Sentences with phrase «men incapable»

They are men incapable of love — even though I endlessly, addictively, try to convince myself that sex at noon for an hour with a married man has to be the real thing, must be love.

Sorry for you that you've been meeting men incapable of even that.

«A man incapable of telling the truth is the centerpiece of the government's case,» he said.

The film begins as a surprisingly interesting study of Joey, a Scottish man incapable of pulling things together.

Pais, a reliable «working actor,» gives an especially rich performance, using sheer physicality to portray a man incapable of relaxing and letting go.

He was a man incapable of being faithful to anyone except his own needs and while the two women knew this they couldn't help their feelings for him.

Not exact matches

It corrupts man's potentialities in such a way that they are incapable of reform and unreceptive to good.

The Law was given to show that man was incapable of keeping the law and was in need of someone to cover our sin.

Finally, in the «sadness» category, I am disheartened that there's an almost universal disparaging in this thread of those who happen to be published authors and / or speakers, as though this by default makes us The Man and incapable of basic human compassion.

Religion is an invention of man and, for the most part it, is used to control people who are incapable of thinking for themselves.

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.

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?

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.

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?

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.

Once he or she exists however, there is now the potential for a second birth, as Jesus described to Nicodemus, (John 3) but because of Adam's sin all of man is born spiritually dead, incapable of faith, why because dead people don't do anything, much less have faith.

Calvinists go further and say that man is utterly incapable of believing.

Scripture is quite clear that a man's spirit is dead, or spiritually non-existent, rendered incapable of somehow mustering up an ability to believe God.

According to the Reformed doctrine, total depravity makes man morally incapable of making a virtuous choice [of faith]... If total depravity does anything, it renders a man totally unable because he is indisposed to respond to the overtures of grace.

He regards the world as given over to the power of judgment until the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ brings mercy and redemption, and he regards man as by nature vile and as incapable of receiving pardon from God until the advent of Christ.

But this can be explained partly by the extremity of the conclusions drawn by some advocates of form criticism, for example by Professor R. H. Lightfoot in his Bampton Lectures; (History and Interpretation in the Gospels [1934]-RRB- and partly by the ultraconservatism of men who are incapable of altering their views in later life.

By «God», of course you mean the deity character in the collection of mythologies known as the bible and by «His Word», you clearly mean the words written by men (but of course they were magically dictated by the deity character because, despite its omnipotence, it was incapable of simply «poofing» «His Word» into existence in the same manner alleged for the rest of the universe).

All men spirits rebel against all but the most subtle manipulation (which humans are incapable).

And what worried Erikson the most and seems today the most ironic, was that these young men seemed incapable of rebellion, incapable of questioning anything basic about their own society.

God, though being outside of time and not a physical creature and incapable of tiring, rested for one complete 24 hour day to be a good example to men after he would give them the Law where he would say they should rest for 6 days.

Griffin & Sherburne, New York: The Free Press, 1978, 340) 14 But things are mutually obstructive because man is finite and incapable of incorporating all the data of the past with maximum intensity.

We shall make this sacrifice, appearing as weak and stupid, incapable of defending ourselves, as men who give without receiving anything in return.

Both Strauss and the physicists seem to say that a man is most fully himself when he loses himself in contemplation of eternity, but the truth is that, deep down, persons are incapable of losing themselves, of not knowing the truth about themselves in some sense.

De Lubac points out, first of all, that man as a spiritual being has an intrinsic openness to the infinite, even though as a created being he is finite and incapable on his own of filling this open space within himself.

Homeric man was incapable of any such understanding of his own psychic processes.

It is this possibility, which enables man to move towards the future along an original road that the animal was incapable of knowing — the road that entails freedom and choice — what Marx calls Aufhebung, which we might translate «transcendence» in the strictly etymological sense of the term.

Skimpoles are incapable of gratitude toward authority because they can conceive of no error they need to be protected from; like spoiled children — precisely, in fact, like Damaged Young Men — they see all discipline as condemnatory and all condemnation as wicked.

With those who contend that «God is dead» I am at one in attesting the demise of a particular form of theistic belief which not only is unreasonable to contemporary men, but has also proved incapable of doing justice to the historic witness of the Christian community.

Rediscovering Augustine, he insisted that man is incapable of doing God's will unless freed by grace and revelation.

One of the paradoxes attaching to the human species, a cause of some bitterness among biologists, is that every man comes into the world as defenseless, and as incapable of finding his way single - handed in our civilization, as the new - born Sinanthropus a hundred thousand years ago.

As Protestant thought domesticates itself within the national cultures, individual Protestants find that their religious language is increasingly incapable of transmitting the meaning of their faith to men of other countries.

Needless to say, Bonhoeffer introduces the idea of God's self - revelation, in which God comes to man who is incapable of searching out God on his own.

To presume that a man is incapable of nurturing in some ways relegates him to the single responsible role of «sower of seeds» which some men - sadly - would accept gleefully.

The more human beings are lacking in imagination, the more incapable men are of any profound kind of self - analysis, the more we shall find that their self - righteousness hardens, so that it is just the thick - skinned who are more sure of being right than anybody else.

He also rejects the views of those who say that God is beyond the capacity of human expression or that modern man is incapable of believing in God.

I know a man who has such mental handicaps that he is incapable of interaction of any kind, and has no visible signs of personality.

Pulayas, squeezed at the bottom of the most repressive socio - religious structures known to man, were not incapable of striking discordant notes while eating the humble pie.

Over time, we get to know Theodore J. Kaczynski as «Ted,» a psychologically tortured man who helps out at the local library and is incapable of trusting others.

It comes to man who is incapable of loving God and his neighbour through his own power or will.

It is prompted by the conscience and insight of individual man, but incapable of fulfillment by collective man» (Moral Man and Immoral Society [Scribner's, 1932], pp. 21 - 2man, but incapable of fulfillment by collective man» (Moral Man and Immoral Society [Scribner's, 1932], pp. 21 - 2man» (Moral Man and Immoral Society [Scribner's, 1932], pp. 21 - 2Man and Immoral Society [Scribner's, 1932], pp. 21 - 22).

Also chastised for name calling by the man who called me a hypocrite and incapable of abstract thought.

Without the cover and pampering by the press, last night's debate clearly showed your faux liberal god for what he truly is... a man clearly in over his head and incapable of distinguishing between talking points, policies, and facts.

Then picture yourself as the Creator, managing this universe, and tell me whether you would dare make men and women isolated individuals, incapable of affection or loyalty, with no families, no friendships, no capacity for fellowship or fraternity.

But the natural, nonspiritual man does not accept or welcome or admit into his heart the gifts and teachings and revelations of the Spirit of God, for they are folly (meaningless nonsense) to him; and he is incapable of knowing them [of progressively recognizing, understanding, and becoming better acquainted with them] because they are spiritually discerned and estimated and appreciated

Faced with an ethics based purely on natural law, one suspects that Paul would initially retort that natural man, since the coming of sin, is incapable of keeping the natural law.