Sentences with phrase «own insignificance»

He was relentless about NeXT's insignificance.

«Eighty - five to 90 percent of today's classifieds will be gone till the end of 2014 and never come back because of the threshold of insignificance of classifieds marketplaces in newspapers,» he told me this week.

His campaign spokesman downplayed concerns that some of the Tories» own elected MLAs might not join Kenney's United Conservatives by suggesting their relative insignificance in a party with tens of thousands of members.

Humbly, ashamedly, I confess that before such acts my own profession shrinks into insignificance.

Their unofficial policy of priests vs, altar boys pales into insignificance when compared to their offcial policies of charging patients around $ 50.00 for an asprin.

It's alot easier to make yourself «God of your life» than to open your eyes, seek answers and admit your insignificance.

I think people should embrace the overall insignificance of our existence here, since that makes the wonder of our existence in this cosmic chaos so fascinating.

Seems to me that she does not consider herself to be pointless, just that she was humbled by her insignificance to the cosmic scheme.

They offer an alternative to death, injustice, helplessness, insignificance, the loss of loved ones, and so on.

The truth that alone can redeem our theological certitudes, posturing and chatter from utter insignificance is finally not combative but conciliatory.

It is where you realize the supreme importance and the utter insignificance of what you are doing.

Also (and this fits with # 1 above), when we pray this prayer, we will often be faced with a choice between two ministry positions, one that leads to honor, glory, and fame, and one that leads to obscurity and insignificance.

Play is where you realize the supreme importance and the utter insignificance of what you are doing.

Confronted with this awesome display of the majesty and wisdom of God, and suddenly aware of his own insignificance and ignorance, Job backs down:

Divine love is as glorious as a summer day high in the Alps; it is merciful and makes our sins, though they be as scarlet, vanish into insignificance, replacing them with his own action in us; it is, finally, self - sacrificial unto death, for it seeks not its own.

If this maturing does not occur, four types of nonproductive life - orientations (and character structures) develop in the attempt by persons to defend themselves from feelings of existential insignificance and aloneness.

There may be suprahuman wisdom, and we might well assume an attitude of wholesome humility when we reflect upon our relative insignificance.

It paled — as did all else — into insignificance before the one thing that genuinely mattered.

A life that endures forever beyond this mortal one cheapens what it means to be physically alive to the point of insignificance.

Once we grasp this, the whole debate fades away into insignificance.

Man, some people are so scared of our mortality and insignificance in the universe, that they will cling to anything to try to prove that their «God» exists, even if it makes no sense at all.

While mainline missions dwindled to insignificance, evangelical missions, which were usually aligned with or at least sympathetic to premillennialist notions, flourished with unabated vigor.

Every person knows that politically the world is sitting on a powder keg, although this metaphor pales to insignificance when we try without success to stretch the imagination from the familiar old powder keg to nuclear power, which is many million times more destructive.

Any Catholic who rejects Catholic teaching, or who technically accepts it but minimizes it to the point of insignificance, is not a «moderate» Catholic but a dissenter, or one seeking approval from the world (a temptation Our Lord warns against)-- and should be identified as such.

The genius of AA is not so much in its ability to help its members connect to some sense of a higher power that will help them succeed and overcome their problems, as it is in its ability to thoroughly convince each member of his or her own insignificance, thus rendering them vulnerable, helpless, and willing to «turn their lives over» to something... anything... other than their own power.

In the meantime There are bills to be paid, machines to keep in repair, Irregular verbs to learn, the Time Being to redeem From insignificance.

Unless it extends to «tickled with feathers», the «degree» of punishment seems dwarfed to insignificance by the length of the sentence.

It is simply to say that, as I confront the meaning of my life, all this social world fades away to insignificance.

I'm sorry to inform you of your insignificance, but the universe isn't aware of your religion, doesn't care, and won't notice when you and it are gone.

Nonetheless, the whole movie intends to show the ultimate insignificance of human beings no matter how much they may demonstrate individual heroic virtue.

Privacy or anonymity or insignificance may be the thing Americans work most hard to avoid.

It produced in Hindus the feeling that «in an age of competitive politics» in which power - sharing is «determined by numbers», conversion would reduce them to insignificance.

Pastor Sharon Huey talks of Grace's catechumenate as preparation for taking something like a «vow of insignificance.»

We feel something of the «Power» of the Lord of the World which corresponds to man's feeling of his own lowliness, insignificance, and finitude.

Does this reduce the sin, error, darkness and danger of eternal perdition in the world to insignificance?

They sneer and scoff at all the ignorant masses who «live lives of emptiness and insignificance.»

But even if the counsellors strayed from support to advocating, this effort pales into insignificance compared with the proselytizing of organized religion.

Also, in such a «family - type» gathering, so many of these questions that have plagued and split the church just fade away into insignificance.

The belief that our liberties and capabilities are the gift of a personal God has faded almost into insignificance, but now we have a new foundation — in a way both natural and socially constructed — for personal responsibility to other persons.

They also say, «Individual occasions in God eventually lose their individuality as their experience of the future fades into insignificance and they imperceptibly merge with the next lower level... «7

We reduce it to insignificance and remove its ontological and theological sting, by construing it as though it said that man's body was taken from the earth and in doing so we think of «body» as meaning just what fits into the framework of our standard and superficial ideas, and as something that has nothing to do with the «soul».

The temple did not soar toward the heavens or dwarf the beholder into insignificance.

And belief» specifically belief in the gospel, belief in the «good news,» because that's what the Old English word «god - spell» means» gives us the ability to hope that despite all our failures, despite our insignificance and sins, the greatness of God's love can reach down and redeem even us.

That figure shrinks to insignificance when measured against the $ 70 million in small change that annually flows into the BGEA coffers, or the additional millions that his books, weekly newspaper column and speaking engagements bring in each year.

But numbers of even that magnitude shrink to insignificance with the advent of satellite - link television.

But being highly agnostic, I don't claim there is not grand insignificance as a fact.

That is what Christian prayer is all about; and when we have grasped this, the problems which at first may have troubled us about answers to prayer fade into insignificance, and we can remember the great words of St. Francis de Sales: «we seek not the consolations of God, but the God of consolation.»

''» that one comes across now and then in old novels, especially translations from French, where the intent is to belittle the victim, impressing him with his utter insignificance.

But then, as my Auntie Joanna pointed out, when he gets to Heaven and Edmund Campion asks him what it was like being an English Catholic, being stitched up on TV debates may pale into insignificance compared with being hanged, drawn and quartered in front of a large crowd.

In psychological terms his concept of faith means: if you completely submit, if you accept your individual insignificance, then the all - powerful God may be willing to love you and save you.