Sentences with phrase «more vain»

What's more vain than an author refusing to publish their book unless its published by a big name NY publisher?

I am no more vain than the average person, and instead of universal recognition, I prefer the peace of anonymity.

Unfortunately, when it comes to men and their bodies, I wouldn't be surprised if they're more vain than supermodels.

one of the more vain players at a club full of ballerinas.

saith Jehovah... «Bring me no more vain oblations, incense is an abomination unto me....

His «constant gripe» about American politicians was that they were «stupider, prouder, more self - righteous, more moralistic, more vain - glorious than the American people on whose behalf they spoke.»

I can't think of anything more vain then there is an all powerful creator that created everything for you and loves you.

Bring no more vain offerings; incense is an abomination to me....

Not exact matches

It's hard to tell whether it's misplaced guilt, or a fear of social opprobrium, or some vain need to feel more savvy than consumers, but it's there, this grim layer of doubt.

Maybe God does exist, but he is far more loving and caring than the oftern vain, arrogant, mass - killer portrayed in the Bible.

With more than a hint of exasperation, Scalia concludes: «One will search in vain the document we are supposed to be construing for text that provides the basis for the argument over these distinctions; and will find in our society's tradition regarding abortion no hint that the distinctions are constitutionally relevant, much less any indication how a constitutional argument about them ought to be resolved.

IF He is bothered by the money, the pledge, and so forth (I don't claim to know what He thinks) I think it's more likely that the problem would be taking His name in vain.

(One searches in vain, for example, for a Protestant equivalent of Vatican II's call for the renewal of moral theology, repeated more recently in the Catholic Catechism.)

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.

«there's still the possibility that another nicer, kinder, more caring, less vain, and less brutal God could exist.»

He seems to be narcissistic enough and vain enough and insecure enough to want more adoration and worship.

@Observer... «While logic and all the rules of science and math offer a strong rebuttal to the God in the Bible, there's still the possibility that another nicer, kinder, more caring, less vain, and less brutal God could exist.»

There is a God that exists exhibiting the qualities of a «nicer, kinder, more caring, less vain, and less brutal God».

To look upon those prayer wheels not (as some of us were taught) as instruments of «vain repetition,» but as outward and visible signs of the intention to pray without ceasing, can perhaps lead iconoclasts to more compassionate reflection on the sacramental impulse and on the place of objects — statues and stained glass and candles and altar cloths, beads, bouquets, and kneeling cushions in needlepoint stitched by some faithful woman as her own act of participation in the prayers of the church.

«Vain» would fit except that it is a play - on - words about the heart, in which case Nancy's spelling would be more apropos.

Maybe there is a God, but one who is far more like Jesus than the often vain, arrogant, mass - killing God of the Bible.

Most so called» religious wars» were nothing more than atheistic leaders trying in vain to use God for there immmoral purposes and had nothing to do with True faith at all.

Now the claim that could appropriately be advanced on behalf of this form of panpsychism in respect of considerations of parsimony would be that it does with fewer kinds of entity what it would be vain to do with more — that it does with one kind of entity what the dualist only achieves with two.

10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me did not prove vain; but I labored even more than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

Found this, which corresponds to my understanding based on my reading of several histories of that time period, namely that we more or less just ignored it in a somewhat vain attempt to stay out of WWII.

«Shun profane and vain babblings for they will increase unto more ungodlyness.»

My view (before incorporating Chuck's post into my thinking) was that we take God's name in vain when we add God's name to our beliefs and behaviors so that we can appear more holy and authoritative to others.

Plotting denominational mission strategies has become more difficult, in part because mainline mission executives first tried to ignore this paradigm shift, then tried in vain to shape it.

In fact, I am heading an international team of more than forty, mostly younger scholars who, over the past decade, have been trying to decide just how that Greek source read, before Matthew and Luke updated it, but, thank goodness, left it sufficiently intact that our efforts are not in vain.

Such authentic sayings, whose exact wording can not well be reconstructed, whose translation is uncertain, whose out - of - date thought patterns are obvious, are none the less more important historical sources for encountering Jesus» history and person than would be the chronological and psychological material the original quest sought in vain.

Cq, The Catholics to whom you refer as waiting for a new, more «liberal» Church are waiting in vain.

The updating or «aggiornamento» of the Church did not mean jettisoning unpalatable parts of the Catholic faith in a vain attempt to be more with it; it meant a more effective proclamation of the same gospel that the apostles received from Christ and that has been handed down in and by the Church ever since — in Benedict XVI's words «the continuity of the one subject - Church».

He said that Paul's statement that he went to consult the Jerusalem leaders, «lest somehow [he] should be running or had run in vain», (Galatians 2.2) meant more than that he feared his opponents might seriously interfere with his work unless they were checked.

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.

He seems to be narcissistic enough and vain enough and insecure enough to want more adoration and more worship.

You here more people using God name in vain and some people is ok with that.

For the Truth the Turkey is in Comparison a much more respectable Bird, and withal a true original Native of America... He is besides, though a little vain & silly, a Bird of Courage, and would not hesitate to attack a Grenadier of the British Guards who should presume to invade his Farm Yard with a red Coat on.»

He shows very convincingly that his most prominent accusers are motivated by misguided and vain moralistic indignation far more than any grasp of what Strauss actually wrote.

what bugs me more than A holes like this «preacher» doing this FOR MONEY in the name of GOD (Ttaking the lords name in vain????) is that some of you just lap it up and think HE is saying the words of god

«You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain» expands even more inside the Christian revelation.

More and more young people who are turned in on themselves, mean or vain, prone to greed or jealousy, lacking self - control, inconstMore and more young people who are turned in on themselves, mean or vain, prone to greed or jealousy, lacking self - control, inconstmore young people who are turned in on themselves, mean or vain, prone to greed or jealousy, lacking self - control, inconstant.

Vain words like claiming to know more about life on this planet and how the universe began than the scientists with the highest IQs do?

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!

According to one newspaper poll, while a sizable contingent feels his outsized heart and winning ways trump any breaches in decorum, more Aussies characterize him as a «vain brat with no ethics or manners» than as an «outstanding Australian sportsman.»

wenger is one of the old guard hanging on past glories in a vain hope it can spur him on to win one more title but we will see what happens at the end of season and most importantly this summer it could be the most vital transfer window of wengers career at arsenal he must get it spot on for us to progress.

I also thought Sanchez was our best player 3 years straight and who tried in vain to galvanise the rest of the players into winning more trophies.

i think this could officially be the start of the end for wenger his blind arrogance has cause him to buy welbeck in the sheer belief that AGAINST THE ODDS HE CAN BEAT THE REST OF THE BIG 4 WITH ONE ARM BEHIND HIS BACK we should be buying top top top european c / l standard players not sunderland spuds everton standard players thats about welbecks standard of club in all truthful reality he is an honest hard working player but wenger thinks he can coach the mediocrity out of him he is truely insane its a guaranteed source of goals we need not more fancy hold up play and «pace» and missing chance after chance so the postman is to be joined by the manchester metro tram absolute disgrace he has kidded on ozil and sanchez they must be wondering what is going on atm they are seeing the true wenger now just panicking and not panicking very well to that effect and for some reason wenger has gone all kinky for english players for some strange reason at least chambers has great potential welbeck has past that stage and is a seasoned pro now and he is no where near what we need wenger is trying to show how great he is by whiping the back out of the same players week after week in the vain hope that he can win the league without rotating ever and they will get injured and he wont have learned his lesson and we will pay for it in the end best last day transfer would have been a 4 year contract for klopp

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