Sentences with phrase «things is a meaningless»

Asking «why» about some things is a meaningless question.

Things were meaningless whose meaning had always been self - evident.

And every time we get a strong (major - conference) No. 3 team (2003, 2004, 2008, 2011), we get talk of a split national title once they win their bowl game; it doesn't matter whether we think they are as good as the 1 - versus - 2 winner, it's just that «The system's broken» and «This whole thing is meaningless without a playoff.»

These things are meaningless in terms of a relationship, but he claims they are deal breakers.

I exist But only in you if you want me... All things are meaningless accidents, works of chance unless your marveling gaze, as it probes, connects and orders, makes them divine... — Wilhelm Willms, «God Speaks» 1

Not exact matches

The funny thing about baptisms for the dead is that Mormon doctrine itself makes the practice meaningless!

If it is something not real (that is, it actually is an untrue thing, therefore meaningless), those in whose behalf it is done do nt know anything, and their living reletives shouldnt care one way or the other.

And then, go home with the thought that because this love is a chemical construct of some sort (as thoughts involve chemistry) that this bond between you and your loved ones is as meaningless and hollow in the whole scheme of things as is the statement of a chemical equation.

What appeared good or even very good at first turned out to be meaningless and pointless, and the introduction of suffering and struggle and maturity was a good thing.

But if all we live in is a universe that ultimately has an expiration date, every single thing that we do ultimately is meaningless.

In Christianity, for example, it's taught that people wouldn't do good things without belief in God, or that their good deeds are somehow «meaningless» without first believing in God.

Unfortunately, in our modern relativistic culture we want to redefine things until they are meaningless.

By this way of thinking, the further we push toward a more basic understanding of things, the more we are immersed in meaningless, brutish bits of matter.

It is the same thing with the superst!tions around sports, or carrying a lucky rabbits foot... people convince themselves these meaningless things have meaning.

Sure — the sorcerers that call themselves «pharmaceutical bio-chemists» drone on and on about meaningless, nonsensical things like «monoclonal antibodies» but we all know that prayer is what healed him.

as an actual scientist, it's more important to ask «how things work» than to ask empty meaningless questions like «why are we here» or «what happens when we die».

«I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind... I applied myself to the understanding of wisdom, and also of madness and folly, but I learned that this, too, is a chasing after the wind.»

One element in our contemporary thinking, which has helped to make talk of the «afterlife» appear meaningless, is the increasing recognition that there is no such thing as a «substantial self».

And not only this, but that they have recognized that the very thing which was leading me to despair — the meaningless absurdity of life — is the only incontestable knowledge accessible to man.»

The thing is, saying the bible is «true», is a meaningless sentence.

They are doiing things that are more inline with a civil rights protest, but this is not a civil rights issue, it is just one meaningless opinion vs. another meaningless opinion.

In that case it is hard to see why such a created entity, communicated to the faculty of the finite being, could not lastingly belong to it, and why, therefore, we may not consider as conceivable the very thing that defenders of physical premotion attack as metaphysically meaningless, namely, that a faculty or power, understood to be an active power, could bring itself from potency to act, of itself, of course on the basis of conservatio and concursus, which latter, however, would not create some intermediary between potency and act but simply posit potency and act.

Without Christ, man is meaningless; without man, all life besides is meaningless; without life the earth is meaningless; but all things have meaning in Jesus Christ, to whom all things are relative, through whom all things consist, of whom all things bear witness in their being.

Those who assert that God is «creator» and «ruler» of a world that comes about by chance events are in truth denying that God is really the cause of things as they are; and so, this makes the Benedicite utterly meaningless.

But this was no fortuitous or meaningless catastrophe: He was doing the thing he came to do.

Incoherence means a lack of relation, an isolation of elements or factors, in such a way that unrelated things, in this relationship of being unrelated, are meaningless.

A special case of this is copy / paste of trite, meaningless aphorisms eg: «Prayer changes things» — Ummm, we all know it doesn't.

How tragic it would be to live a whole life focusing on mundane, meaningless things, and look back at the end of life and realize you've lived a wasted it.

They don't know why He came and they are just ignorantly preoccupied with the meaningless things of life.

Remember that all of these harmful things that you do to yourself and others are meaningless in the universe.

If you are saying that it does not change things in our world, then prayer is meaningless in the first place.

If the scheme of things is purposeless and meaningless, then the life of man is purposeless and meaningless too.

Perhaps it is constituted by fears and hopes and desires, and perhaps it is just these things which bind man to the endless and meaningless chain of existence from which he needs to be freed.

Things simply are what they are, and evaluation and judgement are meaningless.

As the great teacher Solomon writes in the book of Ecclesiastes, those material successes of wealth and pleasure are meaningless, and pursuing such things is merely chasing after the wind.

A meaningless array of things is a collection that has no perceptible system of coordination into one concrete entity.

This of course tortures out of sin its utmost demoniac powers, bestowing upon it the ungodly hardiness or obduracy which must constantly regard everything which is of the nature of repentance and everything which is of the nature of grace not only as empty and meaningless but as its foe, as the thing which most of all it has to guard against, quite in the same way as the good guards itself against temptation.

Proselytizing, particularly of the hit and run kind: eg: «Believe or burn» A special case of this is copy / paste of trite, meaningless aphorisms eg: «Prayer changes things» Ummm, we all know it doesn't.

«Without Christ man is meaningless, without man the evolution of life is meaningless, without life the earth is meaningless, but all things have meaning in Jesus Christ, to whom all things visible and invisible are relative, and to whom all things bear witness in their being.»

We place too much importance on things that are meaningless and ephemeral in the long run.

One senses that many of these other philosophers have not known what to make of this strange character who asked all the questions they held to be irrelevant or meaningless and believed many things they thought absurd.

For example, here is a sentence that describes the confusion among the followers of Jim Jones's People's Temple: «Every one of them was steeped in traditional religion, and they left it because they found a group of people that loved them, that gave them more answers, that cared for them, that generated warmth — when all they did was sit in pews and have meaningless things told to them so they could go out and live meaningless lives.»

But then when he is played at CB in meaningless preseason games to help improve key aspects of his game like positional awareness, reading the game and tackling among other things, we all are up in arms... Playing cb did wonders for Alex Song when he was eventually pushed up to midfield.

It's just the difference between a positive and negative mind set and that some of us would rather not spend our time wallowing in negativity, posting meaningless comments and have better things to do.

May your research and entire body of work over your life be on things that are trivial and useless so that your inevitable mistakes and misgivings will be meaningless to the world and to humanity.

This is not to say becoming a soldier isn't brave, but heroism and bravery are different things, and the latter requires both context and purpose to become the former, else the word's meaningless.

By making something that should be both individual and optional into something generic and compulsory, the FA and the PL have performed the miraculous feat of shafting the thing in both directions: it's completely meaningless most of the time, except on the rare occasions when it's cosmically overblown.

I share in your opinion.People seem to think Arsenal signing another CB will solve our problems.We're just going to waste money on what we don't need.We'll be back here asking for another CB after next season.After siging Laca I thought Wenger would targrt a player who'd be a cross between defense and attack in the centre of the pack.But he just goes on Lemar this Lemar that.Funny thing is a lot of talents above him are not rated by some people here.We only needed two or possibly three players this window but Wenger's making it look more difficult than it is.I felt after signing them he'd apply the right tactics, combinations and mental strength to the team which quite frankly is lacking.I also felt the three back against some teams is meaningless.

I mean the way u guys get on people mainly writers here is so disrespectful.Someone will sacrifice his time, effort among other things to bring out an article for u to read and keep yourselves busy but all you do is say direspectful things about his article.I know there are categories of them that are meaningless and clueless but definately not this same article.

Bottom line — this result is probably meaningless in the greater scheme of things and the capitulation may be the turning point in the season.