We were meant to be more sensitive to finer influences than we are.
Soul was meant to be sensitive to the influences of the Spirit.
Some are constantly trained under the mighty influences of great principles that sway men as much as gravitation sways the worlds.
The first influences which came over the Atlantic cable were so feeble that a sleeping infant's breath were a whirlwind in comparison.
There is nothing malign in the sweet influences of the Pleiades.
This general interest in the Alps is a testimony to man's admiration of the grandest work of God within reach, and to his continued devotion to physical hardihood in the midst of the enervating influences of civilization.
Our friend's manners at the table had all the elegance of good-breeding, whilst his conversation under the benign influences of excellent dishes and good wine was as entertaining and various as any one need listen to.
It is striking that the declarations and resolutions issued in Switzerland, so many times mention the danger of anti-Semitic influences within the country itself, and sometimes within the Church.
We confess our own ineffectiveness in combating the influences which beget anti-Semitism in our own country, and urge our constituencies to intensify their efforts in behalf of friendly relations with the Jews.
If, however, one indeed believes that everything can be explained by the influencesof local circumstances etc.
That warnings against anti-Semitic influences in Switzerland were not superfluous, was shown in the Report concerning the Fund Drive for Aid to Refugees, which was held in October-November, 1942.
Rumania was notorious for the strong anti-Semitic influences in that country.
Again (as in 1933) the danger of anti-Semitic influences within Switzerland was mentioned.
Strong anti-Semitic influences were manifest in the Rumanian Orthodox Church.
They apparently helped to combat anti-Semitic influences in these countries (the same applies to protests issued in the countries mentioned above) and they contributed towards "breaking the wall of silence.
For example: render the words, sanctification of the Spirit, or the sanctifyinginfluences of the Spirit, by Purity in Life and Action from a pure Principle.
For I cannot but remind my readers again, that the Author does not undertake to teach us the philosophy of the human mind, with the exclusion of the truths and influences of religion.
They were prepared to listen to the counsel of those who opposed all interference with the Jewish population, in whose favor there were powerful influences at work.
What secret influences were at work to effect a complete reversal of papal policy it would be vain to guess, but Mendoza had scarce time to reach Rome when he procured a brief of October 12th, addressed to Cardinal Adrian.
The influences under which human character can be modified, for good or for evil, are abundantly illustrated in the conversion of the Spaniards from the most tolerant to the most intolerant nation in Europe.
Yet in his first open trial of strength, Philip's fatal vacillation, under the varying influences of his counsellors, confessors and wives, left him with a dubious victory.
Under these influences it is needless to say that the confirmation never came and the subsidio was the only practical result of the labors of the Córtes.
The redistribution of offices may be reckoned among the influences which reconciled the Old Christians to the Inquisition.
This is possible; but there are other influences which must be taken into account, namely, the numerical proportion of either of the two races who intermarry.
This condition has been brought about by influences brought to bear upon her mind, commencing with your daughter's first entrance into their primary schools.
Let us open our eyes to all the influences that may shape our lives toward best living.
The value or extent of each of these influences is imperfectly understood.
Before, however, examining the influences and circumstances which disorder and damage the circulation in middle and advanced life, let us see what the normal or natural state of the heart and arteries is after 40.
In the second place, hearts and arteries at 40 that appear to the naked eye free from damage may be molecularly weak, and unable to offer effective resistance even to influences of an every-day character.
I mention them here to give them the position which they deserve as influences that threaten the function and still more the structure of the heart and arteries.
Now, the first thing to strike us about these unfavourableinfluences is the number of them that could be avoided or controlled successfully by simple exercise of the will.
They must be the effects of pathological processes due to a variety of pathogeneticinfluences which assail the circulation.
Such are the principal natural influences which individually or in different combinations threaten or assail the sound heart and blood vessels after the age of 40.
And this brings me to the many instances in which the different influences that threaten the circulatory organs in middle and advanced life act together in different combinations.
The Almighty gardens His women-things well and fends off influences that shrivel; it behooves men to do the same.
Here there would always be that memory which brought its influences of bitterness and depression to kill the creative in him.
Family influences curb and fashion the egotism of the child until there is an unconscious and often unreasoning adherence to the family circle.
Instead of our best endeavours being left at the mercy of an undetermined "will," they take their place as part of the determining influences that are moulding human nature.
The memory of censure passed or of praise bestowed acts as one of the many influences that will determine conduct when the critical moment for action arrives.
Social influences continue the work and train the individual into an instinctive harmony, more or less complete with the structure of the society to which he belongs.
Good or bad influences affect individuals differently for much the same reason that soils differ in their capacity for absorbing water.
In this sense our conception of what "ought" to be in the future will guide us as to the nature of the influences we bring to bear upon Smith and Jones.
In every rational biography attention is paid to the formative influences of parents, friends, and general environment.
In the belief that certain influences will produce, in the main, a particular result, we can lay our plans and work with every prospect of ultimate success.
Nor will it do to attribute the difference of choice to different environmental influences in which the "self" is placed.
And the same environmental influences do not produce identical results.
The facades exhibit here and there curious armorial bearings, emblems of their former knightly occupants, but atmospheric influences are gradually obliterating these interesting mementoes.
In the choice of this individual, the order seemed to be almost always influenced by more than common wisdom, their election being guided by the best influences and wisest judgment.
Here and there the calcareous rock has been worn into singular forms by atmospheric influences and the incessant wash of the sea for ages, as one sees the same material wrought upon at Biarritz, on the boisterous Bay of Biscay.
He completely succeeded in preserving me from the sort of influences he so much dreaded.
The influences of European, that is to say, Continental, thought, and especially those of the reaction of the nineteenth century against the eighteenth, were now streaming in upon me.
Through these influences my writing lost the jejuneness of my early compositions; the bones and cartilages began to clothe themselves with flesh, and the style became, at times, lively and almost light.
The greater its extent, the more are the preservative influences it possesses; also, to guard anything is a long way easier than to acquire it.
Though, generally speaking, he was the sort of character described, still he performed not a few valuable services whenever he was free from the influences mentioned and was master of himself.
And, in this sense, the reader cannot fail to draw from them lessons developing the corrupting influences of a body politic that gives one man power to sell another.
And, too, it forbids all legitimate influences that could possibly give the menial a link to elevation, to the formation of a society of his own.
The artless girl had given it to them in confidence, knowing its consolatory influences and that they, with a peculiar firmness in such cases, would never betray her trust.
But it does not follow that we are more subjected to its narcotic influences because we use the best varieties of the weed.
And in this she was acted upon by more than the fear arising from the influences of her old belief.
Alice closed her eyes, and yielded herself to the peaceful influences that surrounded her.
Many of them come honest and remain honest, but the children degenerate rapidly under the evil influences of the place.
Ask any of the temperance workers in the viler districts, and they will tell you how they have watched hundreds of decent folk come into a bad neighbourhood and gradually sink under the degrading influences of their surroundings.
The "Emerald Gem of the Western World" lies far away on the verge of Ocean, remote from those influences which so profoundly affected popular thought in other countries.
In the higher forms the germinal cells are internal and sheltered from environing influences by the protecting body-wall.
Thus the organism is fitted to respond to the influences from without.
The fact remains that the origin of all these step-like variations was fortuitous, and not in any way the direct outcome of the physical influences which their products, the rods and cones, have become fitted to receive.
In this chapter we shall consider the modes in which the special sense-organs are fitted to receive the influences of the environment, deferring to a future chapter the consideration of the resulting activities.
And why, in the birds of paradise themselves, does it require four years (for it takes so long for the feathers of the male to come to maturity) ere these nervous and arterial influences take effect upon the plumage?
It is not the acquired character which influences the germ, but the germ which develops what appears to be an acquired character.
Take, for example, the end-organs of the special senses, which respond explosively to physical influences in ways we shall have to consider more fully in the next chapter.
But any external influences which may affect these body-cells produce no change on the germ-plasm which they may contain.
Those who believe that physical influences on the body are transmissible believe also that the effects of use and disuse are transmissible.
The organism is fitted to respond to certain influences of the external world.
Buddhist influences may have been at work in Ladak from an early period.
And so when princes of old paid visits of condolence, it was customary to send a magician in advance with a peach-rod in his hand, to expel all noxious influences before the arrival of his master.
Chinese influencesin Upper Burma must also be taken into account.
Experts do not assign any one region as the origin of the Kabbala but it grew on parallel lines in both Egypt and Babylonia, in both of which it was naturally in touch with the various oriental influences which we have been discussing.
A brief catalogue of the languages represented in the manuscripts and inscriptions discovered will give a safe if only provisional idea of the many influences at work in Central Asia and its importance as a receiving and distributing centre.
They were less exposed than the Buddhism of the north to the influences which created the Mahâyâna, but they no doubt mingled with the indigenous beliefs of the Dravidians.
The point of greatest interest naturally is to determine what were the religious influences among which Christ grew up.
It is based on the idea that localities have a sort of spiritual climate which brings prosperity or the reverse and depends on the influences of stars and nature spirits, such as the azure dragon and white tiger.
The Society for the Investigation of Natal Day Influences upon Character," he said, "does not seek to build up a theory upon isolated and arbitrarily selected examples.
This is a singularly straightforward way of stating a view which silently influences a much greater number of men than it is pleasant to think of.
In this way the members of the community miss the most bracing, widening, and elevated of the whole range of influences that create great characters.
The more important the subject on which you reason ill, and the more you busy yourself about it, by so much the more dangerous do the influences of such a habit become.
Far the most penetrating of all the influences that are impairing the moral and intellectual nerve of our generation, remain still to be mentioned.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "influences" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
