While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits [of the dead]?...While you do not know life, how can you know about death?
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For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.
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Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
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Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?
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On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
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Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will
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Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.
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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of science is not able to make an oyster.
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At the same time the Constitution sets in stone the Stability Pact and risks preventing member States from implementing a policy of growth. So we are not able to do things at the European or the national level.
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Luke 1:7:
But they were childless because Elizabeth was not able to conceive, and they were both well advanced in years.
(NIV)
But they had no child, for Elizabeth was barren; and both were far advanced in years.
(AMP)
And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years.
(KJV)
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It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.
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Acts 13:39:
Through him everyone who believes is set free from every sin, a justification you were not able to obtain under the law of Moses.
(NIV)
And that through Him everyone who believes [who acknowledges Jesus as his Savior and devotes himself to Him] is absolved (cleared and freed) from every charge from which he could not be justified and freed by the Law of Moses and given right standing with God.
(AMP)
And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
(KJV)
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At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other.
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As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
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While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead...While you do not know life, how can you know about death
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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
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James 4:2:
You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God.
(NIV)
You are jealous and covet [what others have] and your desires go unfulfilled; [so] you become murderers. [To hate is to murder as far as your hearts are concerned.] You burn with envy and anger and are not able to obtain [the gratification, the contentment, and the happiness that you seek], so you fight and war. You do not have, because you do not ask. [I John 3:15.](AMP)
Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
(KJV)
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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
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I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
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If an artist is not able to commit himself totally to his art, how can he expect the world to do so
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Matthew 10:28:
Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
(NIV)
And do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; but rather be afraid of Him who can destroy both soul and body in hell (Gehenna).
(AMP)
And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
(KJV)
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Luke 1:20:
'And now you will be silent and not able to speak until the day this happens, because you did not believe my words, which will come true at their appointed time.'
(NIV)
Now behold, you will be and will continue to be silent and not able to speak till the day when these things take place, because you have not believed what I told you; but my words are of a kind which will be fulfilled in the appointed and proper time.
(AMP)
And, behold, thou shalt be dumb, and not able to speak, until the day that these things shall be performed, because thou believest not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season.
(KJV)
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As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them...
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John 16:12:
'I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear.'
(NIV)
I have still many things to say to you, but you are not able to bear them or to take them upon you or to grasp them now.
(AMP)
I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.
(KJV)
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