Sentences with phrase «not struggle against it»

It was not a battle of cultures, not a struggle against Islam, but a chaotic confrontation of warlords and princes.

Which ones have you selected to not struggle against at this time?

Religionists who want more of their own particular mythologies to rule us are not struggling against some secular left but against the real world full of real people.

Top teams won't struggle against our midfield because there is no meat to it, but conversely, our midfield is not playing the expansive football to penetrate good defenses.

That's what I don't get though, Campbell is smaller than Walcott, played only half a season in England, yet he doesn't struggle against Stoke's physical play.

Not exact matches

«Merkel is struggling to keep the various factions, not only in her government, but also in Europe in line, warning against careless talk in such a feral environment warning of the serious consequences that an «uncontrolled insolvency» would bring,» said Michael Hewson, markets analyst at CMC Markets.

Interesting topic... I struggle with this idea because like most people that I imagine read your blog, I earned the money... creating a legacy of family who does not have to provide for themselves goes against my core beliefs.

The part I struggle with is that ultimately the mortgage constitutes leverage whose value works for me if the market appreciates (woohoo the money I didn't pay the mortgage off with appreciates in the market), and against me if the market declines (aww shucks — the money I didn't pay the mortage off with is worth less now cause the market is down).

High prices, plus the added pressure of the necessary emissions standards, mean Canadian manufacturers are struggling to remain competitive against companies in China where such standards don't exist.

I ask this because I've struggled with similar feelings throughout my life — processing various failures, weaknesses, and disappointments as practical signs that God is not for me, but against me — either toying with me, cursing me, punishing me, rejecting me, or choosing not to bless me for not living up to his standards.

You words help me to feel that I am not alone in the struggle against bullies.

Cardinal Müller, the prefect of the CDF, was not the only one to remind us that the ego struggles against the demand of mutual dependence, which complementarity implies.

If God is indeed omnipotent, the one whose will is being realized in our history, God is not one whom we should serve but rather one whom we should loathe and despise and against whom we should struggle with all our strength.

He was struggling against the powers, the idols, the false gods, not contending for political justice or some human good.

It condones the struggle against the powerful and forgets that it should not exalt the pride of the poor.

Instead of seeing that we are all brothers and sisters on this earth and that our struggle is not against flesh and blood, we create false divisions based on skin color, cultural traditions, religious preferences, and invisible geographical boundaries called «borders.»

I have been struggling with this question for several years now, and while I am not ready to claim I have a «solution» (nothing but pride would make such a claim), I do have a theological hypothesis which will be tested against Scripture.

At the outset of the Cape Town Congress, C. F. Beyers Naudé, doyen of church leaders in the struggle against apartheid, reminded us that Bonhoeffer would not have wanted us to ask about his relevance, but about the significance of Jesus Christ.

He did not completely free himself from the thinking against which he struggled, and his followers have tended in part to fall back into it.

This is not to say there is no» struggle» against sin.

The Kingdom of God is a spiritual kingdom, and as such, our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers of the air (Eph 6:10 - 20).

Paul reminds us that «our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realm» (Ephesians 6:12).

But if, on the other hand, the metaphysical assertion that God is the subject of all change is conjoined with an assertion of the reality of oppression, then we can deduce that God favors the struggle against oppression, and that there are theological reasons for holding that some things are lawful and some not lawful.

In challenging process theology to state explicitly that God sides with the oppressed, and to do so in a way that does not rule out the possibility of righteous counterviolence, I understand Jones to be challenging process theology to explicate the social - ethical consequences of accepting certain metaphysical truths in order that black theology might measure its ethical content against the needs of the struggle for liberation.

We are not supposed to be completely without doubts; but rather to struggle against them and grow stronger as a result.

Why do we struggle so much because its our old nature that fights against our new nature in Christ which ever one we give into is the one that rules us.But as a born again believer sin shall not have dominion over us.The battle has been won by Christ so by believing in him we also walk as he does as a victor not a victim.Its his holy spirit that empowers us to do what is impossible in the flesh.But to do that our old nature or heart must be crucified with Christ.brentnz

«11 By means of a process or an event (it is difficult to define it precisely), one who by all odds could otherwise claim epistemological privilege becomes aware of a complete reversal of the notion of «privilege» finds that an extraordinary kind of truthfulness (which is not «objectivity») attaches to the «partial» perspective glimpsed from the vantage of the struggle of the poor, the discriminated - against, the forgotten - about.

This is basic common sense, and is fine as far as it goes, but it does not explain why pro-life advocates would struggle against easy access to abortion when they are not being personally oppressed by it, or why some men would hold pro-choice views when they can not become pregnant.

Have not Americans in this century struggled against the «tyranny» of the Germans, the Japanese, the Communists, and Saddam Hussein?

It was clear that the women gathered often entered the struggle from different vantage points, they did not always agree with all that was spoken, but what could not be ignored was that there were some common issues that did draw them together — it was not accidental or designed that over one - third of the 4,000 workshops by different women's groups, from all regions of the world, focuses on the issue of violence against women — some of the best being organized by Indian women, What was at the heart of Huairou was the commitment of the women present to draw energy and support from each other — it was a consciousness that they were doing it all «for the common good.»

It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.

The rights of people can not be ensured and fostered today without a struggle against the evil aspects of capitalistic globalization.

In the struggle against such a system, what is being proposed as an alternative is not the socialist system, which in fact turns out to be state capitalism, but rather a society of free work, of enterprise and of participation.

Bridal mysticism is a development of the motif of spiritual struggle against oneself, not a contrary spiritual impulse.

But in vain he struggles thus; the difficulty he stumbled against demands a breach with immediacy as a whole, and for that he has not sufficient self - reflection or ethical reflection; he has no consciousness of a self which is gained by the infinite abstraction from everything outward, this naked, abstract self (in contrast to the clothed self of immediacy) which is the first form of the infinite self and the forward impulse in the whole process whereby a self infinitely accepts its actual self with all its difficulties and advantages.

Furthermore, since God was not thought of as himself a visible reality but, rather, as an invisible «I,» God might be thought of as taking an interest in this inner struggle for and against obedience to his will.

For Frank this means illness is not a fight against an other, but it is a long struggle.

And class had to struggle hard against the stratification system of the ancien regime, which was based, not on money, but on descent and honor.

Mao also did not think a struggle against religion was necessary.

Another congregant, who said she chose not to read any news coverage of the trial, struggled with her own internal conflict, saying she trusted that the jury had made the right decision while holding out hope that Sandusky did not really abuse the boys who testified against him.

but the woman or our society keep the war against Rome going for 1000 years then another 1000 when England took over the assault, their valiant struggle did not end until Christendom put are woman to the subservient side of the coin, and the dark ages followed, my point is your right men and woman can not do the same things men destroy, women create.

Of course, there are things we can be unified on with people who do not follow Jesus, for Paul wrote that our struggle is not against flesh and blood, which means that if we find ourselves struggling with flesh and blood, we have been tricked into fighting the wrong thing.

This is a sensitive issue.It is important not to see this as a struggle of the sexes.This is neither about patriarchism or feminism.We must guard ourselves against the teachings and ideas from outside which can lead us astray from the truth in the Bible.

Yet Brunner describes the new nature as «consisting in the struggle against the old nature,» and what is accomplished in the struggle is not clear.28 I have spoken in broad terms of these three representatives of this school.

The struggle between flesh and spirit is a big one; winning one little battle over genetic expression of MAOA does not in itself indicate that we are ready to declare total victory in the war against the flesh.

Although both «lungs» of the Church of the Christ have experienced the tuberculosis of iconoclasm (indeed, the very term «iconoclasm» comes from the struggle of the Greek Church against the attempts of a Greek emperor to ban icons), the Greek version of iconoclasm was much influenced not only by imperial fiat but also by the surrounding sea of Muslim culture, whereas the iconoclasm of Western Puritanism was born out of Calvin's reliance on Old Testament Law.

And those now involved in the church's struggle against injustice would do well not to permit the aesthetic dimensions of the problems to be dismissed in the name of «stark realism».

For our struggle is not against enemies of blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

Thus we can say that Marx's critique of religion is not primarily and essentially a revolt against God, but rather a struggle on behalf of the human beings in all of their personal needs and social relations.

He's not necessarily trying to give us different categories of spiritual forces; he's just giving us numerous titles for the same enemy force which we struggle against.