Sentences with phrase «resist evil in»

Jesus certainly did not kill and probably did not whip the moneychangers, but he clearly resisted their evil in a dramatic act of civil disobedience.

Not exact matches

But in the absence of such means, the tradition of just war views armed conflict as an appropriate way to resist evil, protect innocent lives and restore just social relationships.

Stay close to Jesus, the author and finisher of your faith, resist the devil, turn away from evil, do the good that Jesus and Paul encouraged believers to do, maintain your faith in God, who justifies you and you should be fine.

Do you think you have the courage to resist evil and violence in this way (I do not think I do)?

In one sense, Jesus» ethic was so demanding as to break the hearts of all who would follow him: Sell all you have and give to the poor, resist not one who is evil, love your enemy, take no heed for the morrow.

Eph 6:13 Therefore, take up the full armor of God, so that you will be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm.

In this battle many are to weak to resist the evil, many are deceived and few prevail.

Some of the most widely quoted sayings in the Sermon on the Mount, and the ones most consistently violated, are the commands (Mt 5:38 - 42) to turn the other cheek, to give the cloak when deprived of the coat, to go two miles when compelled to go one, to refuse no request for a gift or a loan, to offer no resistance to an evil man, as recent translations read where the KJV says «resist not evil.»

Therefore, take up the full armor of God, that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm.

He finally resists this temptation because Judas comes to him in his long dream and squeals on the little angel, revealing her to be evil, and pointing out to Jesus that he hasn't done God's will.

Yet at the same time, by always insisting on the inadequacy of philosophy to explain evil, they resist any tendency to «explain evil away» or «neutralize» it by a greater good, and thereby render evil in our world terribly real to us.

It is to resist despair, to resist giving in to the terrible prices of the struggle — the loss of friends, the stubbornness of evil, the inevitable weariness — and to resist giving up hope when early victories become clouded by defeat, the way becomes difficult, and the goal seems ever more distant.

Even in the face of the worst evil ever committed — the slaughter of the innocent Lamb of God — Jesus did not resist, but said, «Father forgive them.»

There is no negative consequence in terms of eternity to encouraging people to maintain their faith in Jesus and resist evil and stand firm against the wiles of the devil until we are called home.

First of all, we may say that in our personal lives we are called upon to resist the powers of death, disease, and evil.

There is, to use a phrase of C. H. Dodd, a «fundamental wrongness» in human life, in which every living man is inescapably involved; a «reprobate character,» a tendency toward evil, which no man can successfully resist.

In the Sermon on the Mount there is the familiar and often debated word, «Do not resist one who is evil.

Take no heed for the morrow, resist not the evil person, never divorce, give to anyone who asks, don't defend oneself in court — such an ethic strikes moderns as so other - worldly as to be absurd.

They see their role in resisting evil as little more than a speed bump.

Describing himself «as one who lived and suffered through the dark days of the Nazi regime in Germany,» the German - born pontiff said it was «deeply moving... to recall how many of your fellow citizens sacrificed their lives, courageously resisting the forces of that evil ideology.»

Nonviolent resistance, on the other hand, is actively devoted to resisting evil and injustice in every way possible, yet without resorting to violence.

Even when taunted with the charge that this is mere wishful thinking, the Christian knows otherwise and in this trust finds confidence to resist all manner of earthly tyranny and evil.

Evil must be resisted, but not with violence, for even divine violence would result only in greater eEvil must be resisted, but not with violence, for even divine violence would result only in greater evilevil.

Most of us know in our souls that we have no intention of fulfilling Jesus» incredible demands: sell all, resist not the evil man or woman, take no heed for the morrow, leave one's family, bear the cross.

We ought to devote ourselves to carrying out Christ's saying, to love one another (not engage in wars and preparation for wars and not resist evil with evil).

Since the Christian faith is more genuinely bound up with resisting these evils than with responding to scholarly German critics, this theology can not be viewed as in any way inclusively normative for Christians.

The problem is that in Matthew 5 Jesus says: «But I say to you: don't use violence to resist evil!»

He has proven himself able to resist the temptations that lead to sin and its evil consequences: pride in human self - sufficiency, idolatry, doubt of God's promises.

Whether engaged in an extensive conversation with his wife involving the definition of «resisting evil» or arguing with her about the best way to spend their money, «Winter Sleep» takes its time establishing Aydin's troubled, self - involved subjectivity.

I probably won't be able to resist forcing myself to play Resident Evil 7 in VR mode, just to say I at least tried to.

But this time I had shoved away the fear, gutted to go and resist all the evil forces that can feed on my soul in the ruins.

It couldn't even resist the temptation to put «Evil» in its name.