Sentences with phrase «evil is nothing»

Evil is nothing but lack of development.

Hidden in all this avoidance of evil is nothing less than a painless, suffering - free and, finally, immortal existence,» a goal he finds wrongheaded and dangerous.

Hopefully Deliver Us From Evil was nothing more than a fluke.

Not exact matches

«There's nothing wrong or evil about having a bad day.

«There's nothing inherently evil about shorting a stock,» says University of British Columbia law professor Cristie Ford.

I said nothing of the sort, I only pointed out that census data was misused by Nazis for their own evil purposes, as it was misused by the American government (and possibly the Canadian government) for the purposes of interning their citizens of Japanese descent (which, to the credit of the US Census bureau, it has apologized for).

Every member of President Trump's advisory councils should wrestle with his or her conscience and ponder Edmund Burke's famous warning that «All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.»

Instead of focusing on criminal behavior which has nothing to do with a man's masculine identity but a person's evil choices, some target men for simply being men.

The fear of the great nothing is too much for my mind to bear, and I can sleep at night by convincing myself that the absolute nothing we all face one day will instead be full of happy choirs of angels, reward for any suffering I've endured, punishment of the wicked and evil (it pains me to think those who cause so much evil will not suffer for eternity, so hell is a great comfort too), and that I'll get to see all those I currently miss since the death of friends and family are so painful.

It is written; «If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness»

Unfortunately in my case, I've probably gone to excess the other way... after 43 years of being (in my view) threatened with hellfire for every cotton - picking thing (including the «sinfulness» of being born in the first place because it's a well - known scriptural fact that every human is born sinful and separated from G - d, with a heart that does nothing but desire evil and no way to please G - d even when righteous), threatened with being «left behind» in the rapture (should I fail on some doctrinal (belief) point at the crucial moment)... I refuse to consider ANY possibility of hell at all.

There is nothing intrinsically evil about politically correct euphemisms in government documents, including ones pertaining to marriage.

Giving or taking access to items doesn't matter (so long as the item itself isn't evil) but a firearm is nothing but a tool... no different than a hammer or a saw... using it for self defense is openly condoned by the Bible.

In short, what is described these days as «progressive Christianity» is nothing but a praxiological state and theology, which hides numerous evils, while calling them «good».

There is really nothing inherantly evil about that.

My deconversion was a long process, and it had almost nothing to do with what I now believe to be the evil of religion — it was about what I thought to be true, and what there seemed to be evidence for.

If he watches children being abused and does nothing then he is evil.

If he sees people starving and he does nothing then he is evil.

«The only thing evil needs to thrive, is for good men to do nothing.»

It is an adventurous work of theological speculation on creation «out of nothing,» the Church and her sacraments, and the meaning of eschatology, including an imaginatively orthodox (and Orthodox) treatment of whether all, including the evil angels, will at last be redeemed.

There is nothing pure of this evil «religion».

Never mind that there is nothing morally good or evil without God.

Jim bakker, Jim jones, Jimmy swaggert, david koresh, Joel Osteen, Osama bin ladin, Mark Tilman, Benny Hinn, are nothing more than typical evil religious maniacs.

Initially, it appears that they were already evil because of their pride, but a more fundamental reason reveals itself in Augustine's discussion: «Now, nature could not have been depraved by vice had it not been made out of nothing.»

Although I've been reading the Bible since my early teens and knew what was written, there is nothing like facing evil face to face and surviving their wrath to bring a person closer to Jesus.

Idolizing war or those that were sacrificed for the dreams of evil men, accomplishes nothing.

15:15), so a troubled soul, one ever conscious of its sin, is a constant hell, which will be nothing but an evil conscience.

More sophisticated theologians have qualified this outrageous notion by saying that God can do nothing which is irrational, such as make square circles, or which is contrary to God's own nature and purpose, which are assumed to be good in some ultimate sense, and therefore that God can not engage in genuinely evil acts.

Nothing close will ever happen until God steps back into history and brings His kingdom about where the foolishness of man and evil will be punished and everyone will know the truth.

There can be nothing wrong with our desire for justice and there can be nothing but right in our desire to see evil restrained and exploitation cease.

Atheist Richard Dawkins has even said, «The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.»

Here then is a theology that either means nothing certainly identifiable (without supernatural grace or high genius in the art of reconnecting with experience concepts carefully divested of relation to it) or else means that the world might exactly as well not have existed, or as well have existed with far more evil or less good in it than it actually presents.

In River out of Eden (Weidenfeld and Nicolson) Richard Dawkins writes: «The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.»

Muslims are barbaric evil people and they have proven that they will stop at nothing for their cause.

He is nothing but «Evil».

The * natural * reaction is to demonize the aggressors; after all, as Edmund Burke and others have pointed out «the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.»

In an opening theoretical discussion, he characterizes conspiracy belief as an attempt «to delineate and explain evil,» guided by three basic principles: Nothing happens by accident; nothing is as it seems; and everything is conNothing happens by accident; nothing is as it seems; and everything is connothing is as it seems; and everything is connected.

From the day of our wedding he has been nothing but mean, selfish, and evil towards me.

«All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.»

Young, old, male, female, «every plan devised by humanity's mind was nothing but evil all the time,» says the Book of Genesis.

Nothing is quite so evil as fanatical religious people who in the name of God carry out inquisitions, pogroms, heresy trials, witch - hunts holy wars and crusades.

Nothing is so disturbing to the evil as to see transparent goodness in those they hate.

The things that go on during that night are nothing short of evil and more.

Was it not Herman Melville who suggested that Emerson's claim to a newfound inability to perceive evil might be nothing more than failing eyesight?

The bible says we are to have NOTHING to do with evil.

And now suppose the best the atheologian can do by way of an antitheistic argument from evil is to point out that theists do not have an explanation for evil: then theism has nothing to fear from him.

He may believe in God, believe that God is both good and powerful, and believe that God has a reason for permitting evil — a reason for each specific evil; but he may have nothing but the most general idea as to why God permits these evils.

The quote, misattributed to Burke, «The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men should do nothing», gets at the same point, somewhat.

1Ti 6:3 If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, [even] the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; 1Ti 6:4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, 1Ti 6:5 Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.

All that evil needs to thrive is a good «man» (or woman) to do nothing.