Sentences with phrase «incapable of»

Heaven Sent is apparently incapable of answering any tough questions.

Cyril of Alexandria explains Christ's weeping at the tomb of Lazarus thus: «He permitted his own flesh to weep a little, although it was in its nature tearless and incapable of grief.»

Unfortunately a few seem to be incapable of doing so.

But when spoken in the company of non believers, you should reasonably expect to have pointed out to you that your affirmative statement gives the impression to us that you KNOW something that we KNOW that you really don't KNOW, and that you seem incapable of recognizing that your BELIEF can only be confused as KNOWLEDGE in your own head.

In my opinion this spectrum is incapable of incorporating the dynamics of the present mood, the deeper structures which are decisive for American public life, or the nature of our present peril.

Apparently you are only capable of reading letters and words and incapable of comprehension.

A Muslim center for which its founders can not bring themselves to unequivocally condemn Al Qaeda, the Hamas, the Hezbollah and Taliban by name, will also be incapable of affording Manhattan real estate.

I was faced with two extremes: a view of revelation as incapable of development, and a view of development as incapable of being revelation.

In other words, you're incapable of understanding the «truth» of their doctrines because you're working with a sinful, carnal mind, rather than a spiritual one.

«Further, I think he is utterly wrong in his assessment — if his concern is for them, the he should let them decide» + + + no, family members shouldn't get to decide when you die unless you are incapable of making that decision yourself.

By unnecessarily and cruelly inflicting suffering and death upon children / infants as the collateral damage of god's decision to exterminate their parents when these children / infants were incapable of a free will choice to engage evil or reject god.

Eyes incapable of....

For these two abstractions, both incapable of sentient suffering, the lake of fire stands for their extinction and annihilation.

When that time comes, a Muslim center, for which its Imam «spiritual leader» can not bring himself to unequivocally condemn Al Qaeda, the Hamas, the Hezbollah and Taliban by name, will also, «inshallah», be incapable of affording Manhattan real estate.

These movements are constitutionally incapable of providing a holistic perspective.

But if this truth can only exist in open communication with others, it also necessarily involves what is good in others, however incapable of being assimilated this may appear at first sight.

The United States government should forever be incapable of ever being swayed by the argument that it is «violating religious principles»!

Incapable of living the selfless life that God demands of us.

Most live in flimsy, breakable homes, homes incapable of withstanding an earthquake of this magnitude.

And so we observe that the tongue of a sick man that is infected by a choleric and bitter humour is incapable of sensing anything sweet, but everything seems to him bitter.

So, if the intellectual principle contained in itself the nature of some body, it would be incapable of knowing all bodies [ST1.75.2].

«The state which would provide everything, absorbing everything into itself, would ultimately become a mere bureaucracy incapable of guaranteeing the very thing that the suffering person — every person — needs: namely, loving personal concern.»

However, no problem — John divides life into Light and (spiritual) Darkness — the trick is being incapable of being imbued with darkness; then hating anyone is virtually impossible, even if you don't love them quite the way you should all of the time.

First, nothing that follows will have any impact on those for whom marriage is simply a self - satisfying venture and who are incapable of seeing it as a calling, a mission, and a commitment of service and love.

Let us remember that number is incapable of a maximum, that in whatever sense God may be «beyond number,» still number can hardly be in every sense without value to him — or at any rate, variety can hardly be, and there is no more reason to speak of maximal variety than of maximal number.

There is, of course, an even more dire anxiety that emerges when some people prove incapable of living with our differences.

[4] When theological schooling is defined as preparation for filling the functions that make up the role of professional church leadership, graduates turn out to be incapable of nurturing and guiding congregations as worshiping communities, the health of whose common life depends on the quality of the theology that is done there.

To say that sin at least harmed men is beside the point; for what harm did it do to harm men, parts of a system of reality that as a whole or in its ultimate reality was incapable of loss or gain?

... Unbelievers... are not incapable of seeking God.

Women addicted to drugs are given babies, when they are totally incapable of taking care of themselves, much less a child.

For the remainder of his life, he was all but incapable of writing a boring sentence.

The church which lacks this foundation, Bonhoeffer says, is incapable of taking the word of reconciliation and redemption to humankind and the world.

And the dilemma remains, even in the negative theology, that either all value is compossible — which seems certainly untrue, for values conflict — or else God must fail to possess some values which yet are possible — and how then can he be incapable of growth in value?

No matter how thorough one's knowledge of the intricacies of physics and chemistry may be, this knowledge alone is incapable of providing the rules for successful writing.

A pure form is simply a pure form, incapable of specifying its relevance to concrete actualization.

He is capable of knowing that his authentic life consists in self - commitment, but is incapable of realizing it because however hard he tries he still remains what he is, self - assertive man.

Having allowed the scrivener in his «mild effrontery» to remain after the first noncompliance, he is incapable of firing him, even as what Bartleby prefers not to do escalates.

Postmodernists are incapable of allegory because allegory requires a known story to which it is «other.»

Despite the pro-life movement's best efforts, the evidence does not indicate this capacity for fetuses prior to ~ 22 - 24 wks, and there is no argument that an embryo is incapable of experience suffering as we understand it.

Can we not accept the suggestion that there are facts, even «scientific» facts, which we can never know because we are incapable of understanding them?

But I sensed from the tone of the message that this person truly cared about my well - being and that his heart genuinely breaks for people like me who seem incapable of simply accepting what we are told.

And hard as we may try, human beings are simply incapable of any behavior that carries no bias, no moral or political persuasion.»

After presenting his startling evidence, Davies stated: «It is not denied that the majority of alcohol addicts are incapable of achieving «normal drinking.»

Why is it, finally, that men are still so painfully incapable of agreeing among themselves; why does the threat of war still appear so menacing?

But if these beliefs had not been presented to him at all, or were presented in a hateful way, or were presented in a true and right way but he was incapable of fully understanding them, or even if he were capable but died before being fully convinced — in such cases a man is not an unbeliever according to Almighty Judgment and will not suffer everlasting punishment.

The spark which, incapable of being pinned down by the naked eye, pins one finally inexorably to reality, the great unpinning: one achieves a dancing discipline, is fulfilled by a flying fatal freedom, achievement and fulfillment being gift and more than gift.

You have become a mindless spoon fed fundamentalist incapable of thinking for yourself.

Furthermore, Tillich is incapable of true Yes - saying, for he can not accept an authentically contemporary form of Existenz, and he insists that Existenz must culminate in anxiety and despair.

I'm wondering why it is that you seem completely incapable of ever being an honest defender of your myths.

For Jesus is incapable of resentment (non-dialectical negation), is liberated from «history,» and is himself the exact opposite of Christianity.