Sentences with phrase «vicious one»

As I travel around the country visiting and consulting with congregations and clergy, I find that many are caught in vicious cycles.

Of course, there are Israelis and Palestinians who know that this cycle is a vicious one, destructive of both peoples and leading nowhere.

Does it allow you to feel better about yourself, holding such vicious, hateful beliefs?

The vicious cycles seem more common than the virtuous ones.

That is, the vicious circle of self - preoccupation is broken only when a person loves others without regard to the effect of that love on himself.

If God is taken to be like that, it then follows that human love itself is interpreted as being «Pollyanna - ish» sentimentality, prepared to accept whatever happens, tolerant of anything, however vicious, and utterly lacking in vertebrate strength.

It is also important to see that subtle distortions in the saintly life may be as destructive as vicious rejections of God's call by grossly unspiritual people.

I remember a story was done here about a famous woman converting from atheism to Catholism and atheists called her the most vicious and vile names I've ever heard.

The vicious fight we're seeing right now over evolution may seem like a resurgence of creationism, but it's a last gasp.

Inasmuch as religious communion conversely strengthens religious faith and action, we find a circle — however, not of a vicious nature.

Once I was in a news meeting in which a very senior editor made a vicious joke about Christians.

The ever more desperate attempts to force the world into the shape of a text has been translated and mistranslated a million times into as many languages over thousands of years are the vicious attacks of a cornered animal.

@GodPot: since you don't bother to actually research anything, you just watch libtard news, you don't realize that in most states, whites are a minority behind hispanics and blacks, and that both groups are vicious in their attacks on whites mainly, and then each other.

But this is a vicious circle.

The vicious notion has been introduced of mere receptive entertainment, which for no obvious reason by reflection acquires an affective tone.

It's a vicious circle that grows over time, discrimination leads to disaffected people which triggers terrorism which leads to more discrimination.

Other matters that would be repugnant to most people, such as gross misrepresentation of facts important to health and safety, or public displays of vicious and immoral conduct, would also normally be prohibited by law.

In recent months, we have seen many news reports of gay people being beaten, set on fire, or killed, and there have been numerous cases of young gays who have been driven to suicide by the vicious discrimination they face on a daily basis.

But a misunderstanding of Christianity in Germany (and throughout Europe) that tied it to ethnic identity through historic anti-Semitism weakened the resistance of Christians to the allure of a much more vicious and hateful genocidal mentality when it emerged.

It stands to reason that this institution would seek to justify itself by depicting God as a vicious cosmic despot.

the pope vicious and unchristian.

Your words are created from vicious rumor and misinformation.

It is a vicious cycle of lack of knowledge and understanding, to shead some light on theological strife all theologies are intertwined.

Last summer my cousin Antwyn Golden was murdered and I wrote a song about forgiving his killer as Christ forgave me, it wasn't an easy or overnight process and I turned to other things to fill the empty void but they were unsatisfying and only left me emptier, Christ was truly the only reason that I didn't go crazy, retaliation is never the answer its just continuing the destructive vicious cycle of nothingness and putting another family through the same pain that you experienced and no one wins in that.

Why a blog about one of the most vicious, lying belief systems ever?

Part of what that freedom requires is the dismissal of religion, which in her experience had been a vicious mechanism for destroying the person.

They are fully engaged in portraying an often vicious picture of a society and church hatefully bent upon the persecution of homosexuals.

No one has ever managed to do that, after hundreds of years of wild claims of talking snakes, virgin birth, and rising from the dead, as well as the brutal tales of vicious, vindictive, bible god.

When I first got saved, I.like many others, ended up on a vicious cycle of terror fearing I had committed this sin.

Here is the vicious cycle that happens: A person recognizes that they are trying to control others.

It is quite disgusting how non-christians claim to be the «superior» person and try to prove their point through vicious attacks.

Again, a prejudiced society which expects American Indians to be lazy and dishonest, Mexicans or Puerto Ricans to be vicious and delinquent, and Orientals to be subversive — in every case as a natural racial trait — is likely to adopt attitudes and policies toward these people which will lead them to some extent to respond accordingly.

The prohibitions of Humanae Vitae illustrate the truth so cogently phrased by Ben Franklin: «Vicious actions are not harmful because they are forbidden; they are forbidden because they are harmful.»

Obviously, given there is a majority of those who identify as «christian» (of some sort)-- in this country, the «attacks» (other than ongoing obviously more violent types in various Middle East countries with state enforced muslim citizens) are so angry and vicious.

The schools can and should be a principal agency for breaking the vicious circle of racial prejudice.

He is caught in a vicious epistemological circle, not unlike the Cartesian circle.

Race discrimination is a vicious circle, the only means of deliverance from which is a steadfast devotion to truth and right.

I'm not at all surprised by Rush's comments... they are typical angry and vicious rhetoric which is his trademark.

For the NRA to call the Washington Post the «uptown edition of the Daily Worker» is cheap journalism, cute but vicious.

There is a hermeneutical circle, but it need not be a vicious one.

Spiritual abusers and their victims are all victims of a vicious system that brings out the very worst in people, but especially the very worst in people with influential giftings.

Vicious circle.

The tyranny of the PRO-LIFE argument is so retarded because it demands that NO ONE should be able to have an abortion, even if the fetus is (1) the result of a vicious r - ape, (2) the pregnancy threatens the life of the mother, among other examples that prove that abortion is not always an «act of convenience.»

For instance, for humor that is not intentionally vicious or hurtful.

The myth gets it right: there is no doubt about the power of a child or that the misguided desire of adults to «get the better of a baby» leads to forms of abuse both subtle and vicious.

Some legislation, a Const.itutional Amendment, proper regulations in the right places, and a great number of vicious criminals put behind bars, and you'd be amazed at the changes we could see within a week, month, or year.

Although racism at Garrett and in Evanston was not as obvious as in Arkansas, I believe that it was much more vicious, especially in terms of the structural brutality inflicted upon black dignity and self - confidence.

Admittedly, reading the heart is difficult, but we need some test to distinguish virtuous hatred of evil from vicious hatred of our enemies.

In this vicious cycle, it is not only the Two - Thirds World who are entangled but the rich world.

(1) Since the principle of internal relatedness has been posited as the ontological foundation of the intellectual process of imaginative generalization, and it has also been affirmed that this principle is itself arrived at via imaginative generalization, do we thus find ourselves trapped in a sort of vicious circle?