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... weakness is no problem to God; and we will be in our right minds and see things much clearer when we get to grips with these facts. When this is achieved, we will be able to say with Paul, "I will boast all the more gladly about my weakness ...
... weakness is no problem to God; and we will be in our right minds and see things much clearer when we get to grips with these facts. When this is achieved, we will be able to say with Paul, "I will boast all the more gladly about my weakness ...
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... weakness, 2 Corinthians 12:9–10, tells us that the Lord says, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Paul's response to this is, “I will all the more gladly boast of my weaknesses, that the power of ...
... weakness, 2 Corinthians 12:9–10, tells us that the Lord says, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Paul's response to this is, “I will all the more gladly boast of my weaknesses, that the power of ...
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... Weakness as impulse is what necessitates the eternal struggle between the 'will to power' and the impulses, and weakness is also the inability to follow this struggle through. In other words, weakness is what gives the struggle meaning ...
... Weakness as impulse is what necessitates the eternal struggle between the 'will to power' and the impulses, and weakness is also the inability to follow this struggle through. In other words, weakness is what gives the struggle meaning ...
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... Weakness exists as the person's powerlessness to do what she wants . In social activity between the powerful and the weak , weakness is the absence of willfulness to independently understand ... Weakness and the Weakness of Weakness 89.
... Weakness exists as the person's powerlessness to do what she wants . In social activity between the powerful and the weak , weakness is the absence of willfulness to independently understand ... Weakness and the Weakness of Weakness 89.
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... Weakness " in Geoffrey Mortimore ( ed . ) , Weakness of Will , pp . 37-62 . 5. Plato's primary focus is on putative akratic action as action that contravenes an agent's evaluative knowledge . But sometimes he conducts his discussion in ...
... Weakness " in Geoffrey Mortimore ( ed . ) , Weakness of Will , pp . 37-62 . 5. Plato's primary focus is on putative akratic action as action that contravenes an agent's evaluative knowledge . But sometimes he conducts his discussion in ...
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Page 108 - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot ; Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.
Page 62 - In the corrupted currents of this world, Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...
Page 178 - O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.
Page 181 - But that vast portion, lastly, of the working class which, raw and half-developed, has long lain half-hidden amidst its poverty and squalor, and is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven^ born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes, — to this vast residuum we may with great propriety give the name of Populace.
Page 8 - Sunday shines no Sabbath-day to me: Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy! to catch me, just at dinner-time.