Sentences with phrase «even reproached»

Not exact matches

I thought the Biblical perspective was that elders are to have a good repuration with outsiders and to be above reproach... and to not even have the appearance of evil... Sorry, on issues like this I'll take the apostle Paul over a magazine editor anyday.

And merely to give his love for her an imperfect expression was in his eyes a deception, even though no one understood him and reproaches sought to mortify his soul.

If what a man fears is not the mistake itself, but the reproach at being caught in the mistake, then that fear so far from helping him out of the error may even lead him into that which is still more ruinous, even if apart from this he had made no mistake.

He doesn't «need» to use mankind to do this work, he could have used the angels or even «the stones would cry out» Luke 19:40 It was a gift and a privilege that many have used to bring reproach and turn away honest hearted from the truth of the bible.

But till the end give me the man who takes the best of everything (even at my expense) and then talks of other things, rather than the man who serves me and talks of himself, and whose very kindnesses are a continual reproach, a continual demand for pity, gratitude, and admiration.

The reproach of Rabshakeh is true even if wrongly motivated; God's chosen people should not rely on Egypt.

When my new acquaintance discovered that I was a theologian and that I was particularly interested in studying how Romanesque art and architecture illustrated the Augustinian - Anselmian character of the faith of the early Middle Ages — with its profound pessimism about the human condition apart from grace — the conversation sent him into a mood of self - reproach and even to consideration of abandoning his dissertation topic.

This reproach is clearly superficial, even if it is not completely unfounded: as emphasized previously, seeing a return to genetic early forms in a philosophy of organism would be absurd, just as seeing a return to animism in the proposals of Piaget would be absurd.

Even a man who wants to spend his life counting blades of grass is not to be reproached.

Their motives are beyond reproach, their efforts courageous and sometimes even imaginative — but such strange results!

Even when they are asked without malice or reproach, the questioner still expects a deliberate, logical explanation, supported if possible by a few convincing and easily remembered arguments.

On 13 June Luther unexpectedly and without informing any of his friends in advance... married Bora... You might be amazed that at this unfortunate time... he turns to self - indulgence and diminishes his reputation, just when Germany has special need of his judgement and authority... The man is certainly pliable; and the nuns have used their arts... society with the nuns has softened or even titillated this honourable, high - spirited man... the rumour that he had previously dishonoured her is clearly a lie... Now that the deed is done, we must not take it too hard, or reproach him; for I think, indeed, that he was compelled by nature to marry.

It could even be his facial expression when things go wrong: Furrowed brow, open mouth, a constant reproach to a universe that by rights should be making much more sense.

AS for the nonsense of supporting Wenger instead of the club, this is a rubbish reproach, I respect him for what he has done for the club and for his classy behaviour of respecting even the people wanting him out... Unlike the pundits fools; Carragher and co.

His party recognises him as a «god» hence his insults on everyone pass by without reproach from even the flag bearer of his party.

Rourke gives the character a human sensibility that makes the audience root for him, even though his acts of violence are beyond reproach.

All I will say is that assuming that even JK Rowling is beyond reproach just because she's sold a lot of books is silly at best.

«Even with these positive points, there has never been more blatant reproach and harassment towards the women making games and female consumers who are growing the market with their wallets,» said Meloni.

Even if this was the real reason, it does not justify the abandonment of the prescribed criteria of the Expert Review process, which were there to ensure that it was above reproach.

The imposition of a compliance burden that is difficult even for major corporations to handle is another target for reproach within the report, and the practice of imposing penalties where guilt is only proved «on the balance of probabilities», or requiring a business to prove its innocence is also criticised.