Sentences with phrase «even benevolence»

Vater Staat may radiate a kind of sublime sympathy, maybe even benevolence, but there are other figures behind him who lust for power and are completely without scruples: villains and swindlers, criminals whose intentions are ill - concealed.

Even benevolence can not go unchecked, Fury suggests.

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And this is so even if God's power is seen as benevolence rather than domination.

Even so, Marcion clearly tried to lift up a God of sublime benevolence for the alternative church he founded, but he was able to do so only by sacrificing the essential unity between love (his Supreme God) and power (his unloving Creator God).28

Circumcision emphasizes, even as it also restricts and transcends, the natural and the generative, sanctifying them in the process: Under God's command, men willingly produce in their living and generational flesh the mark of their longing for God, of their desire for His benevolence and care.

You don't know whether it is real big or real small, whether it even has awareness of its offshoot (the universe), whether it has wants and needs and demands, that it has love and hate, benevolence and wrath, the power to reward eternal happiness.

One final philosophical question: Even if we agree that benevolence is supererogatory in a way that non-malevolence is not, even if we agree that our duty to give and help is much weaker than our duty not to hurt, we can still ask if giving, helping, and bestowing can in some cases become wicked: wicked because it is debilitating to the self - reliance of the recipient; wicked because it deprives one of the capacity to give also to others; wicked because it infantilizes the recipient; wicked because it cements a bond between giver and taker that should be much more evanescEven if we agree that benevolence is supererogatory in a way that non-malevolence is not, even if we agree that our duty to give and help is much weaker than our duty not to hurt, we can still ask if giving, helping, and bestowing can in some cases become wicked: wicked because it is debilitating to the self - reliance of the recipient; wicked because it deprives one of the capacity to give also to others; wicked because it infantilizes the recipient; wicked because it cements a bond between giver and taker that should be much more evanesceven if we agree that our duty to give and help is much weaker than our duty not to hurt, we can still ask if giving, helping, and bestowing can in some cases become wicked: wicked because it is debilitating to the self - reliance of the recipient; wicked because it deprives one of the capacity to give also to others; wicked because it infantilizes the recipient; wicked because it cements a bond between giver and taker that should be much more evanescent.

For Brightman, «the expansion of God into an omnipotent being» restricted God's benevolence, even though classical theism asserted both «with equal assurance.»

When you research (and it is difficult because most churches really are «shy» about publishing their budgets) how much a church gives to benevolence, it is many times even less than 10 % with the rest going to «stuff» that makes us better Christians.

Even then, the vegan practice of benevolence toward all creatures didn't really catch.

I had always thought it was the most beautiful gate in the city - even more graceful than the huge Gate of Supreme Benevolence, the entrance to the Imperial Palace.