Sentences with phrase «which limits the experience»

Many people default to god as a cause, or an explanation in any situation in which their limited experience can't come up with answers.

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Now more mature, it's considering hiring more salespeople to better sell its products to large companies with which it acknowledged that is has limited experience in terms of direct sales.

It found that after being awake for seventeen to nineteen hours, which is a normal day for many of us, we can experience the same levels of cognitive impairment equal to having a blood alcohol level of.05 percent — just under the limit for being declared legally drunk in many U.S. states.

The rules of evidence that apply in an arbitration fall somewhere between the anything goes «rules» that apply in the court of public opinion and the rules of evidence that apply in court which limit what comes in, generally speaking, to the kind of evidence experience has shown is trustworthy.

Steib has turned his experience — including but not limited to the effect of stress at work — into a blog called The Career Manifesto, as well as into a workshop he hosts at XO Group, which includes a Personal Development Program and Lunch & Learn series, where he shares tips and advice on organization, management, productivity, and any other issues employees would like to explore.

The lending will also involve Goldman in a relatively risky business in which it has little experience, dealing with ordinary borrowers with limited financial cushions.

In different geographical locations, most family offices prefer to limit their angel and venture capital investments to those businesses with which they have a personal connection or past experience working with the firm.

God has a different time line relative to ours because God is not limited to our current time line which we experience.

Personal experience confirming personal testimony of billions who have experienced something greater than that which is limited by the natural

The microgeny is a moment of time suspended between the limits of timelessness, like the experience of living, which is the dream of life that hovers on the eternity of sleep.

In the case of microbes which feed on humans, a society with limited potential for intensity of experience may achieve a measure of endurance by destroying societies of occasions which form the necessary environment for dominant human occasions of greater potential intensity of experience.

Even within consciousness, the amount of our experiences which are entertained at one moment is limited; hence the penumbral quality of attention.

Following Wilder's altogether persuasive statement of the matter, we might say that the parables impart to their hearers something of Jesus» vision of the power of God at work in the experience of the men confronted by the reality of his proclamation, and this would be true if we are allowed to stress the «in the experience of the men confronted...» It is a remarkable and little noted fact that, pace Jüngel, there is only a very limited number of parables which are concerned to proclaim the Kingdom of God per se.

Whether or not one uses the term «original sin» — and its usefulness has certainly been limited by the manner in which it has been employed by the literalists — the facts of experience which men were trying to verbalize when they coined the term must be taken into account in understanding the alcoholic and his situation.

Irrational religions have been too limited in scope to welcome the co-ordination of all experience which reason requires.

Insofar as one partakes of this deepened mode of modern consciousness, one is made aware of depths and nuances in the complexities of man's existence which at once sober one with the limits of man's reason and perceptive powers, and awaken one to the very dimensions of experience to which the themes of the Christian faith bear witness.

It is experienced most clearly in the human or personal situation, where there are so many unknown and unpredictable factors that the scientific method, which has been so fruitful in some fields, has shown itself to be quite limited in its application.

It is obvious that in dealing with subtle metaphysical questions, the «ordinary language,» which is based exclusively on the limited macro-scopic experience, is thoroughly inadequate.

But I would hope that published writers, especially Christian ones, would have a little more humility than to speak with such certainty about topics of which they have limited knowledge and experience.

For those whose ability to trust is limited as a result of early experiences (which means all of us to some degree), organized religion offers a way of reestablishing trust.

He called them evidence of God's «alien work,» which brought Luther the human being to his limits; he believed that only there, in experiencing those limits, could he be convinced to throw himself into the arms of the One he otherwise refused to trust.

When they experience limits and ambiguities — and which of us as human persons does not, from time to time?

It is the formative element of experience which also accompanies all that befalls the non-artistic man and is given an issue by him as often as he lifts an image out of the stream of perception and inserts it in his memory as something single, limited, and meaningful in itself.

or «I desperately need the security of some dependable limits set and enforced by adults,» or «To hell with the severe, rigid discipline which I experience without the love which would motivate me to become self - disciplined!»

If Christ is our redeemer through sharing fully in the human lot, surely he needed to have experienced the deeply limited nature of human knowledge: the ambiguity, confusion, misunderstandings, and perplexing situations which constantly arise and assail our lives.

It consists of a highly abstract, derivative, and limited second - order experience consequent upon a more vague and rudimentary kind of perception, which Whitehead terms «causal efficacy.

Myth speaks of the power or the powers which man supposes he experiences as the ground and limit of his world and of his own activity and suffering.

Influenced by thesurrounding intellectual culture, they readily dismissed concepts as productions of limited perspectives, which later experience can and should modify.

Now with all of that every man has experiences which, however limited, make Paul's victory intelligible.

Because of this, our experience is not limited to a mere succession of data which have no causal connections with one another.

Because, it is claimed, evaluation presupposes valuation as a condition of its possibility, any merely «disinterested» or «value - free» understanding of human reflection is of necessity excluded.20 Any consideration of the evidence of experience could only in the nature of the case ever illustrate, but logically could not falsify what must always necessarily be the case, even if such a consideration could well force a limited reconstrual of the hermeneutical analysis always itself presupposed in the strictly conceptual presuppositional analysis which uncovers the necessity of such elemental valuing.21

To summarize, it is especially at the limits of our experience and problem - oriented questioning that we consciously come up against the truly incomprehensible and uncontrollable mystery to which our lives are inherently open.

It is at the limits of our experience and problem - oriented questioning that we consciously come up against the truly incomprehensible and uncontrollable mystery to which our lives are inherently open.

But because the society of our fellowmen, intimate or remote, is marked by the same mortality which is ours as persons, while the whole sweep of history as we experience and know it is also a mortal history — under the sign of death — any appraisal made in this way is also limited and partial.

But in order to do this he finds it sufficient to attribute to physical nature apart from our experiences a remarkably limited class of properties: geometrical (spatio - temporal) quantities and patterns and ways in which changes in the quantities and patterns in one process cause changes in the quantities and patterns of other processes.

This approach may seem overly limited due to the fact that it proceeds through the narrow defile of one cultural fact, the existence of written documents, and thus because it is limited to cultures which possess books, but it will seem less limited if we comprehend what enlargement of our experience of the world results from the existence of such documents.

The numerous, more limited, brain events occur in portions of the same region in which the unified human experience is taking place.

Hannah Arendt, in her illuminating book On Revolution (Viking, 1965), exalts the American Revolution as the most successful one and traces that success to the fact that «it occurred in a country that knew nothing of mass poverty and among a people who had a widespread experience of self - government;» She says that one of the blessings in the American situation was that the revolution grew out of a conflict with a limited monarchy, for «the more absolute the ruler, the more absolute the revolution will be which replaces him.»

They constituted a metaphysical theory of experience from which could be abstracted, for the limited purposes of natural science, a theory of nature — but of nature understood abstractly as the terminus of sense - perception.

What can be communicated are mystical ideas, that is, intellectual formulations which mystics take to be appropriate to their experience and as accurate as it is possible to be within the limits of the sensory - intellectual consciousness.

In summary, the virtues of organized religions include but are by no means limited to the following: they give their adherents something solid against which to rebel; they allow one to see farther by standing on the shoulders of giants; they insist on the primacy of lived experience; they work against illusion and historical insularity; they point to the power of the collective and the merits of deep diversity; and they are capable of the kind of mobilization that can transform the world.

An experience of Jesus which is so limited as to only occur in a building set aside for that purpose... If Steve doesn't hear the the Word of God at the movies, or at the park, or at the grocery store then such is to be lamented as terrible.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

In my experience (which is obviously limited, so take what I say as you will), women who are looking for companionship on a website that claims it will help you «Find God's match for you» are more likely to suspend their natural credulity with regard to their own safety, assuming that only those genuinely interested in a god - based relationship would be on such a site.

And the «mighty deeds of God,» which constitute the experience of God's power, are no longer limited to a particular people, a particular language or cultural group.

It is at this pole that all beings experience God as the silent horizon of their actuality, as the source of their intrinsic order, as the lure summoning them toward self - transcendence and, finally, as the care into which their existence is ultimately synthesized.14 Religious symbolism represents this felt ultimacy and care by couching it in images that we may correlate with the secondary pole of perception and with our concretely limited historical experience.

Consequently, owing to the restrictedness of our individual perspectives and the finiteness of our particular existence we are likely at times to shrink reality down to those aspects which we can easily abstract from or correlate with our own limited experience.

Like the poet and the artist, the man of faith reaches out for a medium of communication which transcends the languages which are adequate for discussing more limited areas of experience.

It is a rational evaluation of the world I experience (which we are all limited to) and an attempt to determine which reality seems the most likely to be the truth.

They are given a «way» by which to respond to the limit questions and experiences that often leave us utterly perplexed.