Sentences with phrase «vain when»

Are your years of playing chess or thousands of collected stamps all in vain when it comes to your resume?

Also, any info on the pages or files you were trying to access in vain when you were locked out would help me too.

Although his biggest passion are books, Prince isn't vain when it comes to the artwork of his fellow artists.

It's valiant technical achievements are in vain when it lacks any notion of direction, which significantly cripples its entertainment value.

They were about to give up after hours spent in vain when they spotted the dogs.

(And heck, I'll admit that I'm pretty vain when it comes to seeing my name on a book cover.

The Last Photograph is filled to the brim with fantastic performances, but all of this seems to be in vain when the surrounding film is so empty.

But after a year in Silver's lab, Knight's attempts were revealed to be in vain when other researchers disproved one underlying premise of Silver's model of the experimental system Knight intended to use.

(2) Most clergymen sound like they're taking the Name in vain when they start telling people how to vote.

My view (before incorporating Chuck's post into my thinking) was that we take God's name in vain when we add God's name to our beliefs and behaviors so that we can appear more holy and authoritative to others.

Not exact matches

When Heidi Hayes and her husband were trying to have a child, they spent thousands of dollars, in vain, on fertility clinics.

Whoever does not use his judgment to the utmost to keep the necessary reserve with them, will exert it in vain later on when he endeavors to extricate himself from the labyrinth, a misfortune which most often ends only at death.»

But when the SDM said that she had faced pressure, all her (friend's) efforts went in vain.

6:7; «And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do.

(54) And when they hear vain talk, they turn away therefrom and say: «To us our deeds and to you yours; peace be to you: we seek not the ign - or - ant.»

When we lose faith in the essential goodness of life and our own humanity, seeing that which we judge «evil» to be more prevalent than that which we judge to be «good», then we have lost faith in either the goodness or the power of God to sustain that goodness and our God has become too small or just another Baal, a false god of our own vain imaginings, a projection of our own finite limitations and disordered desires.

And of course, I agree with the concept that when God said not to take His Name in vain this is exactly what was the primary meaning.

Anyway, this is supposed to be a review of his book, and so far, it's all about me... I told you when I started it was vain...

... go to him when your need is desperate, when all other help is in vain, and what do you find?

No, I was not there when you laid the foundation of the earth, but where were you when I was hurt and afraid and desperate and cried to you in vain?»

While it is of course true that those who belong to this school are perhaps most vocal in their assertion that in our Lord alone may God be seen at work, and while it is they who denounce the concept of «general» revelation as a vain fancy of sub-Christian speculation, a considerable number of other Christian thinkers take what in effect is the same position when they make central to their teaching a kind of uniqueness in the coming and the person of Christ which effectively removes him from the context of the total sell - expressive operation of the Eternal Word.

In the last church I went you when a leader claimed she was being prophetic and doing what God does, I challenged her about being insulting, practicing false prophecy and using God's name in vain in her sexist approach.

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».

The image above represents what has been my view for a while, that to use the Lord's name in vain is to speak for God when He never spoke, or ascribe something to God (our actions and behaviors) in ways He never approved.

When touch is used improperly or in vain, the individual receiving the touch may interpret it in a manner unintended by the giver.

When its time came, the Protestant Reformation rejected as fraudulent many of the relics and miracles so it is no surprise that the miracle of Holy Fire was viewed as yet another vain superstition of the past.

When one takes the name of the Lord in vain, one reveals that he is separated from the deepest ground of his being; he is separated from God.

But when now peril was at hand, it stretched its wings and tried to fly — in vain.

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.»

When a person doesn't do the right thing; why then, neither has he understood it; his understanding is a vain conceit, his assertion that he has understood it is a false indication of the way, his repeated assertion that the devil take him if he has not understood it is a prodigious remoteness along the greatest possible detour.

21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

H. Richard's view of human limitation is expressed in his understanding of God as the structure in all things, «the rock against which we beat in vain, that which bruises and overwhelms us when we wish to impose our wishes, contrary to his, upon him.»

I felt pity for them when the trumpet would sound and the Christian God would descend and all of their faith and piety would have been in vain.

And is Paul being a bit too hopeful when he urges believers to «be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, because you know that in the Lord your labor is not in vain»?

When Ferdinand Ebner says that «to speak of God except in a context of prayer is to take his name in vain» it means that to speak of him without yourself being in relationship with him, without seeking and finding again and again, is to talk vaporing nonsense.

It is amazing how people use the word christ in troubles, or problems that they may encounter, when this word only means «anointed» just as the word messiah, it too only means «anointed» so, when people use these two words to express their anguish, it is used in vain.

«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.

When the religious thought of the ancient world from Mesopotamia to Palestine, and from Palestine to Egypt, required terms to express that ultimate unity of direction in the universe, upon which all order depends, and which gives meaning to importance, they could find no better way to express themselves than by borrowing the characteristics of the touchy, vain, imperious tyrants who ruled the empires of the world.

in all seriousness though, can you tell me why G * d doesn't exist when we all say: he name in vain all the time.

And therein lies the cycle you people need to give up... you have no faith in this country because you refute faith altogether... you remain vain in the face of truth... you believe our country is hurt when it is strong... your pessimism and lack of faith is what leads you to believe your own self concieved disastrous state of our nation.

Like how nauseated I got when I went to his church's Christmas Eve service this week, hoping in vain it would just be singing.

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.

But I try, When I dress you up in fine, fashionable clothes so that you will look like the others, When I keep you at home to protect you from the world, When I try, in vain, to fight the pull of time so it won't change anything about the way you laugh, the way you whisper, the way you play — all these little ways I know are yours alone.

When the Northern Kingdom fell, in 72I B.C., and the Assyrian monarch settled strangers in Samaria, it was in vain that they brought their own gods with them.

«was a vain eternal recurrence, a circular movement, leading nowhere»; «deliverance was attained by the individual when he detached himself in soul from the world.»

When you violate your word you take my name in vain.

Those who are skeptical about the language and presuppositions of the great god of technology, those who are inclined to take the name of the technology - god in vain, have been condemned as reactionary renegades, especially when they speak of gods of a different kind.

When did the left start caring about religion anyway... most of them are agnostics or atheists anyway... the only time they invoke Jesus» name is when they invoke it in vain against the commandment, «Thou shalt not take the Lord's name in vain&raqWhen did the left start caring about religion anyway... most of them are agnostics or atheists anyway... the only time they invoke Jesus» name is when they invoke it in vain against the commandment, «Thou shalt not take the Lord's name in vain&raqwhen they invoke it in vain against the commandment, «Thou shalt not take the Lord's name in vain».

I say I will be surprised if there will be anyone in heaven, as when we commit the unforgivable sin of taking the name of the Holy Spirit in vain we will all be up the creek without a paddle.

He won't have died in vain if others learn from Zimmerman's mistake and avoid confrontation when a) they aren't sure what's happening and b) the police are on their way.