Sentences with phrase «compulsion which»

The very absence of restraint and compulsion which enables the men of faith to wait for the grace which they wish to follow enables those without faith not to follow anyone.

By proceeding on the assumption that people are what they are to a large degree because of their basic character structure, a structure which was formed in the very early years of life, psychotherapy has been able to release many from the vicious cycle of guilt and compulsion which has made self - determination impossible.

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You may find that this compulsion gets in the way of a productive workday, which will eventually hold you back in your career aspirations.

I read when I want, set my own work hours, and feel very little compulsion to produce anything but tangible results, which are usually the outcome of having harvested good ideas from books.

Admittedly this particular thread is relatively tame compared to some I've seen, but I'm always amazed at the degree to which those who practice the religion known as «Atheism» feel a compulsion to foist their beliefs on others.

But the deeper question (which was never answered by Hitchens) is where the moral compulsion upon anyone — atheist or believer — comes from in a godless universe.

b) seek professional help to figure out why you have the compulsions in the first place, and develop a strategy to help you replace your unhealthy addictions with healthy habits c) contact a wild - eyed shaman to tell you which parts of his ancient magic book, written primarily for an illiterate, credulous audience, apply best to 21st Century psychological issues.

There are things which we know well enough with our minds, but which only the compulsion of experience can make part of our very lives.

He ceases to be an independent, initiating agent; he is part of a system in which nothing has weight or meaning; and (this is important) so far as he obeys these inescapable compulsions he is no longer a moral being.

Suppose an individual has two major contrary compulsions, one of which is mildly dangerous, and the other of which is gravely dangerous.

So I did give but then on reflection I see that as having been done under compulsion not cheerfully which scripture also talks about.

It may take the negative form of apprehension and the compulsion of «I must do this, or else...» Often it takes the form of duty, which may be gladly accepted or done from a feeling of stern necessity.

Another attitudinal disease which Kierkegaard diagnosed in modern people is their tendency (one might almost say compulsion) to turn the most important thoughts into disinterested theoretical or historical knowledge.

One of the «four factors which decisively govern the fate of social groups» according to his analysis, is «the iron compulsion of nature that the bodily necessities of food, clothing and shelter be provided».20 Whitehead continues: «The rigid limits which are thereby set to modes of social existence can only be mitigated by the growth of an understanding by which the interplay between man and the rest of nature can be adjusted.»

The delegates are appealed to as individuals, yet we know they must act under compulsions and orders which are determined by all kinds of political stakes and decisions at home.

But in the historic period the phenomena which were believed to provide revelation fall in the main into three classes; one is perhaps guilty of some measure of compulsion in so treating all the facts, but since no significant harm is done, we need not be too concerned.

Dione seems under a compulsion to translate everything in our religious tradition which hints of the supernatural into naturalistic terms.

One thing seems to be noteworthy: even the true freedom of choice, that is the freedom which consists not only in the absence of external compulsion but in the fact that man must freely decide about himself, and which is, therefore, a demand rather than «freedom» — this freedom becomes evident only in Christianity, because only there each individual is eternally valid (in the personal love between God and man) and hence must realize himself in perfect responsibility and thus in freedom.

Hence the life of society can never be completely without an element of struggle and compulsion, of an authoritarian decision which is also justified.

«If the poet can say, «Everyone is drawn by his delight», not by necessity but by delight, not by compulsion but by sheer pleasure, then how much more must we say that a man is drawn by Christ, when he delights in truth, in blessedness, in holiness and in eternal life, all of which mean Christ?

The tightening network of economic and psychic bonds in which we live and from which we suffer, the growing compulsion to act, to produce, to think collectively which so disquiets us — what do they become, seen in this way, except the first portents of the super-organism which, woven of the threads of individual men, is preparing (theory and fact are at one on this point) not to mechanize and submerge us, but to raise us, by way of increasing complexity, to a higher awareness of our own personality?

That there may be some who need compulsion, some who, if they were free - footed, would riot in selfish pleasures like unruly beasts, is doubtless true; but a man must prove precisely that he is not of this number by the fact that he knows how to speak with dread and trembling; and out of reverence for the great one is bound to speak, lest it be forgotten for fear of the ill effect, which surely will fail to eventuate when a man talks in such a way that one knows it for the great, knows its terror — and apart from the terror one does not know the great at all.

It is not only the developed religions which have felt this compulsion; all men everywhere, insofar as they are at all religious, are driven to acts of worship, even if for sophisticated thought, the god or gods whom they worship do not seem adequate to man's need.

And since the compulsion is applied on a uniform and total scale to the whole mass of humanity the ultimate social organization which it evokes must of necessity be unitary.

Rolt began his study with a rejection of the traditional understanding of power as compulsion or «brute force,» which leads to the realization that «the mind is brought at last to One Who is yet stronger than the universe itself, and Who... by the act of an almighty will, which nothing can resist, bends all things to His purposes and compels the whole material system to obey His irresistible commands.»

He mentions the «compulsion of the truth» (AI 86) and describes the «potentialities» in the final cause as «dictating the form of composition which produce the issue» (MT 128f).

His adroit, if nasty, dispatch of Amasa does not even have the justification of blood revenge which obtained in his murder of Abner, who, we recall, had under some real compulsion taken the life of Joab's brother Asahel (II Sam.

The conscious application and manipulation of authority, compulsion, rights, and artifices of all sorts are incongruous within a system of natural organic persuasion in which consciousness itself is but an echo of reality.

But what we can do is give a free will offering, generously, without fear and compulsion, making up our own minds what we can give from the heart while keeping within our income for charity for which Jewish churches are lacking.

For I wish him to keep his hands off confession and not make of it a compulsion or command, which he has not the power to do.

The second is the social solidarity which in love embraces everyone and grounded in metaphysical reality overcomes competition, compulsion, reserve and strife.

This shows that his compulsion is driving him with greater force so that he becomes intoxicated at the times which are least socially acceptable.

Taking from a famous axiom: a wise farmer goes to the farm with appropriate tools not with bare hands — which also can be interpreted as a tool, especially by characters who exhibit neurotic debilitating compulsions as is the case for Wenger and his delusional little internet warriors self - style as AKBs.

Rejecting that totalitarianism is inherent in his call for equality of opportunity, Dr Swift emphasised the collective nature of the state which has always included an element of compulsion in a variety of areas.

There is a single dominant word within the language of the Sixth which undoes compulsion upon the Individual: Impartial.

Mr. Anyidoho was however known to have a very warm relationship with John Mahama's predecessor, John Evans Atta Mills, which stretched beyond compulsion, according to the...

A study in mice suggests exposure to UV light might be addictive, which could explain some people's compulsion to tan despite the health risks

This therapy, which can also benefit individuals with OCD, teaches people to consciously recognize a tic or compulsion as it occurs and to learn to explicitly perform a competing response to suppress the problem behavior.

The work, which was published earlier this year in the Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, jibes with a recent theory that stress is far from the sole cause of these compulsions.

The compulsion to view others may be a basic instinct among apes, which underlies our interest in watching social dramas, whether live or recorded.

Since he is a successful businessman, I doubt he will ever have a shortage of new candidates to feed this compulsion... which he claims is more of a search for a needle in a haystack.

It's one of those very difficult exercises in which large emotions, like the compulsion to be free, are reflected in minute actions, like the chipping away at stone with a pocket nail clipper.

It takes a similar plot (a girl's inexplicable obsession with a jerk as the crux of a police investigation), similar structure (flashbacks and an unreliable narrator expose the truth of the jerk's vanishing act), similar setting (a gothic academy), and even a similar conclusion (Abandon's is a million times sadder, if atonally winking in and of itself), but Gaghan, besides sparking with his characters in a way that is foreign to the makers of The Hole (there, director Nick Hamm is less interested in compulsion than in repulsion), has no use for sensationalism — The Hole is a piece of tabloid reportage next to Abandon, which wallows humanistically in the epidemic of loneliness.

Bilbo is hiding his ring smack compulsion from Gandalf The Grey (Ian McKellen), but like far too many of the film's story elements, it's just a set up which will pay off in another episode and therefore holds no weight.

«The Gambler» is based on a 1974 film of the same name written by James Toback, a Harvard grad whose gambling compulsion still plagues him today and which he turned into art with the ’74 picture thereby launching a movie career.

In spite of his compulsion — which prompts him to view porn, pick up women, or solicit prostitutes every few hours — he appears to be a successful advertising executive who enjoys the respect of his peers.

It's a dramatisation of the Leopold - Loeb murder case, which also served as the basis for Hitchcock's Rope (1948) and Richard Fleischer's Compulsion (1959), in which a couple of languidly decadent Jewish homosexuals take to consummating their passion by murdering an arbitrarily - chosen small boy.

The Court concluded that the new condition was not «so coercive as to pass the point» at which pressure turns into compulsion.

The Government needs to understand the FE sector better and resist the compulsion to impose constant structural change which leaves turmoil in its wake and makes it hard for staff to focus on the quality of teaching and learning provided to students.

Like Summerhill, the Sudbury Valley School (SVS) believes that parents tend toward the unnecessary use of authority and external compulsion to educate children which Sudbury tries to avoid.