Sentence examples for effects of evil from inspiring English sources

This is a metaphysical doctrine that might make sense intellectually, but many will feel that it doesn't do justice to the very real effects of evil.

He may be right to point out that the effects of evil tend to be destruction and disorder – a twisting or scarring of nature, and of souls.

All Buddhists have accepted that, by the principle of karmic causation, good acts hold the power to counteract the effects of evil deeds and lead to better conditions in the next birth.

His culturally savvy, brilliant routines spun everyday experiences into joyous life-lessons, but he also understood the effects of evil.

Shippey says that this demonstrates the value of persistence in the face of despair, even if a way out cannot be seen; Kocher and Helms write that it is part of a pattern of providential events and of the reversed effects of evil intentions throughout the book.

Don't respect the evil: love the sinners; hate the effect of evil... Show God's love for the sinners; not mainly your love but God's love.

Even though he long ago abandoned the hair-raising B-movie fright effects of the "Evil Dead" series in favor of more refined (and better-financed) projects, Mr. Raimi has not forgotten the tricks of his gory erstwhile trade.

But if it tells, in Mr. Ludin's words, "a typical German story," the movie also offers an unusually matter-of-fact picture of the private and public effects of ordinary evil.

He speaks, for example, of the elimination of the effects of past evil acts through repentance (zange metsuzai).

This research identifies the commuting mode choice behaviour of 3537 adults living in different types of transit oriented development (TOD) in Brisbane by disentangling the effects of their "evil twin" transit adjacent developments (TADs), and by also controlling for residential self-selection, travel attitudes and preferences, and socio-demographic effects.

Shōkū speaks of a variety of benefits received in the present by the person of the nembutsu, including the elimination of the effects of past evil acts, extension of life, avoidance of various calamities, protection of buddhas, seeing of Amida, and so on.