Sentences with phrase «very powerful»

Religous fervor is very powerful and is a tactic used when nations go to war.

It is very powerful in that it generates a large number of explanations of otherwise puzzling matters, or a large number of solutions to practical problems, or large numbers of predictions that turn out to be correct.

(He also has some very powerful things to say against the rather anemic theism of another Ahad Ha'Am follower, Mordecai Kaplan [d. 1983], who was and still is an extremely influential American Jewish thinker, and who was also a teacher of Hertzberg's at the Jewish Theological Seminary in the 1940s.)

-- The Babble says so — I don't know, but I will read The Babble some more and get back to you — Please tell me the right answer»cause I'm too lazy to do real home work myslef — My god has very powerful magic and can do anything!

Since in capitalist society the intellectual is not structurally part of the working class, and since nearly all opportunities for intellectual employment are within institutions directed by the ruling classes, the tendency to allow oneself to be molded by the dominant ideology and to become one of its — albeit unconscious — perpetuators is very powerful.

I watched a very powerful and moving documentary on the great tsunami of 2004, «Tsunami Caught on Camera».

However, my hope and prayer is not that we're forced to by court orders but that we desire, out of our love for Jesus, to make this a priority and to make sure that we do respond to this very dark area of our church in a very powerful and comprehensive way.

Experimental knowledge is one very powerful form of disciplined observation upon which humans reflect and infer.

If the aims are nearly identical, this tendency is very powerful.

No formal prayer - while Earthquake / Hurricanes are showing us a very powerful sign at this particular time of the year!?

It was a very powerful way of singling me out, shaming me, threatening me, ostracizing me... everyone looking at me like I was cursed.

«It's very powerful saying no because people start to respect you.

The Church was very, very powerful in those days and controlled many aspects of society, including politics, economics, literature and history - writing... still, his dating system took hundreds of years (nearly 1000) to be inst - ituted world - wide.

By contrast, I am indeed alarmed by the state of affairs in our society at large, where a cultural liberalism that has become ideologically secular is very powerful and may well succeed.

Of course, Leclerc is well aware that not all of these seventeenth - century divergencies from Aristotelian physics would be accepted by every seventeenth - century thinker, but he takes them as typical of the time, and further holds that all of them have been very powerful influences on scientific thought since that century.

All those connections were there and it was very powerful.

And meditation can be a very powerful force for good or evil, so... I'm not sure about «teaching it» in school, but I guess it wouldn't be too bad.

Furthermore, the present system has created in the broadcasters which benefit from it a very powerful set of vested interests opposed to change.

Again, not angry sad we could of all brought in the kingdom the right away the Gospels are a very powerful tool it has and will take us into the 5th and final world to everlasting life.

It's true, fear - based ideology is wide - spread and very powerful, and isn't always grounded in «organized» religion.

But today's liberalism encourages a very powerful culture of dismissal and denunciation that undermines the liberal spirit.

While Dr. Alice von Hildebrand is best known for promoting the work of her late husband, Dietrich — the eminent anti-Nazi philosopher who barely escaped death under Hitler — her personal story, as revealed in a new autobiography, Memoirs of a Happy Failure, is very powerful in itself.

Very powerful testimony young man shared by countless others in the world but not of the world.

We were men of the twentieth century, carried along (unless we struggled heroically) by very powerful psychological currents: We tended, therefore, to follow the contingent trend of the moment as though it were an absolute; we over-dramatized the apparent novelty of our condition; we indulged a kind of collective Oedipus complex, resenting and rejecting whatever smacked of the past.

In reality, Arab tribes and ethnic groups were very powerful indeed long before this, and some formed influential states in the lands that we would today think of as Jordan, Iraq and Syria, territories contested between the two great empires.

and you steer clear of the word of God for an very powerful reason.

There was this independent baptist church I went to for a couple years, the pastor's sermons were on point; they were very powerful and inspiring.

It is the story of the same boy who on seeing a crucifix doesn't associate it with blood or suffering but rather «a divine presence, a very powerful presence who pardoned, reconciled, gave peace and brought me a deep interior sense of wellbeing» (p. 27).

This book is written with affection by someone who obviously found the whole story a very powerful one.

I believe in Evolution, but I have to concede to religious people, that if there is God, He / She most be very powerful an almighty.

It is great because human societies, in the form of nations and of civilizations, have become very powerful and seem to hold in their hands both the blessings and the curses that are to be visited on men.

If the whole imagination of the church is to be able to resist the very powerful forces that try to co-opt it or subvert it, then it has to have a scriptural imagination.

Both the charges and the claims are exaggerated, but there is enough truth in both to make of the race situation a very powerful appeal.

Are there two governments, one for the very powerful and one for everyone else?

Are there two economies, one for the very powerful and one for everyone else?

One more factor is very powerful in shielding technology from examination: liberal democratic individualism — the notion that the individual is to be the judge of what is the good life for him or her.

Delusion is a very powerful thing, apparently more powerful than reality in some.

Nationalism is still very powerful, but religion has become even more so.

The Church was very powerful in those days and controlled most aspects of society, including politics, economics, literature and history - writing... still, his dating system took hundreds of years (nearly 1000) to be inst - ituted world - wide.

But both are energies... the destructive energy is very powerful, life - fulfilling, and gives a sense of power... but ultimately consumes the person, be he / she a blog owner or a preacher.

Now, if one combines this simple fact with a well - known but rather more unexpected one, namely that developmental processes are difficult to alter, one finishes up with a very powerful evolutionary mechanism.

I am a woman with a very powerful personality and convictions.

Some symbols are very powerful, such as the American flag, the Canadian Maple Leaf, a red cross.

Se - x is also a very powerful force, that when used within the bonds of marriage is a beautiful and bond - forming act.

It demands a democratisation of the communication means whose concentration in hands of very powerful capitalist groups is incompatible with any electoral justice or real democratic sovereignty.

«Atheist, in the end, simply can not humble themeselves to a deity but try and make trivial a very powerful force» - No.

Indeed, the factors that made headway toward Hebrew faith in immortality difficult were very powerful.

While it also depicts God as very powerful, maybe even «all powerful,» there is a subtle difference between that and the technical definition of «omnipotent».

I'm not powerless, I am very powerful.

More immediately, morality was mediated through the extended family (with all its connections to caste), which remains very powerful in India; sometimes in those temples where pundits gave discourses about the perennial struggles of good and evil; and most frequently by the practical decisions of the panchiat, the intercaste village council of the five leading elders.