Sentences with phrase «made in vain»

This legacy will be handed to them; and we — each and every one of us here today have a responsibility to make sure that the legacy left to us and the sacrifices made to achieve this have not been made in vain and the opportunities available to us are not squandered or wasted.

Many low - income and minority communities have greatly suffered from these onerous regulations that seem to be made in vain.»

Without tools to measure success and investments in leadership at the top of school systems and at the front of classrooms, the other efforts made by this Commission, and future committees, will be made in vain.

He told the cheering crowd that his pledges are not made in vain pointing out that they could see the results for themselves adding the location of this particular school is the best situated especially when he knows the terrain too well since the people are his in - laws.

No question of it; it was not made in vain.

Regardless of how much time, money and effort you are willing to spend on these people, regardless of how many concessions you are making in the vain hope of trying to make this difficult - to - please person happy, you will never succeed.

Not exact matches

Suitably in the mood, I wondered, what if we could make sure all those poor noble oaks didn't die in vain to create books no one reads?

Chris Urmson, Google's director of self - driving cars, made the case for full autonomy — in vain — to California regulators earlier this year.

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You are right, the false Jews put out this junk and always make sure to use Jesus name in vain in their movies.

«Poor, sad, proud, too - tender Lear: the old man who loves to be loved; the prince embarrassed by the scope of his authority, yet jealous of royalty's perquisites; the ruler willing to give away his lawful prerogatives in order to hear — if just for a moment — that sweet gush of feminine gratitude; the vain old duffer whose need for affection makes him oblivious of its counterfeit.

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Just for this simple reason I can always make sure conservatives never get power in D.C. «You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain» Exodus 20:7

20 For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse: 21 because that, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither gave thanks; but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened.22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four - footed beasts, and creeping things.24 Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves: 25 for that they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever.

If that alone is absent, all the other solemnities, even including coition, are in vain, as the great teacher John Chrysostom attests, who says: Not intercourse but will makes marriage.»

While it is of course true that those who belong to this school are perhaps most vocal in their assertion that in our Lord alone may God be seen at work, and while it is they who denounce the concept of «general» revelation as a vain fancy of sub-Christian speculation, a considerable number of other Christian thinkers take what in effect is the same position when they make central to their teaching a kind of uniqueness in the coming and the person of Christ which effectively removes him from the context of the total sell - expressive operation of the Eternal Word.

While remarking that of course a barbarous age is not expected to hold to modern standards of decency, Chamberlain writes: «At the same time the whole range of literature might be ransacked in vain for a parallel to the naïve filthiness of the passage forming Section IV, or to the extraordinary topic which the hero Yamato - take and his mistress Miyazu are made to select as the theme of their repartee.»

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.

The Ten Commandments: 1: Have no other gods — NOT A LAW 2: Make no graven image — NOT A LAW 3: Don't take the name in vain — NOT A LAW 4: Honor the Sabbath — NOT A LAW 5: Honor thy father and mother — NOT A LAW 6: Thou shalt not kill — NOT UNIQUE TO CHRISTIANITY (long pre-dated it) 7: Thou shalt not commit adultery — huge number of Christians commit adultery by LEGALLY remarrying 8: Thou shalt not steal — NOT UNIQUE TO CHRISTIANITY 9: Thou shalt not bear false witness — NOT UNIQUE TO CHRISTIANITY 10: Thou shalt not covet — NOT A LAW

Moreover, it is even now possible to say that Hartshorne's strenuous mental labors have not been in vain, for he has already made a decisive mark upon contemporary American philosophy and theology.

You know, the one that makes a big deal out of saying his name in vain but doesn't mention slavery.

In the same vain, to say that GWB spoke «Christianity» (it was his writer that put that phrase in) made him «one of us Christian's is ludicrous — like the Pharisees, he doesn't know how to «walk the walk» and live what he claims to be is his FaitIn the same vain, to say that GWB spoke «Christianity» (it was his writer that put that phrase in) made him «one of us Christian's is ludicrous — like the Pharisees, he doesn't know how to «walk the walk» and live what he claims to be is his Faitin) made him «one of us Christian's is ludicrous — like the Pharisees, he doesn't know how to «walk the walk» and live what he claims to be is his Faith.

For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord; and there is none else.

(Wish I had a penny for everytime the foolish do make selfish arguements of Profusements in vain attempys to sweep one assunder) Have a wonderful future but if it's not clear, then I say,: LOts Oh Luck, Suckers!)

They made loud speeches about divorce, adultery and fasting, hoping in vain to coerce him into agreeing with them.

1 - Thou shalt have no other gods before me 2 - Thou shalt not make a graven image 3 - Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain 4 - Thou shalt remember the Sabbath Day, to keep it holy 5 - Thou shalt honor thy Father and thy Mother 6 - Thou shalt not murder 7 - Thou shalt not commit adultery 8 - Thou shalt not steal 9 - Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor 10 - Thou shalt not covet your neighbor's house, or his car, or his wife, or anything else that belongs to your neighbor

If this book makes even a small contribution toward that humility it will not have been in vain.

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.

Anyone who believes in blaspheming others or making vain attempts to humiliate the Believers in God are as soulless and are mindless creatures of habitualized tendencies

I do not to say that we do not feel pain from the illusion of loneliness, we very well do, but, (and I think this is also another important note) our sufferings are not useless or in vain unless we choose to make them so.

His parents made the long trip to America's northernmost town, searched in vain for his body, discovered the shelter that would have saved him, experienced the high of the four - hour funeral service and the low of leaving with wrenching questions left unanswered.

1: Have no other gods — NOT A LAW 2: Make no graven image — NOT A LAW 3: Don't take the name in vain — NOT A LAW 4: Honor the Sabbath — NOT A LAW 5: Honor thy father and mother — NOT A LAW 6: Thou shalt not kill — NOT UNIQUE TO CHRISTIANITY (long pre-dated it) 7: Thou shalt not commit adultery — huge number of Christians commit adultery by LEGALLY remarrying 8: Thou shalt not steal — NOT UNIQUE TO CHRISTIANITY 9: Thou shalt not bear false witness — NOT UNIQUE TO CHRISTIANITY 10: Thou shalt not covet — NOT A LAW

This last thought may make my hero J. Gresham Machen spin in his grave, but: In spite of the theological problems in the mainline, those traditions do at least have some sense of what it means to be the church within a culture, rather than seeking in vain for some extra-cultural Archimedean Poinin his grave, but: In spite of the theological problems in the mainline, those traditions do at least have some sense of what it means to be the church within a culture, rather than seeking in vain for some extra-cultural Archimedean PoinIn spite of the theological problems in the mainline, those traditions do at least have some sense of what it means to be the church within a culture, rather than seeking in vain for some extra-cultural Archimedean Poinin the mainline, those traditions do at least have some sense of what it means to be the church within a culture, rather than seeking in vain for some extra-cultural Archimedean Poinin vain for some extra-cultural Archimedean Point.

For example, Paul declared that although men knew God through what, it could be clearly seen, He had created, they «glorified Him not as God, neither were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations... professing themselves to be wise, they became as fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.»

The Republicans make noise that they are the only Christians, but they are wrong, and take the Name of the Lord in vain.

HS «Vain words» like «You're so special that the entire universe was special - made just for you, and it's creator has a special interest in you personally»?

I would make faces in vain after seeing that slimy mass on my plate, hoping that she would stop making the same... someday.

I would order one to make sure they felt their work was not done in vain - hey, I was only trying to do my fair share of back patting for a job well done.

I've been looking in vain for months to find an appliance as powerful as vitamix but smaller, because I know that if I make the whole amount of sauce, I'm going to through more than half of it away!

This season we are miles away from making top four with the only vain hope of our defence withstanding some of the top sides left in Europa cup and thus us winning it.

You didn't have to walk along Bedford Avenue or Coogan's Bluff to have memories, a point I've tried to make — alas, in vain — in the 10 years since I came to New York.

Bradley definitely spent a lot of time chasing Irving in vain, though, which makes a tweet like this one — since deleted, but preserved by Holly MacKenzie — a little puzzling:

«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.»

Some 10,000 grade - A fans who had made the 186 - mile trip from Baltimore helped swell the attendance to 71,163, a record for professional football in New York; they whooped and howled and noisily followed the cues of a dozen short - skirted young ladies who led cheers, but all in vain.

The best we can hope for this season is mid table and perhaps a relegation fight in the vain hope that those ruining our club move on to another profit making venture.

After one loss last season, mindful of the long road to respectability, he went up to Tomlinson, who in his first three seasons has rushed for 4,564 yards on a team that has won 17 games, and told him, «I'm going to do everything in my power to make sure your career is not played in vain.»

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He usually lunges in vain attempts to make tackles in the attacking third of the pitch only to leave himself woefully out of position for the inevitable counter from the opposition.

Hand him over the spoon and let him make the first few attempts, even if they end up in vain.