Sentences with phrase «power over it»

Conversely, so long as we operate as superiors when we get into positions of power over the «inferiors», we will be perpetuating the ills of the dominance syndrome.

As much as Christ mandates that they exercise power under, they are forced by circumstances to exercise power over, too.

If they would take the Christian faith as seriously as they claim, they would forsake the quest for power over and instead commit themselves to exercising power under.

Interactive technologies offer the chance to transform the concept of «power over» to «power with.»

Its power over him won't disappear, but in principle, we may say, it is broken.

(Using the lowercase «c» with reference to «christianity» is a spiritual discipline for me as a member of a religious tradition so arrogant and abusive in its exercise of power over women, lesbians and gays, indigenous people, Jews, Muslims and members of nonchristian religions and cultures.)

Abuse is a crime of power, and religions certainly hold power over their flocks.

Around the same time, St. Martin of Tours declared that the anti-Christ had already been born and was on His way to gaining power over the world.

The principal surviving exception is the number 13, which still holds a strange power over Fridays, and over the listing of floors in hotels and high rises.

No Islam is a Nazi style polical system supported by sex perverted men who want power over women to control them and make them sex slaves.

And they seem to acquire some power over it because they recognize and name the condition.

These changes also change the structures of power in our society, so that, for example, literate people who know how to access electronic information will have increased power over literate people who don't.

Given a system in which there are no genuine causal relationships at all (except God's actions) it becomes especially curious to favor one kind of appearance of power over another.

25:46), The Bible restricted the master's power over the slave.

God has promised to protect the Quran, and he has supreme power over all that exists..

A child na.gging as such extreme power over their parents that they can force parents to make bad decisions because they don't want a fight.

Omnipotence means not the highest power over other expressions of power but sole power.54

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.

God's power is «free power over all, the power over all powers.»

Put personally, «How can I be saved from the penalty of my sin and its power over my life?»

The desire is fading out of your mind, the habit is losing its power over you.

Then there are some things we have no power over.

Again, to have perfect power over all individuals is not to have all power in such fashion as to leave the other individuals none.

We grow it not by exerting power over others, but by serving others.

What's frustrating about all of this, of course, is that I can use the word «vagina» when the context involves rape, but I can not use the word «vagina» when the context involves a certain degree of ownership and power over my own body.

Liquor is your enemy, but you are overpowering it and in a short time it will have no power over you at all.»

God remains «all - powerful, with power over everything that He actually wills or could will,» 23 and Case - Winters [91] notes that, for Barth, power «is still being conceived as the ability to dominate and control.»

Similarly, maximal power over a good world would not be so good as maximal power over a better one, though in both cases it would be as much power as is compatible with the world to be controlled; that is, in both cases it would be maximal simply as power, though not as total value realized by the one having the power.

Emboldened by that flicker of hope, I fought and clawed against the chains that choked and bound me until I could see that they were nothing but shadows, shadows that held no true power over me.

And I reject your statement that we have no power over our actions.

How should they handle failure and rejection, or power over property and persons?

Supposedly, then, no body such as a synod or presbytery had any power over congregations.

It is because, among your gifts, what I hanker after is the fragrance of your power over me and the touch of your hand upon me.

I would if I could but sadly i'm just a figment of your imagination and have no real power over anything...

I said they have no power over their condition.

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

With their record these days, I don't want them gaining more power over me.

In population control, euthanasia, abortion, and eugenics, the human person is treated as an object or product to be used or eliminated according to the purposes of those who have power over others.

We believe that in so doing we shall establish our power over this law and to some degree make it a chattel of ours.

Therefore It is all, has power over all and everything is an act of It (an act of God).

The notion that God would punish an individual for eternity for an a condition they did not choose and which they have no power over is one I reject outright.

They are at odds with a culture in which power over persons and property gauges success and garners respect.

God does not work that way although God has full power over nature as with the flood.

«And yet evidently something has given us power over the physical environment, power to work out the laws of nature themselves and control them for our own ends, power even to destroy Nature itself with our technology if we are foolish enough.

Sin no longer has any power over us.

After all, who wants to grant civil authorities who can not bring themselves to recognize their responsibility for unborn babies power over life and death?

The two — love and controlling power over the other person — are mutually exclusive.

No wonder Holloway emphasises that it is in the celebration of Mass, in this «terrible power over the Body and the Blood of The Lord» that the priest knows «why he is alone, and he knows he is never lonely».

The task is not only to restore power over corportions to political agencies but also to make those agencies work for the common good.

For this reason Holloway frequently defines the essence of the priest as the one who presides and has power over the Body and Blood of the Lord.