Sentences with phrase «unworthy even»

By way of contrast, the non-Christian, deprived of supernatural revelation, was possessed only of natural knowledge, lived his life in the secular sphere, and performed purely secular or natural activities that merited him only a natural beatitude if they were naturally good.1 The atheist, however, being obdurate in his unbelief, was unregenerated and therefore considered unworthy even of a natural beatitude.

God does not reward our virtue; he is gracious to sinners, for we are unworthy even when we have done our best (verse 10).

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.

been jolted out of that spiritual complacency which makes most of us unworthy even of damnation.

Not exact matches

Not spam, necessarily, but useless to you and unworthy of your attention even for a moment.

It might even prove to be an unworthy financial investment to keep running bid adjustments.

Drunk and in stupors are the christiandumbs folds» in - undulations becoming sciatic pragmatisms unworthy of even one toasting for but rather against!

Ultimately, these Cameron Crowe type paeans to rock (like the Pearl Jam 20) sing to gods which are silly and unworthy of worship, even if they have a lot of influence.

And once this recognition is at the heart of our ministry, our preaching will become effectual — not that we are ever more than unworthy and «unprofitable» servants, but that God in Christ can and does use our unworthiness for his own great ends and makes even our imperfections to serve him.

Suggesting that the thing you hate, will lead to something even worse, is an invented problem, unworthy of consideration.

He rightly speaks of the Christian concept of grace, unmerited favor and forgiveness, which is based upon our faith in Jesus as Redeemer, as motivating and even commanding our forgiveness of our unworthy neighbors.

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.

Sometimes the picture of hell has been painted in lurid fashion, with ghastly punishment inflicted upon «lost» persons; more frequently, at least in recent theological writing, this aspect has been muted or denied, and stress has been put on such ideas as persistence after death apart from God's presence — or even in that presence, which for the utterly unworthy man or woman would be horrifying, as when an evil person is compelled to be with someone whom he or she deeply hates.

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.

Drunk and in temperamental stupors are the emotionally fallen in christiandumbs folds becoming sciatic pragmatisms unworthy of even one toasting for, but rather against!»

The foundation of christianity is that we all need salvation, stating that humans are all unworthy of anything good an afterlife because of what suppposedly happened long before our time, or even the time that jesus supposedly did his preaching.

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.

He wrote, «From the most essential and most fundamental about oneself to every single thing or affair in the world, even the meaning of one word or half a word, everything should be investigated to the utmost, and none of it is unworthy of attention... There is no other way to investigate principle to the utmost than to pay attention to everything in our daily reading of books and handling of affairs....

Pope John Paul was emphatic in teaching that» [t] he use of the infertile periods for conjugal union can be an abuse if the couple, for unworthy reasons, seeks in this way to avoid having children, thus lowering the number of births in their family below the morally correct level.This morally correct level must be established by taking into account not only the good of one's own family, and even the state of health and the means of the couple themselves, but also the good of the society to which they belong, of the Church, and even of the whole of mankind.

Drunk and in temperamental stupors are the emotionally fallen within biblically jewish - rooted christiandumbs folds becoming sciatic pragmatisms unworthy of even one toasting for, but rather for the many to be rightly toasting against!»

Indeed, from the early years some priests of unworthy life were permitted — even encouraged — to go to America to free their superiors of the embarrassment of their presence.

Topher, as much as your opinion can't be trusted based on the fact that you have made it clear that you believe the buybull is 100 % true, there are some facts based in reality that state very clearly that children can benefit from being the child of a same gender couple... even further making your belief and opinion unworthy of trust.

One would think that in more men the shell of secrecy would have had to open, the pent - in abscess to burst and gain relief, even though the ear that heard the confession were unworthy.

On top of that, they play something that looks like football, even if they get rinsed every now and then, whereas we shut down matches and slowly bleed the life out of them, then drop points to unworthy opponents anyway.

That is how you will really change your situation and attract love to your life because the reality is, even if your dream woman walked into your life right now, your own beliefs of being unworthy would get in the way and your dream woman doesn't deserve that.

Drafted by Councilor - at - Large Kathleen Joy, the charter change enables the council to order the planning commission to conduct a public hearing and to take a final vote on a proposed development, even if the commission deems the developer's application incomplete and unworthy of being advanced.

You might feel dirty inside or even unworthy of finding someone to be with.

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.

Plenty of unworthy films do well at the box office and a few even get Oscar s attention (see above).

Instead, reaction shots and facial expressions reveal the frustration that these characters go through even when «popping a cap» into an unworthy star.

There's even a scene, which on the surface is about miscommunication, which has a deeper meaning implying that Shoya believes unworthy of anyone's friendship or love.

We'll give you a hint: the unworthy nominee should be «Happy» he was even nominated for a second time.

Can Phil get Fez finished before the internet critics deem the game unworthy to even care about anymore?

I'm questioning myself even saying that as year after year I feel like hitting my screen when something unworthy makes it in over something much more deserving.

There's nothing else to Child's Play 3, not even with an adolescent Andy being revisited by his harrowing childhood; to call it unworthy of conversation would be the understatement of the year.

I also can not believe the report doesn't even acknowledge this as a potential problem: it's not clear whether they thought of it, but considered it unworthy of comment, or failed to appreciate this implication for already struggling schools?

Even though there is a part of me holding on to the belief that I am now, have always been, and will always be unworthy, I am still willing to love and accept myself.

Parties with a vested interest in blocking the publication and distribution of content they feel is inappropriate, inflammatory, or even just unworthy.

The unworthy couldn't even reach the bookstore alive.

«It is my hope — and my expectation — that we will soon transition from the unworthy debate about whether the problem even exists to the worthy debate to be had about what to do about it.»

You are right — I am wrong --(cue sarcasm and uncontrollable sniggering — I know, unworthy of me, but even so...), and still Nature refuses to go along with the Warmist Manntra.

If not for a gun, the (unworthy of being named) loser in Connecticut would have stabbed a bunch of people or he could have made a bomb out of common household products and killed even more people.