Sentence examples for powers of intellect from inspiring English sources

They have great powers of magic, not so great powers of intellect.

In effect, the supernatural power of God elevates or expands the powers of intellect and will to a kind of completion beyond themselves and yet not foreign to them.

In exercising their powers of intellect and will, intellectual creatures discover the highest and most perfect object of their powers in the Divine Source of their being, since God is the First or Highest Truth and the First or Chief Good.

Putting the responsibility squarely back on us, Whitehouse insisted that if God created the Earth, "We must also believe that God gave us our human powers of intellect and reason.

At the same time, Sherlock Holmes - a symbol of the power of intellect if ever there was one - is as powerful a presence in our imagination as he's ever been.

Johnson asserted the power of intellect and self-will over mind and body.

If you believe in God and religious tenets, you possess values other than total reliance on the power of intellect.

It is hard to read these diaries without feeling enormously nostalgic for a quasi-mythical lost age of public service, a time when politics was about big ideas and the power of intellect rather than petty machinations (not that Benn was above those in his heyday, of course).

The powers that those activities manifest are powers of Socrates in just the way the power of intellect is.

And yet the power of intellect as a power of the soul without a corporeal organ remains incorruptible with the human soul.

It is a thinking or conscious thing, since it is clearly a thing at least in the sense of a subsistent, and it has the power of intellect, even if it has no other conscious cognitive powers of the animal for which it formally was a soul.