Sentences with phrase «because facing the death»

On the one hand I understand how she could be in denial because facing the death of your child must be beyond horrible, on the other hand there are people who truly believe that all decisions and circumstances in their life are attributable to a higher power and therefore they take responsibility for nothing.

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Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

That's because they're likely facing a crisis that involves one of life's biggest stressors, ranging from birth and death, to marriage and divorce, to a new house or job or no house or job.

But that's nothing compared to the millions of children in Africa and Asia I starve to death each year, flies crawling on their faces, because they are too weak to swat them away.

God the Father turned His face away from His Son when He suffered on the cross (which was the worst type of death, reserved for the worst sinners in those days), when Jesus carried the curse of all of mankinds sins (past, present and future) and wrath of God because of those sins.

So I doubt many will take her views seriously, since the fly in the face of what we have learned through the years about such Christians martyrs as Jim Elliot (speared to death by the Aucas and yet his son went back to be a missionary to them, because he LOVED them, something she might want to consider).

people do realize it's not these Muslims many of us feel uncomfortable around... it's the ones who think the girl in the picture should be stoned to death because we can see her face and she's smiling... we don't like the ones who want to kill us

Even in the face of danger, Christian faith gives us hope because our God has conquered death.

Islam was driven into expansions outer boarder came after the death of the Messenger of God and only went to outer the Arabian Penisular towards the Arabic countries boarders now because of the wars launched on their boarders by the Roman Empire before changing face when a new Religion was imposed that combined all Beliefs that was within it into one state religion based on which The Roman Armies became to be known there after as the Crusaders whom launched attacks by land or by sea on Islamic countries through many generations up to date

The image of a woman who is battered for 20 years by her clergyman husband and who would forgive him, «because the Bible tells her to,» the image of a young mother and father who can not understand why their three - year - old daughter was sexually abused in the day care center to which they had entrusted her each morning; the image of a woman who was sacked from the women's program of her church because she refused to comply to the request of the president of the church that she and the other women vote for him in his election campaign; the image of a 14 - year - old migrant domestic worker who faces the death sentence on trumped up charges, because she would not give in to the sexual demands of her employer; the image of a male priest of a church saying that every time he beats his wife she should thank him, because she is one step closer to salvation; or the priest who would make sexual advances on a woman who out of vulnerability turns to the church for pastoral comfort... these are but a glimpse of the many such images that are gathered during the course of this Decade.

Yes, and one of the reasons it has is because its most committed believers, while refusing to conform to the world's ways, have just as strongly refused to run away from evangelizing it» and this, even when faced with persecution or death, and when the odds seemed overwhelmingly against them.

It is not that because Adam, or anybody else, or the whole race of men, have sinned that they come to die; rather, it is that in facing death, as they must, they know themselves to be in a fashion already dead, because to live as «the enemy of God» is really to be a dead man, however «alive» one's physical body might be.

In the face of his certain death he became fanatical about his belief in the afterlife and insisted that his family not be sad because he wasn't really dying but transferring to a better place.

To quote Paul again: «Now if the ministry of death, chiseled in letters on stone tablets, came in glory so that the people of Israel could not gaze at Moses» face because of the glory of his face, a glory now set aside, how much more will the ministry of the Spirit come in glory?

Because of what he witnessed after his sister's death, Dreher realized he had no roots where he lived» no one to care for him and his family should they ever face a similar crisis» and something his mother said, after Ruthie's diagnosis, kept resonating:

When the solution to the murders emerges, Adam suffers because he understands the desperation of the murderer who now faces the loss of family, which Adam himself has experienced through death.

Now if you can't accept death just say that you can't accept death and that's why you invented an «afterlife» to comfort yourself because you are too cowardly to face the truth.

You said «People on Death Row converts to Christianity because atheism is utterly meaningless in facing anything serious in life.»

People on Death Row converts to Christianity because atheism is utterly meaningless in facing anything serious in life.

Yet this can lead, and in my view has led, to an entirely unrealistic attitude whose only result must be an aggravation of the shock when death does come, threatening each of us and refusing to go away just because we happen not to like facing up to it.

But the subsequent discussion showed that Bultmann was concerned to minimize this element of continuity for the following reasons: (1) he was fearful that historical research might come to be used to legitimate the kerygma, which would be a denial of its nature as kerygma; and (2) he insisted that there can be no real material continuity, because the kerygma lays major emphasis upon a particular understanding of the death of Jesus, whereas we can never know how the historical Jesus understood his own death, and must always face the possibility that he simply broke down before it.

At first I wasn't concerned, because let's face it, our garden is a black hole of death.

A pregnant woman was facing a C - section because all the obstetricians she consulted advised her that vaginal delivery might result in the death of one of her twins or herself.

Because they still have poor head control and often experience flexion of the head while in a sitting position, infants younger than 1 month in sitting devices might be at increased risk of upper airway obstruction and oxygen desaturation.128, — , 132 In addition, there is increasing concern about injuries from falls resulting from car seats being placed on elevated surfaces.133, — , 137 An analysis of CPSC data revealed 15 suffocation deaths between 1990 and 1997 resulting from car seats overturning after being placed on a bed, mattress, or couch.136 The CPSC also warns about the suffocation hazard to infants, particularly those who are younger than 4 months, who are carried in infant sling carriers.138 When infant slings are used for carrying, it is important to ensure that the infant's head is up and above the fabric, the face is visible, and that the nose and mouth are clear of obstructions.

Although it appears that the preventable newborn deaths at home and hospital birth balance out, homebirth is clearly safer when you take into consideration the risk of maternal death that 20 % of low risk U.S. women face as a result of avoidable cesareans which became necessary because they went to hospital.

The crib should always be free of anything that a baby might accidentally pull over their face because they can smother to death.

The studies have proved that children of ages 1 - 2 should be in a rear - facing position as long as possible because it will reduce the number of deaths and serious injuries in car crashes 5.3 times, which won't be the case with forward facing position.

«The union stepped in because it was wrong that workers condemned to an agonising death and their grieving loved ones were facing their compensation being so drastically cut.

The IRR is not comparing black and white death rates, but there is evidence to show that because of stereotyping - for example expectations that black people will be irrational, inordinately strong or angry — they face a disproportionate level of force.

Facing mounting evidence that Puerto Rico has vastly undercounted the number of people who died because of Hurricane Maria, Gov. Ricardo A. Rosselló ordered that every death on the island since the calamitous storm be reviewed.

«People are getting pretty nervous about our candidates because (Trump is) in a death spiral here and nobody knows where the bottom is at,» said U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican who is close to many of his colleagues facing re-election.

«No woman, child or adolescent should face a greater risk of preventable death just because of where they live,» says Dr Flavia Bustreo, Assistant Director - General of the World Health Organization.

Y BOGUS because a new study finds that obese teens and teens who are heavy smokers face the same risk [of] early death.

Many are scared to death of face oils because they fear them making them «greasy» and causing breakouts.

Mowgli discovers that his life is in danger because of the return to the area of Shere Khan the Tiger (voice of George Sanders), whose hatred of humans is such that Mowgli faces certain death if discovered.

Going by its title alone, The Autopsy Of Jane Doe sounds like a Faces Of Death knockoff or maybe one of those Japanese gore videos from the»80s like the one that made Charlie Sheen call the cops because he thought he was watching a real snuff film.

In watching it, you waste your Time (97 minutes to be exact, if you stay for the whole credits trying to decompress what you just witnessed and contemplate your own existence), you pray for Death to offer you a sweet release from this monstrosity, and yet you Love every second of it because for all of its deformed themes, insane plot developments and bizarre decisions from top - notch actors to get involved with such a project (Will Smith, Edward Norton, Kate Winslet, Helen Mirren, Keira Knightley, and even more are somehow all present and actually delivering these lines with a straight face), Collateral Beauty is one of the most deliriously entertaining movies of 2016.

«Death at a Funeral,» directed by Frank Oz, looks like it could be a bit of dark hilarity, but the lack of a big name in the cast won't do it any favors at the box office; conversely, «You Kill Me» is filled with recognizable faces — Dennis Farina, Philip Baker Hall, Ben Kinglsey, Tea Leoni, Bill Pullman, and Luke Wilson — but probably won't get a fair shake theatrically because it's being distributed through IFC Films.

Shyamalan continually introduces death as a violent tear in the status quo of his characters» lives not just because he's interested in the emotional wounds it leaves, but because he's even more interested in how people heal, move on, and change in the face of it.

Watney often laughs in the face of death, because, really, what other choice does he have?

Veteran action - RPG players well schooled in the mechanics of their favorite genre face a bit an un-learning curve in Monster Hunter, because the usual tactics of leveling a character and squaring off against an enemy for a frantic battle to the death will not be rewarded for long.

And perhaps Bogart connected so well with the part of the doom - haunted criminal Earle because he had a face that really could suggest a man rushing toward death.

The release of Diane Ravitch's new book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education, caused quite a stir in the education community because in it Ravitch does an about - face, criticizing the education policies she had fully supported over the years, including when she served as assistant secretary of education and counselor to Education Secretary Lamar Alexander from 1991 to 1993.

... what I'm saying is that if we and all the other species on earth are the only life forms in the universe and if there are no gods and let's face it apart from a few tired scrolls written 300 years after the death of Jesus and his disciples there is no actual proof of a God or gods then we, the humans, who are meant to be at the height of the evolutionary tree, are in fact at the bottom because no other species on this planet is enslaved to the economy.

Because Helen was so involved with Mabel, she could put facing her father's death on the back burner.

How someone can look at themselves in the mirror, face their family and live with the memory that they sentenced innocent puppies to death ------ puppies who had no voice ---- who were born because oh dear lord we can't spay our momma dog and we sure aren't going to neuter our male.

I want people to see the owner surrenders that are put to death for space and the faces of sweet puppies that never get a chance to find a home because shelter life leaves them full of anxiety.

Saturdays are the magic day because after facing death, all dogs with me are about to embark on the most love filled part of their lives with their forever families.

Because of their lack of socialization with people they are unadoptable and if taken to a shelter face certain death.

These types of policies are horribly misguided, because not only is it possible for FIV - positive cats to live long, happy and healthy lives, but cats who have been vaccinated for FIV will likely test positive and ultimately face a death sentence despite the fact that the animal may be perfectly healthy and incapable of contracting that disease.