Sentences with phrase «great powers of world»

«At the bottom of this is the humility of the Crucified, which will always be contrasted by the great powers of the world, but which generates a real hope that is manifested in the creative vitality of the Church: in her communities and her movements, in the new responsibility of the laity, in ecumenical relations, in liturgical and spiritual experiences.

Not exact matches

Last week it followed with another announcement that would give it great goodwill with conservationists and improve its credibility with shareholders — acquisition of a modest share of one of the world's leading developers of wave energy power systems.

But the world has changed a great deal since the height of OPEC's power in 1979, when member nations accounted for 50 % of global oil production, compared with less than one - third today.

«Anne Frank has great symbolic power, and this has led to a multitude of manifestations, such as the naming of streets, schools and parks, but also Halloween costumes and expressions of antisemitism in the world of football.

Many of the world's greatest minds, including Oprah Winfrey, Will Smith, Tiger Woods and Arnold Schwarzenegger, have been known to use the power of visualization to attract what they desire throughout life, so why aren't you?

In the study, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, they write: «China's emergence as a great economic power has induced an epochal shift in patterns of world trade.

«Donations» from Eth - heads around the world not only flowed into the Ethereum Project's wallet in great quantities, but they flowed in with the mathematical precision of a power function, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for two weeks straight.

His other books include Money: How the Destruction of the Dollar Threatens the Global Economy — and What We Can Do About It, co-authored by Elizabeth Ames (McGraw - Hill Professional); Freedom Manifesto: Why Free Markets are Moral and Big Government Isn't, co-authored by Elizabeth Ames (Crown Business, August 2012); How Capitalism Will Save Us: Why Free People and Free Markets Are the Best Answer in Today's Economy, co-authored by Elizabeth Ames (Crown Business, November 2009); and Power Ambition Glory: The Stunning Parallels between Great Leaders of the Ancient World and Today... and the Lessons You Can Learn, co-authored by John Prevas (Crown Business, June 2009).

Instead, each side has capitulated - each in its own way - to the philistine notion that art is necessarily about power: that all works of art, including the world's great masterpieces, are best understood as either attacks on the established social order or defenses of it....

«Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»

Although there are parts of the encyclical that are difficult to understand from our modern American perspective (and I say that with the greatest affection), I believe the encyclical speaks as a voice crying in the wilderness, holding out the truth to those who have the power to incarnate it in the world through their policies and actions.

A power within each individual mind, it nevertheless existed by sharing in one Great Agent Intellect, that was a kind of animating soul of the world.

There is a great mystery here, but The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that «God permitted such painful upheavals as the angels» fall and man's sin only as occasions and means for displaying all the power of his arm and the whole measure of the love he wanted to give the world» (CCC 760).

The mystery of creation and the history of salvation can then be shown anew to the world with great clarity and power as the one unfolding plan of Gods Wisdom and Love in which all things are ordered towards the incarnate Lordship of Jesus Christ in whom we are destined to be made co-sharers of the divine nature (2 Peter 1:4).

Beyond all these surprises, Perry pointed out, is the stunned recognition that things will never be the same again — that a great social, political and economic power, one which our world has reckoned with for most of this century, is unraveling.

«Thus an environmentally enlightened development process necessarily demands a new culture, which will be: egalitarian, with reduced disparities between rich and poor and power equally shared by men and women; resource - sharing; participatory; frugal, when compared to the current consumption patterns of the rich; humble, with a respect for the multiplicity of the world's cultures and lifestyles; and, it will aim at greater self - reliance at all levels of society.»

Today, in the center of this great Chamber lies Billy Graham — an Ambassador for Christ who reminded the world of the power of prayer and the gift of God's grace.

Yet through all these diversities of phrasing — whether faith was thought of as a power - releasing confidence in God, or as selfcommitment to Christ that brought the divine Spirit into indwelling control of one's life, or as the power by which we apprehend the eternal and invisible even while living in the world of sense, or as the climactic vision of Christ as the Son of God which crowns our surrender to his attractiveness, or as assured conviction concerning great truths that underlie and constitute the gospel — always the enlargement and enrichment of faith was opening new meanings in the experience of fellowship with God and was influencing deeply both the idea and the practice of prayer.

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.

Richard J. Barnet and Ronald Muller, Global Reach: The Power of the Multinational Corporations (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974), p. 184, give specific content to Dom Helder Camara's words: «Global companies have used their great levers of power — finance capital, technology, organizational skills, and mass communications — to create a Global Shopping Center in which the hungry of the world are invited to buy expensive snacks and a Global Factory in which there are fewer and fewer Power of the Multinational Corporations (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974), p. 184, give specific content to Dom Helder Camara's words: «Global companies have used their great levers of power — finance capital, technology, organizational skills, and mass communications — to create a Global Shopping Center in which the hungry of the world are invited to buy expensive snacks and a Global Factory in which there are fewer and fewer power — finance capital, technology, organizational skills, and mass communications — to create a Global Shopping Center in which the hungry of the world are invited to buy expensive snacks and a Global Factory in which there are fewer and fewer jobs.

America is born of a Christian nation and in less than 200 years we have rose to be one of the worlds greatest powers.

The first is in the identification of the most real constituents of the world, an account of which would lead us to an interpretive metaphysics of great power and generality.

In this world of struggle and conflict, of «every man for himself» and where every great group and nation is for itself in a vast struggle for power, advancement, and even survival, where is God?

DH «I am in favour of recovering the biblical understanding of shaming in the sense that «God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong» 1 cor 1:27... as an encouragement to anyone who is a victim (and therefore considered weak in the eyes of the world) that there is a greater power to call on in order to shame... any person in a position of power in the church that is using their power to oppress rather than serve... Does that help or hinder?»

Such men and women have understood that «the strongest power in the world is that of love itself, which does not work by force to achieve its highest purpose or win its greatest victories».

In his contrast between charity and the worship of pleasure and profit Winthrop echoes Augustine's great contrast of caritas as the principle of the City of God and cupiditas as the principle of the earthly city.17 Augustine in turn was elaborating the New Testament contrast between Babylon, the city of the beast, the principalities and powers of this world, and the New Jerusalem the Heavenly City where the saints would be gathered after the apocalypse.

I raise this question particularly with Pure Land Buddhists because the affirmation of other power, or what Christians call grace, seems to place a greater emphasis on the metaphysical character of the world and human experience than is present in other Buddhist traditions.

Much of traditional and contemporary Christian proclamation, apologetics and worship assumes an innate «suspicion» within people that for the world to be the way it is there must be a greater power behind it - note, for example, Paul's statement to the Romans: «There is no excuse at all for not honouring God, for God's invisible qualities are made visible in the things God has made».

Changes in the larger world - system are likely to consist of shifts in overall rates of economic growth, changes that reverberate from the rise and fall of great powers, alterations in international relations, variations in uncertainty and conflict, and even modifications of the extent to which people are aware of these larger relations.

The restlessness and criticism awakened by Jesus gave birth to the great nationalist and socialist revolutions of the twentieth century that have dramatically changed the map of the world and reduced Western Europe to one among half a dozen centers of power.

That beliefs can affect actions even on the part of persons of great wealth and power has recently been suggested by the change of climate in the annual meetings of world economic leaders that have been held in Davos, Switzerland, until this year, when the group met in New York

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 repudiation of odious debts would be an act of independence by the debtor nations that could greatly decrease the power of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund to shape their economies for the sake of greater profits and power for transnational corporations.

For if persuasive power is the greatest power in the world and is «the only power capable of worthwhile results,» anything more than «pacifistic persuasion» would appear to be unjustifiable in all cases.

There is more than enough, from Chambers» text and from letters already published, to testify to the poetic powers of the most eloquent American witness to the greatest trials of the century: in the great arena, the Communist claim for the world; in the arena here, the fight of Alger Hiss to defy reality and let live the webs of his great deception.

For him, it is not the systematic world of the speculative philosopher that is of greatest value, but the natural, chaotic process which lies hidden behind the falsifying face of reason, a process whose true nature can only be known on a purely aesthetic level through experience in its immediacy («Beyond Good and Evil,» BWN Section 213; «Will to Power,» Section 794).

To none of the intoxicant gods in the religions of the world have greater virtues or powers been attributed.

Beginning with the experience of Paul, the Christian view of this world which came to theological expression in the Reformers and which has now been revived with great power in the contemporary Protestant theology, has always shown a certain distrust of identifying human efforts toward the good with the divine work of redemption on the ground that the good as man knows it and seeks it is really of a different order from the good revealed in Christ.

Don't say, the power of evil, of the wicked world, is great, but we, we are guiltless....

McLoughlin proposes that the Fourth Great Awakening began about 1960, following the undeclared war in Vietnam, and that it has appeared at a time when once again we are seeking a new understanding of who we are, how we relate to the scientific worldview, and what is the meaning of the many domestic and worldwide crises that threaten our security, our sense of order, and our self - image as a mighty and righteous world power.

It is filled with predictions of wars by great world powers, such as Babylon.

But for the future we require a dream of a world - citizen who, without denying or betraying his native land asks not how his country can become greater in power and prestige but how it can serve and be served by the total world community for the sake of the mutual survival and fulfillment of all.

In a world so painfully divided between rich and poor, black and white, Moslem, Christian and Jew, that sign of reconciling love which is within your power could have a meaning far greater than the immediate context of controversy.

Hard though it must have been to say it, the Great Isaiah, facing Zoroastrianism's division of power between Ahura Mazda and Angra Mainyu, insisted that the one God alone was the responsible creator of the world, with its light and its darkness, its good and its evil.

Today, satellite maps of nighttime India blaze with the lights of countless industrial towns, and China has suddenly become one of the great economic powers of the world.

(4) In the absence of an explanation why God does not use more coercive power and is not more effective in his persuasion we may as reasonably conclude that there is a great evil persuasive power behind phenomena in the world as that there is a great power persuading toward the good.

This final part of Griffin's argument for the process theodicy turns on an assumption that he appears to have borrowed by Hartshorne, viz., that the so - called «social view» of omnipotence is the only alternative to the monopolistic (and thus to the standard) view.9 The critique of the latter thus established the former as (in Griffin's words) «the only view that is coherent if one is talking about the power a being with the greatest conceivable amount of power could have over a created, i.e. an actual world» (GPE 269).

Germany — and the world — needs the gospel: repentance, forgiveness, united Christians, trust in the grace and mercy of God, the power of the resurrection — all the great things he has been preaching.

Moses and Elijah are the two great holy men of the Old Testament, both known for their direct encounters with the other world and for their deeds of power.

In San Francisco, early in 1945, all of the great and most of the small nations of the world, with the exception of the defeated powers, signed the charter creating the United Nations.