Sentences with phrase «so unworthy»

What do you do when the pain of your past leaves you feeling so unworthy, that any hope of a future crumbles right before your eyes?Since Kristina Talbot can remember, she's tried to earn the love of men in her life, only to be hurt in the process.

They are blah or worse, and they are headed for some violent confrontations that seem pointless because they are so unworthy of our attention in the first place.

It is hard to believe that Jesus would have uttered a wish so unworthy of him.

Her voluble egotism; her sense, not of radical bad being, as the really contrite have it, but of her «faults» and «imperfections» in the plural; her stereo - typed humility and return upon herself, as covered with «confusion» at each new manifestation of God's singular partiality for a person so unworthy, are typical of shrewdom: a paramountly feeling nature would be objectively lost in gratitude, and silent.

But if anyone were to be so polite as to assume that I have an opinion, and if he were to carry his gallantry to the extreme of adopting this opinion because he believed it to be mine, I should have to be sorry for his politeness, in that it was bestowed upon so unworthy an object, and for his opinion, if he has no other opinion than mine.

I had felt as though I was so unworthy in some Christians eyes.

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And so we too, daily engaged in our own all too human journey, searching for that which would have us be so much more than we are, and bearing our unworthy gifts, kneel on the stable floor beside these royal ones, worshiping with them the child who is most royal.

So the very learned Polos found it tiresome that Socrates always talked about meat and drink and doctors, and similar unworthy trifles, which Polos deemed beneath him (Gorgias).

For it is not true that only the most stupid, narrow - minded and clerical men rise to the highest ecclesiastical offices, so that a generous, holy and idealistic people would have a wholly unworthy clergy.

they ban women so that they themselves don't become unworthy.

I didn't say don't decide for yourself what is right or wrong, I'm pretty sure I said walk the walk if you're going to say you're a Good Christian so you can make God proud and don't judge others and say they are unworthy or unclean for God because you have NO PLACE speaking for Him.

What in one generation may seem unworthy of moral consideration can in the next generation seem worthy, and rightly so.

I found out that the inverted cross is St. Peter's he felt unworthy to die like his master so he request to be crucified upside down.

The illusion that the now is either so insignificant and commonplace as to be unworthy of study, or that it is so well known anyhow — without analysis, critical reflection, or even systematic observation — as to be beneath serious notice, has become all too characteristic of a theological tradition that knows perfectly well that we can not understand either God's grace or man's sinfulness without in some fundamental sense understanding the other first.

, disparaging poor people, working so hard to make the rich richer, classifying women as chattel, or painting anyone who doesn't follow their narrow - minded moral strictures as sick and unworthy of Gods love.

Even so, the novel leaves the dominant impression that Percy expects our world to be incinerated not by a fanatic terrorist or a games - playing Dr. Strangelove, but by a thoroughly moral man who can no longer stomach the spiritual softness which makes most of us, as Baudelaire said, unworthy even of damnation.

At first glance this seems so obvious as to be unworthy of notice.

Hartshorne does not discuss Hegel, but it is noteworthy that the questions he presses against Sankara reflect a preoccupation with issues which Sankara considered so ephemeral and lacking in substance as to be unworthy of the term «real.»

If it talked about the people being unworthy — so that you have to become worthy before you can come to the Lord's Supper — then that would be a different religion.

If the parish priest is welcoming and friendly with all parents, no matter what their personal situation, the word soon goes around the area that he is an understanding priest and quickly so many others who have one way or another been made to feel unworthy of the sacrament come forward to have their children baptised.

The Jews were acting so as to proclaim themselves unworthy; the Gentiles were making manifest their desire to be deemed worthy (Lumby in «The Acts of the Apostles» in The Cambridge Bible, 168).

The Jewish people were unwilling to believe the message which Paul preached, and so they too were judged unworthy of it.

I'm not unashamed to be called Christian... so many don't even like being called a Christian because they feel unworthy to be called a Christian.

In time, however, it seemed unworthy that this simple shepherd's pipe should have touched the great Moses» lips; so they covered it with gold.

That children should do chores might seem so obvious as to be unworthy of mention.

-------------------------------------------------------------------- If your so important, go ahead and try to see the Pres. of Russia, China, or here in the U.S., they would throw you in jail, because You are a nobody, UNWORTHY to be in their present.

It can be especially easy now — when so many of our interactions occur over the Internet rather than face to face, and sometimes with people we don't personally know — to treat those we disagree with as unworthy of our consideration or respect.

Die one as naturally as is so needed and never take such for undue clemencies as being an unworthy sanctumn.

Even if one attempts by subtle arguments to show that somehow men really accept Christ in their very seeming rejection of him (because the Christian witness they encounter is either unworthy or incomplete and so on), there is still always the possibility of sin, of closing in on oneself against Christ.

Besides all that, I don't see how teaching that we are all somehow so disguisting and unworthy that we need salvation through a god who supposedly came to earth to sacrifice himself to himself as a loophole to laws that he put in place in the first place.

The God of Israel and Muhammad have the same traits as an abusive partner: • you have to fear him to receive his love • you are unworthy of his love • you are nothing without him • if you do not love him he will hurt you • he doesn't want to punish you — it's really your fault • he threatens you if he thinks you might break things off • at all times he needs to know where you are, what you're doing and thinking so he can control your thoughts and behavior • doesn't want you to get an education because you'll realize you don't need him anymore and break up • worst of all, you have to bring him beer and a sammich

As to these doctrines» religious value, it seems that human beings are enjoined not so much to have faith as to regard themselves, as they are here and now, as unworthy of having faith.

This juggling with «days» to be got for so much monetary contribution, or so many prayers, the very idea that something one did oneself could produce a change, could cause God to act — all this would seem unworthy of one who owed a complete surrender to God, who could never be of himself worthy of the sovereign creator, but who had in fact been saved and justified by the Word of God, made one with the saints by the free act of Jesus.

In ancient civilisations there were plenty of slaves to carry out laborious work, and so there was no incentive to build machines, but in the Middle Ages Catholic theology taught that unnecessary work was unworthy of the dignity of man, and so great efforts were made to develop labour - saving machinery.

The source of the love that Jesus demands is God's love, revealed in Jesus» message and Jesus» life, in so far as both are signs of the divine Kingdom: God's love directed toward the unworthy — for all are unworthy, the good and the bad.

New Years» resolutions are tethered only to the passing of time, so it has been hard for me to respect them as anything other than arbitrary and a little unworthy of big changes.

So when that 186 % increase in NBA rights fees shows up in advertisers» pass - along costs and carriage fees on your cable bill, you can gripe about how avaricious players and greedy owners are unworthy of the windfall.

• «Rarely does one man have a chance to do so much harm to so many,» intoned the New York Times editorial board, who went on to call him «cowardly,» «opaque and narrowly political,» and «unworthy of his office.»

«The NSF now insists that we do commercial, non — peer - reviewed science so they can divest — and show positively that Arecibo no longer does mainstream radio astronomy and is thus unworthy for NSF investment.

You can't really blame Bello for taking every chance available to let her monster talent off its chain, even when the opportunity takes the form of something so ill conceived and unworthy (and dull and ridiculous) as Downloading Nancy.

The latter action isn't always in response to unworthy choices (though I imagine many will deem the inclusion of, say, relatively unproven comedian - turned - movie - star Russell Brand premature), but more to the tardiness of others: every year, I find myself surprised that so - and - so wasn't already a member.

Harsh, to be sure, but after years of developing a console version of this unworthy isometric action RPG, how could so many glitches, gameplay imbalances and unwieldy controls possibly make it through to the final release?

So, it is unfortunate that her passion project is compromised by a story saddled with a clichéd star - crossed love story that is unworthy of a political solution that ultimately cost about 1 million lives.

Hundreds of education leadership programs and widely read tomes on education leadership not only treat contracts, regulations, and policies as unworthy of attention, but go so far as to denounce efforts to address these things as distractions.

The fact that the Obama Administration was so willing to let states continue to fund professional development programs unworthy of being called such is another sign that the when it comes to implementation, the administration is all hat and no cattle.

In 1986, Hyundai entered the American marketplace with the subcompact, $ 4995 Excel, which was based on a Mitsubishi Mirage and was so far below the radar that it was deemed unworthy of mention by a fledgling Automobile Magazine.

In fact, Hulk Hogan has set the bar so low that, from now on, no interview we see or hear read could ever seem as incompetent, unworthy, or inappropriate as before.

The gift is so overwhelming that she struggles with feeling unworthy, especially since she still feels guilty for becoming a mom as a teenager.

Rescues are also sometimes a turn off for potential adopters who are deemed «unworthy» because they have small chidren, don't have a fence, are a dual income family that will leave the pet home alone during the day, and so on.

You don't really feel attached to them at all, and so their gory deaths quickly becomes just a common occurrence unworthy of your notice.