Sentences with phrase «great evil of»

• Protestants, including those now so intensely engaged in the pro-life movement, were slow to recognize the great evil of what thirty years ago was called «liberalized abortion law.»

Now, before venturing into the great evil of the first disobedience, I want to linger for one last moment on the goodness of creation.

They would be rightly called part of the «evangelical right wing»; they believe abortion is the great evil of our generation, that the US is a Christian nation, and that «no one who is a Christian can vote for this (policy / party / person).»

This country is in the state that it is in because of secularism — the great evil of our time.

I believe wholeheartedly that Christianity is one of the great evils of our time.

Voltaire in Candide went so far as to say that to be engaged fully was the way to keep the three great evils of boredom, vice and need at bay.

Ignatieff states straightforwardly his fundamental position» that a democracy may resort to lesser evils when faced with the greater evil of its own destruction» and proceeds to test it from several perspectives.

These were the great evils of the frontier.

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari described corruption as one of the greatest evils of our time.

He has on many occasions described corruption as the «greatest evil of our time,» a vice that could destroy Nigeria if the country refuses to tackle it; he has often vowed to fight the menace to a standstill.

With years of reporting in such places as Haiti, Sudan, India, Eastern Europe, The Netherlands, and, yes, even suburban America, he has produced a vivid testament and moving reportage on one of the great evils of our time.

Furthermore, says Justice Wagner, it stands to reason that if the Charter protects one against being punished again for the same offence as a result of the application of due process of law, it must protect against the greater evil of being punished again without due process.

Not exact matches

Sanders distinguished the evils of «corporate America» from our «great entrepreneurial nation.»

One desperate solution was for blacks to risk voting for the candidate who represented the greater of two evils, in the hope that he would be sympathetic to African Americans because they helped secure the election.

«Most people here see the oilsands as some great evil,» he says of his upstate New York neighbours.

These bonds are stronger than the forces of hatred and evil and these bonds grow even stronger in the hours of our greatest need.

The greatest discomfort for us is that in speculative, overvalued, overbought, overbullish markets, we'll often look like idiots, lose credibility, and later recover a flood of followers who were bloodied in a completely predictable collapse that makes us look like evil geniuses.

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.

I think one of the greatest problems facing any person of belief is the problem of evil.

Maybe evil is the work of the devil, but if god is so great and powerful, why can't he stop all the madness?

Even if international tribunals, especially the ICC, were to meet with greater success in arresting arch-human-rights violators, deterring future violators, and bolstering the rule of law, they would remain morally unsatisfying as a response to massive evil.

«The story about «spreading the faith by the sword» is an evil legend, one of the myths that grew up in Europe during the great wars against the Muslims — the reconquista of Spain by the Christians, the Crusades and the repulsion of the Turks, who almost conquered Vienna.

Religion's greatest evil isn't violence or bigotry, but complacence and sanction of refusal to take personal responsibility.

Well it is true that some people seek sorcerers to implement Jinn that are satanic demons into mankind or his house or his business to finish him or make his life miserable or to stop flow of his business income... In such case it is either you are religious enough and say your prayers often then it becomes hard for this to harm you or otherwise you need to find some one who practice exorcism to remove this evil... But many are just pretending to be good at it and help you not but squeeze money out of you with tales and stories... There is another type of possessions and that is not through a sorcerer but directly by coincidence what man is at his weakest moments and those weakest moments for a possessions are when you come through a great fear or when cry or laugh loudly in hysteria, or during a certain moment of mating... or even when sneezing loudly... That's why there are prayers to be said on daily basis to guard you from such things and specially if passing haunted places such as deserted houses but most evil ones are residents of public toilets and market places... Some of them even would claim that you have made a wrong action by which you have killed a dear one to them and for that they have possessed you and that is mostly night time such as throwing a cigaret butt to a dark place or stepping killing an insect or even an animal at night which could have been one of them or possessed by one of them... So this is true thing happening to many who suffer unexplainable illnesses or sufferings which could look like mental illness that comes and goes as pleased...

The celebration of Satan is much worse than abortion, as it is the greater evil.

The greatest driving force of evil I can fathom, is the force that judges in a fog of xenophobia and demands the slaughter of all those who will not bend to your will.

Evil had become so great upon the face of the earth, that a return to the pre-creation chaos was inevitable.

The evil they accomplished soon became so great, it threatened the very existence of God's good creation.

An example of the comments they were referring to was a tweet sent on 1st March 2013 from Dawkins saying «I think Islam is the greatest force for evil in the world today.

But evil rallied their forced and gained a great ally when they deceived Adam and Eve to hand over the Satan the dominion of the earth.

Morally, as Ruether has noted, the individual is ambivalent, fundamentally good but capable of great evil; consequently, a feminist critique must keep hold of a judging as well as an affirming dimension if it is truly to respond to the human condition.

Rather than viewing conflict as the second greatest evil, conflict is an opportunity to grow and give the world something beautiful, a picture of the gospel, a picture of God.

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.

Drawing on recently discovered materials from the archives of Communist intelligence services, Weigel describes the forty - year history of their attempts to discredit Karol Woytyla and the Church in what Woytyla himself described as a «great struggle between good and evil... a great struggle between Mary and Satan.»

Another condition of us being in this life to experience a world of both good and evil is that we go through this life for a limited time only, and that for us to obtain the greatest happiness that God can give us, it can't be done if were all dead without any means to overcome death.

It is very sad that the evil actions of the weak wipe out the great good of the many.

... Those who make a great profession of religion have need to walk very circumspectly, to abstain from all appearances of evil, and approaches towards it, because many eyes are upon them, that watch for their halting; their character is soon sullied (defiled, tainted), and they have a great deal of reputation to lose.

There are many who believe that the evils that have for some accompanied these great advantages for others will soon be reduced as the benefits of progress are extended further and further.

But without some fixed sense of rightness how can one distinguish what is monstrous, evil or «not great» from its opposite?

I am of opinion this is not when we misjudge a charismatic event and call it evil, for elsewhere, «Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world,» (1 John 4:1), and «For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.»

After the great flood, God promised Noah never again to curse the earth, but God's reason was wonderfully arch: «For the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth» (Gen. 8:21).

To be sure, the cracks in the realistic surface, the surrealism, are far greater than in parables in the «Primary World,» but the story is still parabolic, for the transcendent unfamiliar, both good and evil, operative in this tale works within the givens of this world.

Therefore, to become as «perfect» as our Heavenly Father, we must focus on the greater questions: How do we give perfect impartiality of blessings upon those that are evil and those that are good?

That's a great piece of circular logic given you started out trying to prove atheist are evil because Hitler was an atheist.

There is some sort of connection, I think, between the sons of God and daughters of men, and their offspring the Nephilim, and how all this relates to the great evil that covered the earth and how Noah was «blameless in his generations» (a very strange Hebrew phrase).

«But blessed are you when they revile and persecute you ans say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake.Rejoice and be EXCEEDINGLY glad, for great is your reward in Heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

But, there is of course a great deal of evil in the world, and if God is indeed omnipotent, omni - competent, and omni - voluntarist, somehow God must be responsible for that evil either directly or — as theologians have phrased it — permissively.

Lest it appear that this book proposes to substitute piety and devout words for action, let it be said at once that only by a great deal of determined action can even a minor dent be made on the evils just mentioned.

In his encyclical Divini Illius Magistri, issued in 1939, Pope Pius XI deplored the fact that «these most powerful means of publicity, which can be of great utility for instruction and education when directed by sound principles, are only too often used as an incentive to evil passions and greed for gain.»

We are capable of doing great and beautiful things, but we also have the capacity to do evil and ugly things.