Sentences with phrase «affliction on»

There is no gain saying that Buhari and his followers are not only a curse and a terrible affliction on our nation but they are also a very real danger to our unity as a people.

The basis of religion, in general, is a violent affliction on this planet and will always be regardless of if it's Islam or Christianity.

As the picture progresses, Marlo's frame of reference does shift, generating a bittersweetness that nicely complements the wealth of humor mined from what must surely be common afflictions on unprepared parents.

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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.

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).

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.

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.

A.P. Nirmal particularly depended on the Deuteronomic account of the affliction, toil and the oppression of the foreparents of the Israelites to expound the movement of Dalits from a «no people» to «God's people.»

Yet if the instruction is not given beforehand, the reassurance is built not on rock but sand, and is more than likely to be washed away by the waters of affliction which engulf the soul.

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.

On this reading, Jabez's corpulent affliction continues into adulthood, meaning lie needs increased amounts of food (and so more arable property) to sustain his girth and, in his anxious and hungry eyes, his very life.

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.

Nor would you ignore his affliction in hopes that it would go away on its own.

This statue constitutes one of the most unexpected, and welcome, placements in Manhattan — almost as if Joel Osteen's I Declare: 31 Promises to Speak Over Your Life contained an appendix on what it means to «fill up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions» (Col. 1:24).

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.

It bids a man believe in reality and have courage to fight against all the afflictions of reality, and still more against the bloodless sufferings he has assumed on his own responsibility.

Usually it is all the afflictions and difficulties of the finite which like evil spirits separate the lovers, but love has heaven on its side, and therefore this holy alliance overcomes all enemies.

Therefore, the meaning of our Lord's answer is that this man's blindness was not the result of an immoral act on the part of his parents, and certainly he did nothing before birth to deserve this affliction.

When, for example, Jeremiah, thrown back on God amid the social disintegration of his time, entered into a trustful reliance on Yahweh — «my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction» (Jeremiah 16:19)-- he was unwittingly blazing a trail toward faith in immortality.

When the Egyptians treated us harshly and afflicted us, by imposing hard labor on us, we cried to the Lord, the God of our ancestors; the Lord heard our voice and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression.

In the New Testament, therefore, as in the Book of Job, deeply religious spirits, often unable to explain the afflictions which God permitted, fell back nevertheless on God himself.

But my worst affliction is that the sun has shone on me for a long time, a vexation which, as you well know, is common, and certainly many people die of it!»

The servant takes on himself the afflictions and iniquities of Israel and the nations, and through his sufferings he carries forward the covenant between God and Israel, the covenant to hallow the whole of community life, which Israel has not fulfilled.

In a world in which we inevitably suffer from illness and disease, in which many fear that they will also suffer from the technological expertise of their caregivers, and in which some therefore seek death on their own terms and at a time of their own choosing, it is good to be reminded that affliction by itself does not necessarily produce good character.

Like millions of other people who have been delivered from every kind of sin and affliction, I too took Jesus Christ up on His offer, and He supernaturally changed me forever.

I need you to see that, in spite of the severity of my circumstances, I am Christlike on the cross of my affliction.

Little wonder, then, that the boy has gone on the offensiveagainst his affliction.

Aching shoulders, sunburn and mental fatigue brought on by hours of constant rowing are just a few of the afflictions that Challenge competitors endure.

When on long car journeys, many parents are ready to throw in the towel and just slap on a environmentally harmful disposable diaper, but with The Disposable Potty by Potty Scotty, you don't have to worry yourself with this affliction any more!

Mommy guilt is an equal - opportunity affliction, the experts say — it strikes whether you're 20 or 40, CEO of your home or a Fortune 500 company, living in the big city or on Main Street USA.

In fact, it took a fierce public reaction and backlash for the government to even make a U-turn on providing 9/11 first - responders with healthcare for the afflictions they got by helping in the aftermath of the attacks.

The mayor's self - inflicted afflictions have multiplied so quickly this year it's hard to keep track of them all, and we're probably forgetting a few (we'll give him a pass on the whole Harlem deer fiasco because, frankly, deer are rats with antlers and should be treated accordingly).

As obesity becomes a global health threat, scientists are discovering new details about how this complex affliction affects the body — and about the many factors that bring it on.

Depending on the severity of the affliction, it may be associated with complications,» explains Silbermayr.

Early research on the sharpest octogenarians reveals unusually youthful brain regions A nasty affliction sets into humans as they advance in years.

«Addiction is a life - long affliction manifested by episodes of relapse, despite prolonged abstinence,» says Amy Gancarz, PhD, lead author of the study, which was published on June 1 in an Advance Online Publication in Nature Neuroscience.

New results reported in this week's Science and at a genome meeting held last week at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on New York's Long Island suggest that our pedigreed canine companions may be a major help in finding the genetic keys to common human afflictions such as cancer, diabetes, and mental disorders.

Name an affliction of the human mind, and you can probably find its avatar on this sprucy, secluded island.

Biologists and veterinarians across the central and eastern United States are calling on researchers at the University of Illinois to help them identify, understand and potentially treat snake fungal disease, a baffling affliction affecting more than a dozen species of wild and captive snakes in at least 15 states.

The leaders of a number of major brain initiatives agreed today that they must join forces to take on brain - related afflictions affecting over a billion people worldwide.

While these examples illustrate the complexity possible in organ - on - a-chip design, Takayama, Griffith and others are also interested in models that take a more stripped - down approach to imitating organs and their afflictions.

«Urban and suburban environments are often the riskiest landscapes when it comes to zoonotic disease,» says Rick Ostfeld, another Cary Institute disease ecologist, whose own research focuses on tick - borne afflictions.

Pregnancy and hormonal shifts (like those caused by being on the Pill) can increase your chances of getting em, as can having family members with the same affliction (thanks, Mom!).

For example, a book of «recipes» for all facets of life, written by Dr. A.W. Chase, MD in 1866, lists ten formulations of salve, eight of which contain tallow, in addition to other natural ingredients.17 This same medical doctor quotes the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal of his day on using pure tallow for a «very common and very painful affliction,» an ingrown toenail.

Celiac disease was a rare and unfortunate affliction that made living a «normal» life impossible because of the strict prohibition on, what seemed to me at the time, all food.

As a 15 + year PD person I will try this out - my wife's sister - not wPD - has had remarkable improvements with her serious afflictions - Are any studies you report on published?

It's just that I am going out on a very vulnerable limb here to talk openly about an affliction that has pretty much destroyed my life.

These afflictions that occur on mental, physiological, and spiritual levels lead to an imbalance in the five core elements of the body, the panchatattvas.