Sentences with phrase «good over evil»

The Life - Changing Investment Diwali spiritually signifies the victory of light over darkness, good over evil, knowledge over ignorance, and hope over despair.

Her focus is criticism, and she burns the sculptures using an old Mexican custom that represents the triumph of good over evil.

Dancing Devils of Yare is an annual festival in Cristobal Valecillos's home country of Venezuela, rooted in an 18th Century tradition of Renewal and Triumph and Good over Evil.

The origins of the festival are centred on the triumph of good over evil, but over time the meaning has changed and now Holi is a celebratory festival announcing the beginning of spring.

There is much to enjoy about the book besides the mutual devotion betweenman and dog, and the triumph of good over evil.

Deepavali is a time to celebrate the success of good over evil and a time to ring in the new year.Families have sweets such as laddoo (balls of chickpea flour), payesh (thickened milk sweetened with sugar and rice), barfi (thickened, boiled - down milk) and jalebis (twirls of fried sugar) for people who will be stopping by during Deepavali.

Diwali is a time to celebrate the triumph of good over evil.

It's no wonder, then, that cinema returns to stories centered on Nazis time and time again; it's easy to root for good over evil when the evil is so extreme, so obvious, so utterly despicable as to be incomprehensible to any normal human being.

Sharpe James plays the joker to Cory Bookers» Batman and you can't help being drawn in to what feels like a battle of truth over lies, honesty over deciept, and good over evil.

Compiling these accounts (in a book that included some of the Titsch photographs), Mr. Keneally told «the story of the pragmatic triumph of good over evil, a triumph in eminently measurable, statistical, unsubtle terms.»

The Holi festival is meant to celebrate the triumph of good over evil, and it's a day for friends and family to come together with good times and some fun colored powder, which is where these new adidas shoes get their inspiration.

This festival also celebrates the victory of good over evil.

To have faith that love is at the heart of the universe, that the whole scheme of things is conceived in wisdom and goodwill, that a divine purpose underlies creation and makes the ultimate victory of good over evil a foregone conclusion — that, you say, is obviously a most comforting and enheartening philosophy.

A subtler form of wickedness will ensue, however, if this movie — with its obvious triumph of good over evil — is turned into the latest weapon for waging the culture wars.

If the Disney version of the Narnia stories features such radical conversions of hearts and wills — rather than easy victories of good over evil — then we shall have cause to be thankful indeed.

If the Disney version of the Narnia stories features radical conversions of hearts and wills — rather than easy victories of good over evil — then we shall have cause to be thankful.

Have we now come to the place where we no longer choose good over evil and God must choose it for us?

Therefore, he will not — indeed, he can not — choose good over evil in the spiritual realm.

Or use the eighth chapter of Luke as a template for Christian healing and a reaffirmation of the power of good over evil.

God gave you a free will to choose good over evil so choose wisely.

To eschatological faiths such as Judaism and Christianity, the triumph of good over evil is an ultimate ideal.

In the second place, to live in the reign of Christ means to share in an actual and continual victory of good over evil.

For suffering thus borne, willingly and without resentment, becomes a means towards the healing of wrongs, and the ultimate victory of good over evil.

More importantly, I do not believe the actual world «contains the greatest net amount of good over evil of any possible world containing free agents» God could have actualized; I see no reason to think there is any such world.

Secondly, I do not believe that «the possible world containing Hitler's actions — i.e., the actual world — contains the greatest net amount of good over evil of any possible world containing free moral agents which God was free to actualize.»

Perhaps for every world God could have actualized, there is another, containing an even better balance of good over evil (1:9).

These words show that the way Christ appointed is open to all, that the victory of good over evil benefits not only Christians but non-Christians also.

Ideas such as the Kingdom of God are expressions of confidence in the ultimate triumph of community, i.e., in the long - run victory of good over evil, or the final establishment of progress.

Progress means the enlarging triumph of good over evil.

This view entails a complete dismantling of traditional Christian doctrine, including: creation out of nothing, the finite duration of history and nature, miracles as direct divine acts, and the final triumph of good over evil.

Plantinga need only acknowledge that the possible world containing Hitler's actions — i.e., the actual world — contains the greatest net amount of good over evil of any possible world containing free moral agents which God was free to actualize.

Not exact matches

The original Comics Code not only barred «excessive bloodshed,» nudity and rape, but also mandated that «good shall triumph over evil.»

Thiel has portrayed Gawker as a force for evil, but Feinberg's article — which drew potential connections between Trump and the work of a $ 60,000 - a-pop hair - extension company called Ivari International — still went over rather well, drawing praise from staffers at the Times, the Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic; and at least three winners of the Pulitzer Prize.

Essentially, Clive Palmer is what most of us would be like if we were billionaires five times over (he's working on a recreation of the Titanic too) and has decided to use his money neither for good or for evil, but for fun.

Since I can't accept a reality where death conquers life, evil over good, and hate over love, I'm as good as dead anyway.

it cracks me up that people would be respectful to any god that would offer up their own son in blood scarifice, not a kind and benevolent, all knowing god, an evil and hateful god, we would be better off overing respects to santa clause, to my knowledge all he does is disappoint from time to time ive never known him to kill and destroy mankind by divers and sundry forms of cruel punishment.

The real debate, then, is not over whether or not torture happened, but over whether something evil can ever be done as a means to a good end.

The religious themes that run through many of his works reflect the age old belief of good triumphing over evil.

And oh yes, there's that part in Revelation (the last few chapters) where God simply «must» release Satan again, after killing all the «evil» people and having Jesus reign on earth for an eon over all the «good» people that are left.

Regardless of your views, I still have my personal faith, you may condemn me as simple minded or living in a fantasy world, but having witnessed first hand good triumphing over evil, I shall leave you to decide your own journey in life.

bleeds over into larger areas of theology â $ «is man inherently good or evil or both?

That refinement into pure does not distinguish between cultures over time only between light and darkness aka good and evil.

When discussing the possible existence of objective (divine) «truths», truthfollower over and over appeals to his audience with various examples attempting to get the reader to agree to a non-qualifed value of «evil / incorrect / bad / good», as if this will lock in an agreement of an objective «truth» value (without it being explicitly specified).

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.

Our first hopeful objectives as humans is to decide that Good id better than Evil and that we want to be part of one over the other (while humanity is making strides in this regard through the help of God, we're still not there yet).

What happened was that the evil Demiurge, whose antithesis is the impotent Good God and whose delegate is the Devil, took over the world, leaving us strangers within it and alienated from that true abundance of being that would otherwise have been our birthright.

The underlying concern here has vexed theologians for centuries: How can evil happen in a world that is lorded over by a good and all - powerful God?

Traditional Buddhist stories abound of meditators being taken over by evil spirits, and contemporary psychological studies of mindfulness practice going back to the 1970s include patients who experienced hallucinations, psychotic episodes, depression and other mental trauma, as well as nerve pain and similar physical impacts.

Every time I give in to a fearful thought, I am taking a bite from the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil all over again.

power / control is one of my favorite topics as well — i see one of Jesus» three wilderness temptations as being about that — and of course He rejected satan's offer of worldly power — i've written several blogs about power / control http://www.diospsytrek.wordpress.com — scott peck saw the desire for one human to exert control over another as the essential human evil — blessing on your work.