Sentences with phrase «for lack of a»

And for anyone blaming evolution for the lack of good parenting and the overall lack of common sense and common decency in this world today, quit it..

There is a verse in the Bible where God declares, «My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.»

I often think that one reason for the lack of clarity is to keep us humble and to keep us going to God for help on understanding His Word.

If we were to read even that biased evidence more critically, we would notice the professionals upbraiding the mass of ordinary people for lack of faith, as if the gift of which, we are told, modernity has deprived us was always rather the exception.

Those who believe in a «purpose» «greater good» or «intelligent design» for a lack of better man made terms, use the verbiage and concept of God.

The larger problem at play here is people largely as a whole are for lack of a better word, stupid, and I'm not talking about either evolutionists or creationist - what I actually mean is both sides!

A journeyman Braves reliever, batting for lack of other options, hits a routine grounder to third.

Creationism is based on the belief in God (the unknown being a higher «power» for lack of a better term).

Critics against Christ never give good reasons for their lack of faith but belittling statements.

I think that (and this is where I would like input from a greek scholar) Romans 1:5 and Romans 10:16 link belief as a agreement of the report, and then also links belief in the Gospel report as obedience, which would then be for lack of a better term - the lowest common denominator of faith.

All the comments / points I have made so far have gone unanswered or conveniently skipped (for lack of logical response).

My brothers response for lack of a better excuse was the devil made me do it.

The main - stream atheist does not believe in the existence of deities (most likely because, as the one responder said, for lack of evidence).

In the OT Book of Hosea He tells us that we perish for lack of knowledge.

The unfortunate truth is that this movement will likely fizzle out in the coming weeks / months for lack of direction.

It turns out that the value of the cosmological constant exactly makes up for the lack of matter in the universe.3

However, recent supernova 1A data demonstrated the existence of a cosmological constant that probably made up for the lack of light and dark matter in the universe.2 However, the data was tentative, since there was some variability among observations.

Still too many voids, unobservable processes and missing, well for lack of a better term, «links» for me to accept it as fact.

Faith shouldn't be an excuse for a lack of critical thought.

It was during the doldrums when people got restless, impatient, ambitious and, for lack of a better word, bitchy.

As I got out into the world myself, I was stunned by how petty and (for lack of a better word.)?

From my admittedly limited vantage point, the gravest dangers for us seem to be not legalism but antinomianism, not intellectualism but sentimentalism, not scrupulosity but laxity, not despair but presumption, not all - out retreat but all - out assimilation, not pharisaic ritualism but anti-liturgical iconoclasm, not missionary timidity but evangelical over-hastiness, not self - referentialism but self - forgetfulness (and not the good kind), not stifling uniformity but disjointed miscellany, not clericalism but, for lack of a better word, laicism.

What I meant is that the initial creation of the first cell capable of life was, for lack of a better word, a miracle either way.

At this point it is necessary to gain some clarity by problematizing what are normally taken to be simple binaries — clear and seemingly self - evident — like oppressor - oppressed and attempt to see if this almost taken - for - granted polarities are what have been responsible for the lack of progress in our quest for peace and reconciliation.

Mark 16:14 - 16 — «Later Jesus appeared to the Eleven as they were eating; he rebuked them for their lack of faith and their stubborn refusal to believe those who had seen him after he had risen.

This to me is the most urgent problem: The way they are behaving seems consistent with an idea of authority, power, entitlement and privilege that allows for a lack of accountability, transparency, honesty and humility.

Christ's Bride suffers for lack of holy imagination.»

They can't simply wash their hands of it and claim they have no responsibility for the lack of morality of their cult.

Bases of the Social Concept of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Russian Orthodox Church's official document outlining its position on social issues, calls grave social ills, such as alcoholism and drug addiction, «a retribution for the ideology of consumerism, for the cult of material prosperity, for the lack of spirituality, and the loss of authentic ideals.»

I confess that I have judged Christian women in my community for their lack of theological depth, despite the fact that when somebody gets sick or has a baby, they are the first to show up with casseroles, tissues, offers to help, and shoulders to cry on.

This is a country that loses wars for lack of troops.

I think somewhere under it all are people who would like to believe but for lack of tangible evidence, can't.

Aware that the disciples thought he referred to their failure to bring bread, Jesus rebuked them for their lack of perception.

What is a pagan, damned to Limbo forever for his lack of faith, doing as guide in a Christian poem?

Jesus rebuked him for his lack of faith.

When one reads Studs Terkel's book, Working, a series of interviews with more than 100 workers published in 1974, one gets the impression that most people keep working for lack of alternatives, not because they get much fulfillment from their jobs.

Yet for so long, for lack of anyone else, Plass was heralded (unfairly) as the Christian comedian.

As a commentary on the plight of the rich young ruler who can not bring himself to sell all he has, give the money to the poor, and follow Christ, it leaves little room for doubt that Christ is not merely rebuking one wealthy man for a lack of proper spiritual commitment, but is saying something very disquieting about wealth as such.

The frightened disciples woke him and complained of his apparent indifference; but he chided them for their lack of faith and rebuked the sea, «and there was a great calm.»

What a giant leap to go from an atheist (lack of belief in a deity for lack of evidence) to not only a belief in a deity but the Christian god and then become a member of a human created cult and Catholic at that.

During the 1948 siege of Jerusalem, these two rooms accommodated refugees from more vulnerable neighborhoods, who stepped over the sleeping family at night on their way to the toilet that could not be flushed for lack of water.

This objection is, for the lack of a better name, nothing more than «egg mysticism»: the belief that eggs are somehow so potently driven to create zygotes that no scientific manipulation will prove capable of deflecting the egg from its preordained path.

I think a majority have experienced ill will we have received for our lack of belief and feel sorry for him.

It doesn't bother me, as long as people don't judge me for my lack of faith.

The satisfying parts were there, for sure, — the setting, the direction, Clara and the Doctor, some portions of the dialogue — but they couldn't make up for the lack of a decent story.

These arguments for lack of concern are plausible.

«My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge» — Hosea 4:6.

But Martin is primarily interested in what, for lack of a better formula, I shall call the problem of faith and history.

I am not responsible for their lack of belief.

There is precedent for this lack of moral reasoning and is commonly referred to as a Nuremberg Defense.