Sentences with phrase «against despair»

Though these works commonly suggest moments of loss and loneliness, they also offer a sentimental foothold for the viewer against despair, a source of comfort.

«This beautifully written novel juxtaposes the glory of the Appalachians against the despair of everyday life.

Intense... Readers will feel Grace's tension viscerally, as she weighs hope against despair.»

The struggle against despair remains a constant one in all religion and in human life as such.

When we thought of this battle against despair, it was impossible not to think of Wiesel.

Salvation works in the struggle for economic justice against the exploitation of people by people; in the struggle for human dignity against the political oppression of human beings; in the struggle for solidarity against the alienation of person from person; and in the struggle of hope against despair in personal life.

In the prophets, in Jesus Christ, in the continuing life of the Church, and in all of life, God the Redeemer makes available to us resources which are our defense against the despair which comes when evil lays waste to life.

A sales executive struggles against alcoholism, a cancer victim against despair, a redneck against racism.

Not exact matches

Such accounts of the previous generation's struggle to defend and advance authentic religious faith against the scientism, atheism, materialism, hedonism, and despair of the surrounding culture can do much to prepare and strengthen us for our struggles against similar forces in our time.

In light of historical events, one might argue against her views on the Eichmann trial but most certainly not that the theme of banality reflected anything other than despair over the German Jewish community's failure to recognize the pervasiveness of the system and the corrosion of the legal groundwork of its Nazi - infected mass movements.

12:1 «3) against YHWH is neither a philosophical judgment of God, nor a cry of horrified despair, but rather an indignant demand that God rise up and destroy the wicked:

I was taught that there were only 2 sins the Spirit could not forgive despair and presumption: presuming to know the mind of God and presuming to judge for him surely is a sin against the Spirit, your sin, and you should perhaps ponder your own salvation, not someone else's.

Further, the call to repentance guards against the misunderstanding that a man either could depend upon his calling or ought ever to despair of his calling.

It might even encourage men, in the face of despair and death, to hope against hope: perhaps to echo Job's cry, «Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him».

I told him that I do get discouraged from time to time, that there are moments when I compare my blog stats to those of Mark Driscoll and Tim Challies and John Piper and Justin Taylor and I just want to slam my head against the table in despair.

Its effort to create community in the face of suspicion, its combination of idealism and despair, its testimony to the corruption of both oppressor and oppressed, and its tragic heroism in trying to actualize human values against impossible odds is a kind of microcosm of much of American history, but it would take a book to do it justice.

His jeremiads against the collapse of moral absolutes resonates with many black Americans who have experienced firsthand the despair and destruction wrought by the collapse of shared public norms.

From the point of view which we have been developing it becomes apparent that the citizens of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. need each other in order to play out their despair; they need to have a scapegoat against which to battle in order to fortify their precarious sphere of existence.

(Happiness, by itself, is not an adequate criterion for measuring mental health because some people defend themselves against unconscious feeling of despair by a facade of «happiness.»

But each rebel against God, in the last instance, is himself reduced to despair.

Niebuhr directed most of his polemic against liberal churches, possibly because he seemed to have despaired of theological fundamentalism and felt it was beyond redemption.

By unconsciousness the despairing man is in a way secured (but to his own destruction) against becoming aware — that is, he is securely in the power of despair.

This... improved condition, which true enough has come about with the years, he now in despair regards as a good, he readily assures himself (and in a certain satirical sense there is nothing more sure) that it now never could occur to him to despair — no, he has assured himself against this, yet he is in despair, spiritually in despair.

I pray against the temptations of silence and despair and numb anger: I pray that you would run the race that is set before you, that you would flourish in your lane while cheering on every other runner alongside of you.

A friend who shares the pastor's dream for the congregation can provide the objectivity needed to guard against spiritual complacency or despair.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

Although significant criticisms can be raised against this interpretation, especially because Spengler has overlooked the fact of historical continuity, it can not be denied that the mood of heroic despair which he expresses is widespread in the Western world.

If this perspective on the nature of man has validity it will throw some light on the experience of lostness, revolt against life, and despair in the twentieth century.

By 1858 the struggle against slavery appeared lost, yet Lincoln neither despaired nor publicly speculated about whether the Constitution was «legitimate.»

It is the human spirit's last defense against banality and despair.

Like the late - medieval humanists and Reformers, they search the sources for indications of present direction in «an effort to combat the culture of political despair, spiritual pessimism, and moral relativism in order to preserve the hard residue of humanistic values... against the barbarian threats of Nazism and Stalinism.»

Against complacency and despair there is the attitude of perplexed but not unto despair.

It is, of course, our story: the threat, real or simply paranoid; the flight in terror through the wilderness of despair; the wonder of sustenance in the desert; the darkness, the stillness, the strangely comforting loneliness of the cave in which we spend a night or a week or however long it takes for the noise and fury of our hell to subside; the perception of the gift, now, of gentle silence; the miracle, then, of the discovery anew of the «isness» of the Word, but the immediate, bitter protest against it because it will not let us stay in this place of haven from storm, this realm of the silence of gentleness, because it sends us back again, and because it rebukes the pride of our paranoia, our monumental sense of absolutely unique commitment and persecution; and finally our return, to call an Elisha on the way and to resume the work of ministry to Word of God and word of earth, renewed by the whole kaleidoscopic experience of the trip to the Cave.

No, his despair over sin, and all the more, the more it storms in the passion of expression, whereby without being aware of it in the least he informs against himself when he «never can forgive himself» that he could sin thus (for this sort of talk is pretty nearly the opposite of penitent contrition which prays God for forgiveness)-- this despair is far from being a characteristic of the good, rather it is a more intensive characterization of sin, the intensity of which is a deeper sinking into sin.

I was convulsed with despair and blasphemy against God.»

Is this despair perhaps a shield against a deeper possibility of becoming human before another?

I am empowered by God not to repeat past mistakes; not to lash out at those who are persecuting me; not to seek vengeance in a perpetuation of the cycle of death and destruction; not to sink into despair over my own seeming powerlessness against whatever forces are defeating me.

Just one unlucky call would've changed the whole dynamic of our season, if one had went against us instead of for us, we'd be reading allot more despair from some sections of fans.

I see that a demonstration is planned at Stratford prior to the game, but I hope that the support is right behind the team when the game gets underway, and that we don't see a repeat of the despair that was evident when we went a goal down against Burnley last time.

22 seconds of pure, euphoric bliss — Evra's stunning strike against Bayern in the Champions League quarter final was a rare moment of joy amidst a season of despair.

He may have masterfully exploited the despair of the precariat to his own advantage, yet it is the precariat, the working class struggling with chronic and manifold precarity, that is using him as a weapon against the invisible oppressive hand of neoliberalism that has ravaged the middle class since the late 1970s.

As a reminder, the Algorithm is the complex formula Facebook uses when it decides who among your Page's followers will actually have a chance to see your content... and over the past couple of years, it's been skewing against Page content more and more, to the extent that many Page owners have begun to despair.

This is a fight against disillusionment and despair, this is a fight for the working people of Britain and this is a fight I am determined to win.»

«We were racist Paul — we were racist against those white girls,» her character says after she has turned in despair to the EPA.

David Miliband yesterday outlined his vision for the country - a fightback against the Tories and Labour despair - while firmly backing Team GB.

Leftists and liberals, meanwhile, have despaired at the «outing» of a gay minister and inveighed against the intrusions into his private life.

To that criticism are added many more by those who despair of Gordon Brown: an incoherent policy agenda and an inability to inspire; prevarication when he needs to seize the initiative and clumsiness when he finally tries; poisonous spinning against colleagues conducted by the dark side of his operation at Number 10; a hopeless addiction to backfiring tactical wheezes.

A hardening of antivaccine attitudes, mixed with the despair experienced by families living under the strain of autism, has heightened the debate — sometimes leading to blowback against scientific researchers.

But Ernestine has a wicked serve I just can't return, so whenever I'm up against her, I throw down my paddle in despair after five minutes.

Other men reported intense despair after a sexual partner terminated a pregnancy against his wishes, leaving the father - to - be feeling empty and powerless.