Sentences with phrase «affliction for»

Politics, while hardly ignored (in works by Andrea Bowers, Sam Durant and Harrell Fletcher, among others), exchange claims of affliction for a greater emphasis on formal allure.

But if you can tick off more than half these items, my bet is you will have made a great start in delaying the onset of this affliction for yourself or anyone you love.

«We're celebrating human curation over algorithmic rhythms,» said Mr. Silva, who was spurred to open his shop after experiencing a common affliction for London's bibliophiles — the repetitive, grating ring tones of smartphones disrupting the tranquility of his bookshop experience.

It begins with Abby, who suddenly develops a crippling aversion to the human touch — not the ideal affliction for a massage therapist.

Anne Dorval gives an extraordinary performance as the mother, who lashes out at the boy but can't disguise her own suffering when he lands an emotional punch; their scenes together reminded me of Paul Schrader's Affliction for their sense of familial love gone hopelessly sour.

Furthering the similarities is the fact that Morgan Freeman essentially plays the same part he did in that earlier film, with him being a scientist who conveniently has been researching Lucy's very affliction for years.

I'll admit that an aquatic mammal obsession is a strange affliction for a kid from Central Illinois to have.

Scientists know that the oil spill from the Deepwater Horizon well is just the latest affliction for coastal wetlands in the Gulf of Mexico.

Seeing ourselves through lenses of negativity is a common affliction for people of all ages.

There is no evidence the disciples profited from their evangelistic efforts and in fact Paul incurred many afflictions for the resurrected Christ.

John Paul opens Salvifici Doloris with St. Paul's mysterious statement to the Colossians: «In my flesh I complete what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the Church.»

At that time, however, my «failure to respond to treatment» (a phrase which, to me, had an accusatory connotation) was added to the afflictions for which I had sought treatment, and I was devastated.

I am now rejoicing in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am completing what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church.

To begin with, there is the call to «complete what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church» (Col. 1:24).

The way certain elements are set up during battles makes it difficult to easily note things like enemy health bars and status afflictions for each individual fighter without losing a current note streak, as they're spread out quite a bit.

Dog vomit, rabies, worms, and diarrhea are some of the worst afflictions for your dog — and for you, when you have to clean up after them.

Not exact matches

Atencio is the vice president and frontman for Seal Beach, California - based Affliction clothing, a 4 - year - old rock»n' roll - lifestyle apparel brand comparable to runaway successes like Ed Hardy and Von Dutch.

We've finally begun beating back a disease that's been called «one of the world's most intractable human afflictions» — and the simple bed net is one of the key reasons for this success.

Affliction ended up folding for financial reasons after two events, both headlined by Emelianenko.

If you're going to read the Qur» an as a non-Muslim, try not to let your prejudices get in the way — because you're overlooking everything Islam stands for and adding to the affliction of Muslims.

@ Chad — I have for James 1:27: Pure religion and undefiled before god and the father is this: To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

which goes on to say in verse 24: For He has not despised or abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, and he has not hidden his face from him, but has heard, when he cried to him.

The voice proceeds: «I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows....

A: «That in all affliction and persecution I may await with head held high the very Judge from heaven who has already submitted himself to the judgment of God for me and has removed all the curse from...

Like Sam Keen, Jürgen Moltmann seeks the liberation of humankind from its modern afflictions, and so gives a functional cast to his theology; he too offers a diagnosis of the world's misery, a vision of the world's possibilities, and a prescription for liberation, i.e., salvation.

For many, the evil occurs in an affliction of the personal or family body.

How little they are confined to the events of the first Good Friday is amply illustrated by the words which a disciple of St. Paul puts into his master's mouth: «Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the Church» (Col. 1:24).

This is why St. Paul can say in a remarkable statement that we «fill up in turn what is outstanding in the afflictions of Christ for the sake of his Body which is the Church» (Col 1:24).

The parishioner who can not meaningfully experience this deep dimension of forgiveness may fall into a habit that Gregory calls «immoderate affliction «26 — forever overemphasizing one's deficits, always being too hard on oneself, seemingly making it impossible for God to forgive.

Indeed, the animal rights movement's fury against the speciesist use of animals» a necessary element for human flourishing, particularly in medical research» has increased to the point that scientists are now under threat of death by the most radical liberationists for daring to experiment on rats or monkeys to find cures for cancer and other human afflictions.

Without self - knowledge you have no root in yourselves personally; you may endure for a time, but under affliction or persecution your faith will not last.

But as I stood where I last saw her alive, feeling again the grief, I remembered what Paul said about the afflictions we face in this life: «For our momentary light affliction is producing for us an absolutely incomparable eternal weight of glory» (2 Co. 4:1For our momentary light affliction is producing for us an absolutely incomparable eternal weight of glory» (2 Co. 4:1for us an absolutely incomparable eternal weight of glory» (2 Co. 4:17).

In each case, the speaker is on the point of dying: Job suffers from afflictions he can not understand, Paul is in prison for preaching the gospel, Jesus is in Jerusalem just before his passion.

With that understanding, we can see that St. Paul's assertion that he completes «what is lacking in Christ's afflictions» does not mean the redemption Jesus won for us is incomplete.

By this person's statement it makes me think of them choosing the oppisite of what Moses chose as we see in Hebrews 11:24 - 26 By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; 25Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; 26Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.

«We experience this not only as an hour of the heaviest affliction,» Buber wrote in 1952, «but also as one that appears to give no essentially different outlook for the future, no prospect of a time of radiant and full living.»

Your faith may well be an undying principle of conjuring desires but your rumors of the messiah returning will not lift up our civilizations desires to be on our own wanton ways for living our generational based afflictions in mindful aspirations without any godly influences derailing our commonwealths» visions.

You are present in the neem leaves used for driving out women's afflictions.

What is lacking in Christ's afflictions is filled as believers suffer for Jesus and for his Church.

Colossians 1:24 says, ``... I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ's afflictions, for the sake of his body, which is the Church.»

Lent is a school of suffering, a discipline for death, an annual invitation to share in Christ's afflictions.

About ten years after the liberation — our lives having run for some time on a pretty even keel — I began to experience a variety of physical disabilities as well as mental / emotional afflictions; sometimes the two were difficult to distinguish.

Now, for the time that intervenes between man's death and the final resurrection, there is a secret shelter for his soul, as each is worthy of rest or affliction according to what it has merited while it lived in the body.

He interpreted their dreams, and matters came out as he had foretold; but his long affliction was not yet ended, for the Pharaoh's butler, in the quaint phrase of the Hebrew writer, «did not remember Joseph, but forgot him.»

The principal points Paul made in that address are (1) to recall to their minds the character and quality of his ministry to them; (2) to remind them of the trouble the Jews gave him and the anxiety and suffering he underwent in their behalf; (3) to state that he preached repentance and faith in Jesus Christ as the essence of the gospel; (4) to testify that he went now to Jerusalem not knowing what would happen to him there except that he knew by the Holy Spirit that afflictions awaited him; (5) to assure them that nothing concerned him, not even the loss of life itself, so long as he could testify to the grace of God in Jesus Christ; (6) to say that he had no regrets about his ministry to the people in Ephesus, for he was clean of the blood of all the people there, for he preached the full gospel to all of them; and (7) to admonish them to be diligent in their oversight of the Ephesian church and to feed the church of God there, which Christ purchased with his own blood.

Theologian Robert Jenson calls homoerotic attraction a «grievous affliction» for those who experience it, and part of the grief is the feeling that we are perpetually, hopelessly unsatisfying to God.»

Abraham is told that Israel's affliction will last for four hundred years; the Psalmist prays: «Make us glad as many days as thou hast afflicted us, and as many years as we have seen evil.»

Gay men have vigorously fought off the only public health measures that could significantly contain the spread of AIDS — contact tracing and testing of partners — methods long used for syphilis and other sexually transmitted afflictions.

Accentuating what one scholar has called a «kinship of affliction,» she draws variously on the shared difficulties of caring for these children, as well as on the notion that children with Down syndrome physically «resemble one another more than they resemble their families of origin,» to place a kind of boundary around the lives described.

The testimonies of women (and it is almost always mothers) who care for children with disabilities remain separate, in a distinct category of «affliction,» rather than seeping into the broader analysis of the individual decisions to terminate pregnancies.