It will guide and order your cares, and desires, and thoughts, and labours to their right and proper end; and prevent the perverting of them, and spending them in sin and vanity on the creature.
Lying is the perverting of man's noble faculties, and turning them clean contrary to their natural use.
It is a perverting of the very drift of a man's life, as employed in seeking a wrong end, and not only of some one faculty or act: it is an habitual sin of the state and course of mind and life, and not only a particular actual sin.
Sidenote: The pervertingand confusion of societies.
But I cannot imagine,' said I, 'what advantage you could derive from perverting those words of Scripture in which the Saviour talks about eating His body.
If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.
And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ a King.
Catholicism often perverts the intelligence; Protestantism might naturally go the length ofperverting the heart.
Thus an atmosphere of mystery is created with all the embarrassing and perverting influences which mystery encourages.
On the one hand, he may treat his bride as a prostitute, or as a novice to be speedily moulded into the sexual shape he is most accustomed to, thus running the risk either of perverting or of disgusting her.
But in very many cases this mischievous opposition exerts a subtly perverting influence on the whole outlook towards Nature and life.
But I cannot imagine," said I, "what advantage you could derive from perverting those words of Scripture in which the Saviour talks about eating his body.
He attacks the process of imitation generally, as false and deceptive; pleasing to ignorant people, but perverting their minds by phantasms which they mistake for realities.
Herein we can recognise only a well-intentioned preceptor, narrowing and perverting the social theory for the purpose of edification to his hearers.
But all these irregular movements, and violent multifarious agitations, checked or disturbed the regular rotations of the immortal soul in the cranium, perverting the arithmetical proportion, and harmony belonging to them.
No man is bad willingly, but only from some evil habit of body and from wrong or perverting treatment in youth; which is hostile to his nature, and comes upon him against his own will.
The unjust agent, so far forth as unjust, acts involuntarily: he is under the perverting influence of mental distemper.
And they began to accuse him, saying: We found this man perverting our nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ, a king.
Again, where the habit of obedience to authority and respect for rank has become strong, we must allow for the possibly perverting influence of a desire to win the favour or avert the anger of superiors.
The blinding and perverting influence of passion on reason has been a favourite theme with moralists ever since man began to moralise, and is acknowledged in many a popular proverb.
We cannot understand the strength of these perverting influences till we realise them in our own case.
Another kind is, perverting a man's words or actions disadvantageously by affected misconstruction.
Micheas Chapter 3 For the sins of the rich oppressing the poor, of false prophets flattering for lucre, and of judges perverting justice, Jerusalem and the temple shall be destroyed.
And they began to accuse him, saying: We have found this man perverting our nation and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar and saying that he is Christ the king.
One instance more of his misalleging and perverting of testimonies.
Bishop Lindsey is as gross in pervertingthe end of that epistle.
Or you are wilfully perverting facts to suit your purpose.
That Clergymen may be made Use of as Incendiaries, and by perverting the Duties of their Function, set Men together by the Ears, is very true; but no Man was ever made to fight by having the Gospel preach'd to him.
Perverting our nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar" (St. Luke xxiii.
We have found" these men "perverting our nation" (St. Luke xxiii.
And, to justify its laudations (perverting the very meaning of musical art), it attributed to music the property of describing what it cannot describe.
In respect to the constitutive principles of the Catholic Church, as opposed to every species of Protestantism, there is no room for mistaking or perverting the doctrine of St. Augustine.
This is as saying to the wicked, Thou art righteous, and a pervertingof the right way of the Lord.
God's WAY, by violating his law, and perverting of judgment, as was hinted before.
Jesus Christ himself was accused of perverting the nation, of forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, and of saying that himself was Christ a king (Luke 23:2).
Socrates was charged with corrupting Athenian youth; Jesus, with perverting the nation.
They said they had found him perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that himself is Christ, a king, and the like; and all without effect for a while.
The first count in the indictment, that He was perverting the nation, was vague and indefinite, but was undoubtedly against Roman law, because it was in the nature of sedition, which was one of the forms of treason under Roman jurisprudence.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "perverting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
