Sentences with phrase «against temptation»

A good life involves a constant and sometimes devastating struggle against temptation.

Again I was embarrassed, and my way of coping with the difficulty I was experiencing was to pray against temptation.

I was too embarrassed to say anything so while she was praying I was also praying, not with joining in with her prayer for my healing but against temptation for myself.

That line, taken from the country music song «Lead Me Not,» evokes smiles because it underscores a truth: The struggle against temptation is universal.

Following an introductory speech of the Lord, which declares the marvels he is about to perform, and which warns against the temptations of Canaan and its religious institutions (vss.

Critics warn against the temptation of what they call «lazy man's fundraising.»

Since the Holocaust forms the backdrop for the Jewish conception of the State of Israel, should not Jews guard against the temptation to let Zionism function as a sort of Jewish chauvinism which results from a passion - play division of humanity into guilty and righteous?

I would advise against the temptation.

Does fidelity to the gospel not permit us to approach the impossibly gnarled - up camel as a caution against the temptations of wealth, the idolizing misuse of it, rather than the fact of it?

A great way to build up a natural defense against the temptation to consume sugar is to fill your diet with naturally sweet plant - based dishes such as...

Therein lies the heart of the show: a warning against a temptation as old as Eden.

Here Sotomayor plays the mentor card: «I would warn any minority student today against the temptations of self - segregation; take support and comfort from your own group as you can, but don't hide within it.»

Yet he kept him with him knowing that the betrayal was going to happen but also knowing he had to go thru this crucifixion no matter how he was delivered up to the Romans, He probably hoped Judas would prevail against this temptation, But he was human and he failed.

We wish we could retreat to a place where everyone had oranges, so we wouldn't have to fight so hard against the temptation of comparison, and wallow in self - pity.

Yes, you must be much more deeply rooted in the faith than the generation of your parents, in order to be able to resist forcefully and decisively against the temptations of this time... if you do not want to succumb to the temptations of consumerism, if you do not want your love to drown in pornography, if you do not want to betray the weak and the victims of abuse and violence.»

«In the battle against temptation,» she concludes, «fleeing is not cowardly, it is courageous.»

As to politics, for example, not only were all Missouri Lutherans securely inoculated against the temptations of the Social Gospel — or anything like it — we were, one might say, made safe for patriotism.

There is no disputing the fact that the early Lutherans kept the historic liturgy, and this ought to warn contemporary Lutherans against the temptation to regard liturgy as a matter of indifference.

· Lent is a time when we seek to imitate Jesus more closely in his fight against temptation, so that we too might receive the same Spirit to preach the Good News.

The Reformed Church in America warns those using its evangelism training manual against the temptation to think of the program as a mechanical formula to be followed.

They warned Americans against the temptation to punish the German people and warned Wilson against politicizing the League of Nations.

They are good folk, struggling vigorously against the temptations of sex and booze, battling mightily against the considerable forces that work to tear apart their families, toiling hard to gain and keep a piece of the American economic dream in a society where they have very little control.

Hence, the final warning of the writer to «put on the whole armor of God» as protection against temptation.

So, while we can affirm the right to life as a noble political value, as Kingdom people we have to revolt against the temptation to this noble value above the value of self - sacrificial love in order to manifest the beauty of the Jesus - looking Kingdom (The Myth of a Christian Religion, 84 - 85).

The best illustration of this is when Jesus uses the Word of God in the wilderness against the temptations of Satan (Matt 4:1 - 11).

The emergence of destructive forms of rationality is also a struggle in the Bible, where covenantal modes of rationality are regularly offered against the temptations of naturalism and nationalism.

And the evidence of Scripture is that Israel and the church continued to battle for this discernment of God, always against the temptation to drive God back to heaven, to squeeze God back into the safety, serenity and irrelevance of the other gods.

Perhaps we all must redouble our efforts against this temptation in the future.»

The Spiritualist called on Ghanaians to jealously guide against any temptation that would plunge the country into chaos, as the country prepares for the November 7 general elections.

Because Electronic Arts put the gameplay grind, the drip feed of rewards, the real hook to draw me in and hold me tight against the temptations of Destiny, Call of Duty, or Team Fortress in a very specific place: online, on their servers, mostly with people I don't know.

In turning to Christ, you find strength to stand against temptation, resilience in times of adversity, and passion for helping the weak or spiritually young.

This means guarding your marriage against the temptations of an affair.

«In contrast to television, where the clearly delimited blocks of commercials can help viewers guard against temptation, on the internet, advertising is mixed with other types of content.

I would advise against the temptation.

I pray against the temptations of silence and despair and numb anger: I pray that you would run the race that is set before you, that you would flourish in your lane while cheering on every other runner alongside of you.

This result cautions against the temptation to perceive, in the probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics, an indication of its incompleteness.

To the departing pastors, Bonhoeffer gave a final word that the defense against temptation is the armor of God described in Ephesians 6.

There is a difference, Mary, between struggling against temptation and losing, and just rebelling against God's will, saying what God deemed wrong as right.

Jobs warned against this temptation: «Don't let the noise of others» opinions drown out your own inner voice.

Surely Mr. Larson is right that the man in question should be able to find in his local church those who can help him with his struggle against temptations.

Against temptation.

They knew that «it» meant The Christian Century, and that my exhortation was in keeping with the determination, shared by us all, against the temptation to break away from religious journalism and make the paper an organ of secular idealism.