Sentences with phrase «vain attempt»

The whole procedure will take only a few minutes of your precious time and you will be released from vain attempts to finish your writing task.

The entire universe has been dropped into the torrential flow of His grace and redemption and no matter how much we might swim against the current or splash around in our own vain attempts at self - glorification, we can not resist the direction that Jesus is pulling all creation toward.

Anyone who believes in blaspheming others or making vain attempts to humiliate the Believers in God are as soulless and are mindless creatures of habitualized tendencies

«The donkey goes on to the ice until it breaks» — German proverb [image credit: evwind.es] Debatable claim in the headline, but the German «energy transition» has certainly hurt electricity consumers as prices have shot up in the last decade, with fortunes being wasted on vain attempts to tweak the climate system.

I was frightened that we were destroying our Earth in vain attempts to aggrandize ourselves and I wanted in some way to transmit to others my sense of the preciousness of nature.

Concurrent with this orgy of public debt, the State encourages massive expansion of private credit via fractional lending, low bank reserves, and other forms of leverage, in a vain attempt to stimulate demand in an economy burdened with overcapacity, declining employment, marginal return on capital and saturated markets.

In the early 19th Century, Luddites destroyed mechanized looms in a vain attempt to forestall the effect of the industrial revolution on employment patterns in the textile industry.

«The one big thing that Bogle knows — and explains so well in this slender volume — is that buying and holding a broad benchmark of stocks while keeping fees to a minimum leads to higher long - term returns than constantly trading in a vain attempt to beat the market.

The Althing's proposal spells this out in clear legal terms as an alternative to the neoliberal idea that economies must pay willy - nilly (as Keynes would say), sacrificing their future and driving their population to emigrate in what turns out to be a vain attempt to pay debts that, in the end, can't be paid but merely leave debtor economies hopelessly dependent on their creditors.

I agree with the assessment — I wonder if some of the news reports are an attempts to use media and social media in a vain attempt to curb consumer interest,

He also examines how the human being who denies these moral truths steeps himself ever deeper in perverted forms of remorse, confession, atonement, reconciliation, and justification, all in the vain attempt to convince himself and others that evil is really good.

But this is simply another vain attempt to control.

But the use of alcohol as a self - prescribed pain - deadener creates a runaway symptom of increasing drinking in a vain attempt to overcome the psychological and physiological pain resulting from previous excessive drinking.

The latter often are driven by compulsive craving for reassurance about one's masculinity or femininity, or by a vain attempt to fill the emptiness of not having had a satisfying relationship in childhood with the parent of the other sex.

You will most likely look like an idiot throwing tennis balls into a tree in a vain attempt to dislodge the $ 500 personal drone you just purchased.

Nevertheless, in a vain attempt to defend a doctrine which is required by faulty theology, various Scriptures are referenced as evidence that faith is a work (Acts 5:31; 11:18; 13:48; 16:14; 18:23; Eph 2:8 - 9; Php 1:29; 2 Tim 2:25; Rom 12:3; 1 Cor 12:8 - 9; 2 Pet 1:1).

Too often, it is our tendency to try to tidy up our stories when sharing our faith; it is a vain attempt to show others a cleaned - up portrait of Christianity that simply isn't true.

Actually, your ilk gets to choose a verse and pick what group to apply it to in a vain attempt to discredit it.

To investigate the dimension of transcendence, conceived not as an attribute to God but as a dimension of man, is not to start from something which exists in our world in a vain attempt to prove the existence of what can exist only in another world; it is simply to investigate all the dimensions of human reality.22

But I feel this is a vain attempt of the association to hog the limelight.

It is not the vain attempt by endless finite additions or increments to become possessed of infinite wealth, but it is the endeavor, by the constant exercise of spiritual activity, to appropriate that infinite inheritance of which we are already in possession.

The updating or «aggiornamento» of the Church did not mean jettisoning unpalatable parts of the Catholic faith in a vain attempt to be more with it; it meant a more effective proclamation of the same gospel that the apostles received from Christ and that has been handed down in and by the Church ever since — in Benedict XVI's words «the continuity of the one subject - Church».

In fact, I confess that even in this blog you may have noticed my vain attempts to keep at least some of my sustenance supplied by the church and its members.

Please, don't try to redefine basic concepts in faith and epistemology in a a vain attempt to build a straw man against faith.

After many years of vain attempts to «explain» God as trinity, I now say, «Well, to begin with we Christians have been taught to pray, «Our father, who art in heaven...»» I then suggest that a good place to begin to understand what we Christians are about is to join me in that prayer.

This is a record of a child, odd and difficult from birth, in the grip of senseless obsessions, controlling the family with rigid rules and prohibitions, tearing through the house as fast and destructive as a tornado, grunting instead of talking, unresponsive to his parents» loving concern, their urging, coaxing, their vain attempts at discipline, their anger and spanking.

This view paints God as a helpless victim of evil, and though He wishes the world were otherwise, His only options are to choose between various evils, and when confronted with the choice, He chooses the greatest evil in a vain attempt to show how terrible evil truly is.

Something told me that I needed to unpack Matthew 19, and to tell you the truth, I had always used it as a sledge hammer in my vain attempt to «retrain my mind.»

Paul III (1534 - 49), in a vain attempt to halt the divisions in the church, convened a council at Trent.

Using select verses of the Scripture as slingshot ammunition in vain attempts to ridicule believers is juvenile.

Her article sounds like a vain attempt to try to say being gay is cool.

Because Satan and his fallen angels with him received the eternal death sentence because they fully know the Holy Spirit's existence and yet rejected it in a vain attempt to be like the Most High.

Secondly, you are suggesting that people should intentionally delude themselves by believing some mythology in a vain attempt to try and give meaning to something.

It's a vain attempt to try to escape death.

Adding the quinoa flour was a vain attempt to kid myself that these brownies would be good for me.

Instead, his head goes down, the wind pounds him like a wave crashing on a bodysurfer, and he flails his arms in a vain attempt to regain balance.