Sentences with phrase «by unworthy»

But the R8 Spyder has a whole lot going for it other than mere worship by the unworthy.

They said that women and laymen could preach, that the Church of Rome, being corrupt, was not the head of the Catholic Church, that only priests and bishops who lived as did the Apostles were to be obeyed, that prayers for the dead were useless, that sacraments administered by unworthy clergy were of no effect, that taking life is against God's law, that every lie is a deadly sin, and that oaths, as in courts, are clearly contrary to Christ's command.

unless they forfeit it by unworthy behavior.

In the predella, or bottom border, it shows Martin Luther preaching Christ crucified to his Wittenberg congregation; in the triptych's left wing, Philipp Melanchthon baptizes an infant; in the right wing, Johann Bugenhagen exercises the power of the keys in confession; and in the center panel, Jesus feeds a morsel of bread to Judas (reception by the unworthy!)

Not exact matches

Knowing that we're likely to see those that disregard both rules and others as more powerful, we're better armed to stop ourselves from being seduced by confident but ultimately unworthy leaders.

The feedback echoed those manufactured by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras who advised Germany's Der Spiegel: «If we ended up to keep a referendum tomorrow with the issue, «do you want your dignity or a continuation of this unworthy coverage,» then absolutely everyone would select dignity regardless of problems that would accompany that determination.»

In the tense atmosphere of the city council meeting the night of the vote, Presbyterian minister Paul Miller acknowledged that emotions were running high but told the overflow crowd he spoke from «deep pastoral concern»; he then read a prepared statement signed by 18 members of the clergy who decried «the recent efforts to single out a given group... and to seek to castigate them as being unworthy and unfit to belong to our community.»

And one way Jesus showed this was by hanging out with the people whom religion rejects as «unworthy» of God's attention or forgiveness.

and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

That being the case, I would encourage you either to carry through with your defense by providing verifiable evidence of your claims which would serve to disprove Julie's evidence or to stop carrying water for a man who's unworthy of the effort.

Today, human beings are increasingly ranked by a «quality of life» index, and some lives are deemed not worth living (the contemporary equivalent of the Nazi lebensunwertes Leben - life unworthy of life).

I think what he did wasn't dishonoring the girl or attempting to make her feel «unworthy» to wrestle him, and I've been in the same situation where a boy wouldn't wrestle me and i wasn't insulted by it.

... Those of you who are non-believers challenge believers... by your rejection of any distortion of religion which would make it unworthy of man.

This was the view articulated by, for example, noted legal scholar Karl Binding and psychiatrist Alfred Hoche in their treatise Permitting the Destruction of Life Unworthy of Life, published in 1920.

Too many years I spent shackled by fear and shame, telling myself and others that I was no good, that I was unworthy of love; but somewhere in the deepest recesses of my spirit was a flicker of something that knew differently.

More was a man who stood by his principles in an issue unworthy of martyrdom, while Bonhoeffer stood to the death for a purpose worthy of giving one's life — to rid a country of tyranny.

Gregory makes a stunning point on the ambiguities of giving to those derelicts among the poor who are by consensus generally regarded as less worthy: One should give not just to the unworthy poor, but also to the worthy poor, regardless of their moral condition, and for a profound reason: because one «gives of his bread to an indigent sinner, not because he is a sinner, but because he is a man.

«Pleased be advised,» he goes on, «that all such unworthy attempts will fail to intimidate Southern Baptists from fulfilling the task assigned by Jesus in the Great Commission to [carry] the life - transforming gospel of Jesus Christ to the ends of the world, of which Chicago remains a vital part.»

All these efforts to assist and regulate the poor were governed by a crucial distinction between the «worthy» and «unworthy» poor, between those who could not be blamed for their dire straits and those who could, between those who were redeemable and those who were not, between public neighbors entitled to support and those subject to scorn.

Even so, the novel leaves the dominant impression that Percy expects our world to be incinerated not by a fanatic terrorist or a games - playing Dr. Strangelove, but by a thoroughly moral man who can no longer stomach the spiritual softness which makes most of us, as Baudelaire said, unworthy even of damnation.

It serves as an indication of the breakdown of civil discourse, and the attempt by some culture warriors on the left to denigrate traditional religious believers as a darkened sect, unworthy of consideration.

To lay wasted by one's nugacities is true forlorning and unworthy of but passiveness «candoration»!

But it IS worthy to note that people continue to sheepishly believe absurdities about certain personalities that are put out there by people promulgating this or that ideology or simply trying to exercise social control by making people feel unworthy in comparison to ruling elites.

And this love is characterized, once again, as qualifying the nature of God's power: «Not that you, Divine Omnipotence and Eternal Wisdom, gave unwillingly, as though compelled by some sort of necessity, but rather that you freely bestowed your love, out of the boundless flood of your loving generosity, upon an unworthy and ungrateful creature.»

You've added another layer by pointing out why I found that theology «true»... Because I already believed I was unworthy of being loved.

In Matthew it is enforced by a telling piece of imagery, in which Jesus imagines himself confronting these unworthy followers on a day of judgment beyond this world.

It is not that repentance precedes an awareness of acceptance and hence the opening of new opportunities; rather, it is that when one knows through the action of God in the event of Jesus Christ that one is already accepted and forgiven by God the great Lover of the world, one's only response can be, «I am unworthy,» Because I am already and always accepted by God, who is the One «to whom all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid», who knows each of us better than any of us can know ourselves, then I am impelled to see my own inadequacy, defects, failures, and wrongs.

26 But he also put the subject in a fresh light by his emphasis on the undiscriminating generosity and sympathy of the heavenly Father, particularly as shown towards those who are unworthy of it.

Selfishness, greed, judgementalism, hate, etc. are not the sort of qualities I would suggest you can defend on that day by explaining that those poor, needy people were deemed unworthy by you & yours for breaking the man - made idea that crossing an imaginary line on his Earth to seek a better life makes one of God's children unworthy of compassion and help vis - a-vis the lesson of the Gospels.

Theologians illustrate this fact by their tendency to acquiesce in views of God that are unworthy of him.

The practitioners are invited to eat the food that has been blessed by the cleric, but are cautioned once again that if they are unworthy to eat this food, God may strike them dead.

If something new happens — that means, that forgiveness is not a necessary result determined by the nature of the man who forgives, something upon which the offender can count (if he did, he would obviously be unworthy of it); but it is an act arising wholly from the free good will of a person, wholly a gift.

There can be only one reason and that is because many of us have been conditioned by years of misguided church teaching to look upon gay and lesbian individuals as morally inferior, unworthy and therefore undeserving of that which we uphold as good and sanctified in our lives.

It also suppresses the depth of the very notion of revelation by situating it in the category of informational knowledge to which it does not properly belong and which is unworthy of it.

Even if one attempts by subtle arguments to show that somehow men really accept Christ in their very seeming rejection of him (because the Christian witness they encounter is either unworthy or incomplete and so on), there is still always the possibility of sin, of closing in on oneself against Christ.

If that is the case your god is a petty tyrant unworthy of worship by crushed worm gunk /.

For the rest of us, who are too small or too clumsy or too old to play and have to watch from the stands or before television screens, it is not unlike a Latin high mass performed by professionals for the edification and instruction of those deemed by the Heavenly Commissioner unworthy to participate personally.

Its teachings are very, very simple: There really are free and natural markets where the optimum value of things is assigned to them; everyone must compete with everyone; the worthy will prosper and the unworthy fail; those who succeed while others fail will be made deeply and justly happy by this experience, having had no other object in life; each of us is poorer for every cent that is used toward the wealth of all of us; governments are instituted among people chiefly to interfere with the working out of these splendid principles.

Nothing God spoke is unworthy of being discarded or over ridden by man.........

By contrast, politics is seen as dirty, as concerned with «worldly» things, unworthy and unholy things, things which should not be allowed to pollute the Gospel and the Church.

Pope John Paul was emphatic in teaching that» [t] he use of the infertile periods for conjugal union can be an abuse if the couple, for unworthy reasons, seeks in this way to avoid having children, thus lowering the number of births in their family below the morally correct level.This morally correct level must be established by taking into account not only the good of one's own family, and even the state of health and the means of the couple themselves, but also the good of the society to which they belong, of the Church, and even of the whole of mankind.

In the second place, this anonymous book says, that this slaughter was done by the express command of God: but all our ideas of the justice and goodness of God give the lie to the book, and as I never will believe any book that ascribes cruelty and injustice to God, I therefore reject the Bible as unworthy of credit.

It's one of the nifty tricks of indoctrination — teach people that by being bad to others who are deemed unworthy makes them look good in the eyes of their god.

The following month, replying to the condemnation of some of his writings by the University of Louvain, Luther referred to Valla in a long list of scholars whose writings were unjustly condemned including Erasmus and Reuchlin — Valla, who was charged, he said, «with the crime of ignorance by those who are quite unworthy to hand him a piss pot.»

A Member of Parliament who shows no keenness about his own election, is abandoned by his friends, as altogether unworthy of their attachment.

This juggling with «days» to be got for so much monetary contribution, or so many prayers, the very idea that something one did oneself could produce a change, could cause God to act — all this would seem unworthy of one who owed a complete surrender to God, who could never be of himself worthy of the sovereign creator, but who had in fact been saved and justified by the Word of God, made one with the saints by the free act of Jesus.

Christians and Jews were further crippled in any defence of themselves before the law by a Muslim judicial ruling that their testimony could not be received in the court against the Muslims since the Koran says that the Christians had corrupted their scripture and are therefore unworthy.

But due to the Protestant competition for the title of true Christian, «all this was devoted to contempt and ridicule by men who called themselves Christians, the unworthy posterity of the heroes whose blood had flowed under the walls of Jerusalem.»

What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered?

By way of contrast, the non-Christian, deprived of supernatural revelation, was possessed only of natural knowledge, lived his life in the secular sphere, and performed purely secular or natural activities that merited him only a natural beatitude if they were naturally good.1 The atheist, however, being obdurate in his unbelief, was unregenerated and therefore considered unworthy even of a natural beatitude.