Sentences with word «willfully»

His love and forgiveness extended to everyone except those who were willfully blind to it.

It is impossible to «understand» the other side when they continue to make disproven or willfully erroneous claims — such as «it is certain that no transition forms have been found.»

For instance, the Passion themes in Isaiah 52 - 58 about the obedient servant of God who suffers willfully and willingly for our healing and salvation present Christians with a series of paradoxes which are difficult to grasp: the honored one is despised and rejected, the innocent is charged with guilt, the healer is wounded, and the one who offers life is killed.

I will keep marching to the beat of being «intellectually dishonest / willfully ignorant about much of reality» while atheists walk around with the certainty of what «Modern Science» has to offer...

Congratulations on being proud of being an willfully ignorant fool.

Seems like you have to willfully ignore so much...

Any individual who could actually READ the mounds of research on evolutionary theory and conclude the evidence is insufficient would either have to be willfully blinded or functionally redarded.

I'm not saying that a lot of Christians aren't good, honest, caring people, but they are at the very least intellectually dishonest / willfully ignorant about much of reality.

Giving a voice to those whom History and Patriarchy and their fellow bully pals have silenced, Tóibín retells the gospel in willfully mundane terms, from the perspective of an aged Mary without faith.

That is a complete lie fabricated to deceive the willfully ignorant.

It is a truth universally known, though willfully ignored by zealous parents, that adolescence is full of ups and downs, regardless of musical, athletic, academic, or other extra-curricular accoutrements.

David, I remember a time when your core message was about the cross of Christ, and willfully accepting suffering.

Outside a religious context, you'd call someone who delights in, encourages, refuses to ameliorate, or willfully contributes to the suffering of others a sociopath, misanthrope, or sadist.

I found out that many who do not believe in God were actually brought up in a godly way but were either disappointed by their parents or leaders or just simply do not want to be accountable to God in their lives and for that reason, «they are willfully ignorant».

His sister filed for his refugee status in the U.S. at that time, but the INS rejected him for having «willfully misrepresented a material fact» — which it did not explain — during his interview conducted without legal aid.

We know what's right and wrong, though we can pervert this easily and willfully.

Yeah women's clothing has been sexualised and women have been throughout history sometimes women willfully taking part in that and regarding it as an expression of freedom e.g «slut walks».

Paradoxically, perhaps moral performance will begin to lose its superficial edge the less we seek to willfully orchestrate and manufacture «experiences of the authentic.»

Any modern human in a position such as this guy, is either willfully ignorant, or just plain lying.

I think you just willfully ignore anything that doesn't support your world view.

The mantle of stupidity is only bestowed upon those who are truly willfully ignorant.

Nor is it acceptable for Hobby Lobby to sign up for all the benefits of being a US corporation and then willfully ignore the parts of the law they don't like or wish to abide by.

This may be quite differently from the way he would have acted if he had remained willfully ignorant.

Negatively, the principle means that one should never willfully exclude consideration of available knowledge or experience that he sees as relevant.

When I willfully refuse to reflect or to be influenced by the fruits of reflection, I am surely aware that I do wrong, that is, my sense of obligation inescapably attaches to the course of action that I am not pursuing.

Hell knows no other ways but to willfully and wantonly fulfill the Word, the Jewish Gospel!

To reject science for your faith is to be willfully ignorant.

Believe me, the scientific community would absolutely love for the general public to actually become scientifically literate, rather than be smugly (and willfully) ignorant.

As the Nazis willfully altered the meaning of German words for ideological reasons, and the Soviet Communists altered the meaning of Russian words (or coined expressions like «former persons) for ideological reasons, so too the advocates of assisted suicide want to banish words like «suicide» and «killing» from discussions of the subject in order to gain an ideological advantage, and same - sex «marriage» advocates want to change the meaning of «marriage» for ideological reasons.

All that's being» willfully destructed» here are the sacred cows so many of the «institutionalized» believe in... A wise woman once said: «The truth will set you free... but first, it will piss you off...» And do I think MLK, Jr. was a saint / bodhisattva?

@fred Stop being so willfully blind.

Willfully ignorant.

Paul argues that we do not have a licence to sin.because of grace If christians continue to sin and grieve the holy spirit they clearly arent walking by faith or abiding in Christ.There has to be an ongoing repentence in the christians walk that leads that person to become more like Christ.It is true that salvation is a gift of grace received by faith however the word also says that we called to walk by faith otherwise it is impossible to please God and if we love him we follow his commands not willfully disobey.If we do nt continue to abide in Christ and turn from sin then i think we can risk Christ saying to us that he never knew us.Like everything that God offers us we must meet his conditions that are only possible in Christ..

The grasp that fundamentalist preaching has on the evangelical protestants such that they willfully ignore obvious observations that the earth is very, very old is truly staggering.

Let him be willfully blind.

All men willfully violate the favorable and, on the whole, nonrestrictive terms of human existence.

The plunge into evil, is not merely inevitable but necessary, and the apple of iniquitous knowledge must be bitten willfully.

By asking for proof AND refusing to hear reference to the bible you are remaining willfully ignorant.

(Psalm 51:5) We all have a sinful nature that we inherited from our father Adam who willfully chose to disobey God.

That's called being willfully blind of the developing world around you and if that's where you want to live then fine.

I feel sorry for you that you'd rather willfully misunderstand something than at least find out what it says.

Never mind that this grand achievement relied upon an almost willfully ignorant understanding of human biology and a moral rationale that would have embarrassed a Philosophy 101 student.

Killing fetus willfully, not by accident, is murder because we were all once a fetus.

To engage in these practices is to willfully sin.

Heb 10:26 For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, Heb 10:27 but a terrifying expectation of judgment and THE FURY OF A FIRE WHICH WILL CONSUME THE ADVERSARIES.

I am thinking less of hygiene and physical culture, to which sufficient thought is devoted already, than of the vital problems posed by genetics, which are willfully ignored.

But this only happened because her spirit willfully understood and rejoiced in God her Savior.

But they also are not simply connections that can be willfully and artificially wrought.

I came to this realization years ago, but sometimes I still need reminding — usually after I've logged onto Twitter to see the futility of trying to convince the willfully ignorant.

I think it's the cross, for Peter explains that we're becoming willfully blind and forgetful of the fact we are «cleansed from [our] former sins.»