Sentences with phrase «as with all tragedies»

As with all tragedies, children of all ages may respond with spiritual questions about WHY something like this happens.

Not exact matches

As news spread that the recent Germanwings tragedy was the result of a single co-pilot with a history of mental illness, traditional and social media lit up with questions asking whether his employer could have — or should have — known about his mental state.

CEO Richard Branson, immediately upon learning of the tragedy, wrote a brief message about his personal grief even as he prepared for an in - person flight to visit the crash site to meet with the people involved.

Ryan's youth was marked by tragedy after his father's death when he was just 16, and the future Congressman funded his bachelor's degree with the Social Security benefits he received as a result.

Indeed, some see such a tragedy as preventable with more legislation that regulates gun ownership.

«After Jordan's two brothers, Vidal and Kevon, along with their two friends, were forced to experience this tragedy up close as occupants of the car, they were immediately treated as common criminals by other officers; manhandled, intimidated and arrested, while their brother lay dying in the front seat,» a statement released by the Edwards family said.

Even when faced with the worst of tragedies, such as a death in the family, resilient people collect, plan, and act until things are back to normal.

Morin writes with searing honesty, incorporating anecdotes from her work as a college psychology instructor and psychotherapist as well as personal stories about how she bolstered her own mental strength when tragedy threatened to consume her.

«In the wake of Hurricane Harvey, our country's better angels are showing up with compassion and incredible strength as Americans help Americans through this tragedy.»

@CP: before the age of 24 I buried my Mom and 2 children... tragedy didn't make me believe then and it certainly won't make me believe now... if anything those tragedies made me question what kind of an evil monster god really is if he allows 3 innocent people to die horrible deaths (my Mom was an avid believer and went to her grave believing she was going to be with god... it was a comfort for her and eased her mind... I just don't see it as a necessity)

But, as a person who tries to depend on reason and community harmony, I don't see a problem with it being there, as long as we can have a mosque in the neighborhood, a star of David, and whatever else represents people who lost their lives in this national tragedy.

(A committed Christian must acknowledge that intrinsic worth, and yet how many of us react with dismay when reading of such terrible tragedies as the burning of the library in Alexandria, the destruction of the Parthenon during the Crusades and the bombing of cathedrals in World War II while scarcely giving a thought to the thousands of nameless civilians buried in the rubble of those edifices?)

Yet, a generation is growing up as the silent victims of decades of violence, left to grapple with how to build a future out of tragedy with the traumas they've endured.

That is how Mark ponders and wrestles with and finally solves the problem: Christ had to die — it was the divine decree — but Christ voluntarily accepted his death, as «for many»; and the characters in the tragedy all express, the events in the story all serve, this one overmastering purpose.

And when tragedy strikes another family they justify it with musings in their heads about the others not being as worthy or not trying hard enough which is why bad things befell them.

(Jeremiah 7:31; 19:5; 32:35) In the next generation Ezekiel tried another apologetic: granting both that the command to sacrifice children was in the Law, as it obviously was, and that Yahweh was responsible for its presence there, he asserted none the less that; Yahweh had given «statutes that were not good, and ordinances wherein they should not live,» for the ultimate purpose of punishing them with such desolation that they might recognize the divine hand in their tragedy.

Corrections please,,, My say as a human to human, from brother to a brother derived from our father and mother Adam & Eve, kindly ask your American Nation to unite all races and faiths under one ceiling and not to Crash down otherwise it will go back to pieces and fragments of pieces, we are here with you on the Ship, Ark still can feel and suffer the results of the vibrations that has reached us since the 9/11 tragedy and the following Global Economy Crash and we do not want those any more as much as you do but nothing we ordinary ones can do other than be heard complaining and that what we are doing here right now where I am to Remind out of but have no Control Over.?!

Bloom's counterweight to this dreary reductionism is the Great Tradition of Western letters from Plato to Tolstoy; and most of the book is devoted to individual chapters on such novelists as Rousseau, Austen, Stendahl, and Tolstoy, with a whole section devoted to the romantic comedies and tragedies of Shakespeare, and a concluding fugue on Plato's Symposium.

The tragedy was that the new situation demanded a willingness to sacrifice principles and attitudes previously regarded as essential to the life of the community and its relationship with God, and for this many were unprepared.

«57 But youth as yet untouched by tragedy is especially sensitive to the harmony of the soul's dynamism with ideals which go beyond self - gratification.

To be freed from the power of sin is to come to see the world as it really is, with all its glory and tragedy, all its potential and limitations — that is, to see it in and under God.

Wiesel, for whom memory seems to be the closest thing to the image of God in human beings, and who views memory as the central transmitter of ethical and moral insights, depicts the tragedy of Elhanan's increasing disability with enormous understanding and sympathy.

My say as a human to human, from brother to a brother derived from our father and mother Adam & Eve, kindly ask your American Nation to unite all races and faiths under one ceiling and not to Crash down otherwise it will go back to pieces and fragments of pieces, we are here with you on the Ship, Ark still can feel and suffer the results of the vibrations that has reached us since the 9/11 tragedy and the following Global Economy Crash and we do not want those any more as much as you do but nothing we ordinary ones can do other than be heard complaining and that what we are doing here right now where I am to Remind out of but have no Control Over.?!

The tragedy was caused because the Bangladesh government promoted prawn cultivation together with the World Bank and the IMF as a part of the structural adjustment programme to earn foreign currency.

we have to contend with them removing our prayer and worship from our schools, trying to remove it from our court rooms and money, but we do not have to put up with their intolerance when it comes to those lost in an unnecessary tragedy as 9/11.

No, he is not being honored as one who responded valiantly to the tragedy, but with the victims he went there to try and save.

Dr. Suchocki is struggling with the tragedy inherent in the very idea of life as multiple freedom.

It is not an unrelieved sense of tragedy: Israel records with humor and glee in I 5 - 6 the humiliation, in the presence of the ark, of Dagon, god of Philistia, and the humiliation by a plague of the Philistines themselves, regarded as a result of having the ark in their midst.

For Milton, it would have dignified the banality of the restored monarchy far too much to equate it with the fall of man; rather, recalling the genuine tragedy of the Fall would prevent a shrunken pessimism from reading a particular disaster as the end of all responsibility.

As Christian documents so well, God's initial conformal feelings are perfect, re-enacting the same feeling with all of the intimacy and poignancy that the creature felt, without any loss or distortion.16 Here God is completely vulnerable, completely open to all the evil and the tragedy that the world has seen.

It was due to the tragic circumstances that led up to the war — as a non-Nazi he was constantly under the surveillance of the Gestapo — and to the tragedy of the war itself that his relations with Christian leaders in other lands were temporarily interrupted.

The rapidity with which he spoke publicly convinced some ex-Mormon commenters that he might be «using this tragedy as a way to elevate himself or his religion,» and the fact that he smiled before beginning his comments became the linchpin in conspiracy theories arguing that he was a crisis actor, that his daughter Emilie (who died that day) had never really existed, and that it was all part of a government plot to take our guns.

wouldn't wish a tragedy like this on him and certainly not his son, but we are not going to sit back and watch as he attempts to marginalize people because he does nt agree with who they spend their time with....

As with any good tragedy the effect transfers to us, the audience.

It is not unfair to claim that all of continental European Jewish history is viewed by David Vital as an unfolding tragedy moving inevitably, like some Greek drama, toward genocide, with only Zionism, among the many political movements to find support among the Jews, having the prescience to foresee, however dimly, the catastrophe ahead.

God is on our side in life's tragedy, in that he shares it with us, along with all our longing for happiness, so that this longing counts for all it is worth in the divine life, is just as real there as in us.

but we must penetrate that illusion (with both personal and communal effort) because the tragedy of our institutions and communities and even blogs that people who are leaders start is that when leaders operate with a deep, unexamined insecurity about their own identity (both fallen and in Christ), they usually create an environment and setting that actually deprives others of their identity even as it enhances their own.

The Great Isaiah, with his interpretation of Israel's tragedy as redemptive martyrdom, never had a thoroughly sympathetic and understanding successor until Jesus came.

So, as an historian, one has to live with a sense of the inevitability of tragedy.

Charles Hartshorne concurs: Although God, «with infinite resources,» makes the best of what happens, it still is not entirely good that tragedies happened as they did.

Following Berdyaev, he traces the root of tragedy to creative freedom and avows that mankind will always be confronted with pervasive peril as well as sublime opportunity.

As Catholics, we know instinctively that maternal mortality is a tragedy and that abortion is not the answer, but I believe that we are under an obligation to turn that knowledge into action and offer hope to mothers around the world who face the prospect of giving birth in fear and trembling rather than with joy.

The national conversation tends to skip over how much this demographic — who came of age with mass tragedies like the Columbine shooting and 9/11 — want a candidate who conveys a sense of protection in what they see as an «increasingly dangerous world.»

To our knowledge they have two sons, both named, as were Hosea's children, symbolically: Shear - Jashub, «a remnant shall return,» 7:3, obviously predicating the tragedy that will leave only a remnant, but at the same time affirming the expectation of productive survival; and Maher - Shalal - Hash - Baz, «The spoil speeds, the prey hastes,» 8:1 - 3, with initial reference to the imminent collapse of the Rezin - Pekah alliance against Jerusalem in 734, but perhaps later with reference to Judah herself as the soon - to - be spoil and prey of Assyria.

As with any distortion of the truth and meaning of human sexuality, the theory and ideology of «gender» bears bitter fruits — confusion, suffering, damaged lives and personal tragedies, even suicide.

Wilde wrote «Salome» as a tragedy, but this night was filled with laughs, something the author would have approved.

But I suspect it won't happen unless a tragedy befalls them or they meet someone who has already been indoctrinated... just as happened with Dan.

Humans rising up to comfort one another in the wake of a tragedy is a beautiful thing and I view it as slightly insulting to have someone label it with a ridiculous label like «god».

The crucifixion is not tragedy that must be overcome by the resurrection but rather stands together with resurrection as God's victory over evil and his conquest of sin.

Although Whitehead certainly affirmed progress in the history of civilization, with his emphasis on Tragedy, he was certainly not sanguine about automatic progress as were many of the intellectual currents of the 19th and early 20th centuries.