Sentences with phrase «despised things of men»

It is typically from among the rejected and despised things of men that God chooses to draw humble good.

Not exact matches

O when one beholds a man who protests that he has entirely understood how Christ went about in the form of a lowly servant, poor, despised, and, as the Scripture says, spat upon — when I see the same man so careful to betake himself thither where in a worldly sense it is good to be, and accommodate himself there in the utmost security, when I see him apprehensive of every puff of wind from right or left, as though his life depended upon it, and so blissful, so utterly blissful, so awfully glad — yes, to make the thing complete, so awfully glad that he is able to thank God for it — glad that he is held in honor by all men — then I have often said to myself and by myself, «Socrates, Socrates, Socrates, can it be possible that this man has understood what he says he has understood?»

The justice in this seems to be more than simple retribution; it is a corrective to the way the man and the woman had despised the good things of God.

«For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: That no flesh should glory in his presence.»

Camus, in The Plague, says, «Even in a time of pestilence (we learn) that there are more things to admire in men than despise.»

For a man who professes to despise this sort of thing, he really does appear to abide by the kind of simplistic tenets more commonly found among religious fundamentalists.