But because this human life is shaped
by human powers and capacities, it invites us to «think in terms of comparative degrees of human distinction or dignity — and of some as more dignified than others.»
Not exact matches
With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes, Covey reveals a step -
by - step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, service, and
human dignity — principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and
power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.
According to InfiniLED's website, the startup's ILED display technology is
powered by millions of tiny LED chips, each roughly one - tenth the width of a strand of
human hair, that are assembled on electronic circuits.
Where the
power of those instruments needs to be limited, as it surely sometimes does, it can not be done
by pulling the rug out from under individual,
human liberties.
Data centers, meanwhile, were designed
by some of the smartest
humans on the planet, but AI analysis identified improvements that increased
power efficiency
by 15 percent, Schmidt said.
Skeptics in command - and - control
power structures miss the many opportunities to shift to a more
human workplace, as exemplified
by servant - led companies, including:
Microsoft's (msft) ill - fated Tay bot experiment in which online commenters taught the bot — basically software that takes on
human characteristics
powered by artificial intelligence — to say racist and sexist things also illustrates this point.
(If anything, I'd argue windmills improve
human health
by replacing polluting gas and coal - fired
power plants with emissions - free technology.)
PREPA reports
power out in Puerto Rico due to «failure of the Cambalache Manatee 230KV line» * This is the same line where there was failure last week - Yesterday, PREPA boss Ricardo Ramos said last weeks outage was caused
by a «crane», signaling
human error caused it
New challengers,
powered by human capital rather than natural resources, are now catching up.
Powered by machine learning, our top stock analysis software does more than a
human analyst ever could, unearthing details previously missed.
It essentially acts as an «electronic nose», and gives machines the
power of smell
by mimicking the
human olfactory system.
in other words «would i believe in any creatures like
human, trees, stones, idols etc that has not
power to live
by itself that are my God (s)?»
This challenge led to a finger - wagging review
by Hitchens in The Atlantic and a series of punch - counterpunch exchanges in various transatlantic venues, all of which obscured both the thoughtfulness of Amis» meditations on grief and his discovery of the depths of
human depravity: «Hitler - Stalin tells us this, among other things: given total
power over another, the
human being will find his thoughts turn to torture.»
the negation of ideology, the political secularization of the doctrine of original sin, the cautious sentiment tempered
by prudence, the product of organic, local
human organization observing and reforming its customs, the distaste for a priori principle disassociated from historical experience, the partaking of the mysteries of free will, divine guidance, and
human agency
by existing in but not of the confusions of modern society, no framework of action, no tenet, no theory, and no article of faith, a distrust of the systems and processes of the idol of self and of the lust for
power and status, scorn to all approaches of ideology and meta - narrative.
Forasmuch as each man is a part of the
human race, and
human nature is something social, and has for a great and natural good, the
power also of friendship; on this account God willed to create all men out of one, in order that they might be held in their society not only
by likeness of kind, but also
by bond of kindred.
Only God can change
human heart,
by the
power of resurection of Christ Jesus His Son.
Religions are nothing more than
power grab
by hindus, crooks
by corruption of truth,
human equality.
It is instead of just another
human institution with all the same tendencies as every other institution that is built
by to give an elite few
power over others for monetary gain.
That is, while Griffin acknowledges that Plantinga affirms limitations on God's
power in relation to possible worlds containing free
human beings, he believes Plantinga to hold «that an actual world devoid of beings with some
power of self - determination would be possible» and thus that God could have created a world containing no evil simply
by creating a world containing no self - determined beings (GPE 271).
It really is amazing the
power in giving a person simple
human dignity
by looking them in the eye, learning their name, listening to their story and offering to love them no matter how broken or poor they are.
All of which is to say that this fourth view of nature and
human nature contends we understand ourselves most truly
by imagining neither that we stand apart from, dominate, and bend nature to our will; nor that we are some unnatural plague upon nature; nor that we are simply immersed in nature and lack both the
power and the duty to superintend nature and possibly even improve it.
Nevertheless,
by virtue of our collective
human powers — our capacity for complex symbolic thinking, the sophistication of our tools, our ability to steward nature, and our demonstrated interest in telling both nature's story and our own —
human beings also transcend nature.
His fictional testimony to the
power of
human virtue and solidarity is rendered especially poignant
by Cheever's recent death from cancer at age 69.
The possibility of autonomous forces» exercising
power within a concrete
human life is also offered
by Christianity.
,
human beings have specific features, capacities,
powers, limits, and tendencies, and
human nature is defined
by these as expressed
by human beings taken as a whole.
Human nature is brought into union and communion with Godhead as its proper environment — its principle of life and life more abundant — through the Self communication of God the Son
by the
power of the Holy Spirit.
Nonetheless,
human beings are naturally religious when
by that we mean that they possess,
by virtue of their given ontological being, a complex set of innate features, capacities,
powers, limitations, and tendencies that give them the capacity to think, perceive, feel, imagine, desire, and act religiously and that under the right conditions tend to predispose and direct them toward religion.
'' If any one asserts, that this sin of Adam, which in its origin is one, and being transfused into all
by propagation, not
by imitation, is in each one as his own, is taken away either
by the
powers of
human nature, or
by any other remedy than the merit of the one mediator, our Lord Jesus Christ... let him be anathema.»
In this world, so full of fictitious forms of freedom that destroy the environment and the
human being, let us learn true freedom
by the
power of the Holy Spirit; to build the school of freedom; to show others
by our lives that we are free and how beautiful it is to be truly free with the true freedom of God's children.»
By the
power of the Spirit that anoints you, join others who do likewise for poor, lonely, hopeless
human beings.
The beasts receive their doom, and pass from the scene: the
powers of evil are overthrown, not
by any
human virtue or strength, but
by the presence and
power of the living God.
No
human hands (he means) prepare the weapon
by which the
power of evil in the world will ultimately be overthrown: it is the act of God alone, whose kingdom will then be effective over all creation.
Though physical force in
human affairs is largely replaced
by rational and purposive controls, the connection of these higher forms of
power with direct compulsion remains.
Whereas the Jansenism of old despaired that anyone could really be loved
by God, be good enough to receive Holy Communion, or be saved, its newer version has so little faith in the
power of God to change hearts that it presumes God does not care for something so insignificant as the
human heart.
concerning his Son, who was born of the seed of David [as far as his
human nature went], but who was marked out as the Son of God with
power [
by the holy Spirit] through resurrection from the dead — Jesus Christ our Lord.»
However, political gain and belief can be very different, although both seek
power and both are put forth
by humans.
Let me wind up with the need for NGO Ombudsmen armed with legal
powers to take action wherever
human rights are vulnerable and violated and also to recommend cancellation of treaties entered into with oblique motives
by suspect national leaders.
The discourse on
human rights should not allow itself to be misappropriated
by ventriloquists of the Establishment who are opponents of progressive forces branding them as terrorists when they demand statehood and
power to the dalits, the women, the indigenous tribals.
Human beings are hindered from seeing and doing what is truly good
by a host of insecurities, anxieties, vested selfish interests, and
by sheer desire for
power and glory.
They have been led
by experience to conclude that the only
power in
human life able to counterbalance the dark and divisive faiths of our time is a still stronger faith, a faith concerned with Reality rather than
human wishes.
Human behavior appears to be profoundly influenced by the imagistic, symbolical, narrative powers of human reflec
Human behavior appears to be profoundly influenced
by the imagistic, symbolical, narrative
powers of
human reflec
human reflection.
Or, maybe we are taking this too far... — More importantly, the
power in us collectively, the resurrection
power of God, the Holy Spirit, the full Word of God, is much more powerful than words confined
by the
human constraints of ink and paper.
It is
by repudiating situations in which spirit
power is said to dwell miraculously that true
human stature emerges.
In redefining marriage and the family, the state not only embarks on an unprecedented expansion of its
powers into realms heretofore considered prior to or outside its reach, and not only does it usurp functions and prerogatives once performed
by intermediary associations within civil society, it also exercises these
powers by tacitly redefining what the
human being is and committing the nation to a decidedly post-Christian (and ultimately post-
human) anthropology and philosophy of nature.
To me this picture depicts the fact that most of our Christianity is made with
human hands, perpetuated
by human wisdom and sustained
by lusts for money,
power and influence, popularity, and a proper social standing in the community.
While the Church must always continue to develop its exposition of the Faith through theology and apologetics, it should
by no means neglect the
power of beauty to affect
human thinking, feeling and judgement.
This covenant also takes place when two
human beings consecrate themselves to each other in marriage or in brotherhood, «for the consecration does not come
by the
power of the
human partners, but
by the
power of the eternal wings that overshadow both.»
In the case of
humans, however, the genetic ties have been supplemented
by the bonding
power of an ever - evolving culture.
Sexuality in our age is almost completely dominated
by the stimulus of bodily attraction, that is, the male - female mode of sexual
power or that
power of attraction which
humans have in common with the animals.