Sentences with phrase «of evil ends»

It seems as if patience can be put in service of evil ends.

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'' [The middle class] sees money as a never - ending necessary evil that must be endured as part of life.

Lewis and Klein — no friends of global capitalism — portray the workers as revolutionaries, sticking it to the Man by doing an end - run around the evils of modern business.

For instance, toward the end of the game protagonist Isaac Clarke rappels down a series of cliffs while fighting off evil soldiers and Necromorph monsters.

At the end of the ten hours, I came in and he made me give him two pennies which was my contribution to the social security and he gave me two one Dollar bills and a long lecture about the evils of Democrats and the welfare state and the lack of self - reliance and it went on and on and on, so I had the right antecedents too.

Whoever succ umbs to evil and satanic impulses is on the receiving end of violence.

We are saved by God's grace, but we are given free will to choose good and evil... otherwise anyone from Hitler to Stalin could of said the same words and say I can lie, cheat, steal, and kill right up to the end and be saved... sorry, it doesn't work that way.

I see the image of God in man through mans ability to form unseen thoughts into reality creating works of never ending wonder in the presence of evil that seeks only to destroy that which is good.

You must also not believe the Bible when it tells us that Jesus Christ promises to guide and guard His Church until the end of time [so that evil will not prevail] and that the Bible says that Jesus Christ will bring His Apostles [which would include their successors] into remembrance of all that He taught them and He would bring them into the fullness of Truth as we can bear it.

These are signs of the end times and Jesus will prevail over all evil.

«In the end of time, evil will be called good.

The black mans hatred for the whites for their evil but the shame of it is the shame and self hatred of allowing Someon to enslave them rather than fight.The Pharaoh had thousands of slaves, anyone they contoured ended up in the slave pits, anyone, white back and everything in Beeton.

your so right, it is so sad to see people criticising God and at the end of the day God Exists and always will regardless of the evil that is said against Him.

If you have the power to end suffering of little children at the hands of sick people and you don't then you are evil.

If wisdom is to be ours, it must grow in us slowly like a tree — a tree of life — and at the end of the long growing we have its ripe fruit, sweet to the taste, which is the knowledge of good and evil — the kind of knowledge by which a king may rule well, and any of us may govern our lives well.

In Harris» narrative, it's hard to see exactly how she comes to the conclusion that concerns for «the poor's rights» demand aligning with liberal politics rather than those of Christian conservatives, but by the end, Harris finds herself on the opposite side of the political spectrum, voting with those she had envisioned as the manifestation of evil while growing up.

Hopeless Bob, Yes God gave us a clear picture of how he will deal with evil, false gods, etc. so that you will be without excuse in the end.

@garbagemouth... A little inspired clarification for you.As far as Jesus telling His disciples «this generation shall not pass away» He meant the generation of humanity from the Flood to the Second Coming.There will be three judgements against sin and its author, Satan.The first was the Flood, the second at the war of Armageddon, and finally at the end of the Thousand years when the evil one is released for a short season... I pity the unbelievers who doubt the Word when the books of judgement are opened.

At the end of the story the author explicitly speaks of «all the evil that the Lord had brought upon [Job]» (42:11).

It is so obvious that: a) those held in slavery were human beings (a biological category); b) all humans are by nature persons (a philosophic category), that is, beings with inviolable worth that ought never be treated as means to an end; and c) the evil practice of slavery was not a private matter - the whole community is harmed because we are all communal beings by nature, in solidarity with those who are treated unjustly.

In conclusion it is appropriate to point out that God was always in control of the entire situation, which is why such evil that radiated from Satan was always limited by God's control (Job 1:12; 2:6), and the end saw Satan condemned (Job 42:7 - 8), whilst upright Job was blessed (Job 42:12 - 17)

Suffice it to say that implicit in the novel's conclusion is the understanding of confession articulated in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which declares that «Interior repentance is a radical reorientation of our whole life, a conversion to God with all our heart, an end of sin, a turning away from evil, with repugnance toward the evil actions we have committed.»

«9 I would become a hero in romance, venturing into the unknown, battling the evil, finding the good, and in the end gaining the prize, which, in my case, would be the release from my cancer as well as an experience of God's intimate presence.

Why not tell me your thoughts on keeping Christ's command at the end of Matt 5 — how do you plan to impartially bless those you call «evil» and those you call «good»?

His argument, part of which appeared in these pages («Leading Children Beyond Good and Evil,» May 2000), is that moral education as presently conceived almost inevitably ends up by thinning out moral content, removing the sharp edges of judgment, avoiding normative traditions of moral experience, and thus stifling the factors most crucial to the formation of character.

There are verses that also promise the end of evil.

Even though there aren't sufficient explanations for the presence of evil or the purpose of it, biblically it is clear it is here but just as clear it will end.

I think scripture is a rich metaphor created by human in an attempt to understand the presence of evil in the world, as well as to express their hope that it will end.

By characterizing oppressive people from the past as one - dimensionally evil, as hateful racist intentionally using the Bible to their own ends, we're able to distance ourselves from their way of thinking, and say «well we would never do that.»

Once again terrible news: praying for an end to the evil and the triumph of good.

So unstinting has been the effort to portray as virtuous the ending of the lives of the weak that it brings to mind Pope Benedict's words to the College of Cardinals in 2012: «We see how evil wants to dominate the world,» he said, and how it uses cruelty and violence, but also how it «masks itself with good and, precisely in this way, destroys the moral foundations of society.»

When will the reign of evil and death end?

Happy endings come to mean less because the forces of evil have grown less ominous.

George Bush caught this apocalyptic mood of the public and loaded his speeches with religious end - time language, proclaiming that «good will prevail against evil».

I do hear your points that you think I have not seen the need for warning of danger, that you believe I think of it as «unChristian» to talk about such things, and that you may even believe that my comments are akin to protecting evil deeds and harming the innocent, using the bible as a proof texting weapon to that end and contributing to a problem of church becoming fake and shallow while claiming to be deep and pious.

Bonhoeffer knew that the evil of Hitler would one day meet its end and there must be people who were ready for picking up the pieces.

The danger, for those who start from the temporal end, is Utopianism; settle the problem of distribution — of wheat, coffee, aspirin or wireless sets — and all the problems of evil will disappear.

Still, the pathos of his protest is, to my mind, exquisitely Christian — though he himself seems not to be aware of this: a rage against explanation, a refusal to grant that the cruelty or brute natural misfortune or evil of any variety can ever be justified by some «happy ending» that males sense of all our misery and mischance.

Divine providence, of course, will always bring about God's good ends despite — and in a sense through — the evils of this world; but that is not the same thing as saying that evil has a necessary part to play in God's plans, and that God required evil to bring about the kingdom.

Some of us look forward with great eagerness and expectation for when Jesus will come again to throw off the evil governments and set up His own righteous rule, but not before He slays our enemies, kills the wicked, bathes the world in bloodshed, burns away all those who did not follow Him, and banishes the unrighteous into pits of never - ending fire to suffer and burn for all eternity.

When we take the bait and repay evil with evil, eye for eye, dollar for dollar, insult for insult, when we demand our DUE, we not only lose in the end, but we becomeour «enemy,» for we are guilty of the same offenses, tactics, and attitudes.

At the end of time in Matthew 25, there remain both good and evil in a final way.

Accordingly, the first precept of practical reason is that «good is to be done and promoted, and evil is to be avoided» (637, emphasis deleted), which means that the natural law is somehow derived from the comprehensive good defined by the final end or divine purpose.

The message of the Bible that death ultimately is not the end is the best hope there is in the face of evil and terror.

The regime of equality and liberty is not bereft of moral and political resources to face down evils and ultimately end them.

while the most ardent adherents to nihilism might embrace the full ramifications of such belief, most folks aren't willing to follow it to its logical end: compassion is just a «feeling» but it's not real / people live & die / there is no such thing as good & evil / etc..

After reducing the just causes for resort to force to one, self - defense (§ 2308), the Catechism further limits this in § 2309 by four prudential conditions, all of which it says must be satisfied: «the damage inflicted by the aggressor on the nation or the community of nations must be lasting, grave, and certain; all other means of putting an end to it must have been shown to be impractical or ineffective [last resort]; there must be serious prospects of success; the use of arms must not produce evils and disorders graver than the evil to be eliminated.

Saul in the end boasted of himself saying he's done no evil when he spared the best of his enemies flocks revealing what was really in his heart.

The prophetic allows «the evil» to find the direction that leads toward God, and to enter into the good; the apocalyptic sees good and evil severed forever at the end of days, the good redeemed, the evil unredeemable for all eternity; the prophetic believes that the earth shall be hallowed, the apocalyptic despairs of an earth which it considers to be hopelessly doomed... (Moses, p. 188; Israel and the World, «The Power of the Spirit,» pp. 176 - 179.)

Yet the cross is not the end, for life is stronger than death, love is the conqueror of hate, and God is the vanquisher of the evil imaginations of sinful men and women.