Sentences with phrase «over power things»

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2017 was full of revelations about the ugly things that can happen when men hold positions of power over women.

Yet, just months ago, a Jokowi victory appeared almost a sure thing — holding an almost 40 % lead over Prabowo, a candidate not allowed in the U.S. for past human rights violations and who, as the former son - in - law of Suharto, the Indonesian dictator overthrown 16 years ago, is certainly among the nation's entrenched powers.

One of the things the FCC gained with its newfound power was, in effect, authority over ISPs» privacy policies.

«Another ESPN insider also said that Magic was «privately seething over the Wilbon thing and in general did not like that Simmons held all the power and influence.»

You're assuming that at some point in the history of the world NEW genetic information was added to a living thing (which doesn't happen) and then it happened over and over together with the power of natural selection until we arrived at modern man.

This challenge led to a finger - wagging review by Hitchens in The Atlantic and a series of punch - counterpunch exchanges in various transatlantic venues, all of which obscured both the thoughtfulness of Amis» meditations on grief and his discovery of the depths of human depravity: «Hitler - Stalin tells us this, among other things: given total power over another, the human being will find his thoughts turn to torture.»

Al - Mulk In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful Blessed be He in Whose hands is Dominion: and He over all things Hath Power --(1) He Who created Death and Life, that He may try which of you is best in deed: and He is the Exalted in Might, Oft - Forgiving --(2) He Who created the seven heavens one above another; no want of proportion wilt thou see in the Creation of (Allah) Most Gracious.

The way this works out for me is that when I don't believe Jesus is enough, I try to fill the void with the approval of others, or by comfort in material things, or by power over others, or by controlling others.

I realized that if the Flying Spaghetti really does have power over all things, how does one explain white clam sauce, Chef Boyardee & Franco - American?

At the time a lot of people (especially those with power over the Hebrews) were worshiping the world — the moon, the sea, the sky: that story points to who should be worshiped — the Creator of those things.

I'm confused it says they will be gossips conceited unholy haters of good without love self love people in the end times to stay away not even to receive them not even pray for them is that blasphemy then it says they hold firm to a godliness but deny its power but I thought blasphemy they don't hold firm to any godliness but are not drawn by the spirit at all to wan na ask forgiveness even it says god is just and will forgive why I wish he would forgive all things his children suffer over that can't change need to also it says if u can say Jesus is lord the holy spirit is with u right or u couldn't even say those words please someone help I've been suffering

At the end of the day, the Elderly, the Middle Class, the Poor, the Hispanics, the Latinos, and the Gay and Lesbian Community understand one thing very clearly, the Republicans are interested in regaining power in Washington, and they will walk over anyone who gets in their way.

For it is through wisdom, which is Christ, that God holds power over all things.»

Then there are some things we have no power over.

For the Almighty God, who, as even the heathen acknowledge, has supreme power over all things, being Himself supremely good, would never permit the existence of anything evil among His works, if He were not so omnipotent and good that He can bring good even out of evil.

This is, of course, no more than we should expect, if we take the New Testament's Paschal triumphalism to heart: «Now is the judgment of this world, now will the prince of this world be cast out» (John 12:31); «I have overcome the world» (John 16:33); he is «far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion» and all things are put «under his feet» (Ephesians 1:21 - 2); «having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it» (Colossians 2:15); «he led captivity captive» (Ephesians 4:8); and so on.

Readers of First Things should by now be well - acquainted with the heated national debate - in part inspired by these very pages - over the role and legitimacy of the modern Supreme Court, armed with the power of judicial review, in a country that proclaims itself to be self - governing.

Two verses — «They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly things, it shall not hurt them» (Mark 16:18) and «Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you» (Luke 10:19)-- are used by the snake - cult Christians in Appalachia as support for snake - handling and the drinking of poison as tests of Christian faith.

Frankly, I worry about the mental and spiritual health of anyone who continues to support the RCC after all the absolutely heinous, irrational, unethical things it has done over the centuries to obtain and maintain power.

The power that raised Christ from the dead, that seated Christ at the right hand of God, that gave Christ supremacy over all rulers and authorities, over all powers and dominions, over ever title that can be given throughout all eternity, that placed all things under Christ and that appointed Christ as the head over everything,... this power, is for the church.

Given their enormous political power over the rest of us, we need politicians who have the God - fearing character and integrity to do the right thing every time a decision must be made, regardless of the consequences, regardless of the sacrifices he (and we) will have to make.This is God's world, not ours.

I've heard these very things said by those who are on the other end of the people who use religion and politics to enrich themselves, give them power and authority over their fellow human beings and draw attention to themselves rather than to God.

The enemy (satan) wil usel any means possible to mess things up for for believers and non believers, Followers of Christ need to remember the enemy has no power over us, unless we give it to him.

It is a dangerous thing to deny the presence of evil spirits in the world, but it is equally dangerous to think that man, by the performance of some ritual, has some power over them.

The evidence is in the testimony of the those who witness the living power of God over the things of this world.

Absolute, arbitrary, manipulative authority — power over others — is an evil thing; it belongs neither in the state nor in the family.

Cyprian believed in a real literal and vivid hell and in the de Idoloum, he mentioned that Christ and Christian power over the forces of evil is the proof that the true God is the Lord of all things.

And, oh, this misery, that so many live on and are defrauded of this most blessed of all thoughts; this misery, that people employ themselves about everything else, or, as for the masses of men, that people employ them about everything else, utilize them to generate the power for the theater of life, but never remind them of their blessedness; that they heap them in a mass and defraud them, instead of splitting them apart so that they might gain the highest thing, the only thing worth living for, and enough to live in for an eternity — it seems to me that I could weep for an eternity over the fact that such misery exists!

Evil is test of human choice, HE has power over hindu Lucifer ism, filthy secular ism of every thing, but HE honors HIS promise to human of their authority, HE will like human to defeat hinduism denial of truth absolute by himself.

To see other people rating you by your monetary worth is one thing, but when you think god is doing the same thing and has power over your soul, it's a whole nother deal.

Excessive eating may also be an expression of the power urge in people who inwardly feel powerless, for nothing more clearly demonstrates mastery over things than does the act of devouring them.

When you become a Christian by believing in Jesus for eternal life, one of the first things that happens to you is the Holy Spirit comes in and lives with in you, and in that moment, He washes you, He cleanses you, He purifies you of all sin, and provides us with the power to have victory over future sin.

And Jesus set out to show that he had power and authority over all sorts of things that hold people back and trip people up.

The man who is made in the image of the gods is given power and authority over all living things.

Get arrested, put your body in the middle of things, hold your «gentile leaders who lord their power over others» accountable, but don't just stand by.

«My homosexuality, my exclusive attraction to other men, my grief over it and my repentance, my halting effort to live fittingly in the grace of Christ and the power of the Spirit — gradually I am learning not to view all of these things as confirmations of my rank corruption and hypocrisy.

This event was to show God has power over the seas and is not constrained by the things of this world.

James Davison Hunter and Alan Wolfe disagreed fiercely over the reach and power of the culture wars, but they agreed on one thing: These wars are fought by politicians and pundits far more than by ordinary Americans.

I, however, personally adhere to: 2) Omnipotent, «All powerful,» as in God has power over all things that are.

I have been told (by female leaders) that there is a «real concern over my insensitivity», that they were talking to me in a particular way because «men have the power and that I am speaking to you prophetically because that is how God deals with things by adressing the men first».

it is only in the Christo - centric area of a noogenetic Universe that it [love] is released in the pure state and so displays its astonishing power to transform everything and replace everything... A current of love is all at once released, to spread over the whole breadth and depth of the World; and this it does not as though it were some super-added warmth or fragrance, but as a fundamental essence that will metamorphose all things, assimilate and take the place of all.94

Learning the secret of things gives us power over them.

To the extent that to know God's name is to have power over him through an invocation whereby the god invoked becomes a manipulatable thing, the name confided to Moses is that of a being whom human beings can not really name; that is, hold within the discretion of their language.

Our freedom is that though evil exists it does not have to have power over us any longer that is the message of the Gospel even though slaves became christians it did nt initially stop slavery not for many years but it helped the slaves to survive and gave them hope that one day God had something better for them and eventually because of christians activists slavery was abolished.Just like us our hope is not in the here and now but that one day we would be finally free from the corruption of this world but while we are in it we are not under its evil influence and i not meaning that bad things do not happen to christians but that in Christ we have been set free from its power over us.brentnz

10 Certain recent discussions of environmental ethics, dealing with «respect for nature» (where nature is not necessarily limited to the realm of living things), reflect some affinities with Hall's ideas on «deference» and seem to pose a challenge to my suggestion that the pursuit of power over nature should be criticized primarily in terms of its negative effects on human values and experiences.

Although Christ was filled with the form of God and rich in all good things, so that he needed no work and suffering to make him righteous and saved (for he had all this eternally), yet he was not puffed up by them and did not exalt himself above us and assume power over us, although he could rightly have done so; but, on the contrary, he so lived, laboured, worked, suffered, and died that he might be like other men and in fashion and in actions be nothing else than a man, just as if he had need of all these things and had nothing of the form of God.

Pray if you like, but there is no evidence that it changes anything other than you and your idea of having some power and control over things that you do not.

Process Theology maintains that God, who exists in all things, does not have coercive power over the Universe.

It stresses that «all peoples comprise a single community» and that from ancient times «there has existed among diverse peoples a certain perception of that hidden power which hovers over the course of things».21 Reference is made to the contemplation of the divine mystery in Hinduism and to Buddhism's acknowledgment of the «radical insufficiency of this shifting world».

It met in the Vatican in 1869 - 1870, and its most notable decrees, later promulgated by the Pope, declared «that the Roman Pontiff, when he speaks ex cathedra, that is, when in discharge of the office of pastor and doctor of all Christians, by virtue of his supreme apostolic authority, he defines a doctrine of faith and morals to be held by the universal Church, by the divine assistance promised to him in blessed Peter, is possessed of that infallibility with which the Divine Redeemer willed that His Church should be possessed for defining doctrine regarding faith or morals; and that therefore such definitions of the Roman Pontiff are irreformable of themselves, and not from the consent of the Church»; and that the Roman Pontiff has «full and supreme power of jurisdiction over the universal Church, not only in things which belong to faith and morals, but also in those which relate to the discipline and government of the Church spread throughout the world.»