Sentences with phrase «which assail»

The temptations which assail the spirit of a minister are subtle but powerful, and few fully resist them.

Actually is it not true that though we do know ourselves helpless to do God's perfect will, helpless to resist successfully the temptations to pride and selfishness which assail us in every area of our life and at every level of moral endeavor, we nevertheless know that we are guilty before God and that we should be guilty even if we should make the maximum effort of which human flesh is capable?

All the powers which assail man's being and hope are met in the Cross — sin, death, the demonic powers, the judgment of the law, and despair at fulfilling it, the weight of guilt, the mystery of dying, the tragedy of history.

They are continually beset by temptations which assailed the Messiah - to live by material things rather than by the Word of God, to seek the cheap success of the market place rather than the «well - done» of the heavenly king, to establish an empire by force and fear rather than to win the nations by sacrificial love.

Not exact matches

It also said revile angelic majesties which would mean that in this occasion they were so blinded by their lust that they repulsed or assailed the angels no where did it state that there was intercourse or that it was even a option.

In Luke the house is a palace, which the owner guards in full armor; he can be stripped of his armor and robbed only «when one stronger than he assails him.»

But any doctrine which does not implicitly presuppose this point of view is assailed as unintelligible.7

If Christ is our redeemer through sharing fully in the human lot, surely he needed to have experienced the deeply limited nature of human knowledge: the ambiguity, confusion, misunderstandings, and perplexing situations which constantly arise and assail our lives.

If sloth is understood as moral indifference rather than lack of action, it is these which to the present day most persistently assail the soul.

But of course this faith in providence is assailed by quite another question, with which the idea of law could adequately deal in its own way — the question of suffering, of the justice of God, of His righteousness in the ordering of the world.

If one goes to the center's website, there are no less than four articles or interviews assailing Pius XII (one of which combines criticism of Pius with criticism of Palatucci), repeating all the standard errors about the wartime pontiff» e.g., that he was «silent» or indifferent during the Holocaust and did little or nothing to protect Europe's Jews during their darkest hour.

It is in fact the very position assailed in the song which is now «a little old - fashioned.»

Bernard of Clairvaux, a mystic and not a theologian, the opposite of Abélard in temperament, assailed the latter for views which he held weakened the faith of good Christians.

There are a myriad of ways in which we can assail Roma's transfer strategy from the past 18 months, from overpayments to questionable buyout clauses to contentious sales, nothing has earned unanimous reviews from fans or pundits.

She assailed Cuomo on issues such as campaign finance reform, tax cuts for corporations and the possibility of natural gas hydrofracking, which Cuomo later banned.

Olatoye, seated near the de Blasio administration's top lawyer, Zachary Carter, did not apologize, and council member after council member assailed her over several matters, including testimony in December before lawmakers in which she wrongly testified that more than 4,000 lead - paint abatements had been completed by workers with the proper certifications.

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In a speech to a group of New York lawyers, a federal judge from Brooklyn assailed the criminal justice system in which he has worked for more than 40 years, saying that the country had to «jettison the madness of mass incarceration» and find an alternative to overly punitive sentencing to address the problem of crime.

Continuing to treat a victory over Sen. Bernie Sanders as a fait accompli, Hillary Clinton today questioned Donald Trump's business record and assailed his ideas, warning that the coming weeks represented a critical period in which, if left unchallenged, Trump could «normalize himself» as he seeks to broaden his support.

The Collins amendment, which House leaders accepted late Monday, prompted an extraordinary political battle a day later, as Collins and Cuomo angrily assailed each other over the proposal.

That cut, which the Association of American Universities had assailed as «inconceivable,» triggered a campaign by university lobbyists to convince legislators of the value of basic research to national security.

Each year, the doors to the UN climate negotiations, which kick off again in Durban, South Africa, on 28 November, are assailed by demonstrators brandishing pro-vegetarian placards.

The law signed by Davis was immediately assailed by antiabortion and religious groups, most of which maintain that stem - cell research is repugnant because human embryos must be created to supply the cells, then destroyed to harvest them.

As are the new multiplayer modes: Mad Survival, which is the normal wave - based mode but with main characters assailing your party, and Dogfight, which sees players clinging to the undersides of helicopters as they attempt to blast each other out of the air.

This low - key character study — which chronicles his life prior to founding the alt - rock band The Smiths — tends to indulge in the sorts of clichés that its subject spent his career assailing.

While the new law does offer additional funding for Chicago Public Schools, the Chicago Teachers Union is assailing the voucher plan, which would offer individuals and businesses a 75 - cent tax credit for each dollar donated to a «scholarship» fund.

With the introduction of the Q3, Audi in Malaysia now have a complete arsenal in which to assail the potential customer that walks through the doors of its showrooms.

The pilgrimage itself may or not be real, and on his path the narrator is derailed by «suspicious» characters, assailed by demons, and drawn into «the foul game» (as one of the characters refers to it, and which involves a horrendous case of dysentery).

Then there's «Version 1.1», which implements the same graphical upgrades as 360 Mode alongside several other changes, the foremost being the ability to directly control your familiar's movement: you'll be making frequent use of this, as enemies and bosses now assail you with extra «suicide bullets» upon being attacked (in previous versions of the game this would only happen on high difficulty settings), and only your helper can absorb them to prevent you from being completely overwhelmed.

Ironically, George Hoffman's paintings, recently on view at Show Room on the Lower East Side, possess the quality Benjamin so admired in film, a unique «distracting element... primarily tactile, being based on changes of place and focus which periodically assail the spectator.»

[Aug. 9, 8:04 p.m. Updated Joe Romm has predictably assailed my view of Arctic sea ice trends and their implications, straying into discussions of melting permafrost (which is an entirely different issue laden with its own questions — one being why the last big retreat of permafrost, in the Holocene's warmest stretch, didn't have a greenhouse - gas impact) and my refusal to proclaim a magically safe level of carbon dioxide (which I discuss here).

Joe Romm has predictably assailed my rejection of his «death spiral» depiction of Arctic sea ice trends, straying into discussions of melting permafrost (which is an entirely different issue laden with its own questions — one being why the last big retreat of permafrost, in the Holocene's warmest stretch, didn't have a greenhouse - gas impact) and my refusal to proclaim a magically safe level of carbon dioxide (which I discuss here).

In addition Defence lawyer Joseph Neuberger assailed photographs taken of the complainant several hours after the meeting with D.M. which were tendered by the Crown to establish that given the complainant's youthful appearance, D.M. failed to take all reasonable steps to ascertain the true age of the complainant pursuant to section 150.1 (4) of the Criminal Code of Canada.