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Example sentences for "resist evil"

  • If all men refused to resist evil by evil our world would be happy.

  • Jesus Christ forbids me to resist evil doers, and to take from them an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, bloodshed for bloodshed, and life for life.

  • There can only be two solutions: either to find a real unquestionable criterion of what is evil or not to resist evil by force.

  • Jesus Christ forbids me to resist evil-doers by taking 'eye for eye, tooth for tooth, blood for blood, and life for life.

  • If it is not right to resist evil and to swear, every man will naturally ask: "How about military service?

  • But whether it be one man or thousands of men who are firmly determined not to resist evil by evil, still, whether in the midst of civilized or uncivilized neighbors, men who do not rely on violence are safer than those who do.

  • If all men refused to resist evil, the world would be a happy one.

  • Jesus Christ forbids me to resist evil-doers by taking 'eye for eye, tooth for tooth, blood and life for life.

  • I say to you not to resist evil; but if one strike thee on the right cheek, turn to him also the other," which is inconsistent with the duties of a soldier.

  • But I say to you not to resist evil"; and (Rom.

  • Not to resist evil may be understood in two ways.

  • He is strong to do good, strong to resist evil, and strong to bear up under difficulty and misfortune.

  • Poverty takes away so many means of doing good, and produces so much inability to resist evil, both natural and moral, that it is by all virtuous means to be avoided.

  • The will, which is the central force of character, must be trained to habits of decision--otherwise it will neither be able to resist evil nor to follow good.

  • We must necessarily derive the commandment not to resist evil by force from the law of love.

  • BASIS According to Tolstoi our supreme law is love; from this he derives the commandment not to resist evil by force.

  • From the law of love Christ's teaching derives the commandment not to resist evil by force.

  • I was taught to resist evil, that it was humiliating to submit to evil, and that resistance to it was praiseworthy.

  • Jesus said, "Resist not evil"; the sole aim of tribunals is to resist evil.

  • Perhaps I am a monk living in a monastery; the neighboring peasants trespass upon our pasturage, and I am appointed to resist evil, to plead for justice against the wrong-doers.


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