Sentences with phrase «of human strength»

I can do nothing,» Isabel realizes about her sadistic owner), freedom, and the sources of human strength in this searing, fascinating story.

As we near the limits of human strength and speed, technology and culture keep moving the finish line

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.

Old principles and practices — often reflected by and fostered in quiet, local, noncompulsory institutions — have been time - tested and proven in most instances to make the most of human strengths and mitigate human weaknesses.

I hope this series can be a small supplement to the global picture of human strengths.

Seligman and others (circa 1998) first conceived of positive psychology as a «science of human strengths,» seeking to prevent mental illness by cultivating human strengths.

~ Dr. Tal Ben - Shahar, author of Happier, The Pursuit of Perfect, and Choose the Life You Want «This is what is so stunning about this book: it's the best experiential or applied introduction to the psychology of human strengths that I've seen.

Positive Psychology: The Scientific and Practical Explorations of Human Strengths.

Not exact matches

Positive psychology is the scientific study of strengths that enable humans and organisations to flourish.

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).

Their foundations are stronger because they are built with the strength of the human spirit, not an ad campaign.

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.

«If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.»

R.S. Burt, «Structural Holes: The Social Structure of Competition» (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992); P. Caligiuri and M. Lazarova, «A Model for the Influence of Social Interaction and Social Support on Female Expatriates» Cross-Cultural Adjustment,» International Journal of Human Resource Management 13, no. 5 (August 2002): 761 - 772; M.S. Granovetter, «The Strength of Weak Ties,» American Journal of Sociology 78, no. 6 (May 1973): 1360 - 1380; and M.S. Granovetter, «The Strength of Weak Ties: A Network Theory Revisited,» Sociological Theory 1 (1983): 201 - 233.

The cable operator now has a solution that leverages the unique strengths of humans and software bots to provide better business outcomes.

The decline of BB is perhaps a more familiar story, but «Losing the Signal» enhances the drama with personal human stories: how the founders» genius and strengths ultimately became their downfall: the reliance on efficiency of network and battery use ignored the groundswell of desire for an always - with - me computer.

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.»

Certified Human Behavior Specialist, Business Coach, and Strategic Intervention Coach, Nicole Jansen has developed her own special brand of mentorship, which focuses on tapping into your strengths and true purpose, integrating business and life mastery principles for holistic success.

Twenge and Campbell are drawing here on research from the so - called positive psychology movement, which recently has attempted to shift the focus of psychological research away from disease and disorder to a study of the character strengths that make for happiness and human flourishing.

«The foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than the strength of Man» 1 Cor 1:25

Even in these cases, I am amazed at the strength of the human soul.

Evangelical Catholicism draws the will, the energy, the strength, and, if necessary, the stubbornness to continue defending and promoting the dignity of the human person from the power of the gospel.

TO KERRY EGAN: You talked about the strength of the «human soul,» and how people know what they were missing in love.

Jose, there is no pain beyond human strength to bear, but some people will give up or deflect their pain instead of facing it.

We rely on the strength of other human beings our ourselves to pull through, not a man - made deity.

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.

The beasts receive their doom, and pass from the scene: the powers of evil are overthrown, not by any human virtue or strength, but by the presence and power of the living God.

«I'm able to feel and like my own strength as a human being... I'm doing a lot less of this god - making of authority people.»

Accepting the divine entry of God into human history through the man Jesus Christ explains the extraordinary strength and resilience of the Christian Church, and also why it is a mistake to regard it as a purely human organization of those who happen to share the same religious views.

The distinctive strengths of tribalism need to be transferred to the whole human race; tribalism needs to be transformed into globalism.

This important spiritual union can bring healing and strength to all of our human relationships

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.

@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.

And most critically of all, «God's weakness is stronger than human strength» (1:25).

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 fact that arbitrary constants exist, for example the strength of gravity; through science we know that these values can only be near the observable constant or human life would not exist.

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.

And here is the place where the strength of the human spirit awakens and concentrates and becomes creative.

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.

Each of them alone, to say nothing of the other five, is so formidable as to be staggering if undertaken only by human strength and wisdom.

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.

Both place great emphasis on developing human virtues, or strength of character, because these virtues enable a person to be truly free.

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.