Sentences with phrase «influenced by a sense»

Parents can accept their child's religious involvement — as long as that child is not allowing his or her life to be influenced by a sense of calling.

Kit is often influenced by a sense of the whimsical and the lyrical, as well as a love of animals.

The first is that their desire to go private is heavily influenced by their sense that the current system is inequitable.

He visited the studios of Constantin Brancusi and Jean Arp with Kelly, and found himself influenced by their sense of organic form.

Not exact matches

Opportunities to be involved with «good causes» at the local level, many of which are enabled by employers, provide millennials with a greater sense of influence.

Although both records were very different in sound and vision, they carried the similar sense that the pure artistic vision of Jars of Clay had somehow been compromised by the production influences of the different producers.

The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature; It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of Heaven, more than those at work upon ships or houses, or laboring in merchandise or agriculture; it will forever be acknowledged that these governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses.

I just believe that as someone who wasn't raised with religion, my instinctual sense of morals is a lot more pure than those influenced by religion.

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.

Of course there is a sense in which the movement continues in its influence on the clergymen whose interest in psychotherapy and healing was stimulated by their contacts with the movement, its literature, or others who had felt its influence.

If God is «omnipotent in the sense of being the only power there is... where there is not competing power, omnipotence means little... The power that counts is the power to influence the exercise of power by others.»

To be a person means not to be an individual in any isolationist or solitary sense, but to be open to, influenced by, and influencing, other men who are also persons.

Thus relational power is here understood as the ability (1) to be affected, in the sense, especially, of being open, sensitive, receptive, and empathic; (2) to create oneself out of what has been experienced by synthesizing that data into an aesthetic unity; and (3) to influence others by the way in which one has received and responded to their influence.

«55 Lowe claims Bergson has nothing like the method of extensive abstraction, which I have suggested earlier is not only false, but chances are Whitehead even took the idea for extensive abstraction from Bergson, apparently both having been «influenced» (in my sense of the term) by one of William James» insights.

It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of Heaven, more than those at work upon ships or houses, or laboring in merchandise or agriculture; it will forever be acknowledged that these governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses.

This is «influence» in a much stronger sense than is meant by those who see each entity as self - contained.

As long as one's size and sense of worth are measured by the strength of one's capacity to influence others (and this influence always takes the form of shaping the other in our image), as long as power is associated with the sense of initiative and aggressiveness, and passivity is indicative of weakness or a corresponding lack of power, then the natural and inevitable inequalities among individuals and groups are the means whereby the estrangements in life become wider and deeper.

These include an experience of being connected to all of reality, a full sense of acceptance of what is and is coming to one, a strong feeling of being influenced by all that is.

Our openness to be influenced by another, without losing our identity or sense of self - dependence, is not only an acknowledgement and affirmation of the other as an end rather than a means to an end.

The «Father» of the Nation, being the United States of America is quoted saying; «The General is sorry to be informed — , that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing, a vice heretofore little known in an American army, is growing into a fashion; — he hopes the officers will, by example as well as influence, endeavor to check it, and that both they and the men will reflect that we can have little hope of the blessing of Heaven on our arms, if we insult it by impiety and folly; added to this, it is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense and character detests and despises it.»

But that is far from saying that, influenced by the links which unite them, our grouped minds working together are not capable of achieving results which no one member of the group could achieve alone, and from which every individual within the collective process benefits «integrally», although still not in the total sense.

Theologians influenced by positivism, whose adherents saw reality as strictly that which can be experienced through the senses and knowledge as that which can be obtained through a narrow definition of the scientific method, and linguistic analysis, which purported that the only proper function of philosophy is the study of the usage of words and sentences, also treated science and religion as separate realms, distinct «language games,» each with its own set of rules.

These closing comments, deeply influenced by the work of Erich Auerbach and William Lynch (as in a sense was the entire perspective of the book), were a feeler attempting to deal with Christianity's distinctive mode of «secularity.»

If God is the source of all possibilities, as «primordial deity», there is a sense in which he may be called abstract and «eternal»; but God is also infinitely related to and influenced by the world, and hence as «consequent deity» is concrete and «everlasting».

The 18th century German philosopher, Immanuel Kant, was greatly influenced by Descartes and sought to unify the Rationalist and Empiricist Schools through an integrated approach which used both reason and sense experience.

By interiorizing itself under the influence of the Sense of Evolution, planetization (as the theory of complexity would lead us to expect) can physically have but one effect: it can only personalize us more and more, and eventually (as can be demonstrated by following to their conclusion all the successive stages of its twofold demand for wholeness and irreversibility) «divinize us through access to some Supreme Center of universal convergencBy interiorizing itself under the influence of the Sense of Evolution, planetization (as the theory of complexity would lead us to expect) can physically have but one effect: it can only personalize us more and more, and eventually (as can be demonstrated by following to their conclusion all the successive stages of its twofold demand for wholeness and irreversibility) «divinize us through access to some Supreme Center of universal convergencby following to their conclusion all the successive stages of its twofold demand for wholeness and irreversibility) «divinize us through access to some Supreme Center of universal convergence.

If he abandons himself to this demoniacal influence, he then perhaps makes still another attempt to save Agnes, in such a way as one can, in a certain sense, save a person by means of the evil.

There began to be the sense that events could be influenced only by large - scale, remote economic or governmental forces, or by extreme political initiatives on the right or on the left.

As such, they are incapable of internal relatedness, in the sense of being partly constituted by their appropriation of influences from other things.

The paradox of a declining sense of moral obligation, together with a heightened sense of distributive justice, may be partially explained by observing that both phenomena reflect the influence of the last remaining element of the common value system: individual freedom.

The vast majority of small - group members also say their sense of the sacred has been profoundly influenced by their participation.

So Whitehead's reply to Berkeley is, in effect, that matter really does matter in the ordinary sense of the word, since whatever acquires material existence is always capable of influencing by means of signs the becomings of subsequent «things.»

On the one hand, Hartshorne holds that the past affects the future in the sense that previous cases of becoming can influence later cases of becoming; previous feelings of one's own, of God's and of one's body cells can be felt or inherited by one's later feelings.

But in all cases where actions are avoidable - where my choices do make a difference to what I do - it makes sense for the law to become one of causal influences upon my choices by sternly threatening me with punishment for choosing wrongly.

Some of it was about Sufi like teachings on meditation and going only within and I will have to admit it was borderline a bit too mystical for me to understand... but then I tried to picture how they may have been influenced by Eastern meditation and that not by having the knowledge we have today, perhaps that made more sense then and perhaps even for some people it makes sense today.

New York became one of the world's largest concentrations of Jewish people, with a heightened sense of Jewish ethnicity, many with a particularly secular bent influenced by Jewish socialists.

But second, the sense of obligation is influenced by factors other than the anticipated consequences of the action.

When I willfully refuse to reflect or to be influenced by the fruits of reflection, I am surely aware that I do wrong, that is, my sense of obligation inescapably attaches to the course of action that I am not pursuing.

In this sense theology influenced by Hegel is process theology just as much as that influenced by Whitehead.

They were both profoundly influenced by their backgrounds, each with a strong sense of place - John Paul so very Polish, Benedict deeply Bavarian.

He could hardly have failed to be influenced by the greatly increased sense of human responsibility for the basic structures of society.

My scientific thinking has been most influenced by the liberal behaviorism of Neal Miller and the psychobiology of Curt Richter — rough - hewn, pragmatic, common - sense approaches.

Evidence shows us that children are influenced by what their parents eat and drink, this makes sense (science often tells us what we already know).

Also, your sense that there were so fee cookies in a box just might have been influenced by whatever I ate before showing you the box....

It had already been a long journey for a young man who by the age of 15 had been a finalist in a competition for the best kitchen apprentice and who had the good timing and sense to soak up the influence of such culinary giants as Roger Vergé, Michel Guérard, and Georges Blanc.

Portuguese captain Ronaldo's range, meanwhile, were influenced by his insight and incorporated Nike's SENSE technology - innovative studs that would retract and extend based on the pressure and conditions of the pitch he was playing on.

Not to remove her agency but I would not be surprised if she regrets now decisions she made while not being the clearest of mind and while maybe being influenced by someone who had additional agendas that had nothing to do with her best health... if that makes sense.

While School Maturity can not be influenced, school readiness can be encouraged by exposing children to a wider range of experiences and encouraging them to develop their senses and skills.

Profoundly influenced by prevailing behaviorist theories of psychology, by the early twentieth century authorities advised that parenting instincts and common sense should take a backseat to science.

Participatory help - giving practices that actively involve parents in deciding what knowledge is important to them, and how they want to acquire the information they need, have the greatest positive effect on parents» sense of competence and confidence.22, 5 Available research evidence also indicated that the social and emotional development of young children is influenced by the ways in which program staff provided parenting support.24, 32