Sentences with phrase «of evil impulses»

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

In both the Roman Catholic and the fundamentalist Protestant traditions there is an impulse toward contrition for what is recognized as sin and a channel of escape, but relatively little attention is given either to the more subtle sins of the spirit or to major social evils in which as sinners we all participate.

The Mishnah interprets the command «Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart» as loving God with both the «good» and the «evil» impulses; this means loving Him with and through the act of decision, so that the ardour of passion is transformed and enters with its whole power into the single deed.

The «more than» is decisive, for the evils God receives are like impulses that God then renders into a richness of contrast, supplementing evil with its ideal complement, and so achieving aesthetic harmony.

Nothing is good for Kant except a «good will,» nor does he ever seriously envisage the possibility of turning to the good with the «evil impulse» in such a way as to unify impulse and will (Immanuel Kant, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals, trans.

To use the evil impulse to serve the good is to redeem evil, to bring it into the sanctuary of the good.

If power of impulse is regarded as an evil to be suppressed, then it will accumulate in the soul and turn negative and will frustrate the very fulfillment that direction and the conscious self desire.

There is no impulse that is evil in itself; man makes it so when he yields to it instead of controlling it.

In ordinary life thousands of bad impulses, from a thousand foci of evil, move chaotically, randomly, against the vulnerable.

With that retort, the man under the impulse of the evil spirit leaps on the exorcists and beats them so that they run naked out of the man's house.

When we think of all that has come from him in the impulse toward human freedom and dignity — the challenge of ignorance and the attempt to remedy it, the concern for and conquest of disease, the sensitivity to the needs and plight of the weak, destitute, helpless, and those in every kind of suffering, the stabilizing of the inner lives of millions of his followers around the world, and the fostering of a prophetic attack on such giant social evils as prejudice, injustice, and war — when we consider the things that have stemmed from this «penniless teacher of Nazareth,» we are dull indeed if the wonder of it does not sweep over our souls.

This reprobate character is known not only through an individual's own experience with himself as he struggles with impulses too strong for his own strength to overcome, but also through his observation of the world about him, a world in which evil and its works are so terribly apparent, and in whose operations he is so inextricably involved.

In Moral Man and Immoral Society, Niebuhr argued that the dynamics of social groups and collective behavior actually oriented human impulses in destructive ways that produced immoral regimes and structural evils.

The reference to this incident in the dream might suggest that the Yehudi's denial of the Shekinah lay in his having fled from his «evil impulses» rather than having used them creatively in his relations with others.

Not only the sparks of divinity but the qelipot, or shell of darkness, may ascend and be purified, and the «evil impulse» in man, the yezer ha - ra, can be redirected and used to serve God.

The Torah is a priceless gift of God when it is used to conquer the evil impulse and to transform the inner life of man, but not when it is made an end in itself — a joyless burden or an occasion for intellectual subtlety.

The movie has a steely sheen and an evil sense of humor: It's about extremely wealthy Connecticut teens with bad impulses.