Sentences with phrase «overcome the evil one»

You can't overcome evil with evil.

Nor should the church delay implementing Jesus» nonviolent method of overcoming evil with good until the Caesars and Hitlers disappear.

But that seems to rely too much on human ability to overcome Evil and with our track record that doesn't seem like a good possibility.

You can overcome evil with good, because the cross overcame all of your evil and now gives you the power to do good.

The goal isn't to balance evil and good, but rather to overcome evil with good and connect every human being to God through love.

This child found in Tolkien's epic story of goodness overcoming evil a literary parallel to the divine metanarrative of the Bible, an imaginative path to finding a place in God's epic story of creation, fall, redemption, and restoration.

It promotes the idea that violence is God's way of overcoming evil, which he manifested ultimately in killing his Son.

Yes, keep praying and keep faithful, that the good you are doing can and will overcome the evil, in God's time.

Paul bids us overcome evil with good, and this, too, is the imagery of contest.

It is only by love that is total, without defense, without reservation, love that does not calculate or bargain, that the white Christian will overcome the evil of revolution, arson, and looting.

What is more, God calls humanity to be co-workers with God in overcoming evil, wrong, and sin by our devotion, vigorous effort, and willing response to what we know of God's love and God's purpose for us.

Radical feminism, associated with deep hurt and anger, emphasizes female jurisdiction and overcoming evils of patriarchy.

And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.

* it's worse than bringing a knife to a gun fight... it's having the Good News that overcomes evil and choosing not to speak of it.

And of course, this is exactly how Paul used the passage about burning coals in Romans 12:20 - 21, where he concludes by saying, «overcome evil with good.»

But reconciliation takes real courage — the courage not to be overcome by evil, but to overcome evil with good.

He called upon the Church to «repent of the sins of existing society, cast off the spell of lies protecting our social wrongs, have faith in a higher social order, and realize in ourselves a new type of Christian manhood which seems to overcome the evil in the present world, not by withdrawing from the world, but by revolutionizing it.»

«Never take your own revenge, beloved, but leave room for the wrath of God... Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.»

«be not overcome by evil - overcome evil with good».

This is the crucial step in overcoming the evil of time.

Whether heeding rational life or the creative will, both Whitehead and Nietzsche feel called upon to transform the worldly character of time and becoming in order to overcome the evil of time and to explain the finally good life.

Biblical teaching reflects this straightforward good / evil stance: «Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good», writes Paul in Romans 12:21.

so be strong brother but pray for His grace to overcome this evil.

We should likewise overcome evil with good and challenge this system with radical lives of political activism.»

It must fruit in action to challenge and overcome the evils of society with its poverty, ignorance and disease, its wars and destructive conflicts, its prejudice, oppression, chicanery and quest for profit and power, its insensitivity to the deep needs of persons.

The modern utopias of liberalism and of Marxism have asserted the possibility of the order which overcomes evil emerging either through gradual development or catastrophic struggles in history.

So much for the power of God's love to overcome evil!

He slays monsters and dragons, and overcomes evil rulers.

Apocalyptic is characterized by bizarre images, and violence which is needed to overcome evil.

He saw an apocalyptic pattern in history in which good does not overcome evil in history but grows alongside it to the end.

Dualistic Christian thought doesn't have this unitive concept, striving to overcome evil in order to bring in righteousness.

In fact, that faith is itself a call to action, and part of the action is for us to serve as God's agents in overcoming evil wherever we see it and to work with God and with our fellow humans so that the divine purpose of God for creation may be more effectively realized.

The divine aim or purpose, in a world that has its own independence and freedom, is precisely to overcome evil.

God could also mediate the free actions of such souls to one another, taking care to harmonize any potential conflicts by means of conceptual supplementation, thus overcoming any evil consequent upon the free actions of many actualities acting in concert.

Today, however, the majority of Muslims, and several International Islamic Organizations, will interpret even the fourth category of jihad as a concerted effort to overcome the evil found within human society so that peace with justice is accomplished for all humans throughout the world.

But the «over-powering rationality of his conceptual harmonization» (PH 526) seems to be effective not in transforming the world and overcoming its evil but in harmonizing its discords in the experience of God.18

I was going to be killed by my own hands against my will but my defiant will to overcome this evil force prevailed, I waged a mind war over it and my desperation led me to ask help from God.

Overcoming Evil God's Way: The Biblical and Historical Case for Nonresistance by Stephen Russell

If God is to overcome evil wholly, there must be some «present» in which the individual fully realizes his / her redemption from evil in the depths of experience.

As Christians this shouldn't surprise us, of course, as Jesus clearly taught that the only way to overcome evil is with good.

How do we overcome evil with good?

Anyway, I really struggle with these books on non-resistance to violence, not because I think they are wrong in theory, or because I think that Jesus didn't show a «third way,» but because I have at various times in life looked evil straight in the eyes, and can not think of how to overcome evil with non-violence.

«Whitehead and Nietzsche: Overcoming the Evil of Time.»

Though we are tempted to hide behind barricades, guns and bombs, the stories of the martyrs remind us of the one who overcame evil not by defeating the enemy but by loving the enemy and thus defeating death itself.

... by means of the conceptual richness of his inexhaustible pure possibilities God is able to absorb into himself the multifariousness of the world, overcoming the evil of its destructive conflicts through the higher harmonies this infinite imagination provides.

We humans are invited to join in the struggle to overcome evil and to further good.

That God's persuasion successfully overcomes the evil of entropy is shown by the fact of the existent universe.

Fourth, occasional intervention with coercive efficient causation to counteract excess evil is not as equitable to all occasions in the world as the constant intervention in every occasion with final cause tending to overcome evil.

God as an agent is constantly initiating new patterns of order which overcome evil and tend toward greater strength of beauty.

-- Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.