Sentences with phrase «from vain»

Oh, and the sheetrock is beyond repair from our vain attempts to strip the awful floral paper that used to adorn the unprimed walls.

The whole procedure will take only a few minutes of your precious time and you will be released from vain attempts to finish your writing task.

Let's express our collective relief, again, that Joaquin Phoenix has emerged from his vain ass art project last year clean shaven and (sort of) hot again.

He is presented as this hipster messiah come to save us from our vain lives and teach us humility by doing... nothing.

He is presented as this hipster messiah come to save us from our vain

And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear: 18 forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: 20 who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, (AKJV).

Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: (1 Peter 1:18 - 19)

Not exact matches

In 1965, Malcolm X implored black voters to abstain from voting altogether if they felt their votes were being cast in vain.

Insurers, once forbidden from supervising physician work, now act as managers, peering over the shoulders of doctors in a vain effort to counteract payment incentives that have created an oversupply of insured care.

Whoever does not use his judgment to the utmost to keep the necessary reserve with them, will exert it in vain later on when he endeavors to extricate himself from the labyrinth, a misfortune which most often ends only at death.»

As for the Dr, in front of your name, I'd bet you are either very vain about it, or it came from a mail order degree mill.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain ¯ that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

I read from Paul where he claims that by grace he is what he is, and that this grace was not in vain.

(2) And those who from everything vain turn away.

All around the globe people have to realize that taking the name of God in vain is a serious offense and everyone should refrain from doing so.

It is the religiosity from church growth books, membership duties, vain promises that our Savior rebelled against in His day as Son of God, Son of Man, Let scripture super exceed any of mans futile attempts to be purpose driven, or a «church Member»

Adam Smith wrote: «But man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only.»

My specific reference to Jeremy's statement about taking the Lord's name in vain flowed from the average view of people that this refers solely to using the word «God» in ungodly contexts.

Sura 05 - Al - Maeda In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful To thee We sent the Scripture in truth, confirming the scripture that came before it, and guarding it in safety; so judge between them by what Allah hath revealed, and follow not their vain desires, diverging from the Truth that hath come to thee.

What ever it is it became clear that we went and still are going wrong for having left behind laws and judgments given to us by God Allah and replaced it with laws and judgments made by men that are against what we were instructed to follow up but followed the vain desires of some diverging from the truth although we were warned not to..?

Again, we may notice that the model used to picture God in much popular religious talk, and in some theological talk too, was borrowed, as Whitehead noted in his Modes of Thought (Free Press, 1968, p. 49), from «the characteristics of the touchy, vain, imperious tyrants who ruled the empires of the world.»

and from your description were praying in vain rather than truly seeking for wisdom... so no PRAYER did NOT do this... just becauise some ABUSE it..

But the use of alcohol as a self - prescribed pain - deadener creates a runaway symptom of increasing drinking in a vain attempt to overcome the psychological and physiological pain resulting from previous excessive drinking.

It comes from the Latin frustra, which means «in vain.»

While it is of course true that those who belong to this school are perhaps most vocal in their assertion that in our Lord alone may God be seen at work, and while it is they who denounce the concept of «general» revelation as a vain fancy of sub-Christian speculation, a considerable number of other Christian thinkers take what in effect is the same position when they make central to their teaching a kind of uniqueness in the coming and the person of Christ which effectively removes him from the context of the total sell - expressive operation of the Eternal Word.

Your faith in a dead God is vain; you're apparently blind to your own disbelief and sadly cut off from repentance of it; and your prejudiced accusations and support of a policy platform that defiles the sacred fountain of life, pretending to «love» people by clothing them in chains of dependency, expose your fearful guilt.

Adds the former president of a national environmental organization, who has looked in vain for support from religious groups in efforts to protect wilderness and wildlife: «The Unitarians occasionally let us meet in their buildings; that's been our primary contact with churches on this issue.»

From this paradox traditional theism tried in vain to free itself.

This article is excerpted from God's Name in Vain: The Wrongs and Rights of Religion in Politics.

He walked away from the very presence of God and became alone as he followed the vain imaginations of his own mind.

Yet God is the One who values and uses, because God incorporates into the divine life which is everlasting the good that takes place in the historical sequence; and God overrules or uses for good that which comes from the «vain imagination of foolish men» in their sin and defection — and, we may add, from anything else that is evil or wrong thanks to the free decisions made by the creatures in their divinely granted capacity to choose among relevant possibilities.

But talk takes the name of enthusiasm in vain by proclaiming loudly from the housetop what it should work out in silence.

When one takes the name of the Lord in vain, one reveals that he is separated from the deepest ground of his being; he is separated from God.

But in vain he struggles thus; the difficulty he stumbled against demands a breach with immediacy as a whole, and for that he has not sufficient self - reflection or ethical reflection; he has no consciousness of a self which is gained by the infinite abstraction from everything outward, this naked, abstract self (in contrast to the clothed self of immediacy) which is the first form of the infinite self and the forward impulse in the whole process whereby a self infinitely accepts its actual self with all its difficulties and advantages.

Barth held that there is no way from human beings to God, and his disciple Hendrik Kraemer (1888 - 1965) argued that religions, including Christianity, were vain human attempts to reach God.

Muhammad said, «He who does not give up uttering falsehood and misconduct abstains in vain from food and drink during the fast, as Allah does not require merely physical compliance from him».

Saving Adam Smith can help save us from both the folly of vain materiel pursuit and the heartless neglect of people in need.

God fear would make a man of faith to think a thousand time and will ultimately stop him from being corrupt and from doing other vain things of the world.

We search almost in vain for a modern Catholic writer who can show us that the grace of God not only redeems nature but loves and completes it, for one who can imagine a world where God is not simply a specter haunting our consciences from the alleyway, but the author of all things.

Though it constantly uses God's name in vain and holds good people captive, its roots drink from a foreign aquifer in order to posion, enslave, and exploit its captives.

â $ œIn the beginning there was faithâ $» which is childish; trustâ $» which is vain; and illusionâ $» which is dangerousâ $ ¦ â $ œWe believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark from the Shekkinahâ $ ™ s flame; that every one of us carries in his eyes and in his soul a reflection of Godâ $ ™ s image.

And so we learn, for example, from THE FEDERALIST or from Hobbes that the Athenian assembly was filled with vain and contentious men, men animated by sometimes cruel and often violent aristocratic pretensions.That «democracy» did have the characters or the institutions to support a just and stable middle - class way of life.

Resurrection is here closely associated with martyrdom; it is a «wonderful reward reserved for those who die a godly death».7 This kind of resurrection hope arose spontaneously, but perhaps irrationally, from those who, observing martyrdom, had no other way of expressing their conviction that the martyr had not died in vain.

Many modern Americans, Hibbs pointed out, persist in the vain hope that healthy eating, regular exercise, and seatbelts will somehow protect them from the indignities of aging and death.

Otherwise it would be too easy to decide that since no human cause is without sin or deserving of our ultimate loyalty, since none will result in the perfect good, we may as well just sit back and sagely observe from an uninvolved distance the vain and foolish strivings of humanity.

I am not saying disappointment on your article, my only point is that its faith, and only God can judge the correctness... The word of God cultivates the mind, and the seed of faith should bloom in its natural way, urging anything to study by words and its meaning is in - vain because the use of that will not gain you anything from God, but yes maybe in politics and people like you.

To investigate the dimension of transcendence, conceived not as an attribute to God but as a dimension of man, is not to start from something which exists in our world in a vain attempt to prove the existence of what can exist only in another world; it is simply to investigate all the dimensions of human reality.22

The updating or «aggiornamento» of the Church did not mean jettisoning unpalatable parts of the Catholic faith in a vain attempt to be more with it; it meant a more effective proclamation of the same gospel that the apostles received from Christ and that has been handed down in and by the Church ever since — in Benedict XVI's words «the continuity of the one subject - Church».

Confidence in the emergence of a new world culture to perform the function of supplying Protestants with the same kind of unity which they once derived from Western European culture is a vain and illusory hope.

He calls upon them to turn from their «vain gods» to the living God, the creator.