Sentences with phrase «meanness did»

All these advanced at the expense of mainstream Protestantism, which tried a bit to be mean, but meanness didn't stick.

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«Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»

Lest, however, we who do not share that anxiety become exultant in the afflatus of our superiority let us remind ourselves that we, too, have our own absurd beliefs and our own selfishnesses and childishnesses and meannesses.

We would no less need an analogous social order that was perfect in its own way but that, at a minimum, did not kill us by war and violence or spoil life by meanness and other forms of private misery.

Yet consider the alternative: the meanness and shortsightedness of many people who did not dream dreams like the editors.

But if we knew there was God and we knew that he knew, and yet our meanness and spite and empty pride waxed unabated by this knowledge, as they always seem to do, the presence of God would be more than we could stand.

Without this children will be less likely to learn that it is selfishness to want always to have one's own way, meanness never to wish to share, and fatal to bear grudges (because God will not forgive those who do not learn to forgive).

We should have little respect for a private gentleman who did not exert himself to gain an estate, or even a considerable office, when he could acquire them without either meanness or injustice.

«Do not name call or hit: Kids learn from you, being abusive or hitting just teaches them to handle conflict with aggression and meanness.

Trump confirmed reports he called the House health care bill «mean,» and said former President Barack Obama used the word «meanness» in describing the measure because he did it first.

But today a Lazio surrogate sure did — calling Paladino too unstable to take office and charging he appeals to people's meanness.

I do not tolerate trolling behaviours, blatant meanness, disrespect or hostility to others (including myself).

I do not like strife, arguments, or meanness as I am quite the opposite.

Throwing in a stream of one - liners and sight gags to see what sticks, littered with genuine attempts to cultivate a romance, is also a lacklustre technique that doesn't hide the feature's wisecrack - laden dialogue or general sense of meanness.

Good performances and occasional moments of hilarity don't make up for the meanness of the status quo at the film's centre.

Do the survey, put in your tax number, 5 % take for countries that have the right agreement with the US, avoiding that 30 % meanness!

I really didn't understand Natalie's meanness.

Things I don't like include horror, meanness and ready meals.

If the rule «don't be mean» is imposed and everyone endeavors to follow that rule, it's very likely that the result is a better understanding of the meanness by virtue of its absence and the creative challenge of having to figure out how else to move forward.

If the rule «don't be mean» is imposed and everyone endeavors to follow that rule, it's very likely that the result is a better understanding of the meanness by virtue of its absence