Sentences with phrase «incomprehensible for»

Marketing used to mean putting a three - line ad in the paper, an ad that was generally incomprehensible for all the savage things we did to the English language to fit 100 words into 75 characters.

From one hand, Soviet Union and other communist regimes of the East showed lack of understanding for the art practices of Modernism, interpreting non-representative forms of art as incomprehensible for the proletariat, while United States» government through funding and organization directly supported rise of abstract art to show progressive and liberating character of capitalist society.

This unbridled value rise has made it close incomprehensible for the basic man to buy their home through just funds.

«It's not just the comparative depth of the narrative,» she continued, «It also boasts almost seamless integration between combat systems that were previously incomprehensible for amateurs.

It's not just the comparative depth of the narrative; it also boasts almost seamless integration between combat systems that were previously incomprehensible for amateurs.

What's good for Russians, it is incomprehensible for a foreigner, but it is — at least — curious.

Nick Clegg said that, «It would be utterly incomprehensible for millions of people, if suddenly the priority is to give 300,000 people at the very, very top a tax break.».

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But the $ 2,000 fee to incorporate was an incomprehensible amount of money to an unemployed 14 - year - old, and Gillis felt guilty asking his mom for the cash.

Many major blockbusters, like 2009's «Watchmen», were heavily cut for Middle East audiences, which critics said led to the movie being «near incomprehensible.»

«It is incomprehensible that the union is calling for the biggest pay increase for the most well - paid group of staff,» Lufthansa board member Bettina Volkens said in a statement.

It is incomprehensible how anyone who calls themselves a christian or even an athiest for that matter has this much hate.

I believe the incomprehensible perfection of every character God has is intensified with a black backdrop like they use for diamonds.

The truth is that the greatest enemies to the doctrines of Jesus are those calling themselves the expositors of them, who have perverted them for the structure of a system of fancy absolutely incomprehensible, and without any foundation in his genuine words.

But this was only a foretaste of the still more incomprehensible enthusiasm for Darkest Hour — yet another film about Winston Churchill defying Hitler and fighting on.

For the informed Catholic, the proposal of Faith in Action will be simply incomprehensible.

(Ps 90:2, KJV) This is incomprehensible from human reasoning, for all that we see has had a starting point.

Later, in his hospital bed, he gave a sermon that was totally incomprehensible except for «Christ and his Church» somewhere in the middle.

You will never make it, for this is a journey of unknowables — of unanswered questions, enigmas, incomprehensibles, and most of all, things unfair.»

An entire adult life spent in prayer and fasting in the temple may have equipped her for high status in the ancient world, but to us such choices are nearly incomprehensible.

For example, the concept of an ancient earth seemed incomprehensible to people 500 years ago.

The loss of biblical language in public rhetoric or in public education may have telling effect (Lincoln might be incomprehensible today) Sunday school and other agencies of biblical education, where the texts can be restored and minds can as well be re-stored, are neglected, signaling that citizens are not really serious when they ask for more religion in the schools.

It must be made quite clear that he who, not on the fringe of the christian mystical tradition but at its point of fullest development, was able without imprudence to engage in this formidable battle with matter had prepared himself for it by the most rigorous asceticism: first, in childhood and youth, the asceticism of an unwavering fidelity to the christian ideal; later, that of a careful and constant obedience to the exigencies of a vocation which would lead him on without respite up the steeply climbing road to perfection till he came to that solitude which he himself described: «he would henceforth be for ever a stranger..., he would inevitably speak henceforth in an incomprehensible tongue, he whom the Lord had drawn to follow the road of fire.»

The «fear of God» is the essence of «holy insecurity,» for «it comes when our existence becomes incomprehensible and uncanny, when all security is shattered through the mystery.»

The mystery of God's plan for our lives is incomprehensible.

If visitors find themselves singing off - putting or incomprehensible words, they may leave feeling awkward and thinking that faith is for an eccentric club.

And even if we do consider individuals as isalated entities, Augustine's exposure of the moral ambiguity of every human initiative and intention — indeed, the impossibility of even knowing for certain our real motives — renders pure Pelagianism incomprehensible.

In fact when a scientist writes for other scientists his language becomes practically incomprehensible to outsiders.

That scholars have equated this divine permission and commandment with Epicureanism is incomprehensible, for in his second chapter the Preacher rejects all crude and refined forms of Epicureanism as vanity.

It is in suffering that the whole human question about God arises; for incomprehensible suffering calls the God of men and women in question.

It is incomprehensible how one can believe that a loving and merciful God would create a world containing sin, yet would not give mankind a way to atone for it until a 4,000 year waiting period was completed for the death of his son.

For incomprehensible reasons, the leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention unfortunately decided to withdraw from the Baptist World Alliance.

In A Preface to Morals, an attempt at humanistic theology, Lippman charged Whitehead with having a conception of God «which is incomprehensible to all who are not highly trained logicians,» a conception which «may satisfy a metaphysical need in the thinker,» but «does not satisfy the passions of the believer,» and for the purposes of religion «is no God at all.

Burning for 5000 trillion years and then another and another... is incomprehensible from a God who has outlined justice for man in the OT.

Add some new names for God, even though they describe some incomprehensible and non-existent idol.

... I understand solidarity in sin among men, I understand solidarity in retribution, too, but, surely, there can be no solidarity in sin with children, and if it is really true that they share their fathers» responsibility for all their fathers» crimes, then that truth is not, of course, of this world, and it's incomprehensible to me» (p. 286).

God is incomprehensible, for God does not exist in the sphere of human power.

For Holloway, therefore, Mystery «does not mean incomprehensible, but «comprehensible till lost in the distance».»

Such a notion he finds incomprehensible, for he can see God at work only in the reality of his personal life and in his transformation.

He is incomprehensible in principle, for even if we were to discover a «world formula» it would not even explain ourselves, and this formula, precisely because it was understood, would again be enveloped in the infinite mystery.

If ever there was an opportunity in human history for the reconstruction of faith, for the self - disclosure of the Incomprehensible Transcendent source of being as God, as wholly loyal to his creation, as redeemer of all the promises given with the gift of existence itself, then it was at this point where faith in him became incarnate.

For many Americans and Europeans, not only are the societies in the Bible — in both testaments — distant in terms of time and place, but their everyday assumptions are all but incomprehensible.

And by disbelief I do not mean some sort of brave rejection of the doctrine, some defiant demand flung at heaven for possession of one's own soul; I mean merely the impotence of an imagination that finds the very notion of sin incomprehensible, the conscience of a man who is sure that, whatever sin might be, it surely lies lightly upon a soul as decent as his own, and can be brushed off with a single casual stroke of a primly gloved hand; I mean an habitual insensibility to the illuminations and chastisements of beauty, a condition of being wholly at home in a world from which mystery and sin and glory have all been banished, and in which spiritual wretchedness has become material contentment.

Most seasoned pastors have prayed for and with a family facing this incomprehensible suffering and the decision of what to do next.

And so today, for instance, the casual remarks of a Pope made while travelling can be treated almost as magisterial teaching — something which would have been incomprehensible to a Catholic of the eighteenth century, whether «enlightened» or not.

It is meet and right that we should laud thee, bless thee, praise thee, give thanks unto thee, and adore thee in all places of thy dominion: for thou art God ineffable, incomprehensible, inconceivable; thou art from everlasting and art changeless, thou, and thine Only - begotten Son, and thy Holy Spirit.

But more importantly, she believes in the power of the Bible in ways that are incomprehensible even for our most rabid «conservatives.»

For it has maintained that God is indefinable and incomprehensible, beyond all the categories of thought.

I have not a doubt that religion is simply a side effect of our human ability for self aware abstract thought and our need to comprehend the yet incomprehensible in our universe.

«Values» becomes an overused code word for «the incomprehensible, rationally indefensible thing that the individual chooses when he or she has thrown off the last vestige of external influence and reached pure, contentless freedom.»

The reconstruction of «that which was» may rationally appear to be merely a fantasy for idle minds; but in fact the meticulous work accomplished in the past hundred years by the collectors of fossils, the results which they have patiently recorded in innumerable papers and in barbarous language, perfectly incomprehensible to non-initiates, the paraphernalia of systematized knowledge and the clutter on the museum shelves, all this has made a contribution of the utmost importance to the world's thinking.