Sentences with phrase «be a good man without»

It is theoretically possible to be a good man without participation in the life of a religious community, but in practice the difficulties are enormous.
Her unquestioning love took him as he was, but somehow nudged him to be a better man without ever saying that there was anything wrong with him.

Not exact matches

He found that even if a man had a successful career, made a lot of money, and had good health, without loving relationships he wouldn't be happy.
Even if a man succeeded in work, amassed piles of money, and experienced good health, without loving relationships he wouldn't be happy, Vaillant found.
Curiously, while Sanders has a sizable lead over Trump in this poll, businesspeople weighing in with comments, without exception, said they do not think Sanders is the best man for the job.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know neither victory nor defeat.
Even without sexual pressure, there's the tyranny of fashion and the fear of being judged on your appearance; by women as well as by men.
«But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self - control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God....
Without hesitation, the teenager snapped, «Well, if He's anything like my old man, you can have Him,» and he walked away.
Or maybe it was just more folly of men making up some rules the best they knew how without any inspiration from a god who would've known better?
I believe in government; that men can not live together without rules but that they should be kept at the bare minimum of safety; that there is no form of government ordained from God as being better than any other; that the anarchic elements in society are so strong that it is a whole - time task to keep the peace.
While many of the Church committee's 183 recommendations entrust oversight responsibilities to agency types, cabinet officers, and President's men who have been untrustworthy in the past, the Church plan taken as a whole attempts to put our check - and - balance system into better working order — not to tie the hands of intelligence but to enable it to serve a democratic society's needs without undermining its cherished principles.
Rebellion is man's good ideas without the Lord's Endorsement...
If a man has lived a life of cruelty and then has a change of heart, is truly sorry for his sins and then dies (the proverbial «deathbed conversion») he can «be saved» without having done a good work in his life.
So why can't this man teach Christian Mythology without being a Christian, provided he is well educated in the subject?
So much so that all along the line one can uphold, and without paradox, the following thesis (which is doubtless the one best calculated to reassure and guide men's minds when confronted with the growth of transformist views):
Darryl like you i also know that without him i can do nothing i am weak but in him we are overcomers its a good place to be dependent on him he can use us when we are in that place i believe God has plans for you that is why the enemy is playing mind games i had a season of that he does nt bother me now as i fire scripture back at him.Like greater is the lord in me than he that is in the world.Sin shall not have dominion over me.In my weakness i am strong in Christ.Weakness is not an excuse to give in or give up its our opportunity to trust God and walk in his strength and power.You are a mighty man of God you tell the devil to flee in Jesus name and he will.
Without recognition of the Creator, without some apprehension of a good over-all purpose for all human beings in whatever stage of development they may be, to consider all other men as our brothers is no more than a pious Without recognition of the Creator, without some apprehension of a good over-all purpose for all human beings in whatever stage of development they may be, to consider all other men as our brothers is no more than a pious without some apprehension of a good over-all purpose for all human beings in whatever stage of development they may be, to consider all other men as our brothers is no more than a pious phrase.
That, I maintain, is not possible without a restored sense of sexual identity; a sense of what it means to be a man, what it means to be a woman, what it can mean to show together a better image of God.
It is perhaps not without some significance that the Wittenberg jurist Hieronymous Schürpf served as best man at Luther's own wedding to the former nun Katherine von Bora.
I can be without fear, I can be pacific, irenic, for faith gives to me the surety that the hungry are filled with good things and the humble exalted, and so I need not be resentful, or self - enclosed, or placatory, but rather I strive to understand, as my fellows do, whether they are men of faith or not.
He believed that «God is teaching us that we must live as men who can get along very well without Him.
But Father Heisig indirectly and implicitly suggests that the church might best be understood as the «Divine Without»: «groaning for self - consciousness and development, achieving its first self - reflective glimpses of divinity in the man Jesus and growing into that awareness through the course of history.»
A man may have suffered throughout his whole life without it ever, in any true sense, being able to be said of him that he has been willing to suffer all for the Good.
Without his putting himself in a religious frame of mind, creating for himself religious experiences, awakening within himself a so - called natural consciousness of God, thus without his being compelled to adopt forms of consciousness which he can no longer recapture, he must be encountered in his life, which has become secular, by the good news from the Lord of the world, who has committed himself in the man Jesus of Nazareth to the world and the secularity of the stable and the gallows («without the camp» of religion, Hebrews 13Without his putting himself in a religious frame of mind, creating for himself religious experiences, awakening within himself a so - called natural consciousness of God, thus without his being compelled to adopt forms of consciousness which he can no longer recapture, he must be encountered in his life, which has become secular, by the good news from the Lord of the world, who has committed himself in the man Jesus of Nazareth to the world and the secularity of the stable and the gallows («without the camp» of religion, Hebrews 13without his being compelled to adopt forms of consciousness which he can no longer recapture, he must be encountered in his life, which has become secular, by the good news from the Lord of the world, who has committed himself in the man Jesus of Nazareth to the world and the secularity of the stable and the gallows («without the camp» of religion, Hebrews 13without the camp» of religion, Hebrews 13:13) 15
In today's consumer - oriented, capitalistic culture, where people are used, abused and disposed of like nonreturnable soft - drink cans, where «liberation» has been invoked to justify selfishness, it may be that the time has come for the church to say again what it has always believed — that there is no way for individuals to «flourish» without the kind of communion and community and the permanent, deep, risky commitment that true Christian love demands — qualities that are perhaps best experienced in the yoking of a man and a woman in marriage.
But these were largely asides, and were clearly distinguished from the discussions about what really grasped Wieman's own soul — the urgent demand that men and women commit themselves without reservation to the process of creative interchange which creates human good through the increase of qualitative meaning.
However, a free man, and especially a sincere Christian, will know that only God is the infinite good without any negative admixture; he ought therefore to regard his own proposal in a spirit of criticism and to acknowledge the good qualities of that of his opponent.
The fact that this authority comes from Christ in no way contradicts a democratic manner of appointing its ministers, nor does it contradict the fact that their decisions are determined by the nature of man as well as by the gospel in such a way that they are not without relation to the will of the Christian people.
And He said: «The Man is like a wise fisherman who cast his net into the sea, he drew it up from the sea full of small fish; among them he found a large (and) good fish, that wise fisherman, he threw all the small fish down into the sea, he chose the large fish without regret.
well, I sometimes bring some of those ways of thinking and operating to this blog... I do nt» mean to, it is almost like muscle memory... someone throws out a straw man arguement or circular logic, or some other logical fallacy, and well... sometimes I jump at it the way I would over at other blogs without maybe taking a moment to re-adjust my attitude.
The illusion that the now is either so insignificant and commonplace as to be unworthy of study, or that it is so well known anyhow — without analysis, critical reflection, or even systematic observation — as to be beneath serious notice, has become all too characteristic of a theological tradition that knows perfectly well that we can not understand either God's grace or man's sinfulness without in some fundamental sense understanding the other first.
It can be said that Mr. Rogers was an honorable, respectable man whom we should all admire for his truly caring passion for humanity and his unconditional love for children without a need to press his religious background as to remind us that only the religious are capable of good deeds.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4 traitors, heady, high - minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 5 having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
But quantifiably speaking, we can say for certain without any knowledge of friends & family that the man who mur.der one person is in fact «better» quantifiably than he who has mur.dered two.
2For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self - control, brutal, haters of good, 4treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.
During these billions of years life existed without man, and could continue to exist without him, in some ways even better than with him, since man is a pitiless destroyer of many animal and plant species.
It is, furthermore, too much disposed in its doctrine of divine judgment to spread the doom on thick without adequate recognition of God's saving grace or of the concrete works of love which man not only can but must do if he is to be God's servant in fashioning a better world.
In the schools the lack of a clear - cut conception is evident there where a frankly pluralistic approach to the work of the ministry has been accepted and where men are prepared for the varieties of the ministry as well as the varieties of ministerial work without reference to a common function to be carried out by all ministers and by every minister in all the things he does.
If you, my listener, should see such a man, although it is unlikely, for without a doubt weakness and mediocrity are the more common, if you should meet him in what he himself would call a weak moment, but which, alas, you would have to call a better moment; if you should meet him when he had found no rest in the desert, when the giddiness passes away for a moment and he feels an agonizing longing for the Good; if you should meet him when, shaken in his innermost being, and not without sadness, he was thinking of that man of single purpose who even in all his frailty still wills the Good: then you would discover that he had two wills, and you would discover his painful double - mindedness.
Philosophy does not exist, however, without the readiness of the philosophizing man to make decisions, on the basis of known truth, as to whether a thought is right or wrong, an action good or bad.
«It is not possible to make good men and good women without an element of transcendence and grace,» wrote Malcolm Muggeridge — British scholar, journalist and Christian.
It's the sort of thing that makes me feel, well, maybe I do have to get along without men if they're not even going to take me seriously.
Men go to God when he is sore bested, Find him poor and scorned, Without shelter or bread, Whelmed under weight of the wicked, the weak, the dead; Christians stand by God in his hour of grieving.25
However, if he remains true to his Divine Will as reflected in the Law, it will not be sufficient for him to raise up religious truth in a sporadic fashion without any line of direction or fulfilment: «if God is the Environer of the soul of man, then from the very beginning of man there must be, within his personality and within the complex of human society a God - evoked and God directed line of spiritual truth, and good, and spiritual authority».
But it does seem to be the case that they can not increase without a re-stabilizing of a family structure that enlists the support of men, who receive in return the respect and recognition that comes with, for lack of a better term, patriarchy.
humans are not all hedonists, even without a magical man in the sky who apparently said what is good and what is bad
Community can not exist without mature men and women who are willing to set aside their personal agendas and support the good of the community.
The «Father» of the Nation, being the United States of America is quoted saying; «The General is sorry to be informed — , that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing, a vice heretofore little known in an American army, is growing into a fashion; — he hopes the officers will, by example as well as influence, endeavor to check it, and that both they and the men will reflect that we can have little hope of the blessing of Heaven on our arms, if we insult it by impiety and folly; added to this, it is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense and character detests and despises it.»
Jon your statement is purely racist to say the world is better off without blacks, but you are a stupid person, your president is black, Barack Obama is a black man and a good one to be honest so your stupid statement that the world is better off without blacks is just stupid and you should go to a wall and run into it and then you might get some common sense..
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