Sentences with phrase «than this great evil»

Formula, rather than this great evil that would ruin our lives like I'd previously thought, ended up being a useful and necessary bridge through a very tough time.

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These bonds are stronger than the forces of hatred and evil and these bonds grow even stronger in the hours of our greatest need.

The celebration of Satan is much worse than abortion, as it is the greater evil.

Leaving Muslims in darkness is greater evil than causing wars.

Rather than viewing conflict as the second greatest evil, conflict is an opportunity to grow and give the world something beautiful, a picture of the gospel, a picture of God.

To be sure, the cracks in the realistic surface, the surrealism, are far greater than in parables in the «Primary World,» but the story is still parabolic, for the transcendent unfamiliar, both good and evil, operative in this tale works within the givens of this world.

Of course great inequities and injustices will persist, but they are a lesser evil than «Global Governance and Democracy within the Global State,» which is a formula for the despotism of a self - appointed elite.

We have a much greater weapon against evil spirits than those who think their rituals do anything — and that weapon is prayer.

Although Buber's distinction between the two stages of evil did not reach its mature form until 1951, a much greater emphasis on the reality of evil is evident in his works since 1940 than in his earlier writings.

It changes the direction of a tendency whereby a greater good (or a lesser evil) may result than will be the case if the tendency persists in its evil ways.

I'm betting if you dug in to their lives you would find as great or greater evil than what this priest said.

«WE HAVE THE VICTORY» For those struggling with thoughts of unforgiveness and attacks on the mind especially deceiving thoughts and doubts these are from satan in the word they are called fiery darts we are to quench those darts by faith so we need to read the word and believe that Gods word is true.We also have the victory over these thoughts because when we accept Jesus the holy spirit dwells within us so satan does nt have authority over us he can not rule what belongs to God he can only deceive.We can not defeat the enemy in our strength we need the holy spirit when we try and overcome him in our strength we struggle especially with our thoughs and in the area of sin.If you are having evil thoughts or doubts commit your way unto the Lord and let him fight your battle.Tell the enemy he has no authority over you that you are under the covering of Jesus Christ and when you have doubts memorise verses on faith ie greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world.The holy spirit is just like Jesus talk to him be friends with him he helps us to live like Christ and gives us the power to do it.We are overcomers more than conquerers through Christ who strengthens us.brentnz

Personally, I find Christians that only care about preserving their moral supremacy at the cost of everyone else to be a far greater evil than same gender oriented individuals seeking equal treamtent in a country founded on the principles of freedom and equality.

You can not be possessed by a demon, you can not be controlled by an evil spirit, for greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world (1 John 4:4).

It is about how people are doing on the inside, that is far greater than any amount of money...... That is why God said LOVE not money (the love of money is the root of all evil)..

I've known Jesus for as long as I've known my name, and still I use other people like capital to advance my own interest, still I gossip to make myself feel important, still I curse my brothers and sisters in one breath and sing praise songs in the next, still I sit in church with arms folded and cynicism coursing through my bloodstream, still I talk a big game about caring for the poor without doing much to change my own habits, still I indulge in food I'm not hungry for and jewelry I don't need, still I obsess over what people say about me on the internet, still I forget my own privilege, still I talk more than I listen and complain more than I thank, still I commit acts of evil, still I make a great commenter on Christianity and a lousy practitioner of it.

I do believe that there is a force of evil in the world that is greater than the sum of its parts, and that in the normal course of life in the kingdom, real resistance will be encountered.

Their rationale was that if they would eat from that fruit, it would make evil part of themselves, and every action they would do after that would be the same: pushing away the evil, time and time again, which would be a greater accomplishment than before because the evil they would be pushing away would be from inside themselves.

But there is no doubt in my mind that God allowed evil because the eventual glory will be greater than if the evil hadn't happened.

And guns are now perceived as a greater evil than the murderers pulling the trigger.

My personal judgment is that it has done greater good and greater evil than any other historical movement.

They uniformly maintain instead that God may have had to settle for far less than the best and thus that this world may well contain a great deal of genuine evil (GFE 29 - 44).

The sexual revolution finds many Christians flip - flopping older puritanical attitudes — some see repressed sexuality as a greater evil than premarital sex and abortion.

I lean towards the third view... but I admit it is the most difficult of the three views... Christ's priorities appear to be «love in motion» flowing in almost unpredictable directions as dictated by the greatest need: — He heals a slave rather than rebukes slavery; — He heals a man at a pool, then leads the man to belief, then says «cease from sinning»; — He heals many others and says «go and sin no more» to but a few; — He shares money with the poor but establishes no long - term aid; — He touches lepers; He converses with seeking Pharisees; He debates with other Pharisees; He lives with Samaritan outcasts for two days; — He acknowledges the five «marriages» of the Samaritan woman as «marriages»... and then remarks about her current co-habitation... but then moves to higher priorities; — He seems so very focused on internal holiness and not on external holiness; — He violates the Sabbath; He says He is Lord of the Sabbath; He even says that the Sabbath was created to assist man, rather than man created to serve the Sabbath... thus turning the entire concept of the Law into one of assistance rather than being chained to obedience; — He insists on impartiality in the way we bless others, even if we call them «evil» or «good».

Thank goodness the newer companies seem to treat employees as their greatest asset, rather than a necessary profit sucking evil.

Axial existence is productive of far greater good and far greater evil than primitive existence.

According to them seven conditions must coincide to make a war just: the cause fought for must itself be just; the purpose of the warring power must remain just while hostilities go on; war must be truly the last resort, all peaceful means having been exhausted; the methods employed during the war to vanquish the foe must themselves be just; the benefits the war can reasonably be expected to bring for humanity must be greater than the evils provoked by the war itself; victory must be assured; the peace concluded at the end of the war must be just and of such nature as to prevent a new war.

But this is little more than a scratch on the surface of the great evil to which people are capable, and I believe that it is these sorts of public tragedies that keep our eyes averted from the truly horrific crimes that are being committed every day in the basements and back alleys of our own cities.

There was great evil in the world during the time of the flood, much worse than we see in the world now.

The Cross, in itself an «evil» thing, was used by God; and Christians believe it was used by him to bring about greater good than would have been possible without it.

This euphoria went far beyond the undeniable satisfaction of seeing a great evil overcome, and more than one other wise sober - minded observer was heard to propose that the democratic project — the great carrier of the modern quest for freedom — was now inevitably and irreversibly triumphant.

Once you have rationalised away your own evil acts by convincing yourself God will approve, then of course you have a greater sense of well being than others.

Hell wasn't a major reservoir of evil, any more than Heaven, in Crowley's opinion, was a fountain of goodness; they were just sides in the great cosmic chess game.

Basically, if diplomacy will not work, the damage inflicted by the aggressor is going to be serious and certain, the war against those damages will not produce greater evils AND Vatican City has a reasonable chance to win the war, than the Pope may declare war if he so wishes.

... Delight in smooth - sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts, desire for popularity and electoral success irrespective of the vital interests of the State, genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation, obvious lack of intellectual vigour in both leaders of the British Coalition Government, marked ignorance of Europe and aversion from its problems in Mr. Baldwin, the strong and violent pacifism which at this time dominated the Labour - Socialist Party, the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality, the failure and worse than failure of Mr. Lloyd George, the erstwhile great war - time leader, to address himself to the continuity of his work, the whole supported by overwhelming majorities in both Houses of Parliament: all these constituted a picture of British fatuity and fecklessness which, though devoid of guile, was not devoid of guilt, and, though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries which, even so far as they have unfolded, are already beyond comparison in human experience.

A fellow - traveler in New York, Thomas Skidmore, soon followed with his own Workingmen's Party of New York, and wrote in his first message to its members that he, too, thought that the great evil was the rise of modern servitude in the form of wage labour: «For he, in all countries is a slave, who must work more for another than that other must work for him.

The banning of cannabis was spearheaded by bigoted covert racists, who regarded the immoral strategems of Jim Crow laws as less evil than what they imagined to be the greater horrors of tolerance.

«Perhaps no one has a greater interest in blocking the painful memory of evil than the evildoer,» their report cautions.

The subject is Harry's showdown with the malevolent Lord Voldemort, and I won't reveal more than I ought to, but it shouldn't be a great secret that good triumphs and evil is vanquished.

The titular battle royale feels entirely contrived, and ultimately amounts to limit more than gratuitous superhero - on - superhero violence with a foregone conclusion: that Batman and Superman will make nice and join forces to fight a greater evil, yadda yadda yadda.

Also, one thing that can make a mediocre film great is an evil villain and Pearce as the antagonist is more annoying than evil.

In fact, Michael Myers is such a great evil figure because although we know his back - story, we essentially see so little of him that we can create the monster in our own imagination; a much scarier world than that any Hollywood prosthetics of CGI could ever create.

More flashily weird than his classic Out Of The Past, but not nearly as twisted as the greatest late 50s noirs like Touch Of Evil or Kiss Me Deadly.

Raimi's stock has fluctuated more than the price of an oil barrel over these past few years — what with him directing the god awful Oz the Great and Powerful and producing the divisive (but nonetheless gory as hell) remake of his own horror classic, The Evil Dead — but the man knows horror better than most — as evident not only by his Evil Dead entries but most notably in Drag Me to Hell, easily one of modern horror's most underrated gems.

Most viewers have been comparing his characterization and journey to that of Tony Stark or Bruce Wayne as a wealthy man boasting hubris until he's forced to be humbled by something greater than himself and learn to combat particular evils.

Since Revelations on the 3DS was better than Resident Evil 6 for both X360 and PS3, it would be a great helping for Capcom to port Revelations for the Wii U.

I just thought there was good and there was bad, and sometimes the bad wasn't so bad because there was great acting and a plot involving something more than good vs evil and lots of explosions.

In terms of sales, this year's House Party has been on par with last year's Block Party, which had Toy Soldiers, Scrap Metal and Perfect Dark, though both Perfect Dark and Toy Soldiers sold better than this year's selection, the sales of Torchlight, Beyond Good and Evil and Full House Poker have been great as well.

the next - gen consoles are getting Mortal Kombat X and a Resident Evil HD Remake those two alone will move consoles and that is not counting all the great new games coming out or the yearly sequels that new comers can safely expect rather than on Wii U there is no hope for.

The six Resident Evil films made greater than $ 1.2 billion on the international field workplace over 10 years, so Constantin can be trying to repeat that success to at the least a point.