Sentences with phrase «organizing force of»

We all have access to this energy — it is the guiding and organizing force of life within us — and when we cultivate ways of being that support and nourish the free flow of this energy in our bodies, we can radiate...

Of their very nature those blessed passivities which are my will to be, my inclination to be thus or thus, and the chances given me to attain to my own completion in the way I desire, all are charged with your influence — an influence which I shall come before long to see more clearly as the organizing force of your mystical Body.

This struggle brings about personal suffering, in the giving up of luxuries for oneself for the common good and in facing the determined opposition of the organized forces of social injustice, often consciously or unconsciously backed by the religious establishments.

It is very easy for the non-committed agnostic, or indeed for any non-Christian to make light of an organized force of evil.

«I might say, parenthetically, I believe there are national security and common security aspects to the whole globalization challenge that I really don't have time to go into today, so I'll just steer off the text and say what I think briefly, which is that as we open borders and we increase the freedom of movement of people, information and ideas, this open society becomes more vulnerable to cross-national, multinational, organized forces of destruction: terrorists; weapons of mass destruction; the marriage of technology in these weapons, small - scale chemical and biological and maybe even nuclear weapons; narco traffickers and organized criminals, and increasingly, all these people sort of working together in lines that are quite blurred.

Not exact matches

According to a Defense Department memo obtained by Military Times, the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness will direct «an effort to form a working group to determine changes to military personnel policies necessary to provide the Military Departments increased flexibility to organize, train, and equip more ready and lethal forces.»

Sales is tough — which is why we exist: to provide you with a well - organized and finely tuned sales force fully dedicated to the growth of your business.

The Hong Kong Police Force further reinforces the report's opinion, admitting that they see absolutely «no apparent sign of organized crime or ML / TF concerning the trading of cryptocurrencies».

I'm an atheist, and one of the things I hated about religion is that the Christians are always trying to force their absurd beliefs off on other people now there is an organized group of atheists trying to do the same thing with a non-religion.

I spent 25 years in Africa ~ one of the main reasons that organized american christians are held in such contempt is for the very reason of forced conversions.

In my mind, it's not that there is a movement to stamp out Christianity, but rather one to force religion, of any organized faith into areas where it has no place.

To have the only organized portion of the labor force heavily committed to the system is a great asset to the giant corporations, well worth the inconveniences of collective bargaining.

That nonviolent movements often disintegrate in despair when they experience the full force of organized injustice and systemic evil is clear.

In this picture man is no longer seen as subject to ineluctable economic forces, but as himself responsible for deliberately organizing his life - in - relation according to the requirements of social justice.

I am totally ashamed of other athiests attempting to organize and form a club with preset beliefs forced upon other people.

God is called upon not as a unilateral superpower but as a relational force, not an omnipotent creator from nothing, imposing order upon chaos, but the lure to a self - organizing complexity, creating out of the chaos.59

Without a compelling testimony to the transformative force of organized religion, the None will linger curiously outside her shrines, buffered from the communities of faith that could channel more wisely those persistent upward longings.

«But Charles Darwin showed how it is possible for blind physical forces to mimic the effects of conscious design, and, by operating as a cumulative filter of chance variations, to lead eventually to organized and adaptive complexity, to mosquitoes and mammoths, to humans and therefore, indirectly, to books and computers.

And «militia» meant the exact OPPOSITE of an organized military force.

First, his formulation reflects and summarizes the debates of the previous century and a quarter, in which canonists and theologians collected, thought through, and systematically organized earlier normative Christian thought on the use of armed force.

It is sufficient that God should mean to us the sum of the animating, organizing forces and relationships which are forever making a cosmos out of chaos.

Gladden was one of the first ministers to recognize the rights of workingmen to organize into unions, yet he felt they should never employ force or violence to attain their ends.

Deism is the recognition of a universal creative force greater than that demonstrated by mankind, supported by personal observation of laws and designs in nature and the universe, perpetuated and validated by the innate ability of human reason coupled with the rejection of claims made by individuals and organized religions of having received special divine intervention.

Writing Searching for Sunday forced me to consider that perhaps real maturity is exhibited not in thinking myself above other Christians and organized religion, but in humbly recognizing the reality that I can't escape my own cultural situatedness and life experiences, nor do I want to escape the good gift of my (dysfunctional, beautiful, necessary) global faith community.

As Provine summarized the matter, «The destructive implications of evolutionary biology extend far beyond the assumptions of organized religion to a much deeper and more pervasive belief, held by the vast majority of people, that non-mechanistic organizing designs or forces are somehow responsible for the visible order of the physical universe, biological organisms, and human moral order.»

In other words, the Greek temple helped the human observer to organize his world in terms of objective forms, rather than in terms of subconscious forces or aspiration for some superhuman state.

To me this appears the most satisfactory interpretation of the present state of Life on the surface of the earth; despite a regrettable recrudescence of racialism and nationalism which, impressive though it may be, and disastrous in its effect upon our private post-war lives, seems to have no scientific importance in the overall process: for the reason that any human tendency to fragmentation, regardless of its extent and origin, is clearly of an order of magnitude inferior to the planetary forces (geographic, demographic, economic and psychic) whose constantly and naturally growing pressure must sooner or later compel us willy - nilly to unite in some form of human whole organized on the basis of human solidarity.

Creative and dynamic religious forces are finding their expression not in the context of the organized church, but in film, literature, and the arts, and also in some aspects of science and industry, where people are seeking ways to give institutional expression to their basic religious concerns while at the same time rejecting alliances with institutional religion.

The idolatry of «the family pew» may be the motivating force for such decisions if the life of a congregation is organized around rituals that do not give meaning to the lives of participants.

Ex-president Nkrumah of Ghana had inscribed on his monument in the capital city: «Seek ye first the political Kingdom and all else shall follow.18 Every historical order elicits and organizes group loyalties which are among the most powerful forces in human life.

Don't kid yourself into thinking that organized religion is not one of the most destructive and divisive and utterly terrible forces in the world.

Missionaries organized a heroic fight against the system of cultivation whereby the poor farmers were forced to cultivate Indigo plants against their wishes by European planters.

Now I am convinced that, however much some of these leaders may be criticized on particular counts, their churches have in important instances preserved independent Christian vitality, and they remain the major organized force bearing witness to the ultimate criticisms of what intends to be a Marxist culture.

Our lives make sense, when they do, because of a fine and fragile texture organizing the sea of underlying forces.

The religious are relentless in their pursuit to force everyone to conform to their way of thinking that I personally think it's about time Atheists at least got organized to the point of offering a place to share ideas... but that doesn't translate into having conventions or holding Atheist sermons so to speak.

In fact the local struggles of the organized movements of dalits, tribals, fisherfolk and women, for living and for survival (some of which have been partly or temporarily successful), against specific expressions of market - directed pattern of development, have been a potent force to educate the middle class regarding the inhuman reality of the present development paradigm; such education is necessary to achieve even our short - term objective.

In fact, pacifist theorists have urged the development of a civilian - based non-military defense, which would encompass organized but nonviolent resistance, refusal to cooperate with occupying forces, and efforts to undermine enemy morale.

(eh eh) While I agree with you, let's give due credit: the organized religions have done a fine job of establishing an environment that invites, tricks, cajoles or forces gullible people to buy their fantasy, for the purpose of power and control.

Out of anger for servitude, oppression and anti-colonialism Mahatma Gandhi was able to fashion organized force to impel the British to surrender India to its people.

Puritanism was one of the most effective forces in colonial America in «mobilizing the general mood» and effectively organizing both ideas and actions in opposition to Crown and Parliament.21 Puritanism had consistently pointed to, preached, and attempted to live out the central values and beliefs that gave coherence and meaning to Puritan society.

He organized a fighting force made up of Arab colonists of Khurasan and converted Persian landowners.

If it becomes forced, contrived, demanded, required, staged, and it no longer is permeated with grace, love and care, then the natural truth of it dies and only the institutional and organized shell remains.

He went on with Alinsky to lead in organization of Southwest Chicago (1959), take part in 1962 in the Woodlawn - University of Chicago struggle, organize the FIGHT forces in the Kodak wars (1965 - 67), and cofounded with Alinsky the IAF Training Institute in 1968.

Deism is the recognition of a universal creative force greater than that demonstrated by mankind, supported by personal observation of laws and designs of nature and the universe, perpetuated and validated by the innate ability of human reason coupled with the rejection of claims made by individuals and organized religions of having received special divine revelation.

This year, I joined forces with Sarah from Fanstastical Sharing of Recipes again to organize a cookie exchange among members of the Food Blogger Love Facebook group.

Americans generally didn't give a hang, making it impossible to stir up enough sentiment to force the issue of how to organize a representative group.

That might force the NFL to follow the lead of the NBA, by taking some players earlier, and of organized baseball, by establishing farm systems for those athletes who now attend college only to major in becoming a professional.

On Monday, the NFL announced that the Seahawks will be docked $ 400,000 and a fifth round pick in the 2017 draft, and forced to forfeit the first week of next year's organized team activities.

The department's Organized Crime Strike Force maintains that in 1974 - 75 a group of gamblers, working for organized crime elements, won huge exacta and trifecta bets on rigged races and lugged hundreds of thousands of dollars out of New York tracks.

Cooley said CFPAC worked with the Good Food Task Force, organized by the Mayor's Office and comprised of various sister agencies.