Sentences with phrase «unworthy men»

Chrysostom, knew, for example, that the contest between Damasus and Ursinus for the episcopacy of the Roman church in 367 had cost the lives of 137 persons in Santa Maria Maggiore and that many other unworthy men had sought or had been advanced to the episcopate.

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.

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In a tweet, Hamill called the FCC chief «profoundly unworthy» of wielding a lightsaber, noting that «A Jedi acts selflessly for the common man - NOT lie 2 enrich giant corporations.»

That being the case, I would encourage you either to carry through with your defense by providing verifiable evidence of your claims which would serve to disprove Julie's evidence or to stop carrying water for a man who's unworthy of the effort.

Such supporters were described as men and women who seek «to «demean,» to «impose inequality,» to «impose... a stigma,» to deny people «equal dignity,» to brand gay people as «unworthy,» and to «humiliat [e]» their children.»

Many theologians think that it is unworthy of man to plead for the goods he needs, to pray, to take the posture of a suppliant or a beggar (though the Beatitudes bid us do just that).

... Those of you who are non-believers challenge believers... by your rejection of any distortion of religion which would make it unworthy of man.

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.

More was a man who stood by his principles in an issue unworthy of martyrdom, while Bonhoeffer stood to the death for a purpose worthy of giving one's life — to rid a country of tyranny.

Gregory makes a stunning point on the ambiguities of giving to those derelicts among the poor who are by consensus generally regarded as less worthy: One should give not just to the unworthy poor, but also to the worthy poor, regardless of their moral condition, and for a profound reason: because one «gives of his bread to an indigent sinner, not because he is a sinner, but because he is a man.

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.

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.

Any man who allows women and children continue to suffer at the hands of the abortion industry is unworthy to be called a man at all.

islam didnot come for world domination or taking part of the world, but it comes for people to warship their creator» allah», god not men, animals, or any unworthy creatures.

The result was that unworthy or lazy men often found their way into these insecure positions.

Selfishness, greed, judgementalism, hate, etc. are not the sort of qualities I would suggest you can defend on that day by explaining that those poor, needy people were deemed unworthy by you & yours for breaking the man - made idea that crossing an imaginary line on his Earth to seek a better life makes one of God's children unworthy of compassion and help vis - a-vis the lesson of the Gospels.

When a man truly perceiveth and considereth himself, who and what he is, and findeth himself utterly vile and wicked and unworthy, he falleth into such a deep abasement that it seemeth to him reasonable that all creatures in heaven and earth should rise up against him.

If something new happens — that means, that forgiveness is not a necessary result determined by the nature of the man who forgives, something upon which the offender can count (if he did, he would obviously be unworthy of it); but it is an act arising wholly from the free good will of a person, wholly a gift.

The problem is, who wants to worship a god created in the image of fallen man, ultimately unworthy of worship?

Now aesthetics requires silence of Agamemnon inasmuch as it would be unworthy of the hero to seek comfort from any other man, and out of solicitude for the women too he ought to conceal this from them as long as possible.

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.

Men do not attack those they think to be unworthy of notice or beneath contempt.

Nothing God spoke is unworthy of being discarded or over ridden by man.........

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.

Someone like myself who grew up feeling «dirty, bad, and unworthy» and was introverted in temperament, would have worshipped such a man.

Men created thousands of gods... The bibles god makes people feel like unworthy wretches... terrible.

But due to the Protestant competition for the title of true Christian, «all this was devoted to contempt and ridicule by men who called themselves Christians, the unworthy posterity of the heroes whose blood had flowed under the walls of Jerusalem.»

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.

Judge Alexandra Simmons rejected the Leicester City man's account as «unworthy of belief» during the case.

Not only this but the man will also start to feel unworthy because he is failing to live up to expectations, to himself and to his lover.

In the next place, as each representative will be chosen by a greater number of citizens in the large than in the small republic, it will be more difficult for unworthy candidates to practice with success the vicious arts by which elections are too often carried; and the suffrages of the people being more free, will be more likely to centre in men who possess the most attractive merit and the most diffusive and established characters.

• «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 New York Times warned that Weiner's rivals — in a «direct appeal to women voters who may decide the [primary] races» — are lumping Weiner and Spitzer together «as two wayward men obsessed with reclaiming power and unworthy of redemption.»

If you look back at your dating history and see a string of men who left you feeling misunderstood, insecure, or unworthy of love, the answer (as it is to many other problems in the dating world) is to look within.

Intoxicated with his new godlike abilities, the young man begins to kill those he deems unworthy of life.

The film, set in 1996, follows Tutu, played by Forest Whitaker (wearing a prosthetic nose that becomes less distracting as the strength of his performance becomes clear), as he finds himself confronting a man who seems unwilling to repent for his crimes and unworthy of forgiveness.

And all of them courtesy of its star, Simon Pegg, a man of great comedic gifts who finds himself in a vehicle greatly unworthy of them.

he's the kind of man that is unworthy of love, but thanks to the subtle touches, you realize that underneath all of the bad times, there is actual love there between the two.

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.

Feeling unworthy, Albom insists on understanding the man better, which throws him back into a world of faith he'd left years ago.

For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th» oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of th» unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin?

It also reflects a cold institutional uniformity that recalls the chilling racist assumption that all these men were the same and unworthy of distinction and individual mourning.

This is performed in some degree by the honest and liberal practice of a profession when men shall carry a respect not to descend into any course that is corrupt and unworthy thereof and preserve themselves free from the abuses wherewith the same profession is noted to be infected.»

Dixon ended the speech with a quote from the German philosopher Leibniz, that many supporters of legal AI and automation will no doubt strongly agree with: «It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labour of calculation, which could safely be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.»