Sentences with phrase «powered by the wisdom»

There is a Green tide rising, powered by the wisdom of the elders and youthful enthusiasm (and a lot of wisdom too).

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With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes, Covey reveals a step - by - step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, service, and human dignity — principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.

Real leaders realize the great wisdom of that saying by Spiderman's Uncle Ben: with great power comes great responsibility.

He was frustrated by the conventional wisdom that suggested Mexico's reliance on distributed power made adopting alternative energy more difficult.

What if we've allowed this threshold of wisdom to be co-opted by bad experiences with power - mongers and an unforgiving media?

But to those called by God to salvation, both Jews and Gentiles, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.»

At the same time, however, humor has a power that can be abused by drawing attention away from unanswered questions or by making wisdom seem unwise; so, I think that the power of humor must be handled with great care.

8 To one there is given through the Spirit a message of wisdom, to another a message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, 10 to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits

For all of our social pyramids, our collective wisdoms, and our discriminations according to rank and power are set by this divine foolishness within the brackets of the comic perspective.

Being grafted into the Trinity may be stated christologically without denying the trinitarian implication spelled out in later Christian theology: I am defined by the wisdom and power of God revealed in the death of Christ.

«to the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the Called - Out Ones of Christ to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places, according to the eternal purpose which He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord».

There are numerous avenues by which this idea is presented in church settings, but most often it revolves around the idea that we serve a powerful God, and God has dispensed some of that power upon all believers, but especially the leaders of the church by giving them wisdom, vision, and special spiritual gifts.

To me this picture depicts the fact that most of our Christianity is made with human hands, perpetuated by human wisdom and sustained by lusts for money, power and influence, popularity, and a proper social standing in the community.

Concludes Wright: «It is as though... «the word of the YHWH» is like an enormous reservoir, full of creative divine wisdom and power, into which the prophets and other writers tap by God's call and grace, so that the word may flow through them to do God's work of flooding or irrigating his people.»

Surely we ought to have the courage to let our heart be seized by God's grace and to accept the scandal and absurdity of our inescapable situation as «the power of God and the wisdom of God» by looking up at the Crucified and entering into the mystery of his death.

Recent years have dipped me into the wisdom of sages like feminist theorist Judith McDaniel who warn that trying to be «nice» on terms set by those who hold the power in place is to «sell ourselves short.»

that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places,

It is interesting to note that it was by what was preached that persuaded Irenaeus, and this is consistent with what the Apostle Paul wrote about the power and wisdom of preaching the word of God.

And this love is characterized, once again, as qualifying the nature of God's power: «Not that you, Divine Omnipotence and Eternal Wisdom, gave unwillingly, as though compelled by some sort of necessity, but rather that you freely bestowed your love, out of the boundless flood of your loving generosity, upon an unworthy and ungrateful creature.»

We know the need of the sense of being borne by a power not ourselves, being directed by a wisdom greater than our own, and being accepted even as we fail.

In preparation for the new millennium Pope John Paul put it thus: «He is not a weak and ineffective Christ but a Christ who has triumphed throughout twenty centuries and who remains the power of God and the wisdom of God... the Christ of the millennium is the man who has entered into the history of nations, has uplifted cultures by His message, transformed the destinies of peoples and who, in revealing God to man, has revealed all humanity to itself».

Through His incarnation and by His infinite wisdom and foreknowledge, God slows the death and decay down, and rescues those who are perishing in sin and destruction, but frequently, due the nature of sin, the consequences of abused freedom, and the misuse of power, God can not stop the natural results of rebellion.

There was one who was great by reason of his power, and one who was great by reason of his wisdom, and one who was great by reason of his hope, and one who was great by reason of his love; but Abraham was greater than all, great by reason of his power whose strength is impotence, great by reason of his wisdom whose secret is foolishness, great by reason of his hope whose form is madness, great by reason of the love which is hatred of oneself.

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It means, obviously, that whatever science may tell us about the processes by which creation takes place, science can never take the place of the Lord of heaven and earth by whose wisdom and power the processes were initiated and continue.

Biblical faith, on the contrary, is centered in the existence and activity of a deity who is infinite in wisdom, power, and love, but who nevertheless cares personally for each of us, a God whom we can approach in prayer and from whom we can receive help and strength, a God who is always acting within the human scene and is known to us by his acts.

A third error lay in putting the emphasis on human effort to bring about the kingdom, whereas God alone, by his kingly power, will bring it to pass when in his divine wisdom the season is right.

The working of this Wisdom is not without our openness to receive, but that openness is not achieved by us as a work of self - power.

He came to Corinth humiliated by his failure to present God as power at Thessalonica, or in terms of wisdom at Athens, and resolved that he would no longer accommodate the faith to his audience.

There was a beginning so there is Creator who is perfect in power and wisdom, having power over nature therefore everything is under submission to the One who has power over nature and by definition that is God.

And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

According to Maclaurin, we learn from Newton that «Our views of Nature... represent to us... that mighty power which prevails throughout,... wisdom which we see... displayed,... the perfect goodness by which they are evidently directed».

Once you start believing that you, personally, are chosen by God to wield power over others, your ego has gone way out of control and you have actually become dangerous to human freedom and common wisdom.

It needs laymen who are called by God for the purpose, trained with all the wisdom and sophistication experience can give, and who are willing to take the risks of using the forms of power available to them to do the works of love.

For women dissatisfied by the stale bromides of secular feminism and the frothy, girl - power messages peddled by today's pop culture, the wisdom of the women saints is a bracing and provocative antidote.

It proved that true spiritual wisdom and power was not achieved by human ingenuity, cleverness, intelligence, ambition or charisma.

And Zacharias was told by an angel of the Lord that his son, John, would be a prophet in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of fathers to their children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord (1:17).

The holy spirit is real to me he speaks to me he leads me he gives me wisdom he comforts me and he empowers me to do the work i am called to do.the evidence that you are walking by and with the holy spirit is that you are walking no longer walking according to the flesh but by the spirit of God.One of the things i used to struggle with was sin but no more it is the holy spirit that empowers me to live a holy life and when tempted i admit that my flesh is weak but that in Christ i am an overcomer and in the holy spirits power he strengthens me to be like Christ.To God be the glory great things he has done.brentnz

In other words, running side by side we have the sea as something evil and something good, and the monster as a supernatural evil being, a symbol of anti-God forces, and a magnificent testimony to God's wisdom and power.

In short, if the infinite, all-wise, all - powerful, ubiquitous God can become what we are, what is to prevent us from being made, by the selfsame infinite wisdom, power and ubiquity, what he himself is?

In his concept of wisdom as the vitalizing power in man's restless urge toward better things, which yet was with God before creation and by him was implanted in the nature of things, there is, we have noted, the clear implication that in such wisdom man gains his truest insight into the essential nature of God.

Judging the constitutionality of laws by the Court's «appraisal of the wisdom of legislation,» as he accused the Court of doing in this case, «is an attribute of the power to make laws, not of the power to interpret them.»

«The time will come when in the busy office or on the noisy street you can enter into the silence by simply drawing the mantle of your own thoughts about you and realizing that there and everywhere the Spirit of Infinite Life, Love, Wisdom, Peace, Power, and Plenty is guiding, keeping, protecting, leading you.

The Court has repeatedly said that its function is not to judge the wisdom or the policy of laws, but only to judge whether or not they are exercises of powers granted to the federal government by the Constitution or denied by it to the states.

We live by the power of God's Holy Spirit to obediently walk by faith in the goodness and wisdom of God as revealed in the Scriptures.

Cameron won power by beating Gordon Brown, the man whose own «coronation» in 2007 undermines MPs otherwise better claim to electoral wisdom.

Displaying wit and wisdom, he argued in a stirring speech earlier this year that the stranglehold on power by a few officials and their extreme secrecy, which they somehow managed to make acceptable, were corrosive to democracy.

«Whereas, the movement further resolved to be inspired and motivated by the ideals of social democracy, with great emphasis on: the triumph of social justice; the nobility of human dignity; the harmony of fairness and equality; the power of working together in solidarity; the excellence of good governance, driven by good leadership; the wisdom of reforms and transformation far beyond mere growth; the horror of poverty, demanding eradication; the dignity of prosperity; the imperative of democracy and the security of peace with justice

Boko haram was created to make life difficult for Jonathan as president and Christians but God in his infinite wisdom turned the barrel of the gun to the mischievous and the result was the desperation to halt the madness by acquiring power by all means.

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