Sentences with phrase «are in vain when»

It's valiant technical achievements are in vain when it lacks any notion of direction, which significantly cripples its entertainment value.

But after a year in Silver's lab, Knight's attempts were revealed to be in vain when other researchers disproved one underlying premise of Silver's model of the experimental system Knight intended to use.

The Last Photograph is filled to the brim with fantastic performances, but all of this seems to be in vain when the surrounding film is so empty.

Not exact matches

When Heidi Hayes and her husband were trying to have a child, they spent thousands of dollars, in vain, on fertility clinics.

When we lose faith in the essential goodness of life and our own humanity, seeing that which we judge «evil» to be more prevalent than that which we judge to be «good», then we have lost faith in either the goodness or the power of God to sustain that goodness and our God has become too small or just another Baal, a false god of our own vain imaginings, a projection of our own finite limitations and disordered desires.

And of course, I agree with the concept that when God said not to take His Name in vain this is exactly what was the primary meaning.

... go to him when your need is desperate, when all other help is in vain, and what do you find?

No, I was not there when you laid the foundation of the earth, but where were you when I was hurt and afraid and desperate and cried to you in vain?»

While it is of course true that those who belong to this school are perhaps most vocal in their assertion that in our Lord alone may God be seen at work, and while it is they who denounce the concept of «general» revelation as a vain fancy of sub-Christian speculation, a considerable number of other Christian thinkers take what in effect is the same position when they make central to their teaching a kind of uniqueness in the coming and the person of Christ which effectively removes him from the context of the total sell - expressive operation of the Eternal Word.

In the last church I went you when a leader claimed she was being prophetic and doing what God does, I challenged her about being insulting, practicing false prophecy and using God's name in vain in her sexist approacIn the last church I went you when a leader claimed she was being prophetic and doing what God does, I challenged her about being insulting, practicing false prophecy and using God's name in vain in her sexist approacin vain in her sexist approacin her sexist approach.

My view (before incorporating Chuck's post into my thinking) was that we take God's name in vain when we add God's name to our beliefs and behaviors so that we can appear more holy and authoritative to others.

The image above represents what has been my view for a while, that to use the Lord's name in vain is to speak for God when He never spoke, or ascribe something to God (our actions and behaviors) in ways He never approved.

When touch is used improperly or in vain, the individual receiving the touch may interpret it in a manner unintended by the giver.

When one takes the name of the Lord in vain, one reveals that he is separated from the deepest ground of his being; he is separated from God.

But when now peril was at hand, it stretched its wings and tried to fly — in vain.

21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

(2) Most clergymen sound like they're taking the Name in vain when they start telling people how to vote.

H. Richard's view of human limitation is expressed in his understanding of God as the structure in all things, «the rock against which we beat in vain, that which bruises and overwhelms us when we wish to impose our wishes, contrary to his, upon him.»

I felt pity for them when the trumpet would sound and the Christian God would descend and all of their faith and piety would have been in vain.

And is Paul being a bit too hopeful when he urges believers to «be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, because you know that in the Lord your labor is not in vain»?

When Ferdinand Ebner says that «to speak of God except in a context of prayer is to take his name in vain» it means that to speak of him without yourself being in relationship with him, without seeking and finding again and again, is to talk vaporing nonsense.

It is amazing how people use the word christ in troubles, or problems that they may encounter, when this word only means «anointed» just as the word messiah, it too only means «anointed» so, when people use these two words to express their anguish, it is used in vain.

«Again, respect of persons, in uncovering the head and bowing the knee or body in salutation, was a practice I had been much in the use of; and this, being one of the vain customs of the world, introduced by the spirit of the world, instead of the true honor which this is a false representation of, and used in deceit as a token of respect by persons one to another, who bear no real respect one to another; and besides this, being a type and a proper emblem of that divine honor which all ought to pay to Almighty God, and which all of all sorts, who take upon them the Christian name, appear in when they offer their prayers to him, and therefore should not be given to men; - I found this to be one of those evils which I had been too long doing; therefore I was now required to put it away and cease from it.

And therein lies the cycle you people need to give up... you have no faith in this country because you refute faith altogether... you remain vain in the face of truth... you believe our country is hurt when it is strong... your pessimism and lack of faith is what leads you to believe your own self concieved disastrous state of our nation.

Like how nauseated I got when I went to his church's Christmas Eve service this week, hoping in vain it would just be singing.

This view paints God as a helpless victim of evil, and though He wishes the world were otherwise, His only options are to choose between various evils, and when confronted with the choice, He chooses the greatest evil in a vain attempt to show how terrible evil truly is.

But I try, When I dress you up in fine, fashionable clothes so that you will look like the others, When I keep you at home to protect you from the world, When I try, in vain, to fight the pull of time so it won't change anything about the way you laugh, the way you whisper, the way you play — all these little ways I know are yours alone.

When the Northern Kingdom fell, in 72I B.C., and the Assyrian monarch settled strangers in Samaria, it was in vain that they brought their own gods with them.

«was a vain eternal recurrence, a circular movement, leading nowhere»; «deliverance was attained by the individual when he detached himself in soul from the world.»

Those who are skeptical about the language and presuppositions of the great god of technology, those who are inclined to take the name of the technology - god in vain, have been condemned as reactionary renegades, especially when they speak of gods of a different kind.

When did the left start caring about religion anyway... most of them are agnostics or atheists anyway... the only time they invoke Jesus» name is when they invoke it in vain against the commandment, «Thou shalt not take the Lord's name in vain&raqWhen did the left start caring about religion anyway... most of them are agnostics or atheists anyway... the only time they invoke Jesus» name is when they invoke it in vain against the commandment, «Thou shalt not take the Lord's name in vain&raqwhen they invoke it in vain against the commandment, «Thou shalt not take the Lord's name in vain».

I say I will be surprised if there will be anyone in heaven, as when we commit the unforgivable sin of taking the name of the Holy Spirit in vain we will all be up the creek without a paddle.

He won't have died in vain if others learn from Zimmerman's mistake and avoid confrontation when a) they aren't sure what's happening and b) the police are on their way.

I remember so clearly when I read Elie Wiesel's book Night back in 2006, and reading this remarkable section: «In the beginning there was faith which is childish; trust which is vain; and illusion which.in 2006, and reading this remarkable section: «In the beginning there was faith which is childish; trust which is vain; and illusion which.In the beginning there was faith which is childish; trust which is vain; and illusion which...

The man who prays trusts that his speaking with God is not in vain, that something happens when he prays that otherwise would not occur.

The vain side of me (you know, the one that causes me to suck my stomach in every time I pass a mirror... tell me I'm not the only one) jumps for joy when I hear that the cardiovascular benefits related to cherries includes loss of belly fat, which is the type of fat most commonly associated with heart disease.

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When vain profit is involved, count him in....

Ozil isn't lazy he just can't defend he will track back in vain, he'll shy away from the header or the 50/50 fearing the injury, his head sometimes drops when he isn't given space or time on the ball that's why you'll see him fade away in a game, but we knew that when we bought him!!

April 11 — It has hard to know who Arsenal are trying to fool, but reporting an official crowd attendance of 59,374 when there were more like 45,000 in the stadium smacks of the vain kind of hope that Arsene Wenger is suddenly going to get it all right and they are going to win the Premier League.

are you trying to sell nic to us or convince yourself andy becos, even tho i like him myself, hes not a goalscorer and is forced wide away from goal all to easy.not our answer cant even begin to tell you how wrong you are when you said we wer gettin by quite nicely without a recognised goalscorer, as iv always said you cant expect our little midfielders and little beast verm to continue in the great vain thev shown this season, big teams will negate them, you need another outlet, an ian wright or defoe that goes in behind and turns a back 4, its painfully obvious and riles me when fellow fans ignore or dismiss it and tell me to keep the faith with players who hav had so much time to show their capabilities and not delivered, so how their now gonna excel just becos thev been absent a while is beyond me but that old proverb must be true.....»

Spurs probed in vain for an equaliser before half time but the game was turned on it's head minutes after the second 45 began when Gaston Ramirez saw red for lashing out at Jan Vertonghen.

When we see a parent wearing their babe in a Boba we know that all of our efforts have not been in vain.

«We have a few moments to cross the finish line, the race will soon end and when we are able to endure, we are going to be crowned but if we don't exercise a little more patience, our long wait would be in vain», she added.

He told the cheering crowd that his pledges are not made in vain pointing out that they could see the results for themselves adding the location of this particular school is the best situated especially when he knows the terrain too well since the people are his in - laws.

The afternoon event was supposed to focus on efforts in the Senate to help unemployed veterans, but it was hijacked by angry anti-SAFE Act protestors, who shouted down the senators when they tried — largely in vain — to stick to the scheduled program.

Scientists had been searching in vain for such a gene since 1994 when Rockefeller University scientist Jeffery Friedman found that lab mice with a specific genetic mutation fail to produce leptin and as a result have uncontrollable appetites, and become huge.

When it comes to showing off your abs, all of the above could be in vain if your fat levels are too high.

So when it was over, when the accomplishment was achieved, I not only felt relieved that all my work wasn't in vain, but I also felt strangely empty.

Sacha and her husband, Edmund, created Common Good in 2011 after searching in vain for eco-friendly and refillable household products that were safe for their kids and pets; when they could not find anything on the market, they paired up with a green chemist and decided to make their own.