Sentences with phrase «own human powers»

The human power is costly; rather than set up and maintain unique servers, however, one can order the precise server specs needed in the cloud, where data is sent back and forth very easily.

So don't waste human power on easily automated tasks.

I can study how the human powers, at times, limited Him to a «us vs. them» type of world.

Ecology deals not with the interaction of human power, but with man's relation to the nature of which he is a part.

Nevertheless, by virtue of our collective human powers — our capacity for complex symbolic thinking, the sophistication of our tools, our ability to steward nature, and our demonstrated interest in telling both nature's story and our own — human beings also transcend nature.

But presuming — as I do — the validity of the concept of geologic time, I note that the designation «Anthropocene» unavoidably suggests an exceptional quality to the species homo sapiens, if only in terms of our collective human powers.

The power to change is not a human power.

The notion of women's autonomy» including absolute control over our own bodies» leaves us with an unrealistic sense of human power and an exaggerated sense of independence from the consequences of our attitudes and actions.

The human power of speech is the ability to create and to use symbols.

But the Virgin Birth, like the Cross itself, confounds what we think we know; it confounds our belief that power, whether human power or the brute force of nature, prevails in the world.

The most pervasive form of self - sufficiency is the general mood of trust in human powers, whether one's own or those of other men, to devise or do all that man needs in order to master his world.

(It may be worth noting here that the whole point of real Christianity lies not in interference with the human power to choose but in producing a willing consent to choose good rather than evil.)

The aversion to supernaturalism or to any appearance of dualism that seemed to threaten or to undo the assumption of «one - world order of meaning» has rendered the modern consciousness peculiarly insensitive to the great themes of Christian faith that have meant to point beyond man's own human powers and resources.

development, the unfolding of his specifically human powers, or one paralyzing them.»

This freedom means that all men are to be immune from coercion on the part of individuals or of social groups and of any human power, in such wise that no one is to be forced to act in a manner contrary to his own beliefs, whether privately or publicly, whether alone or in association with others, within due limits.»

And if there is a GOD, then only HE will decide our fate, and if his judgement is written in a book, that by no means gives any human the power to dictate that onto another.

Yet the capacity to split genes and atoms, and to effect the environment on a new scale and in grave ways, is only one reason human power — and its relation to divine power — has become a theological preoccupation.

The former is in keeping with what is perhaps the distinctive mark of our age — the quantum leap in human power to affect all of life in truly fundamental and unprecedented ways.

The preoccupation with human power will likely continue, both for reasons of the enhanced impacts of human power in a shrinking world, and growing social conflict.

Human power, largely through modern technologies, has a novel range of impact, novel objects, and novel consequences.

How God's power is imaged in relation to human power is a matter of much present exploration.

Human power is on the agenda of virtually every creative impulse in theology today.

You're just putting your faith in our human powers of observation and believe that what we have thought up based on those observations is correct.

And how can the predatory abuse of human power in prisons against the most vulnerable in their midst be turned so as to allow willed spiritual vulnerability to be empowered by grace?

In Kagan's account, Niebuhr's distinctive warnings about the temptations of human power are absent» as are his concerns about the perils of hubris and overreaching by those who are overly confident of the efficacy of power and justice in the world.

Desiring to be free of earthly entrapments like human creed, human doctrine, human group - think and human power is not always a sign of selfishness or depravity.

Although human power is weak, the will guarantees victory.

The modern industrial worker has to perform meaningless and mechanical work because of an inhuman utilization of human power without regard to the worthiness of the work performed.

One of the proud towers of the modern world is confidence in reason — not in the human power for reason (the ancient world celebrated that power) but rather the powers...

But because this human life is shaped by human powers and capacities, it invites us to «think in terms of comparative degrees of human distinction or dignity — and of some as more dignified than others.»

He rightly accuses the «precautionary principle» of lacking «faith in human power and intelligence,» thereby revealing the true object of his own religious faith.

A new experience of wholeness for both women and men can result from the conjoining of the «masculine» and the «feminine» in which all human powers are quickened.

«Jesus chose the power of God's weakness over against the ultimate weakness of coercive human power.

According to Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores, exiled apostolic delegate to Mexico, «The Catholic Church recognizes no human power which can prevent Her from doing anything She Herself deems necessary for the salvation of souls; therefore in spiritual matters She is subordinate to no one.

Perhaps even more significant than this replacement of human labor is the extension, classification, and perfection of the human powers of thought made possible by automatic machines.

His eagle's mask gave him super human powers.

At the same time, google and other search engines have made it easy to understand that the origins of the worlds major religions are based in human power and control.

However, when used in the service of a partisan political agenda, religion often succumbs to the deceit of human power, becoming just another political player and, at worst, part of the problem of human tyranny.

Moderns have found Augustine's transcendent basis for temporal meaning incredible, and have believed instead that time is meaningful because the human powers of science, reason and morals will progressively lead toward a perfection that can not be lost.

Even in defensive emergencies the Hebrew people were assiduously to seek God's guidance as the key rather than to rely on human power and agency as central.

The moral obligation for the advancement of health thus rests upon the duty of becoming integral persons, with the human powers fully operating and cooperating in accord with their proper natures.

Niebuhr said that if «biblical thought seems to neglect the creative aspect of the extension of human powers in its prophecies of doom upon proud nations, this is due only to the fact that it is more certain than is Greek thought that, whatever the creative nature of human achievements, there is always a destructive element in human power.»

and then the human power that gathers in great industrial combinations....

It should be underscored that the new life which flows from the experience of the redeeming mercy of God is a life of free creative effort in which all human powers are released from the shackles of a false piety and a crabbed moralism.

(b) That probably no human power could have relieved our alcoholism.

Those who propose to liberate human beings by reducing them to their naked individuality and destroying the bonds that connect them with principles understood to reside beyond human power risk arrogating to themselves the right to forge new and tighter chains.

This is human power, chiefly techno - economic power, sufficient to outstrip earth's capacity to restore itself on terms hospitable to life as we know it.

But a simple trust in human power alone is disastrous.

Does it proceed from within, being conceived and ensued by psychic forces analogous to our human power of invention?

6 In this personal relationship with God, the life of grace protects and perfects «each human power,» including the imagination, so «as to be able to function in this «higher» life of the «above - the - natural» life.