Sentences with phrase «bitter experiences of»

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Further, learning from the bitter experience of grandiose notions of the state, contemporary Catholic teaching sharply delimits its role as spiritual or moral tutor.
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Their determination to do so under such unpredictable conditions, is undoubtedly related to their bitter experience of the Sumatra earthquake.
In Chile and South Africa the voters valued their vote because they had bitter experience of what it was like to live under an undemocratic regime.

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I do believe we were placed on this life on this world of both good and evil in order to know first hand what goodness and happiness really is since how can you know what happiness is without also experiencing misery, or knowing what sweet is without knowing the bitter, and ultimately, hopefully we would choose through our own free will to follow the teachings God has given us.
In attempting to be faithful to that call, I have also learned from bitter experience that the weight of religion stood for working within a capitalist system which stands under the judgment of God.
Our most fundamental conscious experience has generally been taken to be the perception of sensa, i.e., of relatively clear and distinct objects such as red, bitter, etc..
Jeremiah's vision of the new covenant which God would inscribe upon the human heart follows his bitter reflections about how little individuals or nations learn from their experience.
He had learned by bitter experience how easy it was to fall foul of the susceptibilities of his incalculable subjects.
Tragic natural disasters, the consequences of human preditory selfishness and injustice will be experienced by both believers and unbelievers; but whether those experiences make us bitter and cynical or empathetic and compassionate will depend a lot on whether the inevitable suffering that comes to all will depend a lot on whether we believe our flawed existence to be essentially good, though disordered or essentially evil in spite of its few «good» moments.
The Elihu speeches11 and segments of the Yahweh speeches (notably on the ostrich, 39: 13 - 18, and Leviathan, 41:1 - 34) may be added after the creative unification of the rest of the literary Job; but the work as a whole unmistakably reflects Israel's own corporate catastrophic experience of the bitter sixth century.
His aim is so to bring the Christian perspective into the concrete political and social experience of modern life that the possibility of achieving justice and brotherhood in human affairs will be increased because men are in some measure freed from the sentimental and romantic notions which can only lead to bitter disillusionment.
The world has experienced the bitter taste of disappointment because George Miller has announced that he will not be directing the Mad Max sequels.
In his first book, Land of Unlikeness (1944), bitter images describe the terror of a world from which the Christian experience has disappeared.
It is a bitter fact of human experience that it often happens that no sooner is a thing forbidden than it becomes desirable.
What I know is that he experienced the joys of boyhood camaraderie and diligent farm work, but also the bitter violence and deprivations of war, the pain of family separation, the humiliation of being a prisoner of war.
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.
It remembers meditatively and it preserves the totality of Israel's existence - what Israel knew and experienced of the glory of God as the People of God, intermingled with what, in utter realism, she was as a people of earth and earth's bitter passions.
Moses, a man of long experience in wilderness survival, had learned in Midian the formula for sweetening bitter water, and applied it now.
I know much of the country is experiencing bitter cold, so I thought this would be a nice week to focus on warming dishes.
Although the Siegert family made Angostura famous for its bitters, they brought plenty of rum - making experience with them when they relocated operations to Trinidad.
Although Angostura's bitters have been around for more than 180 years, the elixir itself remains unknown amongst even some of the most experienced consumers.
The finalists of the competition were flown to Trinidad in March 2011 for the championship round and while in town, the bartenders were treated to tours of the bitters museum, the rum distillery and the unique experience of participating in Trinidad's famous Carnival parades, the company says.
Craig Basiliere, Vice President of National Accounts at Nestlé Professional, points out that cold brew offers a much different experience than traditional coffee because it is less bitter and less acidic.
«We are very excited by the launch of Jameson Wild Sloe Berry Bitters as it goes to the heart of what Jameson stands for — authentic, modern Irish produce that creates a great taste experience.
Delicate chocolate thins made from our sumptuous bitter sweet velvety dark 73 % chocolate and a splash of mint oil to cool your taste buds with a sublime and refreshing taste experience.
Frank Lampard and his partner Christine Bleakley got their first experience of the Yankee Stadium, and it was bitter sweet, as the pair watched on as New York City FC lost 1 - 0 to Sporting Kansas City on Saturday evening.
My rule of thumb with Wenger which has been for many years past too, from bitter experience, is to decide for myself what a proper manageR would do and then expect Wenger to do the opposite.
After a bitter ending to his once - promising career as a member of the Washington Wizards, the Brooklyn Nets big man is experiencing a Big Apple renaissance.
But the man who is supposed to know best decides to ignore the entire world, irrespective of his bitter experiences in the past.
Everton were being tipped to finish in the Top Four at the expense of the Gunners, and it was a bitter experience considering our form at the start of the season.
This experience of this particular derby was also a new one for Jürgen Klopp, and given the passion he shows on the touchline, his general understanding of football culture, and the importance he places on the players» bond with the fans, you'd hope that the next clash between the two bitter rivals will be one of controlled, clinical, passionate goals.
Hutton has had a decent pre-season campaign but, as we know from often bitter experience, that will count for nothing come the opening game of the season.
Older women tend to be more accomplished and worldly but jaded, generally unimpressed by men as a point of ego or political correctness and bitter from bad experiences.
Amazing how being a parent, and experiencing the supposed «miracle of life» can make you such a bitter, selfish, horrible person.
But then again, at only the age of 6, I had experienced even more loss with my adoptive parent's bitter divorce.
Pregnancy, the most eventful experience in the life of a woman is indeed a bitter - sweet one.
It is a time to sit in retrospection with a purpose of examining not only bitter experiences but the good ones as well, so as to help improve and develop oneself.
If you want to look at people who are bitter about the experience they have of being candidates, I bet you will find a large proportion of people who were selected so early, they ended up giving years of their lives and for whatever reason they didn't get in.»
Ghanaians will not repeat such a big mistake by voting for another old person in the person of Nana Addo to experience such a bitter situation where the entire nation was in apprehension, therefore Nana Addo should honorably throw his support for President Mahama to go for the second term.
Bitter experience suggests some of its members might well have included Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder and three blind mice.
And, of course, there's the bitter learning experience that came with his failed campaign for governor in 2002.
For an intelligent, experienced and talented man in the prime of his political career, the taste of defeat was bitter; all the more so when his forward propulsion was stopped dead in its tracks by his own brother.
«I think we should learn from previous and unfortunate bitter experience that such arrangement should not be done on the blind side of the government.
During the general election, Labour canvassers experienced the same phenomenon as fellow activists south of the border — but with a bitter twist.
«In our research, we show that when people taste alcohol in the laboratory, the amount of bitterness they experience differs, and these differences are related to which version of a bitter receptor gene the individual has.»
The system is also burdened by an acute shortage of experienced air traffic controllers, who have been locked in a bitter contract dispute with the FAA and retiring in record numbers, leaving those who remain exhausted and overworked.
Over the course of my scientific career I have encountered both big - business funded activism and pressure groups who could hold their meetings in a telephone booth, and I know from bitter experience that both are equally capable of stifling rational debate.
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