Sentences with phrase «vanity area!!!!»

Her very immobility, her stillness in a world running after vanity, makes her a heroine.

Local resident Marian Kamlish, 92, said: «In times of austerity, this vanity project is an insult to those in the NHS, in education, in the fire services and the police force, all suffering cuts while this rich man's railway sucks up our money.»

No Greek Olympian achieved honor either by shrinking from adversity or by feeding his personal vanity.

Among them we meet the redoubtable Prioress, Mother Marie de Gonzague, whose vanity, volatility and desire for control caused serious friction in the community.

In the Word God speaks about someone; the person sees himself in his abject need and his utter vanity.

Not for lack of opportunity, my vanity hastens to add.

Or, heuristically speaking, the rise and fall of empires might be construed as means by which men are brought to a realization of the vanity of their earthly, God - thwarting purposes.

I have always found it very strange that these who call themselves successors of the apostles, I mean some poor men — preachers of humility and repentance — should possess great wealth, wallow in luxery, and fill posts more proper to satisfy the vanity of the age and the ostentation of the great than to occupy men who must meditate on the nothingness of human life and on the quest for salvation.

To entertain himself, he began looking in the vanity mirror on the back of his sun visor.

When they pray for forgiveness, «surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.»

Such a response is a fund - a-medic proposal in apatheism's declaring the vainness / vanity of liberlisms» deceptiveness.

You know, vanity?

The vanity of mortal men is beyond belief at times.

Despite the withering contempt of experts and allies alike — even the architectural critic Lewis Mumford, letting his unfortunate susceptibility to vanity get the better of him, could not resist dismissing Death and Life as a «preposterous mass of historic misinformation and contemporary misinterpretation» assembled by «a sloppy novice» — this unaccredited journalist - mother, with no college education, no training in planning, and no institutional support, wrote a book that would change the way the world thinks about cities.

Happiness does not come from wealth alone: «The pleasures of the rich, consisting of vanity and superiority, are seldom consistent with perfect tranquility»

As she had turned Vanity Fair into vanity most foul, Ms. Brown quickly turned the New Yorker into the Village Voice, forcing that rag to find a yet sleazier niche.

To argue about such petty things without «wanting» to really know is vanity.

If we met in his spirit today, if we wanted to honor him in a way that would be acceptable not to his human vanity, for which he would need to do bitter penance, but to his central purpose and will, how would we go about it?

I had now so great a sense of the vanity and emptiness of all things here below, that I knew the whole world could not possibly make me happy, no, nor the whole system of creation.

Thus we need constantly to follow Ezra Pound's admonition to «put down our vanity», a vanity which foolishly pretends that we and we only are the important entities in the cosmos.

A thorough, rational examination of life is unable to find any satisfactory meaning: everything is «vanity.»

Oh, blessed brevity, oh, blessed simplicity, that seizes swiftly what cleverness, tired out in the service of vanity, may grasp but slowly!

This quotation highlights the emptiness and vanity of the «world.»

The biblical writer is clear on this point, for he portrays at length, by assuming the role of king, the vanity and emptiness of those «Greeks» who work at having fun (Eccl.

I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit.

As Ezra Pound wrote in Pisan Cantos, «Put down thy vanity... it was not man made grace or nature.»

If you really enquire about God, not with mere curiosity, not, as it were, like a spiritual stamp - collector, but as an anxious seeker, distressed in heart, anguished by the possibility that God might not exist and hence all life be vanity and one great madness — if you ask in such a mood as the man who asks the doctor, «Tell me, will my wife live or will she die?»

He concludes that the literature produced between 1870 and 1920 was typically of low quality, reflecting mostly social vanity and self - adulation, and expressed in artificial, contrived style.

No one will ever see it, just like no one ever saw three of the four vile posts you made earlier, and you will simply have further proved my point regarding the vanity of the atheist worldview.

Tucker of Dartmouth thought religion would cultivate in the educator rightmindedness (clear thinking undistorted by prejudice, avarice, or vanity) and service (the capacity to give moral inspiration to students, especially those in the «distinctly commercial callings»).

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all [was] vanity and vexation of spirit, and [there was] no profit under the sun.

It plays to the innermost vanity of man wanting to be immortal, that we receive a reward of the highest cal.iber.

That scholars have equated this divine permission and commandment with Epicureanism is incomprehensible, for in his second chapter the Preacher rejects all crude and refined forms of Epicureanism as vanity.

Vanity, vanity, all is vanity, says the preacher, slyly looking into the mirror.

Like most things the Roman church does, this is just silly, based on their unique combination of ridiculous fabrication, malice, vanity, and wilful ignorance.

The religion that man created (dying on crosses and other such hokus pokus) perverts His greatness with our petty politics and vanity.

Be not swayed by sodomy's ugly perceptions of vanity and ungodliness ideals!

For one thing, he understood the spiritual dangers of vanity.

All is vanity, say the unconnected nerve endings.

It behooves all of us after hearing the above to leave the mockery, arrogance and vanity aside and ponder about the aforementioned and heed the admonition.

As it strips political leaders and activists of vanity and illusion, it should also free them to wield power under God and in the service of God's creatures.

It's vanity and Solomon already told ya so.

It behooves all of us after hearing the above to leave the mockery, arrogance and vanity aside and ponder above the aforementioned and heed the admonition.

The purely momentary, in the next moment, to say nothing of eternity, becomes nonsense and vanity: the fiery moment of lust (and what is so strong for the moment as lust!)

Perhaps most impressively, he has repeatedly warned clergymen not to fall prey to the sins of worldliness, careerism, and vanity, and exhorted them to live out the gospel, and not just sanctimoniously preach it to others.

The circumstances surrounding his birth enable both Abraham and Sarah to see the permanent truth about parenthood: Children are not man's products or creatures, and thus the pride that human beings naturally take in their own children as their own children is vanity and self - delusion.

Is it really likely that when the Romans heard Paul's words about creation being «subjected to futility» in 8:20 they «could well have thought about how imperial ambitions, military conflicts, and economic exploitation had led to the erosion of the natural environment throughout the Mediterranean world, leaving ruined cities, depleted fields, deforested mountains, and polluted streams as evidence of this universal human vanity»?

It is vanity, therefore, to seek and trust in riches that perish.

For it is possible that it is falsehood and deceit and illusion and vanity.

It looks like America is in end times prophecy after all: Isa 5:18 ¶ Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope: i.e. g ^ y pride parade.