Sentences with phrase «were in vain with»

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They may do a great job, but if their efforts are not in alignment with the overall goals of the company, even the most perfect effort is in vain.

You're equating a band name, or the epithet it's based on (used instead of «Jesus Christ» by people who are trying not to take the name in vain) with SsSsSSsssatanism?

With more than a hint of exasperation, Scalia concludes: «One will search in vain the document we are supposed to be construing for text that provides the basis for the argument over these distinctions; and will find in our society's tradition regarding abortion no hint that the distinctions are constitutionally relevant, much less any indication how a constitutional argument about them ought to be resolved.

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.

9 See life with the wife whom you love all the days of your vain life that He has given you under the sun, all the days of your vanity, for that is your portion in life and in your hard work with which you are working hard under the sun.

The way of AA is in storytelling to others their past dealings with the «sauce» of life's very cunning juices that one tries in vain to be an overcomer of such a drug whose only comfort is an ever decaying sense of socal immorality and individualized unrighteousness.

If we don't pray in the Spirit, essentially we are just uttering vain words that accomplish nothing, since God will only answer the prayers which are aligned with His will.

With faith in God people can endure dark days, even the jeopardy of their nation or personal martyrdom, and know that all is not lost and their cause is not in vain.

We have long been profoundly aware of these perspectives: the progress of the universe, and especially the human universe, does not take place in rivalry with God, nor is it a vain squandering of the energies we owe to him.

I have labored in vain, yet surely my cause is with the Lord.»

Most so called» religious wars» were nothing more than atheistic leaders trying in vain to use God for there immmoral purposes and had nothing to do with True faith at all.

He writes to the Romans, with an apparent reference to the death penalty, that the magistrate who holds authority «does not bear the sword in vain; for he is the servant of God to execute His wrath on the wrongdoer» (Romans 13:4).

Now the claim that could appropriately be advanced on behalf of this form of panpsychism in respect of considerations of parsimony would be that it does with fewer kinds of entity what it would be vain to do with more — that it does with one kind of entity what the dualist only achieves with two.

Adds the former president of a national environmental organization, who has looked in vain for support from religious groups in efforts to protect wilderness and wildlife: «The Unitarians occasionally let us meet in their buildings; that's been our primary contact with churches on this issue.»

Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life which he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun.

I assayed many ways to help to quiet my conscience, but it would not be; for the concupiscence and lust of my flesh did always return, so that I could not rest, but was continually vexed with these thoughts: This or that sin thou hast committed: thou art infected with envy, with impatiency, and such other sins: therefore thou art entered into this holy order in vain, and all thy good works are unprofitable.

But in vain he struggles thus; the difficulty he stumbled against demands a breach with immediacy as a whole, and for that he has not sufficient self - reflection or ethical reflection; he has no consciousness of a self which is gained by the infinite abstraction from everything outward, this naked, abstract self (in contrast to the clothed self of immediacy) which is the first form of the infinite self and the forward impulse in the whole process whereby a self infinitely accepts its actual self with all its difficulties and advantages.

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!

The chameleon charms with wizardry to escape his humble lizardry, blending in with vain show blizzardry, Chameleon is confused.

â $ œIn the beginning there was faithâ $» which is childish; trustâ $» which is vain; and illusionâ $» which is dangerousâ $ ¦ â $ œWe believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark from the Shekkinahâ $ ™ s flame; that every one of us carries in his eyes and in his soul a reflection of Godâ $ ™ s image.

Resurrection is here closely associated with martyrdom; it is a «wonderful reward reserved for those who die a godly death».7 This kind of resurrection hope arose spontaneously, but perhaps irrationally, from those who, observing martyrdom, had no other way of expressing their conviction that the martyr had not died in vain.

But instead they became futile and godless in their thinking [with vain imaginings, foolish reasoning, and stupid speculations] and their senseless minds were darkened.

They see that some of us are so self - interested, and so self - protective, that we will ally ourselves with someone who violates all that is sacred to us — in hope, almost certainly a vain hope given his mendacity and record of betrayal, that his rule will save us.

Furthermore, unless you put yourself in the way of being encountered by the living God, rather than just thinking about God, or talking about God, or stating God's position with respect to various moral issues, your work will be in vain.

The updating or «aggiornamento» of the Church did not mean jettisoning unpalatable parts of the Catholic faith in a vain attempt to be more with it; it meant a more effective proclamation of the same gospel that the apostles received from Christ and that has been handed down in and by the Church ever since — in Benedict XVI's words «the continuity of the one subject - Church».

Even the excitement with which we have greeted each new technique has been due in part to the vain hope that it might solve the field's basic anomaly.

He said that Paul's statement that he went to consult the Jerusalem leaders, «lest somehow [he] should be running or had run in vain», (Galatians 2.2) meant more than that he feared his opponents might seriously interfere with his work unless they were checked.

Confidence in the emergence of a new world culture to perform the function of supplying Protestants with the same kind of unity which they once derived from Western European culture is a vain and illusory hope.

The hierarchical Church is a rigid institution striving in vain to bring the behavior and ideas of its members into line with traditional orthodoxy.

This is a record of a child, odd and difficult from birth, in the grip of senseless obsessions, controlling the family with rigid rules and prohibitions, tearing through the house as fast and destructive as a tornado, grunting instead of talking, unresponsive to his parents» loving concern, their urging, coaxing, their vain attempts at discipline, their anger and spanking.

Katherine, I truly think that most of this «you disagree with me so you are disagreeing with God» mentality is actually breaking the commandment to not take the name of the Lord 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.

Therefore God must take this maul in hand (the law, I mean) to beat in pieces and bring to nothing this beast with her vain confidence, that she may so learn at length by her own misery that she is utterly forlorn and damned.

You here more people using God name in vain and some people is ok with that.

For the Truth the Turkey is in Comparison a much more respectable Bird, and withal a true original Native of America... He is besides, though a little vain & silly, a Bird of Courage, and would not hesitate to attack a Grenadier of the British Guards who should presume to invade his Farm Yard with a red Coat on.»

Paul prays not in vain that we all be filled with the fullness of God!

I love Christ with all my heart but I hate people using His name in vain for their own gain... Is she really glorifying Jesus?

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.

We can't forget that disobedient children were also to be stoned, along with a people who used the Lord's name in vain and those who violated the Sabbath.

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.

Al - Mumenoon sura 23: In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful The Believers must (eventually) win through (1) Those who humble themselves in their prayers; (2) Who avoid vain talk; (3) Who are active in deeds of charity; (4) Who abstain from s - e-x, (5) Except with those joined to them in the marriage bond, or (the captives) whom their right hands possess — for (in their case) they are free from blame, (6) But those whose desires exceed those limits are transgressors --(7) Those who faithfully observe their Trusts and their covenants; (8) And who (strictly) guard their prayers (9) Those will be the heirs (10) Who will inherit Paradise: they will dwell therein (foreverIn the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful The Believers must (eventually) win through (1) Those who humble themselves in their prayers; (2) Who avoid vain talk; (3) Who are active in deeds of charity; (4) Who abstain from s - e-x, (5) Except with those joined to them in the marriage bond, or (the captives) whom their right hands possess — for (in their case) they are free from blame, (6) But those whose desires exceed those limits are transgressors --(7) Those who faithfully observe their Trusts and their covenants; (8) And who (strictly) guard their prayers (9) Those will be the heirs (10) Who will inherit Paradise: they will dwell therein (foreverin their prayers; (2) Who avoid vain talk; (3) Who are active in deeds of charity; (4) Who abstain from s - e-x, (5) Except with those joined to them in the marriage bond, or (the captives) whom their right hands possess — for (in their case) they are free from blame, (6) But those whose desires exceed those limits are transgressors --(7) Those who faithfully observe their Trusts and their covenants; (8) And who (strictly) guard their prayers (9) Those will be the heirs (10) Who will inherit Paradise: they will dwell therein (foreverin deeds of charity; (4) Who abstain from s - e-x, (5) Except with those joined to them in the marriage bond, or (the captives) whom their right hands possess — for (in their case) they are free from blame, (6) But those whose desires exceed those limits are transgressors --(7) Those who faithfully observe their Trusts and their covenants; (8) And who (strictly) guard their prayers (9) Those will be the heirs (10) Who will inherit Paradise: they will dwell therein (foreverin the marriage bond, or (the captives) whom their right hands possess — for (in their case) they are free from blame, (6) But those whose desires exceed those limits are transgressors --(7) Those who faithfully observe their Trusts and their covenants; (8) And who (strictly) guard their prayers (9) Those will be the heirs (10) Who will inherit Paradise: they will dwell therein (foreverin their case) they are free from blame, (6) But those whose desires exceed those limits are transgressors --(7) Those who faithfully observe their Trusts and their covenants; (8) And who (strictly) guard their prayers (9) Those will be the heirs (10) Who will inherit Paradise: they will dwell therein (forever).

The women knew their effort was in vain: No box of unguent, myrrh, or aloes could Prevent the corpse from rotting; muscles would» with bones and sinews» turn to dust again.

Because Satan and his fallen angels with him received the eternal death sentence because they fully know the Holy Spirit's existence and yet rejected it in a vain attempt to be like the Most High.

I'll agree with you there, to the extent that doing so is in vain, if a group holds one doctrine, yet lacks adherence thereof — by effect, they hold a false doctrine.

Why is that people who have no spiritual knowledge of God, except to use His name in vain, and spout off to born - again Christians with hatred?

I quote» they been wise wise in their thoughts became fools» so my ignorant christain brethren pls don't attend to the vain sayings of these blinded individuals, the world must and will see the glory of God shining on us, before our sweet jesus comes to take us to be with him in the rapture.

The fundamental misfortune of Christendom is really Christianity, the fact that the doctrine of the God - Man (the Christian understanding of which, be it noted, is secured by the paradox and the possibility of offense) is taken in vain, the qualitative distinction between God and man is pantheistically abolished — first speculatively with an air of superiority, then vulgarly in the streets and alleys.

Now, it is no secret that many false and vain and foolish things are being taught in the sectarian world and even among us about our need to gain a special relationship with the Lord Jesus.

And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear: 18 forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: 20 who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, (AKJV).

The work of secular humanistic groups like Doctors Without Borders is not done in vain becuase they don't praise Jesus with every innoculation they give or bone they set.