Sentences with phrase «by a lust for»

Stalin's purges were not motivated by atheism, but by a lust for power.

A theologian driven by a lust for innovation will end up in heresy or find his desires happily frustrated, like Chesterton's explorer who sailed the globe in search of exotic places only to plant his flag on the coast of Cornwall.

To me this picture depicts the fact that most of our Christianity is made with human hands, perpetuated by human wisdom and sustained by lusts for money, power and influence, popularity, and a proper social standing in the community.

Intoxicated by their lust for gold, they ceased to see the people standing in their way; lulled by an overpowering sense of their own Christianity, they drew no boundary between their economic and spiritual exploits; infected with their own technological and military prowess, they couldn't even imagine that they needed a cure.

St. Au - gustine, while quite capable of asserting from one angle that every city that is not the City of God is merely an association dominated by the lust for domination, was simultaneously able to distinguish the nobility of an earlier Rome from the degradation he noted in the Rome of his own day.

After an entire article of pin - the - tail on the semantic donkey based on the ficalness of word gender (different from actual gender, as I have never yet met a boat that was truely a «she»), the potentiality of a close friendship being more (when one of them went on to have several wives and children, one relationship so driven by lust for a woman that he took her from another man and tried to have her husband killed — so clearly not just marriages of social conformity), and a false analgy to slavery's restrictions in the Bible.

Saruman, while once the powerful White Wizard, has become corrupted by his lust for power and thus he has unknowingly become dependent upon his master Sauran's power.

As Epps, the half - mad, drunken sadist, Michael Fassbender (in his third role for McQueen) is terrifying, not just violent and unpredictable but actually demonic, tormented by lust for one of his slaves, the beautiful Patsey (Lupita Nyong» o, very affecting), to the rage of his no less vicious wife Mistress Epps (Sarah Paulson).

They begin with William Rackham, an egotistical perfume magnate whose ambition is fueled by his lust for Sugar, and whose patronage of her brings her into proximity to his extended family and milieu: his unhinged, child - like wife, Agnes; his mysteriously hidden - away daughter, Sophie; and his pious brother Henry, foiled in his devotional calling by a persistently less - than - chaste love for the Widow Fox, whose efforts on behalf of The Rescue Society lead Henry into ever - more disturbing confrontations with flesh.

His Ying Zheng is a childlike creature, driven mad by a lust for absolute power.

I'm Bob Ramsak, a Ljubljana, Slovenia - based reporter, photographer and blogger driven by a lust for travel, wine, culture and justice.

Similarly, Monbiot claims that climate change deniers — the ones he compares nuclear sceptics to — have not produced their scientific arguments from an objective, transparent, impartial basis; they are driven by a commitment to a «free - market ideology», or more straightforwardly, by their lust for profit.

Not exact matches

The movie set the rules imitators lived by: Zombies move slowly, lust for human flesh and can only be killed when shot in the head.

(For instance I'm fairly confident that promiscuity is sinful, especially when it comes from a place of lust, but I'm less convinced that my committed same - sex friends are sinning by expressing their love physically any more than I am sinning when my wife and I express our love physically — even though I think we can be if we are acting out of lust or as a means of asserting power over one another, but that is another story).

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authoriFor if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authorifor as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority.

It takes the spirit of God for the dark to comprehend the light by the love of their lust they have blinded themselves.

Like literal adultery it does include the idea of someone blinded by infatuation, in this case for an idol: «How I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts... which have lusted after their idols» (Ezekiel 6:9).»

By the way, if you think there is no scientific evidence for the origin of love (as apposed to similar emotions, like lust), you're wrong.

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the negation of ideology, the political secularization of the doctrine of original sin, the cautious sentiment tempered by prudence, the product of organic, local human organization observing and reforming its customs, the distaste for a priori principle disassociated from historical experience, the partaking of the mysteries of free will, divine guidance, and human agency by existing in but not of the confusions of modern society, no framework of action, no tenet, no theory, and no article of faith, a distrust of the systems and processes of the idol of self and of the lust for power and status, scorn to all approaches of ideology and meta - narrative.

He was the first victim of Boxer fighters, who lusted after the blood of foreign missionaries, whom they blamed for China's humiliation by Western powers.

How can a just war be waged by persons who so lust for war that the stench of blood and brutality becomes the fragrance of life?

We re-discover the meaning of heroism and friendship as we see the two hobbits clawing their way up Mount Doom; we see again the endless evil of greed and egotism in Gollum, stunted and ingrown out of moral shape by years of lust for the ring; we recognize again the essential anguish of seeing beautiful and frail things - innocence, early love, children — passing away as we read of the Lady Galadriel and the elves making the inevitable journey to the West.

For example, adultery was a sin punishable by death, but Jesus told the people if you look at a woman with lust in your heart you have committed adultery.

A myth fed by millions of pennies put in thousands of church plates by little children to support the missionaries in their work in this exotic land which was lusting for Christianity.

Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

This article is adapted from a longer essay in Ancient Faith for the Church's Future, edited by Mark Husbands and Jeffrey P. Greenman, lust published by IVP Academic.

Adnama Satan uses external circumstances to direct our steps he knows that if we walk according to the flesh we come under his authority for the flesh is weak and he manipulates by keeping christians in bondage to sin through lust or whatever sin the christian is weak in.He can also fire into our minds evil thoughts to make us feel condemned or guilty these are fiery darts they are not ours and we need to stand on the word to rebuke them by faith.If we have given our lives to Christ then we belong to Christ so if we walk in accordance to the spirit the enemy has not power to effect us either internally or externally that is not to say that he can not manipulate situations and circumstances to his advantage that is why we need to be alert and pray against the work that he does we are in a spiritual battle but we have overcome in Christ so fear not brentnz

This side of the kingdom of God, the human destiny of communion is realized more purely in the Church, the body of Christ, than in the state, where it is disfigured by human self «love and lust for dominion.

Every time one desecrates his or her body (same for man and woman) and cheapens it by using it to gratify it's car - nal drives (lusts), something within this person dies.

And though the second man's eyes have been opened to the fleeting nature of the pleasures of sin, and he has taken steps to create new, real, lasting life for himself, we see in his story the destructive power of past sins to reach into a man's future, destroy any goodness it finds there, and drag him back by his own lusts.

Yes, for all you Muslim lovers out there, for all you Islamists that would die for your religion, for all you weak lillly livered Muslims that flee your own country to live in ours and swear to its destruction, for all you hipocrites that claim to be in a religion of tolerance and peace but live by your actions of murder and unspeakable horrors, you Iranians, you Afghans, you Pakistanis, you Iragis, you misfits and abhorents of any god, this story of a simple Christian, who is now denied his life because of stupid and educaied cowards in Iran, cowards and murderers who covet children and lust hiding behind a demonic religion, let this man be your true martyr because you are not human and can not touch him.

Blinded by our lusts we fail to see the divine plan for our own salvation, and so, blinded, we go to our eternal doom.

The Churches have mismanaged, by - in - large, the spiritual message of Christianity with their corruption, their immoral pedophile behavior, and their lust for money and power.

For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly; and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds) then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment, and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authoriFor if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly; and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds) then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment, and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authorifor judgment; and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly; and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds) then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment, and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authorifor that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds) then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment, and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authorifor the day of judgment, and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority.

I had not known sin, but by the law; for I would not have known lust unless the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

People die everyday, so now I should turn my back on my God (who has shown me he is real by the way) because people killed for power and lust under the lie of religion?

Unfortunately, peace is never achieved, as in these 100 % Muslim states the most radical Muslims intimidate and spew hatred, and satisfy their blood lust by killing less radical Muslims, for a variety of reasons...

The Jews remain responsible for their own «can not,» which, far from resulting from divine fiat, is determined by their own desire (theolusin) to perform the lusts (tas epithumias) of the devil (8:44).

I noticed that you said «society idolizes lust, greed, envy, sloth, pride of life, desire for knowledge, desire for power, desire for revencge, gluttony with food etc «followed by «Transcend the temporal world.»

The modern difficulty in understanding the Church's teaching on married sexuality stems in large part from a failure to distinguish between lust and what is (or should be) normal sexual desire, i.e. between assertive and unregulated sexual desire, bent foremost on physical self - satisfaction, and simple sexual attraction, which can include a desire for union and is characterised by respect and regulated by love.

Yet, once again, Genesis seems to speak truly, not only by presenting as a distinct «aspect» this basic level of sexuality — animal lust for union — but also in hinting that, at this level, sexual desire may be asymmetrically distributed, with perhaps differing focus, direction, and intensity among males and females.

Satan did it, and fell... man, seduced by the father of lies, and lust for power has allowed pride to swell up in his heart, has done the same... Scriptures were written long ago, but we see them fulfilled with our own eyes (Dan.12: 4) There has never been time as such we're living in, when man is so advanced, yet the deprivation of human character on WORLDWIDE scale, is unprecedented from any time in history of mankind!

Until that day, the history of the world is marked by what St. Augustine calls libido dominandi — the lust for glory and power.

It is not «un-Christian» to make political judgments — judgments that are fallible and invariably implicate us in worldly affairs touched by greed and the lust for power.

Rossing accuses the rapture's supporters of a kind of «sickness,» a Caligula - like lust for war that rivals anything promoted by the imperial cult of Rome.

By railing angrily against the government for following the law of the land and demanding special favors for the church (like tax exempt status) and laws that reflect your personal interpretation of scripture, you are rejecting his call and poisoning your faith with a lust for worldly power.

On your last sentence, by the understanding of the teachings of jesus, none of these so called disciples are good enough for all show a peity low wanting of love from jesus towards themselves more so then the next man... lust!

I am ** NOT ** trying to be shocking or coarse here but to just make an intellectual point by using such language: The idea or concept of erect penises, throbbing clitorises, moist vaginas, explosive orgasms, the lust / desire / craving for physical / sexual pleasure and more....

The problem is that the desire and lust for safety, while well - intended, is detrimental to the masses of many Americans who have been disenfranchised and marginalized by policies and practices that promote safety.