Sentences with phrase «live in vain»

Emily Dickinson: if I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; if I can ease one life the aching or cool one pain, or help one fainting robin into his nest again, I shall not live in vain.

I like to live a full life, enjoy every moment and know that I do not live in vain.

All of us live in vain!

Cantor spent the last thirty - five years of his life in a vain effort to prove this.

«I've made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven't lived in vain.»

If you're waiting for science to concoct a magical elixir to extend life span, you may end up wasting the rest of your life in vain — for now.

If you wish to try it out, you won't lose a single minute of your life in vain.

Looking for something that will bring the life in my vains... love maybe... friend maybe... emotion for sure

Not exact matches

• «Saturday Night Live» let Jesus chastise Tim Tebow for using the Lord's name in vain and ended the bit by declaring that the Mormons have it right.

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When we lose faith in the essential goodness of life and our own humanity, seeing that which we judge «evil» to be more prevalent than that which we judge to be «good», then we have lost faith in either the goodness or the power of God to sustain that goodness and our God has become too small or just another Baal, a false god of our own vain imaginings, a projection of our own finite limitations and disordered desires.

A life lived in vain.

9 See life with the wife whom you love all the days of your vain life that He has given you under the sun, all the days of your vanity, for that is your portion in life and in your hard work with which you are working hard under the sun.

The way of AA is in storytelling to others their past dealings with the «sauce» of life's very cunning juices that one tries in vain to be an overcomer of such a drug whose only comfort is an ever decaying sense of socal immorality and individualized unrighteousness.

The life of the obedient child has not been in vain.

because Life has a meaning, and what we do here is not in vain, and to love our enemies is not in vain and to pray for the salvation of the world is not in vain.

and that, in general, no man knows what is good for him «all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow.»

Our spiritual life is constantly brought back to the decision of faith, to that corner which our moral, theological, and ecclesiastical ruses seek in vain to avoid.

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.

Once we begin to understand how the gospel creates peace, mocks our vain claims to self - importance, and teaches us to live as agents of joy and delight in the world, how will these truths begin to create unity among the bickering factions of Christianity?

Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life which he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun.

I believe that any reading of Edwards's life, including the story of the sad controversy in Northampton, will make quite clear that he was no self - willed man talking the name of God in vain to fortify his wishes.

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.

We look in vain in the gospels for any such elaborate scheme of rules for living as were offered by contemporary moralists, Jewish and Greek.

Christianity teaches that this particular individual, and so every individual, whatever in other respects this individual may be, man, woman, serving - maid, minister of state, merchant, barber, student, etc. — this individual exists before God — this individual who perhaps would be vain for having once in his life talked with the King, this man who is not a little proud of living on intimate terms with that person or the other, this man exists before God, can talk with God any moment he will, sure to be heard by Him; in short, this man is invited to live on the most intimate terms with God!

At best, if they mean merely to allow or encourage professed Christians to confuse the Living God with the «generic God» propping up the pledge's «ceremonial deism,» they propose a taking of the Lord's name in vain.

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Our entire purpose in life is to fear and obey the vain, evil, mysoginistic, genocidal god of the bible.

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Furthermore, unless you put yourself in the way of being encountered by the living God, rather than just thinking about God, or talking about God, or stating God's position with respect to various moral issues, your work will be in vain.

Proposition 6: Proclamation of the Gospel... the Church... must be missionary (cf Evangelii Nuntiandi, 14; CCC, 851)... [involving] the proclamation of his life and of the paschal mystery of his passion, death, resurrection and glorification [to those who] have become vain in their reasonings and... [those] living and dying in this world without God, [who] are exposed to final despair.

Hence admiration and wonder at the inexhaustible life forces of nature is as wholly lacking as the typically modern horror of blind nature against which spiritual, personal life rebels in vain.

One looks in vain in Luther, Calvin, Baxter, Wesley, Edwards, and all the major figures of three centuries of Protestant writing, for any more than incidental treatment of the problems of the economic, political and legal structures of life.

But at the same time Bonhoeffer also believed that our prayer and worship are all in vain if they make no difference to our lives or to the way we treat our neighbours.

Moreover, the grandiose, prideful, vain, and egotistical man lives in tension with the call to obedience and its corresponding limitations on power.

Whitehead experiments further, mostly in vain, with the great conventional concepts of the arts and humanities, in order to characterize those kinds of transition between conceived and perceived reality (life, culture, and activity of the spirit, style; cf. OT 13, 17 - 24).

they literally desire to be eternally dominated by an unjust, megalomaniacal, vain, jealous, homicidal, infanticidal, intolerant, bigoted, hate filled, imaginary man who lives in the sky.

I believe Wenger is living in the past and is ruining Arsenal in his vain hope of fulfilling his dream of getting Arsenal to play like long ago Barcelona.

Why so much effort and so much money spent to enter the top 4 in every single year?Just to be embarrased everytime by anyone?I mean, is not worth it if you don't take advantage of that and go for the glory.Everything is on vain, just the pleasure of showing up?This team doesn't have a future, it is just a mediocre one, get use it.Glory times are past, class players are gone... what is left?Just a name chasing the shadows of the past.And all this sorrow atmosphere has only one man responsible - Arsene Wenger.He must go for the good of the club, he is just a stone dragging the team backward or keeping it still.Just go Arsena, don't embarras yourself and the beautiful times you lived here.

Meanwhile, Real Madrid have been plotting a move to lure arguably the best goalkeeper in the world to join their side, but it seems their attempts will be in vain in the next summer as De Gea has claimed often in the past that he is more than happy with life in Manchester.

But I couldn't live with myself knowing his death was in vain.

The Peoples Democratic Party has called on Nigerians to continue to live together in peace, adding that the sacrifices of past leaders aiming at keeping the country together must not be in vain.

The Bureau's statement signed by its Director, Mr. Semiu Okanlawon, and made available to the Nigeria Politics Online, stated that the commendation has shown that the commitment of the governor to security of lives of it citizens has not been in vain.

She also praised the actions of Tory MP Tobias Ellwood who tried in vain to save the policeman's life.

If we choose the latter course, any pipeline gains are likely to be in vain and short - lived.

Remember that life lessons learned are never in vain if you use the information to prevent repeating past mistakes.

The authors note, «The devastating loss of human life from the Ebola outbreak of 2014 must not be in vain.

As far as Mars is concerned, say Fairén and Schulze - Makuch, such efforts are probably in vain since «Earth life has most likely already been transferred to Mars.»

And, in this knowing, may we be guided to embrace every moment, to live fully and to love so very deeply so that their suffering will not have been in vain.

Well, all her experiments never go in vain because every new style she adopts brings new life and beauty into her outlooks.