Sentences with phrase «as the sickness of»

If an individual decides that it is smarter not to drink, he is detaching himself from the «exposed population» so far as the sickness of alcoholism is concerned.

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After nearly 400 pages, as the authors catalogue all the wounded players, corrupt tutors and bribes, the individual scandals and outrages begin to seem inconsequential, like mere symptoms of a deeper sickness.

But the numbers drop pretty fast when certain niceties are specified — such as $ 100,000 - and - up price tags, the likelihood of severe motion sickness, dizziness, and acceleration - induced unconsciousness, as well as an unknown but certainly less than trivial chance of being incinerated in a rocket explosion or errant atmospheric reentry.

What's more, despite the fact that «many executives see it as a badge of honor,» Jolly says, hurry sickness can also damage your career even before it wrecks your health, because being in an incessant hurry has a way of making people miss the forest for the trees.

The most common cause of the type of seizure that Walsh had that day — known as a grand mal seizure (literally «great sickness» in French)-- is epilepsy.

As he completed his surgery, which resulted in the removal of 22 lymph nodes, and began chemotherapy and radiation in June, the relentless sickness began.

The insurer could then treat the sickness as a preexisting condition and deny some coverage — even if the person had no knowledge of the illness before enrolling.

You play as a traveler to the city, but soon discover that it's plagued by an endemic sickness that's turned many of the residents into monsters.

Religion is not a sickness, but it can be used to further the goals of the sick just as a bomb, a social socio - political philosophy, or the media can.

At least one place Lewis explains this problem was in the Screwtape letters, where a demon exclaims, «How much better for us if all humans died in costly nursing homes amid doctors who lie, nurses who lie, friends who lie, as we have trained them, promising life to the dying, encouraging the belief that sickness excuses every indulgence, and even, if our workers know their job, withholding all suggestion of a priest lest it should betray to the sick man his true condition!»

Sickness or age will strip you of strength, or the fangs of flame, or flood - surges, the sword's bite or the spear's flight, or fearful frailty as bright eyes fade, dimming to darkness.

Why we needed belief because belief did help us to ignore the fact, such as the passing away of our relatives... I thought belief was like an act of releasing the suppress which if not releasing, the suppress could cause us sickness this way or other.

It is possible to believe in Jesus for eternal life (and of course, receive eternal life as a result), but still not be «saved» from many of the temporal and physical consequences of sin, or from sickness, or from enemies, or from many of the other negative things that can happen in life.

In my experience, I didn't have sickness or addiction as society perceives them to be but I was infected with the virus of perfectionism and addicted to achievement.

While we filled our homes with Christmas presents in celebration of Christ's incarnation, our neighbors watched their children slip away into despondency, as hunger and sickness overcame their little bodies.

``... as soon as one of the faithful begins to be in danger of death from sickness or old age, the fitting time has come for him or her to receive this sacrament has certainly already arrived.»

After a short introduction there are five chapters: 1) Baptism as Cleansing from Sin and Sickness; 2) Incorporation into the Community; 3) Baptism as Sanctifying and Illuminative; 4) Baptism as Dying and Rising; 5) Baptism as the Beginning of the New Creation.

Is it less «monstrous and repulsive» [as Dilthey had stigmatized the doctrine of original sin] that sickness and misery are inherited from generation to generation?

I'll focus on your problem with the word evil (as for the eastern stuff, I'm aware that try see it as a sickness, but there is also an acknowledgement of human sin and evil.

Therefore, natural disasters (such as the recent tornado outbreak, the Asian tsunami of 2004, the Japanese earthquake, sickness, cancer, accidents) as well as evil perpetuated by others (the Sandy Hook shootings, the Boston bombings, the Holocaust, 9 - 11) are merely expressions of this god's unending, unquenchable, and unpredictable wrath upon humankind.

Conceptions of alcoholism within the Army range from the moralism of the mission type to an attitude of enlightenment which regards alcoholism as a sickness.

At the laying of the cornerstone for the institution on September 24, 1858, Bellows made a statement upon which those who object to the treatment of alcoholism as a sickness could well ponder today, over one hundred years later:

In a sense, constructive confrontation of the pleasurable aspect of the sickness of alcoholism can be a growth experience for the minister as a counselor.

Lifton does not characterize the problems of these returning veterans as sickness, emotional disturbance or battle fatigue.

As a matter of fact «megachurch» is a sickness, kind of abnormal growth of the ekklesia.

In The Sickness Unto Death Kierkegaard describes the self which is coming into being as a synthesis of paradoxical elements: the infinite and the finite, the temporal and the eternal, freedom and necessity.

Jesus practiced the genuine spiritual life according all matter and material sense with all its sin, sickness and death as nothing in contradistinction to the Life, Truth and Love, of Spirit.

In The Concept of Anxiety and The Sickness Unto Death, his two main psychological works, he understands human beings as creatures of God who unavoidably exist in relation to their Creator.

So long as one does not regard man as spirit (in which case we can not talk about despair) but only as a synthesis of soul and body, health is an «immediate» determinant, and only the sickness of soul or body is a dialectical determinant.

But then in turn Christianity has discovered an evil which man as such does not know of; this misery is the sickness unto death.

And there are always those who prefer the sickness to the cure in matters of spirit as well as of body.

It is not true of despair, as it is of bodily sickness, that the feeling of indisposition is the sickness.

And, oh, when the hour - glass has run out, the hourglass of time, when the noise of worldliness is silenced, and the restless or the ineffectual busyness comes to an end, when everything is still about thee as it is in eternity — whether thou wast man or woman, rich or poor, dependent or independent, fortunate or unfortunate, whether thou didst bear the splendor of the crown in a lofty station, or didst bear only the labor and heat of the day in an inconspicuous lot; whether thy name shall be remembered as long as the world stands (and so was remembered as long as the world stood), or without a name thou didst cohere as nameless with the countless multitude; whether the glory which surrounded thee surpassed all human description, or the judgment passed upon thee was the most severe and dishonoring human judgement can pass — eternity asks of thee and of every individual among these million millions only one question, whether thou hast lived in despair or not, whether thou wast in despair in such a way that thou didst not know thou wast in despair, or in such a way that thou didst hiddenly carry this sickness in thine inward parts as thy gnawing secret, carry it under thy heart as the fruit of a sinful love, or in such a way that thou, a horror to others, didst rave in despair.

While some try to explain away what James is writing about by saying that it does not actually refer to someone who is physically sick, but instead someone who is spiritually or emotionally weak, I think it is best to go with the traditional and most common way of reading this text and see it as a a reference to physical sickness.

This is because until one admits the basic instability of intermediate modernity, and that our major cultural sicknesses go back at least as far as its 1920s arrival, one can not be a genuine conservative, nor have the degree of sympathy for Rock and the 60s counter-culture that one ought to.

The denial of physical existence, therefore, is not to replace it with something (as health replaces sickness in «Socrates is not sick»), but to deny it altogether.

Then, in an extremely useful review of «sin, sickness, alcoholism, and drug addictions,» Clinebell mentions several of a «confusing variety of usages,» applied, as he says, now and again to alcoholism and other substance addictions — several of which are not mutually exclusive: 1.

I myself will never adopt an understanding that the power to overcome «disease» or sin or «sickness» or whatever alcoholism is, can be received from, or operated with, «something» or «somebody» or a «power greater than myself» or a «higher power» or a «group» or a light bulb, chair, bulldozer, goddess, doorknob, radiator or any of the other «absurd names for God» (as Rev. Sam Shoemaker, our «cofounder» described them).

At no point are they sickness» [«substance addiction begins as the sin of drinking or using drugs, progresses to the greater sin of excessive use (abuse), and ends as a sinful habit» — a view Clinebell attributes to rescue missions].

What mattered to Jesus was his mission to speak to men in their sin and call them to repentance, to set before them the mercy and goodness of God, to heal men's sickness of body and soul through the power of God, to call all who would listen to love God supremely and their fellow men as their own selves.

In Jesus and the Victory of God (Fortress Press), Wright urges us to see these healings in their original context: «For a first - century Jew, most if not all of the works of healing could be seen as the restoration to membership in Israel of those who, through sickness or whatever, had been excluded as ritually unclean.»

I still kept a round of duties, and would not suffer myself to run into any open vices, and so got along very well in time of health and prosperity, but when I was distressed or threatened by sickness, death, or heavy storms of thunder, my religion would not do, and I found there was something wanting, and would begin to repent my going so much to frolics, but when the distress was over, the devil and my own wicked heart, with the solicitations of my associates, and my fondness for young company, were such strong allurements, I would again give way, and thus I got to be very wild and rude, at the same time kept up my rounds of secret prayer and reading; but God, not willing I should destroy myself, still followed me with his calls, and moved with such power upon my conscience, that I could not satisfy myself with my diversions, and in the midst of my mirth sometimes would have such a sense of my lost and undone condition, that I would wish myself from the company, and after it was over, when I went home, would make many promises that I would attend no more on these frolics, and would beg forgiveness for hours and hours; but when I came to have the temptation again, I would give way: no sooner would I hear the music and drink a glass of wine, but I would find my mind elevated and soon proceed to any sort of merriment or diversion, that I thought was not debauched or openly vicious; but when I returned from my carnal mirth I felt as guilty as ever, and could sometimes not close my eyes for some hours after I had gone to my bed.

Because this was a rescue, this was redemption, this was the death that made death die, this was the moment when all of creation was redeemed as Jesus swept into the domain of death and hell, suffering and sickness, sin and horror, to cure us and then rise again victorious, Christus Victor.

There are many degrees of wellness just as there are many degrees of sickness.

In the opinion of some observers a third reason for the current word - sickness lies in the changed shape of the human sensorium as a result of television.

During the sickness and fatigue of early pregnancy, and later as I watched my stomach balloon outward, I felt as though I had lost control of my body.

Regarding the man with the bedroll: Sickness often does come as a result of sin.

Americans» fascination with guns is a grave sickness of its society, as is it's fascination with violence in general.

I suppose that sickness was presented as humor, which is often used as a shield while lobbing bombs of madness.

The point is that the sickness conception need not be seen as amoral in order to be an instrument of acceptance in the relationship.