Theology is the queen of the sciences, and nothing should be taught in school or university which contradicts its conclusions.
The truth is that only he is an unbeliever who deliberately and knowingly contradicts the Bible.
A necessarily producing cause cannot be without creating, hence an eternal cause implies an eternal effect--which contradicts our idea of a created world proved above.
The suffering of the good and the prosperity of the bad, which apparently contradicts our conclusion, is a problem as old as the world, and is discussed in the Bible.
To say that a man's speech is as necessary as the beating of his pulse contradicts experience.
Reason must, it was pretended, be followed, to whatever extent it contradicts the feelings.
Nor is the danger confined to the various branches of secular literature: the views of even religious men are not unfrequently modified by it, or painful doubts are created where the head contradicts the heart.
The argument accordingly is briefly, that testimony cannot establish a fact which contradicts a law of nature; the narrower induction cannot disprove the wider.
Assert whatever you will as to the mind of woman at work and some unimpeachable authority will rise up with experience that contradicts you.
Rarely do they allow full value to that which qualifies or contradicts their theories.
A speculator who expressly assumes what he wants to prove, and argues that all which contradicts it is absurd, because it cannot stand side by side with his assumption, is a case which can be exposed to all.
All the paradoxers are of like pretensions: they cannot, as a class, be right, for each one contradicts a great many of the rest.
Hamlet contradicts himself, too: at one moment he declares that his soul is immortal, and at the next is full of despair.
It contradicts every type of being in universal creation, and would be a monstrosity in natural law and creative experience.
A morality, which contradicts the nature of man, is not made for man.
But do you not see that every thing in this world contradicts the good qualities, which you ascribe to your God?
Religion only through interest, or because it contradicts their inordinate propensities; you assert, that they attack your gods only because they fear their severity.
David Blair so palpably contradicts himself in respect to this matter, that I know not which he favours most, two cases or three.
The other involves the approval or reprehension of a great multitude of very common expressions, concerning which our ablest grammarians differ in opinion, and our most popular digest plainly contradicts itself.
This contradicts to an indefinite extent, the proposition for its rejection.
Next, although he elsewhere contrasts accent and emphasis, and supposes them different, he either confounds them in reference to verse, or contradicts himself by ascribing to each the chief control over quantity.
But he forbears to class it with the auxiliaries, and even contradicts himself, by a subsequent remark taken from Dr.
Kirkham prefers drunk to drank; but contradicts himself in a note, by unconsciously making drunk an adjective: "The men were drunk; i.
But he errs as much as they, and contradicts both himself and them.
The old faith only contradicts reason, not itself; the new contradicts itself at every point, and how can it then be reconciled with reason?
The statement that the battle began at four on Saturday afternoon and went on through the night, not only contradicts Hall and Stow, but is also impossible.
Moreover Polydore Virgil, who had access to all official records, directly contradicts Warkworth and Fabyan, giving a much later date for the death of Henry VI.
The more detailed story directly contradicts Morton, and places the murders in the end of August.
It contradicts the story of Morton, in his alleged conversation with Buckingham, who says that the princes were murdered long before the King reached Warwick, and while Buckingham was still at Court.
But it contradicts both Morton and Fabyan, though it is corroborated by the Croyland Chronicle.
Mr. Parker now contradicts his former statement by saying, 'The north-east ridge is the only feasible ridge, and whoever goes up will follow in my footsteps.
Whosoever tells him that they are wiped out, he too lies, and contradicts flatly God's holy word.
And whosoever tells him that the score is not wiped out, lies, and contradicts flatly God's holy word.
Thousands accordingly receive philosophy--this very philosophy--on testimony which apparently contradicts their senses, without even yet knowing more of it than if it were revealed from heaven.
The Second Broad Church uses no ambiguity, but frankly avows that when the Bible contradicts science, the Bible must be in error.
If it explains all the facts and contradicts no known principles, it is regarded as true, or at least no objection can be made to it.
Did Mr. Hume say that what he calls 'The book of Nature' contradicts the sacred Scriptures?
Verse 22 contradicts the attribute of foreknowledge, commonly ascribed to Deity.
Thou canst not see my face,' but it distinctly contradicts the 'face to face' of verse 11.
We have found the Book to be thoroughly worthless as a relation of actual occurrences, even when tested under the most favourable auspices; it repeatedly and in important particulars contradicts itself.
The same is true for Roemer's and Bradley's observations, none of which, after what we have stated earlier, contradicts this result.
Such a conception by no means contradicts the findings of external research.
Once again, there is the paradoxical fact that this outcome of Maxwell's labours contradicts the very foundation on which he had built his theoretical edifice.
Its assumed unity of substance is not only without proof, but it directly contradicts our intuitive judgments.
It contradictswhat we know of the law of God's working in the soul.
That cannot be possible in the universal and absolute which contradicts reason in man.
In virtue of this attribute, God excludes from himself everything thatcontradicts his nature, and affirms himself in his absolutely good being--his being like himself.
Our experience in the Prison Gate Homes contradicts it.
Our experience further contradictsit in dealing with the more depraved, hardened and supposed-to-be-idle criminals and prostitutes, whom we receive into our Prison Gate and Rescue Homes.
It contradicts the character of the mission, balks our hopes, and frustrates our policy.
Sometimes it actually contradicts something which is {18} allowed to remain in another part of the article; and sometimes, especially in the case of omission, it renders other parts of the article unintelligible.
And it is clear that the positive affirmation of that which contradicts mathematical demonstration cannot but be accompanied by a declaration, mostly overtly made, that demonstration is false.
A sacrifice made to an alien nation not only is immoral, but contradicts the idea of self-preservation, which is the highest ideal of a State.
This bisecting system, by restricting the freedom of action, contradicts the most generally accepted military principles.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contradicts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
