Sentences with phrase «pervert into»

He defines the alcoholic's obsessive - compulsive appetites as «thirst for transcendence... perverted into a thirst for alcohol.»

But no, it has to be this self - righteous public display, a simple graduation perverted into a religious event by people hoping to widen obedience to their ideology.

The culture of consumerism and the chase for material symbols of wealth and security have sometimes come to be dominant; the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment in many has slowly begun to degenerate into empty and sterile ritualism; the legitimate thirst for education has often become perverted into an obsessive drive to acquire with the greatest speed the formal diplomas necessary to gain entry to jobs offering the easiest opportunities to make the quickest rupees; political statesmanship in some areas has begun to depreciate into an opportunities race for power and position; the spirit of SEVA (Service) to the nation has intermittently begun to be suffocated in many, by the abuse of discretions, sometimes mediated by a bloated bureaucracy itself enmeshed in a vast network of multiplying paper and self - proliferating regulations; menacingly many good and decent people even in public life, have come to be corroded by a culture of demanding corruption; and some potentially creative lawyers, have begun to take perverted pride in mere «cleverness», rendering themselves vulnerable to the prejudice that they are a parasitic obstruction in the pursuit of substantive justice.

Not only is the widespread emphasis on winning over others less than Christian, argues the writer, but even the concept of «doing one's best» is easily perverted into workaholism and pride.

We see however that the will to belong can be perverted into absolute hatred and destructiveness of anyone or anything which threatens the security of our belonging.

This is a verse in the Bible that is oft misconstrued, extrapolated, and perverted into a meaning that can be used as an excuse for the ignorant to support Israeli crimes.

Both have taken a great religion and perverted it into something completely contrary to its original intent.

additionally, if anything the pagans stole the idea from Israel and it perverted into other things, like children or chickens to appease a god.

The mistake many make is in falsely portraying what the term lust and adultery actually meant and perverting it into an attack on sexual thought / expression.

This harm consists in the irreversible scrambling of three things: genealogies, by substituting «parenting» for fatherhood and motherhood; the status of the child, who would go from being a subject to being an object to which others have a right; and sexual identity, which rather than being a natural given would have to give way to orientation as an individual expression, in the name of the struggle against inequality, perverted into the elimination of differences.

This harm consists in the irreversible scrambling of three things: genealogies, by substituting «parenting» for fatherhood and motherhood; the status of the child, who would go from being a subject to being an object to which others have a right; and sexual identity as a natural given, which would have to give way to orientation as an individual expression, in the name of the struggle against inequality, perverted into the elimination of differences.

Brain Maker has been perverted into «Scheiß schlau», which means «as sly as shit».

The guards really treated the prisoners this way, taking the guidelines of the study and perverting them into carte blanche to become all - powerful and cruelly authoritative, enacting the violent passions that were apparently sleeping inside each of them.

On a ranch outside of LA the hippie dream is perverting into something evil.

The film stars an effervescent Zoey Deutch as Erica, a teenage miscreant to spend time with her friends trapping middle aged perverts into emptying their bank accounts after sexual entrapment.

Florina Rodov wrote a terrific article for CNN on how a school's compassion can be perverted into pity.

And as you venture down the rabbit hole into madness, the house twists and perverts itself into your living nightmares.

Not exact matches

The idiotic clamoring of the unrighteous revelers in atheistic cynicisms are tyrannical perverts of predispositions posting their crap to make follies of those religious fruit loops who can't even rightly divide the word of truth into being parables and fiction and historical!

And don't forget all the victims of Christianity's own Jim Jones... I'm certain you and all you Christian Extremists are in your churches, always trying to find ways to brainwash everyone into committing suicide like Jim Jones and have plans to blow up buildings like Timothy McVeigh and think about as well as act upon your perverted thoughts by molesting young boys... don't you?

Galations1: 6 - 12 6: I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: 7: Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.

And HeavenSent had to pervert what was actually written there to falsely insert the phrase «free will» into the Bible.

These perverts don't go into the priesthood thinking that religion can «save» them from their disgusting behavior.

You allow filthy Atheists to distort your children and turn them into perverts.

And guess which religion is trying hardest to pervert the American political system into a theocracy?

By making this stuff into literal facts, you've perverted the religion itself into nothing more than a reactionary edifice.

In his book In Praise of Play, Robert Neale discusses in detail these perversions of play: when peace is «inaction»; when freedom is bondage to one need in our psyche which is dominant; when delight is turned into a work agenda; when illusion is maintained at the expense of other needs and is a form of mental illness; when the story is believed, the time limits ignored, and pretending becomes pretension; when a game is played at the expense of others, breaking the rules; when the risk of adventure is perverted and the gamble removed or fatalistically accepted; or when play is done in secret.

A score of writers have noted the potentially perverted uses of «paternalistic» styles of ministry and pastoral care — the fostering of a congregation's childlike dependence on the pastor, the turning of ministry into pastoral self - gratification at the expense of congregational freedom and maturity.

In you and in you alone, as in a boundless abyss, our powers can launch forth into activity and find surcease for their tensions, can show their full capacity without encountering any limitation, can plunge into love and into the wild abandon of love with the certainty of finding in your depths no wreck - rocks of failure, no shallows of pettiness, no currents of perverted truth.

It is our self - centeredness, our self - will, our desire to have our own way, that perverts our limitations into sin.

But will not the human being's unlimited capacity for perverting potential good into active evil introduce into the arcologies all the problems that we face today?

But this notion leaves out the account the fact that, by its very structure, the modern state controls socialism and perverts it, turning it into nonsocialism.

It seems as if these sicko perverts went into the Catholic church on purpose because somehow they knew it was ripe with opportunity.

After Christ left the scene, the doctrines were perverted by uninspired men and the world fell into the dark ages, as history so aply records.

It's not the idea of a God that is the source of evil but it is us, as humans that pervert a thought, an idea, a philosophy or whatever you want to label it, into an ever oppressive pall over the planet.

They will continue falling into a state of Panic / hysteria, as long as they continue to believe that a corrupt legal system and human legislation, can change the hearths and minds of a corrupt and perverted people.

This opinion is perverted not because there is no divine becoming in the immanence, but because only through the primal certainty of divine being can we come into contact with the mysterious meaning of divine becoming, the self - division of God in creation and His participation in the destiny of its freedom.

Only the perverts buy into the lie that they are born that way.

One takes a look at the modern world, finds it alien and hostile to one's beliefs, and retrenches into one's own tradition, claiming on authority that it is the one true faith and all other beliefs misguided and perverted.

The self in its moments of self - transcendence perverts its limited truths into false absolutes.

Nicholas Berdyaev the Russian philosopher was most critical of the traditional Christian ethics which confined itself to the ethics of law and ethics of grace and ignored the ethics of creativity, while secular modernity to which Christian modernism succumbed, elevated the human vocation of creativity as supreme and as capable by itself of solving the problem of destructivity within it without the need of grace and even of law in the long run Anthropology got perverted on all sides by converting Creation into an order of static laws which are only to be obeyed and perfected by grace in Catholic thought and by getting validated for collective existence without criticism but to be rejected as totally irrelevant in the realm of existence in grace in Protestant thought.

Because of man's perverted self - understanding he does come into conflict with the Word of God, but a point of conflict is also a point of contact.

So much so that in many states, legislation is being passed to remove «mental retardation» from medical and clinical terminology because it has perverted so drastically into a slur.

In all four accounts there is a resulting failure of love of the neighbour, a fall into a disordered life where all the loves are perverted by disunity and discord.

There can be no sin without love, either love perverted, love distorted, or, and here we peer into a deeper depth, love destroyed by a revengeful unlove which turns against life itself.

Reason can be perverted by evil habit as when, little by little, I get into the habit of using pornography or cutting corners on my taxes.

Why should churches allow their perverted behaviors into settings when scriptures tell us we shouldn't deal with sinners that refuse to stop sinning?

This perverted psychiatric identity, elevated to the status of a mutant «life form» in order to safeguard polite society against its disgusting depravities, swallowed up the entire character of the afflicted: «Nothing that went into [the homosexual's] total composition was unaffected by his sexuality.

They are a bunch of perverts who go into shops, steal chickens, put them in their vaginas and upload it to YouTube.

They are ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord... 1:7 In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sëxual immorality and perversion.

The unfortunate truth is that for the most part ho mo se xual perverts lied their way into the priesthood to ply their own filthy habits on an unsuspecting and innocent peoples.