Sentences with phrase «disillusionment in»

Remember that continued disillusionment in your marriage could be a wake - up call to you if you are taking your marriage for granted or if your marriage is in a rut.

As a result, there is a lack of emotional safety in the relationship which is often manifested in deep frustration and disillusionment in the marriage.

Even if you try to start small and manage disillusionment in bite size pieces, it can still get overwhelming.

DISILLUSIONMENT In their latest «Environmental Law bulletin» (March 2008), the editors of the Encyclopaedia of Environmental Law reveal a certain sense of disillusionment.

Forever touched by a photograph her mother once showed her — of the happiest time in her life, at a slumber party in the»70s — Hahn paints the ups, the downs, and the disillusionment in the life cycle of a woman.

I felt exactly the same sense of disillusionment in the Emirates First Class lounge at Dubai.

No wonder why gamification as a concept is going down to the Trough of Disillusionment in the Gartner's Hype Cycle.

«Maybe it's always feeling a slight disillusionment in the present,» Haynes began, pensively.

You're not actually getting to know people, and the disillusionment in online profiles has made people skeptical of every photo, every person they chat with online.

Plus, Foster's been heard mouthing off recently about the government's priorities regarding housebuilding, which suggests some disillusionment in his job in the communities and local government department - perhaps the story behind his move.

Safe to say there was some disillusionment in the squad after last year — 3 managers in 24 months does not instill confidence in players who came in thinking that they will be pushing for bigger things.

Someday he may of course face partial disillusionment in his present work.

The study of the existential issues that aroused individuals and peoples to particular responses and solutions stimulated students and enhanced their own understanding of the experience of disillusionment in comparison with the sensibilities of the past.

God took me through a period of deep disillusionment in my ideas of God and Church in order to be able to use me.

Not exact matches

But there's a lot of disillusionment and anger in the culture.

Some pointed to disillusionment about Obama's interest in economic liberalism, and others suggested an increased awareness about the political strength of major corporations and rising wealth inequality.

Consider his apologia for the poetry he was writing during and after World War II, when the world was undergoing a shock and disillusionment perhaps unparalleled in human history.

Choosing to do the hard work of loving members of our community in the face of disappointment and disillusionment strengthens us to do the same with our spouse.

German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer acknowledged this reality in Life Together: Just as surely as God desires to lead us to a knowledge of genuine Christian fellowship, so surely must we be overwhelmed by a great disillusionment with others, with Christians in general, and, if we are fortunate, with ourselves.

One sees this most clearly in Sword of Honour, his novel about one man's disillusionment while fighting World War II.

Disillusionment set in after a few years, and I decided that what I gave was between me and God, and not the business of the church treasurer, so I started putting cash in the plate, still at least 10 %.

I see people falling away in disillusionment from church people that don't act like church people, but then they flounder in a world filled with sin, slowly sinking to that level and blending in till there is no light or salt.

Among this group, top reasons for leaving were working conditions (for example staffing levels and workload), cited by 44 per cent, a change in personal circumstances (such as ill health), cited by 28 per cent and disillusionment with the quality of care provided to patients, cited by 27 per cent.

You are declaring in a defiant act of faith that there is no futility, not to God's economy where nothing — not even our failures and our discouragement and our disillusionment — is wasted..

Because with each question asked we have a chance to enrich our faith, even if they are rooted in doubt, disillusionment or skepticism.

By the end of his Anglican curacy, disillusionment with the liberal, almost secularist, approach which he had found in some of his fellow churchmen, niggling doubts about the validity of Anglican orders and the dawning realisation that the C of E was attempting the impossible by trying to serve both God and State, had convinced Father Ed that he was in the wrong Church.

Your disillusionment with the Church may seem like a petty wound to nurse right now, with Latino children getting taunted by their classmates, Muslim communities facing religious persecution, and black families grappling with a world in which white nationalism has been validated and emboldened, but grief is grief.

With all reasonable caution against trying to imagine Jesus» thoughts and feelings, one is surely justified in pausing to consider how profoundly discouraging the situation must have been for him, and to be grateful that there are such clear reflections of his disappointment and disillusionment.

Take it from me: When you grow up being taught to love God with your mind and then get punished for trying to do so, the temptation to leave the faith in anger and disillusionment is overwhelming.

The melancholy shade of his father's closely held sin, the breaking of his engagement with Regina Olsen, the public ridicule to which his sensitive nature was exposed by the public attack of the modish Copenhagen journal Corsair, the disillusionment with Bishop Mynster and the church in his closing years, all bore in upon him.

According to the document «Towards Common Witness» some of the characteristics which distinguish proselytism from Christian witness are: unfair criticism of caricaturing of the doctrines, beliefs and practices of another church; presenting one's church or confession as «the true church»; the use of humanitarian aid, educational opportunities or moral and psychological pressure, to induce people to change their affiliation; exploiting people's loneliness, even disillusionment with their own church in order to «convert» them.

When rudely awakened by the experience of ideals betrayed, we, in our disillusionment, may mistake ourselves for fallen angels or even beasts.

Just as God desires to lead us to a knowledge or genuine Christian fellowship, so surely must we be overwhelmed by a great disillusionment with others, with Christians in general, and if we are fortunate, with ourselves.

«In the Great War we see heroism and cruelty standing side by side, we see cynical disillusionment and moral determination intertwining and we see hope and despair in equal measure and on every sidIn the Great War we see heroism and cruelty standing side by side, we see cynical disillusionment and moral determination intertwining and we see hope and despair in equal measure and on every sidin equal measure and on every side.

His political biography shows the nature of his alignments: social disillusionment with both capitalism and Marxism; embracement of pacifism, and then the abandonment of it during the rise of American isolationism and European fascism in the 1930s; the championing of U.S. intervention in World War II and a cold war stratagem to contain Soviet power; and indictment of the pretensions of American messianism and scientism when the U.S. first intervened militarily in Viet Nam under John F. Kennedy.

In this time of division and disillusionment, America needs people like you to live with a clear sense of purpose that serves the common good.

Ann Svennungsen, president of the FTE and a former senior pastor in the program, says that «if we are to raise up the next generation of pastoral leaders, pastors must be intentional not only about inviting people to consider ministry, but also about retaining those trained for ministry through times of disillusionment.»

In testimonials such as Commies, refugees from radicalisms past render a great service, even if, in the end, they fail to understand that disillusionment is only part, albeit a necessary part, of being freIn testimonials such as Commies, refugees from radicalisms past render a great service, even if, in the end, they fail to understand that disillusionment is only part, albeit a necessary part, of being frein the end, they fail to understand that disillusionment is only part, albeit a necessary part, of being free.

While I share your concerns and disillusionment with much of what is practiced (or not practiced) in «traditional churches», you don't seriously believe that the «Open Circle» concept is the solution do you?

«There was the search for community, whether in parachurch groups or forms of communal life; a quest for ecstasy or an alternate form of consciousness along with a disillusionment about Western rationalism; and, thirdly, a search for new forms of healing.»

His aim is so to bring the Christian perspective into the concrete political and social experience of modern life that the possibility of achieving justice and brotherhood in human affairs will be increased because men are in some measure freed from the sentimental and romantic notions which can only lead to bitter disillusionment.

There is a kind of wistfulness in the minds of leaders of the so - called free churches, and a disillusionment with respect to their irresponsible independency.

Niebuhr claimed that we are now in such a period of disillusionment.

A mood of disillusionment, it would seem, set in and carried many of the Jews far along the road of assimilation and denial of their religious heritage.

However bitter our disillusionment with human goodness, there are stronger scientific reasons than ever before for believing that we do really progress and that we can advance much further still, provided we are clear about the direction in which progress lies and are resolved to take the right road.

«Theology in a Time of Disillusionment» (1931) notes that, while earlier liberals placed their faith in human goodness and in progress, Niebuhr's contemporaries are disappointed with humanity, its politics, its machines and its science.

Another danger is that believers may expect of their faith more than it can deliver, and live in either self - deception or disillusionment.

While it is encouraging to see religious concerns permeate the secular culture, at the same time social reform without a vital connection to religious conviction tends to end in disillusionment and cynicism.

In one sense Christianity emerged out of man's disillusionment with the doctrine that the road to life and joy and justice lies through the exercise of political force and the growth of national power.

After a long period in which the need of many for a sense of life's meaning seemed to be supplied by the progress of civilization or by the realization of national destiny, disillusionment with the half - gods has made itself felt.