasis on: the triumph of social justice; the nobility of human dignity; the harmony of fairness and equality; the power of working together in solidarity; the excellence of good governance, driven by good leadership; the wisdom of reforms and transformation far beyond mere growth; the horror of poverty, demanding eradication; the dignity of prosperity; the imperative of democracy and the security of peace with justice

Powered by advances in sequencing technology, the field of ancient DNA has succeeded beyond all expectations, helping researchers to retrieve the entire genomes of Neandertals and other kinds of ancient humans and transforming the picture of human evolution.

The bureau focuses on spying — going far beyond reliance on human snitching to maintain control — and instead dedicates itself to the surveillance of foreign powers.

Our in vitro study provides a baseline for defining healthy and disease - like states and highlights the power of moving beyond single and dual species applications to capture key players and their orchestrated metabolic activities within a complex human oral microbiome model.

His father recently killed in a terrorist bombing, T'Challa is both the Black Panther, endowed by the mysterious heart - shaped herb with powers beyond those of normal humans, and newly - minted king of Wakanda, a gig sealed with ritual combat, dancing and some of most eye - poppingly glorious outfits you will see this year.

Whether or not it's a miracle that he survived is a question for those who would rather see some greater power beyond the qualities of which human beings are capable.

Joachim Trier's latest follows a woman starts to fall in love and discovers that she has powers beyond the realms of human capability.

An outsider with strange powers, a human who understands and forces beyond their control....

Redford has said in the past, «Cinema, both fiction and non-fiction, has shown over and over that as human beings, we share values beyond any border, real or imagined,» and he founded Sundance Institute on the belief that art, and in particular film, has a unique power to nurture understanding between diverse cultures and people — to foster tolerance in an often intolerant world.

Well, it means trying to push capitalists to address the suffering of the poor and the oppressed, as long as capitalism continues to operate, but we must recognize that we need to move beyond capitalism if we ever hope to bring about genuine equality and a greater unfolding of human powers and capacities.

The time has come to move beyond the use of science simply to explain why investing in the early childhood period is so important, and begin to leverage its power to address the more complex question of how we can generate greater returns in both human and financial terms.

RFK Project SEATBELT promotes the use of the RFK Center's human rights education program, RFK Speak Truth To Power, which is currently taught to more than 1 million students a year from Cambodia to California and empowers youth to become the agents of change in their environments and beyond.

If they have nothing to say to any of us about understanding what it means to be fully human and more fully ourselves, if they have nothing to tell us about the human experience as it has unspooled throughout human history, if they have nothing to say about the power of language to communicate across the gaps that separate us, if they have nothing to say about culture, if they have nothing to say about the rich heritage of the English language, if they have nothing to say about understanding the universal and the specific in human life, about how to grow beyond our own immediate experience — if they are, in fact, nothing more than fodder for test prep, then what the hell are we doing?

Find the rest of the series here: www.smarturl.it/girlinthebox This is a collection of the first three titles in The Girl in the Box Series, which are about a teenage girl who develops powers far beyond those of a normal human, and her battles against those who would use her against her will.

He possesses abilities and powers way beyond a normal human, such as being able to affect time and space.

Made by the creators of Heavy Rain and the upcoming Detroit: Become Human; Beyond: Two Souls» fantastical story follows the life of Jodie Holmes, a normal child born with a connection to a mysterious entity with incredible powers.

Directors of the Serpentine Galleries in London, Julia Peyton - Jones and Hans Ulrich Obrist, have said, «Beyond the stunning realism, the power of Hanson's work lies in his unwavering focus on and sympathy for the human condition.»

10/11/2017 -11 / 2/2018 Peter Bremers: Looking Beyond the Mirror From a master of the kiln - casting technique in glass sculpture comes two distinct bodies of work in Peter Bremers» abstract style that express his exploration of human existence, from the perspective of the individual's perception of the world as well as an observation of our collective power as a group of individuals.

Her work consistently displays a profound awareness of conditions beyond gender, class and nation — our human condition, animated by desire and vulnerability, power and mortality, warfare and spirituality.

By invoking seemingly antagonistic art - historical models — from the technological experiments of Russian constructivism to the base materialism of Bataillean surrealism and the cybernetic systems aesthetics of Jack Burnham, as well as the entropic geographies of Robert Smithson — «Foreign in a Domestic Sense» participates in contemporary discussions regarding the power of things and materials to operate beyond the scope and frame of the human, while insisting on an urgent geopolitical awareness about the conditions of Puerto Rico and kindred territories in the global south.

The state - of - the - art of such techniques, and the focus of Asner's research, involves a combination of super-accurate GPS and high powered laser scanning (LiDAR; Light Detection and Ranging), together with optical cameras that can detect light beyond the spectrum of human vision.

The main evidence for catastrophic anthropogenic global warming (CAGW), the principal alleged adverse effect of human emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), is climate models built by CAGW supporters in a field where models with real predictive power do not exist and can not be built with any demonstrable accuracy beyond a week or two because climate and weather are coupled non-linear chaotic systems.

These humanoid robots, despite how intelligent they are, in reality, are completely cold and alien in a logical way, which is way beyond the comprehension power of humans.

Of course, manufacturers often tout the ability of autonomous vehicles to «see» beyond what normal human drivers can see, thanks to an expensive array of cameras, radars, and LIDAR sensors powering the car's perception.