Sentences with phrase «wisdom of individual»

That approach depends on the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Not exact matches

Getting in front of individuals in this group is important as they'll often be sharing their wisdom to a much wider audience through social media or speaking to a paying audience whose members are taking notes to relay to colleagues.

Through the effect known as the wisdom of the crowd, a large group's aggregated answers to certain questions are often better than those arrived at separately by individual members.

The building of the local hospital, the ambulance that got me there before I died from blood loss, the image of God in the paramedics that made them give their lives to rescuing people they've never met, the wisdom of the surgeon, the intelligence and skill of the thousands of individuals whose discoveries have made operating theatres and anaesthesia possible — all of these are gracious gifts of a loving God, whose mercy enables healings to take place across the world that would, in any other generation, be considered quite miraculous.

In response to my recent article, When an Oasis is Really a Mirage, one individual commented about the work of Pomegranate Place, that «We believe that all truth is God's truth, and that all women have truth and wisdom to share.

I'm underscoring the fact that the 11th Tradition was put into place after hard - won lessons in the 30's and 40's to protect both individuals and the program in general, and that to completely disregard it is a dis to the rest of us who value the wisdom of traditions.

By participation in an ongoing religious community, particularly of the type we know in the Western world, an isolated individual is partly lifted above himself, not only because he may, in a group, be more recipient of God's help, but also because he there shares in the distilled wisdom of our race.

Isn't wisdom necessary to create a successful partnership that supports the growth of the individual?

However, such an approach does not adequately take into account human wisdom: although one may argue that an individual of superior wisdom may engender respect and thus attain reproductive success, says Deane - Drummond, the fact that many of those who were thought to have wisdom were celibate makes this explanation unlikely.

Apparently, individuals, minorities and courts should get out of the way and let the government — in its infinite wisdom — govern.

But the decision will at least be an informed one, taken in the light of a wider range of experience and wisdom than the individual alone can possess.

It should only be used if no other options exist after you have sought out grants or scholarships and prayerfully sought the advice of individuals with financial wisdom.

The seeking after life in the wisdom theology is never solely an individual matter but is the concern of the whole community.

If so, our endeavor becomes once more interpretive, hopefully illuminating such passages as: «In this way God is completed by the individual, fluent satisfactions of finite fact, and the temporal occasions are completed by their everlasting union with their transformed selves, purged into conformation with the eternal order which is the final absolute «wisdom»» (PR 527; italics added).

The activity on behalf of individuals is for this pastoral director not only a matter of pastoral rule or of the pastoral cure of souls, though it will include both, but is best designated as pastoral counseling, a counseling that has them in view as needing reconciliation to God but also to men, yet knows that reconciliation is not automatically productive of wisdom.

It can help a great deal if the therapist has a conviction, drawn from direct experience, that regardless of how wretched, confused or sick the individual may appear on the surface, there is this inner center of psychological health, of wisdom, of purpose, which is there to be evoked.

They must have this wisdom in order that they may beguile, deflect, harness and restrain self - interest, individual and collective, for the sake of the community.»

The problem is much more radical: the modern West's rejection of objective morality, grounded in divine wisdom and intrinsic to human nature, the knowing and following of which is the only path to individual happiness and a just social order.

And this, it is to be noted, came not through some heaven - rend mg voice or awful theophany, but within the individual consciousness, as our better nature, comprised of the in - dwelling divine wisdom, strove against our brute ancestry, ever warning.

All growth in holiness, all increase in depth of spirit, wisdom, charity, courage, reverence and glorification of the Father in individual souls is directly and personally the work of Jesus the Word through his own sacred humanity.

Or we might recognize the moral authority of an individual, either because of their relationship to us (e.g. parent) or because of something about their life or wisdom.

In political and social thought, no Christian has ever written a more profound defense of the democratic idea and its component parts, such as the dignity of the person, the sharp distinction between society and the state, the role of practical wisdom, the common good, the transcendent anchoring of human rights, transcendent judgment upon societies, and the interplay of goodness and evil in human individuals and institutions.

«The Cartesian change from mind - as - reason to mind - as - inner - area,» he writes, «was not the triumph of the prideful individual subject freed from scholastic shackles so much as the triumph of the quest for certainty over the quest for wisdom.

Niebuhr's answer is that alongside the urge to live we need a special sort of wisdom if we are to harness and restrain self - interest, both individual and collective, for the sake of humanity.

Here the divine wisdom based on the integration of the primordial and consequent natures within God should be invaluable in assisting the individual occasion to make an appropriate choice among many alternatives.

To be sure, in his eternal wisdom, God elected those whom he chose for eternal life and banned the remainder to perdition, but the way he chose to make known his election was through his Word and Spirit, which created a relationship of covenant between himself and each of his elect; thus, the relation between God and the individual was grounded on covenant.

Such a projection of future possibilities for the individual after bodily death is a matter of faith rather than something finite minds can affirm as if we had the wisdom of God.

We have considerable national resources with which to develop these guidelines, including our tradition of justice and fair play, our respect for individual rights and the common good, and — not least — the wisdom of the eloquent writer who left us those eloquent words about the natural rhythms of life: «For everything there is a season.»

«However, these individuals, who represent the heart of evangelical gospel concern, and who represent a unique mix of professional expertise and accumulated wisdom acquired over decades of study and ministry experience, do not appear to have been adequately consulted.»

I think part of the problem lies in the practice of approaching the Bible as inerrant with a belief that every verse is a nugget of wisdom and hidden meaning and each individual verse is «true.»

It is increasingly common wisdom that we're not going to achieve our collective global sustainability goals by certifying the good practices of every individual enterprise around the world.

It's interesting to see the simple nutritional wisdom that was given, with no indication that an individual should lower fat intake; however, the cookbook says you can use hydrogenated vegetable oils, which we now know carries a heavy burden of trans - fat.

The answers vary by individual and by the type of degree earned, but conventional wisdom from operators and school administrators alike is that it's hard to go wrong by hiring an individual who's graduated from a top culinary program.

Arsenal fans are very rarely backwards in coming forwards with our opinions on anything to do with our club, be it the way the club is run from the top down by silent Stan Kroenke, the wisdom of keeping Arsene Wenger as the manager, the performances of each individual player or even the price of a pie and a pint at the Emirates Stadium on matchday.

«Shefali Tsabary shines the light of wisdom on the most enlightened aspect of parenting: discovering a child's individual personhood and purpose, and nurturing the path to its fulfillment.»

These three executives who have been sacked wrongfully by Nana Akufo - Addo, were elected in Tamale for a purpose and in the wisdom of the constitution, if the party and not some individuals, want to suspend them, then it should not go beyond one month because their absence will create a very disturbing ripling effect to the party.

We therefore have a collective duty to respect these rights of individuals, especially so, when such individuals occupy very important or strategic institutions of state which the framers of our constitution in their wisdom, found it prudent to guarantee their independence by among others insulating them from the interference or control of the Executive or any other body.

[132] An alternative approach is to use the wisdom of the crowd and base a prediction on betting activity: the Sporting Index column below covers bets on the number of seats each party will win with the midpoint between asking and selling price, while FirstPastThePost.net aggregates the betting predictions in each individual constituency.

► «[A] novel analysis finding a link between how U.S. graduate students in the biomedical sciences are funded and their first job after earning their Ph.D. turns one piece of conventional wisdom on its head: Students supported on a research grant are more likely to take a research job than those funded by other mechanisms,» including training grants and individual fellowships, Jeffrey Mervis wrote today.

The common wisdom, promulgated by carmakers since the 1920s, held that traffic fatalities were exclusively the fault of individual drivers (or, to put it another way: cars don't kill people; drivers kill people).

As Meeks and Jeste continue developing their model of wisdom in the brain, they plan to study the distribution of wisdom in the general population and examine brain - damaged individuals to confirm the regions involved.

Indeed, conventional wisdom held that higher levels of aerosol pollution in the atmosphere should cool the earth's climate because aerosols can increase cloudiness; they not only reduce precipitation, which raises the water content in clouds, but they also increase the size of the individual water droplets, which in turn causes more warming sunlight to be reflected back into space.

Contrary to this conventional wisdom, different mechanisms produce dextral and sinistral individuals in Lymnaea stagnalis, reports a group led by biochemist Reiko Kuroda of the University of Tokyo.

The University of Michigan's team of specialists works together to bring decades of collective wisdom from multiple pediatric specialties together to create a plan of care for each individual child.

Taking responsibility for one's health and well - being can be a long learning process, especially if one was raised to believe that the wisdom for health resides outside of the individual.

And while she often deserved the flak, she also dispensed gems of wisdom on countless other subjects, from balancing a budget to becoming an individual, at a time when most women's magazines taught housewives how to whip up the perfect pot roast and wax the floors before their husbands got home.

Trainees will also learn how to instruct different levels of practitioners, address individual bodies, and integrate valuable yogic wisdom into their teaching.

Because not only is γ - tocopherol responsible for scavenging RNS, but large doses of α - tocopherol displace γ - tocopherol in plasma and other tissues, the current wisdom of vitamin E supplementation with α - tocopherol alone may produce an imbalance that contributes to cancer and heart disease.13 Adding support to this hypothesis, a recent clinical trial of individuals suffering from coronary heart disease showed decreased serum levels of γ - tocopherol, but not α - tocopherol.14

My goal is to serve as a catalyst for change by empowering individuals to transform their life and by empowering healthcare providers to prevent disease utilizing the wisdom of all global healing traditions.

Rather, they are part of the ever - changing wisdom ways of women, to be applied to the unique individual in unique and ever - changing ways.