Sentences with phrase «greater than we realize»

As savers, pension funds and insurance companies sought relief from the pain of low interest rates, the issue now is «whether they ended up taking up risks that were greater than they realized,» said Donald Kohn, the Fed's former vice chairman under Bernanke.

She also thinks that though human influence might be «greater than we realize,» this regional climate change is probably caused by many factors, including increased irrigation in the region.

Our capacity to cope with natural disasters is, in fact, much greater than we realize.

She also thinks that though human influence might be «greater than we realize,» this regional climate change is probably caused by many factors, including increased irrigation in the region.

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It helps you realize that while you aren't perfect, you have a strength that's greater than what you're experiencing at that moment.

Companies that spent at least three hours per month managing each rep's sales pipeline realized 11 percent greater revenue growth than those spending less than three hours per month.

Yet, I'm realizing that it might just be easier to get elected president than it is to launch and build a great entrepreneurial venture.

This is a great product and one that you will use more than you realize you will.»

Musk also said at the Summit that he anticipated self - driving car technology would «happen much faster than people realize and it's going to be a great convenience,» but that there was a need to figure out new jobs for people who currently are employed to drive.

This was partly fueled by an even great expansion in profit margins above longer - term averages than what was realized in the US.

There is no greater way to achieve wealth than by private business, they can be bought at lower multiples and there is not a need to have percieved value to realize gains like stocks.

Figures such as Bill Gates and Larry Summers are stepping forward to warn us that digital systems will become a greater disruption to jobs earlier than most people realize.

Ultimately, customers will realize that the money they're saving by using the MogoCard is far greater than the reward points they used to earn by going into debt.

I believe the NDP was the beneficiary of anger directed at the former PC politicians who were in Government and I do believe that anger was greater than than anyone realized.

«There is in this country at the moment a great revival of atheism, and the number of atheists in the country is much larger than people realize.»

And while it is surely obvious that not everything can be covered in a discussion of this length, I would argue that the prayer and Bible - reading decisions of the early Sixties have had a far greater impact politically, culturally, and legally on American society than many scholars realize.

Anyway, once I realized that my love and forgiveness are greater than that of the Christian God, I became at peace being atheist.

In fact, Buber goes on to say, changed conditions «sometimes allow [us] to make amends for lost opportunities in a quite different situation, in a quite different form, and it is significant that this new situation is more contradictory and the new form more difficult to realize than the old, and that each fresh attempt demands an even greater exertion to fulfill the task for such is the hard but not ungracious way of life itself.»

The science side of me looks at the systematic ways that systems, elements, molecules and atoms come together to form life and I realize it is very easy for me to believe that an intelligence greater than mine is definitely a possibility too.

And very early the adoptive parent realizes that the methods of training this child must obey a greater source than flesh and natural conception.

Step by step I have been forced to realize how very patriarchal indeed our tradition has been, at levels far deeper than language, and to how great an extent my own thinking had been unconsciously shaped by masculine biases.

They declared that even the pagan reaching blindly toward an unknown God is witnessing to a reality greater than he or she realizes.

Sometimes we are made to realize that the ancestors in their great inscrutableness refuse to be less than major voices.

But precisely because we are not self - contained ready - made entities which can be conceived equally well as being near to you or remote from you; precisely because in us the self - subsistent individual who is united to you grows only insofar as the union itself grows, that union whereby we are given more and more completely to you: I beg you, Lord, in the name of all that is most vital in my being, to hearken to the desire of this thing that I dare to call my soul even though I realize more and more every day how much greater it is than myself, and, to slake my thirst for life, draw me — through the successive zones of your deepest substance — into the secret recesses of your inmost heart.

These people do not realize that One greater than Solomon is standing before them.

While we're at it, let's just do away with the whole Bible thing and all agree that we as humans have the inherent desire to believe in something greater than ourselves because deep down we realize that we are completely unable to not screw everything up.

Although not biblical my guess is that by walking through the world we live in we realize that nothing is greater than to love God and be loved by God to the extent we are one.

Once you realize it's really just yourself it actually gives you greater strength than believing in something that doesn't exist.

The Judaism of that time, however, had no other arm than to save the tiny nation, the guardian of great ideals, from sinking into the broad sea of heathen culture and enable it, slowly and gradually, to realize the moral teaching of the Prophets In civil life and in the present world of the Jewish state and nation.

If we engage in the «de-mythologizing» of the Revelation to St. John the Divine, as we must also «de-mythologize» the creation stories in the book Genesis in the Old Testament, we realize that what is being said is that as human existence and the world in which that existence is set has its origin in the circumambient, everlasting, faithful Love that is nothing other than God — we recall Wesley's hymn, quoted a few paragraphs back, that «his nature and his Name is Love», and Dante's great closing line in The Divine Comedy about «the Love that moves the sun and the other stars» — so also the «end» toward which all creaturely existence moves is that very same Love.

great job in realizing what they were formerly practicing was nothing more than another man's idea rather than following

Yet the Church knows that it is sacrament and testimony, not for its own salvation, but for that of the world, that it serves the God of the Covenant (which is the Church) by permitting and confessing him to be greater than itself, so that the grace of which the Church is the enduring sign is victoriously offered by God even to those who have not yet found the visible Church and who nevertheless already, without realizing it, live by its Spirit, the Holy Spirit of the love and mercy of God.

In fact, some would say that there is no human value or goodness unless this value pattern is exemplified in our activities; that the capacity to realize this structure of relations in our lives (to a greater extent than can the other animals) is what largely constitutes our humanity.

There are greater differences between these approaches than Wheeler realizes.

One may say that the whole development of Christianity in inwardness has consisted in little more than the greater and greater emphasis attached to this crisis of self - surrender (Shoemaker, Realizing Religion, p. 30).

An individual can profit greatly by the criticism of his fellows yet he will realize that they are judging him by standards which are neither his own nor God's, that he is both a worse and a better man than their judgments indicate, and that the greatest service they can render him is to call him back to his own best self.

You do realize that it was less than 1 million years ago when the CO2 levels in the atmosphere were thousands of times greater than they are now?

Soon after the courses started, he began to realize «that a great deal more was going on in the local congregation than just rational give - and - take among well - intentioned human beings.

Realizing that their great - grandfather was «just a butcher,» rather than a powerful landowner, they suffer from a helpless feeling of inadequacy.

If we can't understand that reason, we have to realize that His «Mind», so to speak, is infinitely greater than ours, and we can only understand a small portion of what He wants and the reasons for it.

But churches and religion exist because people hope and realize that there is the potential for each individual to be something greater than the dust of the earth.

You have only begun to realize the cost, yet the rewards are greater than you can imagine.

Those who realize there is something greater than themselves,.

The fact is that your faith makes no sense — you belive that a god came down and died for our sins, that he was all powerful (so could not die), and that he still lives (hence no real sacrifice anyway)-- this is utter nonsense and anyone with an IQ greater than 50 should realize it!

When there is a momentary break in the course of these disasters, when abundance is known, when peace timidly establishes itself, when justice reigns for a span, then it is fitting, unless we are men of too little faith, that we should marvel and give thanks for so great a miracle, realizing that no less than the love and faithfulness of the Lord has been needed in order that there might be this privileged instant.

It's then when you realize that you've achieved something that matters a very great deal more than whether or not you've appealed to some critic for some smart publication who thinks that music must now be «minimalist» or whatever else is temporarily in vogue.

But if you can look past some minor details, you'll realize there are many more great dating options available than you thought.

I mean, I'm sure that there were more Taco Bells in the greater Chattanooga area than I realized, but as far as I knew there were only two.

I made a hot / fragrant curry powder mix which was great; I have been very excited since I realized that the mincing attachment for the immersion blender grinds spices better than the coffee mill.

It wasn't until a few years post college when I was working as a chef at Mustard's Grill in Napa Valley that I realized margaritas were little more than fresh - squeezed lime juice, great tequila, and a splash of orange liqueur.