Sentences with phrase «very forces of evil»

Bereft of memory, it is drawn toward the monster - infested castle and re-awakens the souls of the vanquished knights, leading them back towards the fallen stronghold to confront the very forces of evil that took their lives.

The power of love «converts even suffering itself into something active and creative and makes the very forces of evil, even through the apparent completeness of their triumph over it, nevertheless subserve its own purpose of good».21 The Anglican theologian W H. Vanstone (b. 1923) puts this poetically in a now well - known hymn:

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You can drive a car and watch television and still be very much aware of the objective force of evil and may want to call it witchcraft.

Not sure i am convinced because how do you explain the verse an eye for an eye in the old testament there have always been consequences for wrong doing and stiill are for sin.If we believe the word then that word is from God not satan.As far as satan is concerned he uses violence as his tools of trade he works on our fears and is limited to robbing stealing and destroying he does nt have anything else.Violence confirms to us that there is a spiritual battle going on both on the earthly plane and in the heavenlys and the battle is over souls.The verse the kingdon of heaven is expanding and violent people take it by force is referring to that spiritual battle and as satan uses violence to expand his dominion so does God use violence to counter him.So what does he mean by that term for me i think it is saying that the the force of evil that satan uses or violence is overcome by a greater violence or force a more powerful one that being the Love of Christ.Through the cross we see that clearly portrayed and in our lives that very same battle is still happening right now for dominion be clear if we walk in the flkesh satan will have dominion over us but if we walk according to the spirit and abide in Christ we have freedom from our old nature.and satan.He can oppose us but he wont be able to influence us if we are in Christ.

One is called upon not to fear physical death, so as not to lose one's very self, panicked by fear of death (Q 12:4), which is the greatest threat of evil forces, from unbearable pain to dictatorships.

As the healthy - minded enthusiast succeeds in ignoring evil's very existence, so the subject of melancholy is forced in spite of himself to ignore that of all good whatever: for him it may no longer have the least reality.

Just as when armies crash against each other, the victory is that of superior power, so also the victory of love and grace against the very real force of evil, is a victory of a real superior force.

The traditional answer to the question of evil is that even God can not force us to love him or to be good, because it is the very nature of love to be free.

It is very easy for the non-committed agnostic, or indeed for any non-Christian to make light of an organized force of evil.

These have taken the form especially of forcing us to see that the Christian record is a very mixed one, that the way we have followed Christ has caused great evil as well as great good.

But an unanticipated situation had arisen whereby evil - minded forces threaten the values and the very existence of the nation, exploiting the liberal values to destroy the very same society.

The mythic tale begins in a kind of parallel universe, like a Victorian - era, proto - industrial and very chilly New York, where demons and flying horses are the norm, and thugs in collusion with evil forces have extraordinary powers facilitated by colored stones!?

Pay heed, you Nayland Smiths of the world: The forces of evil are very much alive!

Nonetheless, uninitiated «muggles» like yours truly need not be familiar with the inscrutable lexicon to appreciate the fact that what's about to unfold is a classic showdown between the forces of good and evil over the very fate of the world.

Your humble narrator, Alex, will tell this story my brothers... First they see an ancient man, leaving the library carrying books, very suspicious, nobody goes there now, inspecting these filthy things and ripping them to pieces, not forgetting a few punches on the offender, to stop this evil habit, next entering a shop and borrowing some needed money, the owner and wife have to be persuaded with just a little force, for this honor, then teaching a scummy drunk, in the street, the evil of his ways, pounding some sense into his addled brain.

In the very first Dragon Quest, released for Nintendo's 8 - bit Famicom way back in 1986, a solitary swordsman took on the forces of evil.

With a story and game play feature that involves time the story follows a group of rebels trying to stop their civilization from being wiped out by a very large and evil imperial force.

Author Tim Lebbon is very effective at presenting the Predator people as something other than simply an antagonistic force of evil, making the reader question the species» role in the story before the true enemy is even introduced.