Sentences with phrase «be in vain from»

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In 1965, Malcolm X implored black voters to abstain from voting altogether if they felt their votes were being cast in vaiIn 1965, Malcolm X implored black voters to abstain from voting altogether if they felt their votes were being cast in vaiin vain.

As for the Dr, in front of your name, I'd bet you are either very vain about it, or it came from a mail order degree mill.

I read from Paul where he claims that by grace he is what he is, and that this grace was not in vain.

All around the globe people have to realize that taking the name of God in vain is a serious offense and everyone should refrain from doing so.

It is the religiosity from church growth books, membership duties, vain promises that our Savior rebelled against in His day as Son of God, Son of Man, Let scripture super exceed any of mans futile attempts to be purpose driven, or a «church Member»

Adam Smith wrote: «But man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only.»

Again, we may notice that the model used to picture God in much popular religious talk, and in some theological talk too, was borrowed, as Whitehead noted in his Modes of Thought (Free Press, 1968, p. 49), from «the characteristics of the touchy, vain, imperious tyrants who ruled the empires of the world.»

and from your description were praying in vain rather than truly seeking for wisdom... so no PRAYER did NOT do this... just becauise some ABUSE it..

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.

Your faith in a dead God is vain; you're apparently blind to your own disbelief and sadly cut off from repentance of it; and your prejudiced accusations and support of a policy platform that defiles the sacred fountain of life, pretending to «love» people by clothing them in chains of dependency, expose your fearful guilt.

Adds the former president of a national environmental organization, who has looked in vain for support from religious groups in efforts to protect wilderness and wildlife: «The Unitarians occasionally let us meet in their buildings; that's been our primary contact with churches on this issue.»

This article is excerpted from God's Name in Vain: The Wrongs and Rights of Religion in Politics.

Yet God is the One who values and uses, because God incorporates into the divine life which is everlasting the good that takes place in the historical sequence; and God overrules or uses for good that which comes from the «vain imagination of foolish men» in their sin and defection — and, we may add, from anything else that is evil or wrong thanks to the free decisions made by the creatures in their divinely granted capacity to choose among relevant possibilities.

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 in vain he struggles thus; the difficulty he stumbled against demands a breach with immediacy as a whole, and for that he has not sufficient self - reflection or ethical reflection; he has no consciousness of a self which is gained by the infinite abstraction from everything outward, this naked, abstract self (in contrast to the clothed self of immediacy) which is the first form of the infinite self and the forward impulse in the whole process whereby a self infinitely accepts its actual self with all its difficulties and advantages.

We search almost in vain for a modern Catholic writer who can show us that the grace of God not only redeems nature but loves and completes it, for one who can imagine a world where God is not simply a specter haunting our consciences from the alleyway, but the author of all things.

â $ œIn the beginning there was faithâ $» which is childish; trustâ $» which is vain; and illusionâ $» which is dangerousâ $ ¦ â $ œWe believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark from the Shekkinahâ $ ™ s flame; that every one of us carries in his eyes and in his soul a reflection of Godâ $ ™ s image.

Resurrection is here closely associated with martyrdom; it is a «wonderful reward reserved for those who die a godly death».7 This kind of resurrection hope arose spontaneously, but perhaps irrationally, from those who, observing martyrdom, had no other way of expressing their conviction that the martyr had not died in vain.

Otherwise it would be too easy to decide that since no human cause is without sin or deserving of our ultimate loyalty, since none will result in the perfect good, we may as well just sit back and sagely observe from an uninvolved distance the vain and foolish strivings of humanity.

I am not saying disappointment on your article, my only point is that its faith, and only God can judge the correctness... The word of God cultivates the mind, and the seed of faith should bloom in its natural way, urging anything to study by words and its meaning is in - vain because the use of that will not gain you anything from God, but yes maybe in politics and people like you.

To investigate the dimension of transcendence, conceived not as an attribute to God but as a dimension of man, is not to start from something which exists in our world in a vain attempt to prove the existence of what can exist only in another world; it is simply to investigate all the dimensions of human reality.22

The updating or «aggiornamento» of the Church did not mean jettisoning unpalatable parts of the Catholic faith in a vain attempt to be more with it; it meant a more effective proclamation of the same gospel that the apostles received from Christ and that has been handed down in and by the Church ever since — in Benedict XVI's words «the continuity of the one subject - Church».

Confidence in the emergence of a new world culture to perform the function of supplying Protestants with the same kind of unity which they once derived from Western European culture is a vain and illusory hope.

In vain, because no power in the world can enable us to escape from what is in itself the power of the worlIn vain, because no power in the world can enable us to escape from what is in itself the power of the worlin the world can enable us to escape from what is in itself the power of the worlin itself the power of the world.

This is a record of a child, odd and difficult from birth, in the grip of senseless obsessions, controlling the family with rigid rules and prohibitions, tearing through the house as fast and destructive as a tornado, grunting instead of talking, unresponsive to his parents» loving concern, their urging, coaxing, their vain attempts at discipline, their anger and spanking.

«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.

The Prophet Mohammed's name was taken in vain and, a black marker scrawl on a tombstone screamed: «raghead,» a derogatory term for Muslims that stems from head coverings such as turbans and kaffiyas.

It is one thing for the Apostle Paul to say that either Christ rose from the dead or all is in vain.

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.

I do not to say that we do not feel pain from the illusion of loneliness, we very well do, but, (and I think this is also another important note) our sufferings are not useless or in vain unless we choose to make them so.

«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.»

Paul is absolutely right that if Jesus was not raised from the dead, our faith is vain and we are yet in our sins.

We must do it humbly, recognizing the congenital sin from which we are not yet fully freed, but determined to abound in the work of the Lord, confident that our labor is not in vain if it be in the Lord.

Al - Mumenoon sura 23: In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful The Believers must (eventually) win through (1) Those who humble themselves in their prayers; (2) Who avoid vain talk; (3) Who are active in deeds of charity; (4) Who abstain from s - e-x, (5) Except with those joined to them in the marriage bond, or (the captives) whom their right hands possess — for (in their case) they are free from blame, (6) But those whose desires exceed those limits are transgressors --(7) Those who faithfully observe their Trusts and their covenants; (8) And who (strictly) guard their prayers (9) Those will be the heirs (10) Who will inherit Paradise: they will dwell therein (foreverIn the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful The Believers must (eventually) win through (1) Those who humble themselves in their prayers; (2) Who avoid vain talk; (3) Who are active in deeds of charity; (4) Who abstain from s - e-x, (5) Except with those joined to them in the marriage bond, or (the captives) whom their right hands possess — for (in their case) they are free from blame, (6) But those whose desires exceed those limits are transgressors --(7) Those who faithfully observe their Trusts and their covenants; (8) And who (strictly) guard their prayers (9) Those will be the heirs (10) Who will inherit Paradise: they will dwell therein (foreverin their prayers; (2) Who avoid vain talk; (3) Who are active in deeds of charity; (4) Who abstain from s - e-x, (5) Except with those joined to them in the marriage bond, or (the captives) whom their right hands possess — for (in their case) they are free from blame, (6) But those whose desires exceed those limits are transgressors --(7) Those who faithfully observe their Trusts and their covenants; (8) And who (strictly) guard their prayers (9) Those will be the heirs (10) Who will inherit Paradise: they will dwell therein (foreverin deeds of charity; (4) Who abstain from s - e-x, (5) Except with those joined to them in the marriage bond, or (the captives) whom their right hands possess — for (in their case) they are free from blame, (6) But those whose desires exceed those limits are transgressors --(7) Those who faithfully observe their Trusts and their covenants; (8) And who (strictly) guard their prayers (9) Those will be the heirs (10) Who will inherit Paradise: they will dwell therein (foreverin the marriage bond, or (the captives) whom their right hands possess — for (in their case) they are free from blame, (6) But those whose desires exceed those limits are transgressors --(7) Those who faithfully observe their Trusts and their covenants; (8) And who (strictly) guard their prayers (9) Those will be the heirs (10) Who will inherit Paradise: they will dwell therein (foreverin their case) they are free from blame, (6) But those whose desires exceed those limits are transgressors --(7) Those who faithfully observe their Trusts and their covenants; (8) And who (strictly) guard their prayers (9) Those will be the heirs (10) Who will inherit Paradise: they will dwell therein (forever).

The women knew their effort was in vain: No box of unguent, myrrh, or aloes could Prevent the corpse from rotting; muscles would» with bones and sinews» turn to dust again.

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.

And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear: 18 forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: 20 who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, (AKJV).

This season we are miles away from making top four with the only vain hope of our defence withstanding some of the top sides left in Europa cup and thus us winning it.

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!!

From the penalty stroke Helen Richardson - Walsh equalised but it proved to be in vain after Merry's late heroics.

Although it proved to be a vain effort in the end, it was a display of spirit from the Liverpool fans.

Schmeichel's outstretched efforts were in vain as Liverpool doubled their lead and Coutinho relieved some of that weight from his shoulders.

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.....»

Hazard's flick set Willian free in a central position just outside the penalty area and the Brazilian's diagonal pass was clipped neatly home by Bakayoko from six yards, with defender Chris Lowe's desperate bid to block the ball on the goalline in vain.

But it is my hope that you will find something herein that restores hope, that challenges your feelings of impotence, that reminds you why your efforts are far from being in vain.

The impression a dispassionate observer would have from the failure of security and law enforcement during the Bayelsa election (which was conducted in Nigeria's smallest state with the lowest number of registered voters) would be that the federal government permitted or condoned the strong - arm tactics of the ruling party's candidate in his ultimately vain effort to secure that state's rulership by force.

«Your brother did not die in vain,» stated Cuomo of Brodwer's brother Kalief, who committed suicide in 2015, two years after being released from Rikers Island, where he had spent three years awaiting trial on charges involving a stolen backpack.

«The desperate senator is seeking a lifeline, in the vain belief that ratcheting up rascally actions will bring him attention and relief from the mooted national reconciliation efforts.

As you can see, the name of CPI Marxist is fraudulent and it is vain to expect anything Marxist (that is, anything comparable to the dictatorship of the proletariat that existed in China, Albania, Soviet Union, etc., etc.) from them.

Liberal Democrats constitutional affairs spokesman Simon Hughes also praised the proposals, saying: «Often lessons learnt from one tragedy can prevent another... These plans are a way of doing more to make sure loss and suffering are not in vain.»