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Example sentences for "higher power"

  • Some cities on the shores of the Baltic, of Holland, Flanders, and Spain, made maritime expeditions, but which scarcely deserve to be described in the history of the crusades.

  • The clergy—such as our fathers saw it—only now exists in the memory of men.

  • Our want of knowledge in either case is a reason for uncertainty; and our uncertainty in regard to events in which we may be deeply concerned is fitted to teach us our dependence on a higher Power.

  • The pleasure which accompanies the act of procreation is a higher power of the agreeableness of the sense of life.

  • The process of nourishing is a constant reproduction; the process of reproduction is a higher power of nourishing.

  • But erring reason sometimes proposes what is against the command of a higher power, namely, God Whose power is supreme.

  • For an inferior power has no jurisdiction in a court of higher power.

  • The account which is given by Diogenes Laertius[122] of the erection of altars bearing the inscription "to the unknown God," clearly shows that they had their origin in this general sentiment of dependence on a higher Power.

  • Growing moral experience had taught humility, and inspired the sense of dependence on a Higher Power in sympathy with man.

  • It could mould and consecrate a militant and conquering state; it did little to satisfy the craving for moral regeneration or communion with a Higher Power.

  • Details of structure must be studied with a higher power.

  • An ordinary thin cover will answer for this purpose, and is preferable because it allows the use of a higher power objective.

  • My parents had managed to leave me so, or had it so managed by a higher power, that from my very infancy I was thrown upon Uncle Corny.

  • But it is arranged for us, by a Higher Power, that these crushing strokes come upon us, from a mist.

  • Both the bodily movement and the sense-impression are, rather, the effects of a higher power, of the infinite spirit.

  • Only the fear of a higher power, not the reason, holds the masses in check; and the freethinkers do wrong in taking a bit out of the mouth of the sensual multitude, when it were better to add to those already there.

  • We are certain that great things are being accomplished in us and through us,--that a higher power is present within us throughout the struggles of our life.

  • All deep thinkers have seen, in the grasp of the essence of life and the development of its possibilities by means of this individual capacity, not an achievement of man alone, but the manifestation of a higher power, a gift of grace.

  • The limits teach us one lesson, that we are in the Hands of a Higher Power.

  • We ought to look upon the circumstances in which we are born and brought up as ordained by a Higher Power, and we must learn to walk the path which is pointed out to us!

  • And even in the heavier trials, one knows, or one should know, that all is sent by a higher power, and in the end must be for our best interests.

  • Nothing impresses the religious sense of man so much as unusual phenomena in nature, which seem to interrupt the wonted course of events and thus to reveal the workings of a higher Power.

  • This brings him to bow down before a higher Power, at first in fear and trembling, but later in holy awe and reverence.

  • This impulse may work actively, searching, investigating, and creating, or passively as an instrument of a higher power.

  • Much of it she seemed to sing to herself, declaiming it like dramatic speech whose emotional contents had been raised to a higher power by the melody.

  • Ordinary speech, however, is the only kind of speech that an expeditious drama can tolerate, and it is not raised to a higher power by the blowing of brass or the beating of drums.

  • Strauss has striven to outdo it, and there are those who think that in this episode he actually raised music to a higher power.

  • Oh, I know my words fall upon you as the surges dash against a rock, but it seems as if a higher power urged me on to struggle again and again against the unhappy errors of your church!

  • The outcome of Judaism in Christianity was essentially the belief and feeling of an intimate union between man and a higher power, with love and obedience on the one side, love and providence on the other.

  • And finally, compared with the traditional theology, it leads to a new conception of the relation between man and the higher power, and necessitates, what Spencer does not supply, a new expression of the religious life.

  • Learn to feel through your own littleness that higher power out of which comes all the good in you.

  • When the worldly egoist had shaken off a higher power (e.

  • What if the pliable girl were conscious of having left her self-will unsatisfied and humbly subjected herself to a higher power?

  • Luther, driven by a higher power, became unfaithful to his monastic vow: he became so for God's sake.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    has taken; head aches; higher authority; higher court; higher culture; higher ground; higher infant mortality and death rates; higher levels; higher mathematics; higher order; higher plants; higher position; higher price; higher rate; higher sense; higher sphere; higher stage; higher temperature; higher temperatures; higher things; higher vertebrates; industrial work; loud cheer; novel disseisin; single consonant; would shoot