Sentences with phrase «by foolishness»

Just a few of the names that have entered the lexicon of devastation wrought by the foolishness of mankind.

Of course, the recession was inevitable, but was unfortunately compounded by the foolishness of the banks & then the government itself.

She too joins the circle of those ruled, and undermined, by the foolishness of desire.

Let us learn to conquer the wisdom of this age, not by craftiness, but by the foolishness of God.

Therefore, the wisdom of God, by foolishness, conquered the craft of the Devil....

Maybe if these doomsday sayers drank some cool - aid before going to bed early at 5:00 pm they wouldnt have had to wake up and be ashamed by their foolishness.

once the human mind is twisted by the foolishness of religion, then common sense and reality are gone.

Certain individuals through their wilful sin or by foolishness bring suffering on themselves, soon or late, and also on others.

... But it pleased God that by foolishness of preaching the gospel of salvation through Jesus Christ His son, mankind should be saved: that whoever belives, and puts his trust in Him, will not perish but have eternal life.

1Cr 1:21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

Do not be fooled by his foolishness.

If you're bound by the foolishness of anti-gun politicians in prohibiting trained teachers and staff from defending students, then a bucket of rocks is actually a reasonably good idea.

Not exact matches

So the notion you can convert people to what you believe simply by spouting some Bible verses is just foolishness.

For all of our social pyramids, our collective wisdoms, and our discriminations according to rank and power are set by this divine foolishness within the brackets of the comic perspective.

W - Pointing out the foolishness of other ppl's thoughts by taking it to the next logical step is something beyond most ppl.

oops again, then if it said G - d spoke then G - d spoke inerrent through the writer which we may believe in the same way we believe the more sure word of prophecy, the gospel itself, foolishness to those perishing and so on,... does it give me words to live by, then the answer to your question and my application in my own life the answer would have to be Yes.

My heart grieves for all of those that have been hurt by my selfishness and foolishness.

Maybe we remain faithful to Jesus, not by overturning the household codes, but by transcending them, living in a way that highlights the foolishness of the hierarchies they contain.

feels like an excuse to laugh at the personality and foolishness of Tommy Wiseau in brand - new ways, but it also humanizes him, establishing a strong central story about a lopsided and perplexing friendship between Tommy and his longtime best friend and filmmaking partner Greg Sestero (played by Franco's real - life brother, Dave Franco).

The conscience you try and drown out with alcohol, drugs, and sarcastic comments... Well it turns out that conscience of yours was designed by God to wake you up out of your foolishness.

They are surrogates, which is a way of saying that they are agencies by which God works; they are not substitutes, although much of the time, in our foolishness and defection, we regard them as such — and in so regarding them bring about a state of affairs which is disproportionate and destructive.

Mother love is, by its very nature, prone to prodigality and foolishness: loving their own without qualification, mothers often love not wisely but too well.

If the king had had only the slightest shadow of a suspicion that his quarry would attempt such foolishness then there can be little doubt that the infant Jesus would have been taken and murdered by the soldiers of this tyrannical ruler.

There was one who was great by reason of his power, and one who was great by reason of his wisdom, and one who was great by reason of his hope, and one who was great by reason of his love; but Abraham was greater than all, great by reason of his power whose strength is impotence, great by reason of his wisdom whose secret is foolishness, great by reason of his hope whose form is madness, great by reason of the love which is hatred of oneself.

It was that message, the «word of the cross» preached by Paul, that struck both Jews and Gentiles as scandalous foolishness, as an offense against both the wisdom of the educated and the common sense of ordinary people.

I think that if the theist is an intelligent one and has not been tricked by some stupid theological foolishness — the main difference between the theist and the atheist is that one of them understands himself and the other does not.

The missionaries were eager to attribute this to religious reasons by comparing «the foolishness of the Hindu Gods» «with the purity and holiness and love» of Christ or by suggesting the priests were tired of «vainly striving to please by frequent offerings 40 Matthan's report about an «intelligent Pulaya priest Choti reads as follows:

As time goes buy the kind defenders of free will over their rejection to «dead» here and colossians 2:13 tend to resort to a familiar defense, that of labeling it a Calvinist viewpoint and that its almost a cultist view point to hold.Very sad yet very much the defense of many christians.Dead may i suggest is dead, the inability to respond, does not mean that prior to being saved one could not read scripture but because of this spiritual deadness its not profitabel / meaningful - we just can not continue to revise the meaning of dead to fit a view point - because natural man has not been born again this deadness (spiritually) shows itself as «none seek after God», in this condition they are» slaves to sin» and the spiritual things of God (the bible) is «folly / foolishness» even the gospel is judged by natural man as «folly / foolishness «(1 cor.1: 18) Please stop with this weak / common defense called Calvinism - many believers are truly turned off by such a defense.We must not forget the man's «free will» is what took the whole human race down in the garden; i would hope we can rise above our love affair with the human will.

Luther's ending words go: «He chose the wisdom or rather the foolishness of the Cross... he was repudiated by the very brethren on account of whom he despised all these things... and so he was forced to flee unto Midian.

I think a significant percentage of Christians see the religion for all its foolishness, they just want to stay in the church club, don't want to upset their friends, don't want to rock the boat, don't want to be ostracized by questioning how nonsensical the whole religion is.

You certainly couldn't keep a client long by engaging in that kind of foolishness.

I have never said that I was condoning fighting between Arsenal fans, I was just pointing a fact of history.Most of change come by fighting and blood due to the foolishness of men who are unable to use their brain.The oligarch create this situation and watch laughing until it get to them and they stop laughing.

We can see in all big games mistakes are done by our players... agaimst chelsea its red cards, against city its offside badlucks, against utd its foolishness... Why these factors not happening to them.

The 1980s Miami Hurricanes are in many ways a what - not - to - do guide for shadow boosters, but it was the system of incentives and bounties favored by 2000s Miami booster Nevin Shapiro that's shown the foolishness of incentives.

Well media most arsenal fans are disappointed and disgust, why, the team is not playing to its potential, yes we know arsenal can play better and we feel strongly that the team is about two players away from being champions, which seems to be a telltale problem over many years now, but due to the foolishness, stubbornness and bouts of favoritism by the RIDICULOUS MANAGER we are being denied this chance.

Out of subject but I really feel sorry for Wilshere, the lad loves Arsenal heart and soul but he is made to be disliked by the supporters because of the foolishness of Wenger.

The concepts of childishness versus foolishness have been helpful to me, although without accompanying age - appropriate expectations (which are impossible to come by when 18 month olds are lumped together with 8 year olds), these concepts can just as easily be misunderstood and damage family relationships.

City Councilman Bill Perkins, a former state senator, called the Senate GOP - Independent Democratic Conference coalition «corrupt» and called it «a damn shame that (Stewart - Cousins) was betrayed for no good reason except the greed and foolishness of the IDC led by Jeff Klein.»

Asked about Trump's remarks, Lamb said, «There was a lot of foolishness in this election and a lot of really cartoonish campaigning, and I think by the time of the president's visit... there was just a little bit of burnout on that type of campaigning.»

Every woman has her reasons for choosing her clothing, and assuming that I could accurately gauge those reasons by looking at her is pure foolishness.

Well lets just say that I think that blind dating in general is foolish and that dating over the internet is taking that foolishness and multiplying it by a factor of 50.

As a complete experience, Dark Void has moments of intense action, broken up by abject foolishness.

Critic Consensus: Director Lewis Milestone's brilliant anti-war polemic, headlined by an unforgettable performance from Lew Ayres, lays bare the tragic foolishness at the heart of war.

Critics Consensus: Director Lewis Milestone's brilliant anti-war polemic, headlined by an unforgettable performance from Lew Ayres, lays bare the tragic foolishness at the heart of war.

Like Ang Lee's Hulk, Iron Man is a comic - book blockbuster characterized as much by heavyweight acting and sober intellectual concerns about the use and misuse of power and technology as the usual comic - book foolishness.

This is representative of an age of foolishness in which the sacrifices are made by learners who desire and need to learn, but see no motivation in learning that stems from curiosity and a very human love of learning.

The crushing defeat of the charter referendum in Massachusetts is at least partially explained by the political foolishness of narrowly focusing the charter movement on a certain type of school to serve disadvantaged students.

Lassen — among the group Chalmers refers to as «sociopathic child - haters who are only teachers because they got tenure after two short years» — doesn't suffer Bart's foolishness, responding to the mischievous one's skeleton - in - the - closet prank by buzzing the top of his head with clippers.

Is the foolishness of the title character — or characters — something determined by public opinion or something revealed via a process of self - reflection?

Out of this encounter spins a story of revenge, counterpoint, and rollicking foolishness, ending on a railroad platform by the Russian - Finnish border in September, 1993.