Sentences with phrase «more like nature»

Maybe it's because our minds work more like nature than we think and that our invented tools evolve similarly as a result.

Think of them more like a nature documentary.

Now, researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on October 5 have found that the Chernobyl site looks less like a disaster zone and more like a nature preserve, teeming with elk, roe deer, red deer, wild boar, and wolves.

«It's more like nature and nurture rather than nature versus nurture,» said Wendong Li, assistant professor of psychological sciences in the College of Arts & Sciences.

But if they want to make complex, ordered structures from the ground up, they'll have to get used to thinking a bit more like nature.

Not exact matches

If extroverts didn't have a leg up due to their more outgoing nature, we wouldn't need bestsellers like Susan Cain's Quiet.

This specification is needed for the instant trading nature of ad space that makes the ad market seem more like the New York Stock Exchange.

According to the study, being slightly more difficult to get along with may come with monetary benefits, but people who are agreeable by nature tend to have stronger friendships, are liked more by their peers and are more satisfied with life in general.

Given the sensitive political and economic nature of the topic, the complexity of the problem and the current tenuousness of the housing market, we imagine that Treasury's contribution will be not so much a shout, more like a polite throat - clearing.

As a new vendor, you'll usually pay a commission of 5 to 7 percent or more, says Shea Mancini, owner of Richmond, Virginia - based Mancini Sales and Marketing Inc., who represents manufacturers like Mrs. Cubbisons, Georgio Foods, Nature's Earth, Wincup and Chempro, as well as smaller companies like Celli Pasta importer Bontel USA.

However, cardholders who frequently shop at luxury retail chains like Saks Fifth Avenue are more likely to purchase high - ticket items regularly; therefore, it will be extremely difficult to distinguish fraudulent transactions from those of a legitimate nature, allowing criminals to abuse stolen payment cards and remain undetected for a longer period of time.

But Springer Nature is more cheaply valued than peers like RELX and will benefit if open - access science journals grow more dominant.

While you may never have the chance to own a business like See's Candies, by better understanding the nature of a dream business you can more easily find a business to invest in that shares some of its positive attributes.

Now that I have put to death my old sin nature, by the grace of God, I will become more Ch - r - i - st like in my ways and in my whole being.

And the cautions of those like C. S. Lewis, who noted the elitist and manipulative nature of secularism in The Abolition of Man, will seem more prophetic even than Orwell.

If their argument wasn't so flimsy, this might even seem like an outright attack on faith (however, given the nature of the whole list, it's really hard to take it seriously, and see it as anything more than a bad hot take for a sake of a hot take.)

For those who are less initiated, like the poor Japanese Christians, a religion of outward practices is permissible, but that too tends of its nature towards an ever less visible and more spiritual mode of being.

Grace alone seems to have the power to free us from nature's deterministic instincts; but that doesn't mean that the wisdom and freedom to become fully human in the sense of being able to discern and choose more god - like behavior is easily achieved or sustained.

But like sense perception and consciousness itself, religious experience is an emergent from basic physical relations that exist on more primitive levels throughout nature.

In this case, they take spirit to mean more like the character or nature of a person.

It is no accident, Peter and Pierre say, that our social conditions and heart - habits make us ever - more like the unbelievably isolated individuals of the state of nature.

The forces of nature on which our existence wholly depends are made less mysterious and more pliable by our perceiving them as personal beings like ourselves.

Nonetheless, I should like to suggest that the form of the holy scriptures of Himayana, conforming to the more introverted nature of Himayana piety, is significantly more «subjective» than that of the Mahayana writings — a religious literature that constructs a monstrously rich, manifold, variegated, and complicated «objective» world.

But more importantly, like the ideal mother she is, the tree seems to understand both the nature and limits of her own maternal powers.

Without saying more, it is evident that men of different natures would have come together in a circle like those which the great masters, including the Buddha, gathered around themselves.

More must now be said about why, conceptually, it is important to see that religious commitment involves making serious claims as to the nature of things, what the setting of human life is like, as well as serious claims as to how human persons should behave in that setting.

Thus, God is, from our viewpoint, more like a disclosure of the underlying nature of everything experienced, and not just a thing experienced.

It's more of a clarification of the new nature and what it looks like lived out.

All the rest of the contents of the text — such as knowledge of the soul, the sciences of the nature of the heavens and the earth, history, prophecy, warnings, and the like — are only means to strengthen the message of the Qur» an, to give it more weight and conviction.

It may be that God uses the dopamine receptors as a tool like he uses everything else in nature that he designed, but there's far more to being in the presence of the Lord than a mere feeling.

But God calls us OUT of our own nature, to abandon our selfish desires and seek to be more like Christ.

The merman has lifted her up in his arms, Agnes twines about his neck, with her whole soul she trustingly abandons herself to the stronger one; he already stands upon the brink, he leans over the sea, about to plunge into it with his prey — then Agnes looks at him once more, not timidly, not doubtingly, not proud of her good fortune, not intoxicated by pleasure, but with absolute faith in him, with absolute humility, like the lowly flower she conceived herself to be; by this look she entrusts to him with absolute confidence her whole fate — and, behold, the sea roars no more, its voice is mute, nature's passion which is the merman's strength leaves him in the lurch, a dead calm ensues — and still Agnes continues to look at him thus.

Keith the verse go and sin no more is a choice the choice is the giver of life Jesus or go and sin no more change the word sin for death.Its our hearts it chooses to sin because it likes to sin thats our nature and the word is clear that our hearts are deceitfully wicked.How do we overcome by admitting our weakness and asking the holy spirit to help us.That is how i have been able to break sins over my life personally i am powerless in the flesh and i freely admit that but i have the spirit of God at work in my life who is able to raise me above my weakness in him.He empowers us to do that so when you feel weak tell the Lord and ask the holy spirit to help you.The more you rely on the holy spirit the more you walk in the spirit and the less influence sin has over you.brentnz

What he presents is the view of a planetarian community of nature and humanity, of humans among themselves, of humanity and God; it is (national) citizenship, co-citizenship and citizenship of the Earth.23 Against the type of globalization radiating from the West he can say: «The West appears to us, today, more and more like a tragic accident in the global process of humanity.

This cumulative impact not only creates a certain «like it or lump it» impression, but it virtually invites the undecided critic to dismiss Barth for being hopelessly unyielding and for claiming to know more than any creature can about the nature and purpose of the one God.

I am asking also, and more particularly, Where in nature is there feeling, perceiving, remembering, desiring, liking and disliking, not necessarily in the higher forms of these functions that we human beings are capable of, but in some form, however primitive and simple, however odd or strange, when compared to our human forms?

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

I also was powerless in regard to my old nature it had power over me.i came to the point that i needed to do something because i felt like spiritually i was dying and again it was by faith in Jesus Christ that changed me and that i admitted that i could nt live the christian life in my strength.Since then i have continued to walk by faith daily and i know what it means to be saved in this life we have power over our old nature through Christ that strengths us Personally i think this is a major reason why many christians are not growing and maturing as they should.Many people are struggling in there faith that is not how it is meant to be the word says we are overcomers more than conquerers through Christ that strengthens us.If you are struggling are you walking by faith or just doing good christians works that have no power to change your life Just admit that you cant do it in your strength let him empower you by his holy spirit to do what you cant.It has been a hard road to get here but i am never going back to living by works when you find the truth there is no comparison brentnz

It also explains why in America appeals like Hovey's or York's to the exemplary nature of the martyrs don't make immediate sense; in most people's minds, the only people who die for their faith are delusional and suicidal figures like Jim Jones, founder of the People's Temple, and more than 900 of his followers.

In a blog post, Miller shared candidly that he did not attend church very often because he connected more with God in other ways, like through nature and through his work.

To stop sinning is impossible for us on the one hand but is possible in Christ so what must we do for a start we must accept Jesus and we must be born again.Our old nature must be crucified and we need to walk by the spirit of God.But is it a reality yes definitely because the word says that sin shall not have dominion over us.The victory is found in Christ not in ourselves because we can not do it in our strength so we humble ourselves before God in our weakness so that by doing so allows the holy spirit to empower us to do what only he can do.In that way we become overcomers more than conquerers.I am seeing the reality of what Christ can do with a sinner like me as he moulds me in the person i was destined to be in him.

Everyone was like, «she escaped finally, she made it finally — now she knows infinitely more stuff than National Geographic ever could tell her (she loved nature and was curious about everything and how everything worked, for no particular reason except to marvel at creation).

One of Hasker's attempts to improve the defensibility of traditional free will theism involves making its view of nature more like that of process theism.

So «miracles» are not an interruption of the laws of nature; but more like beating the odds, which may (or may not) involve a Divine «nudge.»

They were simply about how to appreciate the character and nature of God, and grow closer to him each day, even among people who'd like nothing more than to see us fail.

More and more, physicists dare to say that all nature is in some sense life - like, that there is no absolutely new principle of life that comes in at some point in cosmic evolutMore and more, physicists dare to say that all nature is in some sense life - like, that there is no absolutely new principle of life that comes in at some point in cosmic evolutmore, physicists dare to say that all nature is in some sense life - like, that there is no absolutely new principle of life that comes in at some point in cosmic evolution.

In cases like these, where the evidence of manuscripts, versions and early quotations is fairly straightforward, it is relatively easy to make decisions about the nature of the original, or more original, text.

If you are one of those people who isn't a fan of the «frog spawn» like nature of the chia pudding then simply place in your food processor for a good 5 minutes until it resembles something much more like that familiar pudding like texture we all used to love as kids.

To sub for cocoanut oil, if you can't or don't want to use cocoanut oil for whatever reason you could probably use whatever solid fat thing you like (e.g. Nature's Balance spread) at a one - to - one substitution without any disasters, tho depending on the results you might decide to add a bit more or less the next time you make it.

I like the brand Nature Forest which is more than half of the can when opened is «cream» and not watery.