Sentences with phrase «human strength in»

I can do nothing,» Isabel realizes about her sadistic owner), freedom, and the sources of human strength in this searing, fascinating story.
Everyone has heard a story about a mom who lifted a fridge up off of her toddler or fought off a bear or some other example of super human strength in a time of crisis, right?

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To be clear, he doesn't see an end to the need for people skills at work and human judgment in reviews, but he argues A.I. can help managers objectively identify patterns in workers» strengths and weaknesses.
That's why humans formed tribes, cities, and civilizations: safety and strength in numbers.
In Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength, Roy F. Baumeister explains that people who tell themselves «not now, but later» are generally less tormented by the temptation of something they are trying to avoid (his example is eating chocolate cake).
The IARC evaluates substances suspected of causing cancer in humans, and arrives at its classifications by convening a working group of international experts to review and assess the strength and quality of the evidence — in this case, more than 800 studies.
Katherine High, Spark's president and chief scientific officer, expressed her enthusiasm for the early clinical data related to SPK - 8011: «The encouraging start of our SPK - 8011 clinical trial reinforces the strength of our gene therapy platform, delivers human proof - of - concept in a second liver - mediated disease — a significant achievement in the gene therapy field — and positions us well to potentially transform the current treatment approach for this life - altering disease with a one - time intervention.»
«We are more energized than ever about building on ADP's strengths to anticipate and deliver on our clients» Human Capital Management needs,» ADP President and CEO Carlos Rodriguez said in a statement.
Even in these cases, I am amazed at the strength of the human soul.
TO KERRY EGAN: You talked about the strength of the «human soul,» and how people know what they were missing in love.
LaBella, I certainly agree that the second covenant was necessary because virtually no one could keep all of the laws in thier own human strength, just as we can not even today.
Unlike human beings who are creatures of a day, God is the one whose steadfast love endures forever, whose faithfulness is to all generations: «The Lord reigns; he is robed in majesty; the Lord is robed, he is girded with strength.
Woman's singular strength arises from her awareness that God entrusts other eternal subjects to her and even where modernity has resulted in a «gradual loss of sensitivity for man, that is for what is essentially human», maternal love must «ensure sensitivity for human beings in every circumstance: because they are human!».
This coming - of - age book set in Alabama is a must - read for every human, I think — we witness justice, inequality, strength, character, community, and tragedy through the eyes of a young girl.
But human closeness in these moments gives us strength, solidarity.
If I read Niebuhr correctly, the two are roughly equal their strength and influence in human affairs.
Seen in the light of human development, this means that the doer is activated in whatever strength is appropriate to his age, stage and condition, even as he activates in the other the strength appropriate to his age, stage and condition.
Religious people speak of God when human knowledge (perhaps simply because they are too lazy to think) come to an end, or when human resources fall — in fact it is always the deus ex machina that they bring on to the scene, either for the apparent solution of insoluble problems, or as strength in human failure — always, that is to say, exploiting human weakness or human boundaries.11
Central to almost every religious tradition is the belief that the first humans were androgynes, beings possessed of such strength and power that the gods found it necessary to split them in half in order to preserve their own divine supremacy.
I didn't find much mythology about the Musk - Goats as I googled today except humans have loved hunting them and eating them into oblivion forever in spite of their «formidable strength».
However, begin violent, or a jerk, or a fool are, in fact, part of the human condition — of course whether you have the strength to fight those urges and not be violent, or a jerk or a fool is what separates the good from the bad.
In the immediately preceding verses in Jeremiah, the Lord tells His prophet that, «The man who trusts in mankind, who makes human flesh his strength and turns his heart from the Lord is cursed» (Jeremiah 17:5In the immediately preceding verses in Jeremiah, the Lord tells His prophet that, «The man who trusts in mankind, who makes human flesh his strength and turns his heart from the Lord is cursed» (Jeremiah 17:5in Jeremiah, the Lord tells His prophet that, «The man who trusts in mankind, who makes human flesh his strength and turns his heart from the Lord is cursed» (Jeremiah 17:5in mankind, who makes human flesh his strength and turns his heart from the Lord is cursed» (Jeremiah 17:5).
@child: in that situation it's called adrenaline: wonder drug from your adrenal gland that permits amazing feats during times of «fight or flight» mothers have been known to flip cars when their children were trapped under them due to the surge of body strength adrenaline gives the human body.
Can we reconceive theological education in such a way that (1) it clearly pertains to the totality of human life, in the public sphere as well as the private, because it bears on all of our powers; (2) it is adequate to genuine pluralism, both of the «Christian thing» and of the worlds in which the «Christian thing» is lived, by avoiding naiveté about historical and cultural conditioning without lapsing into relativism; (3) it can be the unifying overarching goal of theological education without requiring the tacit assumption that there is a universal structure or essence to education in general, or theological inquiry in particular, which inescapably denies genuine pluralism by claiming to be the universal common denominator to which everything may be reduced as variations on a theme; and (4) it can retrieve the strengths of both the «Athens» and the «Berlin» types of excellent schooling, without unintentionally subordinating one to the other?
The position taken in this book is that such a democracy is inherently self - defeating, in part because the unrestrained pursuit of satisfaction tends to breed conflict rather than harmony, but more importantly because human nature is such that persons and cultures do not grow in beauty, strength, and virtue when people strive only to get what they want.
One ought in any illness to pray for the best use of human strength and skill and the release of the body's forces of recuperation and repair.
A change in identity is required; intentionally becoming a sign to a broken human race demands communal strength.
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.
If God is taken to be like that, it then follows that human love itself is interpreted as being «Pollyanna - ish» sentimentality, prepared to accept whatever happens, tolerant of anything, however vicious, and utterly lacking in vertebrate strength.
At times the land seems bountiful and kindly, and again harsh and unyielding, but it is always a challenge to human strength and ingenuity and people have learned to adapt their ways accordingly... agriculture continues to involve the relationship between humanity and the plant and the soil in which it grows....
For this reason, Paul understands man with all his strengths, weaknesses and temptations: «Human nature, the common nature of the whole race of Adam, spoke in him, acted in him, with an energetical presence, with a sort of bodily fullness, always under the sovereign command of divine grace, but losing none of its real freedom and power because of its subordination.
The first settlers of Salem, Hawthorne wrote in «Main - Street,» were «stalwart» men, who strode «sturdily onward,» brave and pious men of «thoughtful strength,» men «who do not merely find, but make their place in the system of human affairs.»
He encouraged the pilgrims to «learn from her how to live with the clear conscience of those who do not bend to human compromises,» to be inspired by «her example of strength in the moments of greatest pain,» and to «imitate the solidity of faith of those who trust in God.»
Approaches that perceive persons only through the upper lens of the bifocals (which enables one to see the strengths and positive potentials in everyone) sabotage their own effectiveness by their incomplete vision of human beings.
Pastoral authority has many dimensions: the tested experience of the pastor, the suffering out of which insight and strength are born, the knowledge of technical aspects of counseling and skill in dealing with human problems, all these play a part.
Biblical faith, on the contrary, is centered in the existence and activity of a deity who is infinite in wisdom, power, and love, but who nevertheless cares personally for each of us, a God whom we can approach in prayer and from whom we can receive help and strength, a God who is always acting within the human scene and is known to us by his acts.
But in dealing with his human children, God's way is the way of love, in all its tenderness but with all its strength.
Jeremy good message and quite relevant for today God is still looking at our hearts and motives for serving him or are we serving our own agenda as Jonah was.He did nt feel compassionate towards his enemies and who could blame him they had cruelly killed many Jews it was a question of life or death to his own people.The Jewish nation was no more deserving of Gods grace than the other nations that is revealed by sending Jonah to preach a message of hope and life.Ultimately God calls all by faith in him and is willing to be merciful to all nations and peoples that do not not deserve it just like us it is by grace that we all are forgiven.I am pleased that God is sovereign and knows whats best he is merciful to us.Our human nature is that it is better to kill our enemies before they can kill us and that is essentially Jonahs message that is why he struggled to be obedient to Gods will.Gods message is to forgive those that trespass against us and show mercy.Its complicated and it is natural to protect ourselves and our families from those who would seek to destroy them but ultimately its about trusting God with everything easier said than done.If it comes to a choice we will have to trust God and ask for his strength because we cant do it in ours.As Christ laid down his life for us are we ready to lay our lives and the lives of our families as a sacrifice for him.To me that is where the story of Jonah is leading to we have the choice to fight our enemies or to love them as God loves them.brentnz
In giving authority to his betrayer Jesus wanted to show us that he was establishing his church not on human strength but on God's love and faithfulness.
Sin is always knocking at our door, and the harder we try to resist it in our own human strength the worse it gets.
The shrubs are those who trust in their own human strength and ingenuity or in other «mere mortals» to deliver them in adverse situations.
Love is then not an affection of peculiar strength among the feelings and affections which fill the human soul in all possible shades and varieties.
The therapist is seen as a warm human being whose task is to accept and affirm the wills of persons until they can develop strength in exercising their own wills.
One of the strengths in Rank's thought was his view that human beings are inherently social.
The impatient people, to whom the reality of Moses and of God has become only a memory, remember the widespread pagan representation of deity in the form of a calf (probably a young bull, denoting primarily the strength of reproductive power and fertility, natural and human).
All transformational movements in human history have gained strength from the blood of their martyrs.
But granted that «heart and soul and strength,» or feeling and intuition and will, or sentiment, the unconscious depths and physical vitality, are all to be employed in exercising love to God and man, yet the «mind» — intelligence and understanding — also has its rightful, indispensable place in the economy of human and of Church life.
This conclusion is St. Paul's, after describing the awesome strength of the principalities and powers to diminish human life: «Therefore,» he advises, «take the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.»
On a higher level the circle has the same double meaning for the master as for the disciple; it represents humanity, and it is the union of friends in which the master, finds the comfort and strength which allows the lonely one to experience human fellowship.
We read up on our squad, learn the strengths and weakness of the teams in our pool, and even watch a human interest story or two on an American footballer.
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