Sentences with phrase «vain man»

I wonder what Jones might make of this extraordinarily vain man and his views.

Monckton is sensing that he will enter history as one of the most arrogant and dumb humans of this century.That is not a nice prospect for such a vain man and this probably made him act so extremely nasty.

20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

But when we come to this master science, finding that our plumbline can not sound its depth, and that our eagle eye can not see its height, we turn away with the thought that vain man would be wise, but he is like a wild ass's colt; and with solemn exclamation, «I am but of yesterday, and know nothing.»

The last thing a proud and vain man wants to do is acknowledge that someone or something is greater than himself.

Not exact matches

9 It is in vain that they keep worshiping me, because they teach commands of men as doctrines.»

The prayers of the people of this world are all in vain, as they teach for doctrines the commandments of men (Matthew 15:9).

«Poor, sad, proud, too - tender Lear: the old man who loves to be loved; the prince embarrassed by the scope of his authority, yet jealous of royalty's perquisites; the ruler willing to give away his lawful prerogatives in order to hear — if just for a moment — that sweet gush of feminine gratitude; the vain old duffer whose need for affection makes him oblivious of its counterfeit.

9They worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men.

20 For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse: 21 because that, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither gave thanks; but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened.22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four - footed beasts, and creeping things.24 Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves: 25 for that they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever.

844 In their religious behavior, however, men also display the limits and errors that disfigure the image of God in them: Very often, deceived by the Evil One, men have become vain in their reasonings, and have exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and served the creature rather than the Creator.

It is the religiosity from church growth books, membership duties, vain promises that our Savior rebelled against in His day as Son of God, Son of Man, Let scripture super exceed any of mans futile attempts to be purpose driven, or a «church Member»

Adam Smith wrote: «But man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only.»

Anything less in this fallen world is merely vain speculation and a pipe dream because like it or not there is real evil in the heart and mind of man and it permeates everything around us — even in the church.

What ever it is it became clear that we went and still are going wrong for having left behind laws and judgments given to us by God Allah and replaced it with laws and judgments made by men that are against what we were instructed to follow up but followed the vain desires of some diverging from the truth although we were warned not to..?

In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.

and that, in general, no man knows what is good for him «all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow.»

There one feels the controlling sense of the misfortune of man's self - conscious existence, its endless transmigrations, vain illusions, and insatiable desires.

St. Paul put it simply a long time ago to the Christians (and they were a troublesome and doubting enough lot) of Corinth, when he said that «if Christ be not risen, then my faith is vain, and your faith is vain, and we are of all men the most wretched».

a0 Men wantading to force a woman to carry a child against her will.a0 Then you get this guy, who is so, totally, oblivadiadous that he denies comadmitadting aduladtry.a0 Clinadton aside, I ama0 sure Hillary dealt with him.a0 How could he be so vain or naefve to think that this wouldn't come out?a0 Shame on him, subadjectading his wife and famadily to thisa0 «crap».

That is against everything Jesus taught... about being vain and seeking the glory of men... what?

Do not let this man suffer in vain.

Either a man's sp & rm is sacred and MUST NOT be spilled in vain, or it isn't.

I believe that any reading of Edwards's life, including the story of the sad controversy in Northampton, will make quite clear that he was no self - willed man talking the name of God in vain to fortify his wishes.

Yet God is the One who values and uses, because God incorporates into the divine life which is everlasting the good that takes place in the historical sequence; and God overrules or uses for good that which comes from the «vain imagination of foolish men» in their sin and defection — and, we may add, from anything else that is evil or wrong thanks to the free decisions made by the creatures in their divinely granted capacity to choose among relevant possibilities.

One defender of the faith said, «If man and monkeys, magpies and mackerel, mosquitoes and moles are all alike the descendants of the earth and sea, then is our religion vain and we are without hope and without God in the world.»

But it must be said, and as outspokenly as possible, that the so - called Christendom (in which after a sort all men are Christians in a way, so that there are just as many, precisely as many Christians as there are men)-- it must be said that not only is it a wretched edition of Christianity, full of misprints disturbing to the sense, and of senseless omissions and additions, but that it has abusively taken Christianity's name in vain.

9) It is in vain that they keep worshiping me, because they teach commands of men as doctrines.

Christianity teaches that this particular individual, and so every individual, whatever in other respects this individual may be, man, woman, serving - maid, minister of state, merchant, barber, student, etc. — this individual exists before God — this individual who perhaps would be vain for having once in his life talked with the King, this man who is not a little proud of living on intimate terms with that person or the other, this man exists before God, can talk with God any moment he will, sure to be heard by Him; in short, this man is invited to live on the most intimate terms with God!

7) It is in vain that they keep worshiping me, because they teach as doctrines commands of men.»

However vain and conceited men may be, they have nevertheless for the most part a very lowly conception of themselves, that is to say, they have no conception of being spirit, the absolute of all that a man can be — but vain and conceited they are... by way of comparison.

The man is pathetic and horribly vain..

God fear would make a man of faith to think a thousand time and will ultimately stop him from being corrupt and from doing other vain things of the world.

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And so we learn, for example, from THE FEDERALIST or from Hobbes that the Athenian assembly was filled with vain and contentious men, men animated by sometimes cruel and often violent aristocratic pretensions.That «democracy» did have the characters or the institutions to support a just and stable middle - class way of life.

We have said that hope that one's own spirit might grow in love to God and man is not vain, for God's grace is real.

God's power becomes available to man to complete his incompleteness and purge him of his vain efforts at self - completion.

If men do not die, Christ did not die and your faith is in vain.

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

... Every article of human ingenuity has been employed to blunt the sharp edge of this scripture and to explain away the obvious meaning of these words, but it has been employed in vain, though nothing will ever be able to reconcile this and similar passages to the mind of the natural man (Pink, Sovereignty of God, 52).

it would be equally vain to avoid doing good deeds before men to prove the approval of men is not important.

He knew by his cleverness exactly what his frivolous people needed, in order that they should not simply take the earnestness of the Good in vain, and thereby be led to pay the wise man a good deal of money as a reward for having deceived them.

render not vain your alms by taunt and injury, like him who spends his wealth to be seen of men, and he believes not in Allah and the Last Day.

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

In closing to all my Christian brtheren who read this remember the words of warning given to us about such things in the book of Colossians chapter 2 verse 8: «beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit; after the traditions of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.»

Jesus had something to say about this «But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.»

«Again, respect of persons, in uncovering the head and bowing the knee or body in salutation, was a practice I had been much in the use of; and this, being one of the vain customs of the world, introduced by the spirit of the world, instead of the true honor which this is a false representation of, and used in deceit as a token of respect by persons one to another, who bear no real respect one to another; and besides this, being a type and a proper emblem of that divine honor which all ought to pay to Almighty God, and which all of all sorts, who take upon them the Christian name, appear in when they offer their prayers to him, and therefore should not be given to men; - I found this to be one of those evils which I had been too long doing; therefore I was now required to put it away and cease from it.

In consequence, men look to religion in vain for tidy, comprehensive, or deducible answers to specific current problems.

Christ did not pray for this world (John 17:9) and the prayers of the so - called Christians are all in vain as they teach for doctrines the commandments of men (Matthew 15:9).

They worship me in vain, with their teaching of the precepts of men.»