Sentences with phrase «blessing as a curse»

They can be just as much of a blessing as a curse at times.

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But Istanbul's blessing as an entrepreneurial hub is also its curse, with a rising cost of living, epic traffic jams, and a glut of smaller players.

The realization that we're likely to live much longer than they did may come as both a blessing and a curse: More years means more time to travel the world, scratch off bucket - list items, or volunteer for favorite causes.

The multifariousness of modern communications can be a blessing as well as a curse.

Soap's association with grinding may be both a blessing and a curse, however, as it presents Artemis with a dilemma that many companies face in selling to teens.

Nevertheless, this is a blessing as well as a curse.»

19 This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses.

I ask this because I've struggled with similar feelings throughout my life — processing various failures, weaknesses, and disappointments as practical signs that God is not for me, but against me — either toying with me, cursing me, punishing me, rejecting me, or choosing not to bless me for not living up to his standards.

Duet 11; 26 God gives man a choice to be blessed or cursed same as Adam there are consequences when we chose not to heed Gods word.Did God curse Adam yes he did both he and eve died spiritually they lost that constant fellowship with God that relationship was broken.So he was cast out from the garden from under Gods protection.Adams love for Eve was his downfall he chose her love over Gods love and When we chose anything else other than him for our security we fall into the same trap as Adam.and we also must deal with the consequences.He most definitely is a jealous God.brentnz

Believe it or not, while most people view death as a curse and a punishment from God, a proper understanding of death allows us to see it as a blessing and an act of kindness from God.

Against both the foregoing views, the truth is that life in all of its dimensions occurs under the law of ambiguity; we experience it as both blessing and curse, sometimes predominantly one more than the other, but never exclusively one without the other.

It would seem as though Jesus has said that all who are poor, hungry, mourning and persecuted are blessed, while all who are rich, well - fed, happy, and honored are cursed.

At the end of the day, I have come to see wealth as a spiritual DISadvantage, more curse than blessing.

It described the forelock (frontal lobe) of the brain of someone who used to curse the prophet Mohammed (Peace and Blessings be upon him) as being a lying and sinful.

It has already done so on countless occasions, long before the advent of science, and will keep providing the only means whereby science may act not as a curse but as a blessing.

But no matter how beneficial these churches are as models of mission, they are both a blessing and a curse for pastors of small congregations.

«I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live;» (Deuteronomy 30:19)

Scriptures such as Isaiah 41:17 - 20, 55:10 - 13 and 60:13 name two to three species of evergreen trees as prophetic signs of God's promise to reverse the curse over the land and usher in an age of blessing.

Thus, it is even more important that we carefully monitor our thoughts and words, as that which comes out of our mouths not only has the power to produce life or death, blessing or curse, but it actually becomes a magnet for whatever realm we align ourselves with.

The «Father» of the Nation, being the United States of America is quoted saying; «The General is sorry to be informed — , that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing, a vice heretofore little known in an American army, is growing into a fashion; — he hopes the officers will, by example as well as influence, endeavor to check it, and that both they and the men will reflect that we can have little hope of the blessing of Heaven on our arms, if we insult it by impiety and folly; added to this, it is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense and character detests and despises it.»

It was an ending that brought tears to my own eyes as I watched Diana, both blessed and cursed with immortality, realize that she will mourn Trevor literally forever as she takes on the noble but never - ending task of rescuing mortals from their own appalling pickles.

This reflects the age - old Semitic idea of blessings and curses as actually conveying the good or evil by an almost physical power (cf. Is 55:11).

They are both sinners, but one is blessed as righteous and the other is cursed.

The Law is for our benefit, it is both a curse and a blessing, a blessing because if we keep the Law we will be perfect, a curse because if we stumble in even one point we are just as guilty as if we have broken all of the laws (James 2:10)

In our Bible we often read such beautiful phrases as: «Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you and pray for them that despitefully use you».

The prints feature two quotes from the book and also my «life verse,» Proverbs 27:14 — «If anyone loudly blesses their neighbor early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse.»

While initially an influx of people into your church from another church seems like a blessing, it often turns into a curse, especially if they left in anger or as a result of a major disagreement with the pastor or elders of the previous church.

No more let sins and sorrows grow, Nor thorns infest the ground; He comes to make His blessings flow Far as the curse is found, Far as the curse is found, Far as, far as, the curse is found Peace on earth and mercy mild God and sinners reconciled» Joyful, all ye nations rise Join the triumph of the skies With the angelic host proclaim: «Christ is born in Bethlehem» Hark!

In a day when people hurl curses around all the time, maybe it is good to pass around blessings as well.

So just to understand this, I was told when I was a Christian if I don't believe in Jesus being the Messiah or the Virgin Birth I will be cursed and go to hell and anyone who doesn't believe in Jesus as our chosen Messiah will not enter into the kingdom of Heaven, yet Christians say biblical prophecy has been fulfilled with the state of Israel and God is watching over and blessing the Jews.

«God bless you» is a wishing clause, short form of «may God bless you» Because of God's grace and blessing, we could continue life as a believer on earth, Instead of saying «God curse you,» wish people «may God bless you» It's not a greeting words but words of bid farewell to any one we love.

I may not curse, but blessings do not come to my lips as often as I would like.

Even Mount Gerizim, which was their place of worship, Moses had selected as the mountain of the blessing in contrast to its counterpart across the road, Mount Ebal, which was the mountain of the curse (Deut.

I see the various media, Including TV, as gifts of God, with their present content as mixed blessings and — well, cursings.

Is the huge spike in giving after a sudden disaster a blessing as well as a curse?

The same tongue can bless God and curse men, which is as unnatural as it is for a fountain to produce both sweet and salt water.

«No more let sins and sorrows grow, / Nor thorns infest the ground; / He comes to make His blessings flow / Far as the curse is found, / Far as the curse is found.»

Is it not possible with the eyes of faith to see in every Christmas tree, in every wreath, in every exchange of gifts, in every instance of generosity to the needy, in every family reunion of loved ones from far and near» to see in every Christmas celebration, even of those who do not acknowledge him, remote outposts of his blessings that flow as far as the curse is found?

«I am convinced,» he wrote, «that every deep or delicate treatment of the magical theme, from the lightest jingle of Peacock Pie... to the most profound shaking of the phenomenal world... will always be found to imply an indirect relation to the ancient blessing and cursing; and it is almost as vital that it should be moral as that it should not be moralizing.»

The language of the rebuke might have still contained elements of blessing for obedience, and cursing for disobedience, as these were consequences stated within the law (Deut 28), but it is doubtful that God would have accused the people of robbing Him in the same way that He was accusing the priests.

Though Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph are not firstborn sons, nonetheless they are «beloved sons» of their fathers — a fate fraught with both curse and blessing, as biblical scholar Jon Levenson has shown.

In this respect it is of the same mind as the Deuteronomist, that there is the way of blessing and life and alternatively the way of curse and death.

What at first seems like a blessing becomes a curse in mid-summer as you struggle to keep up with your harvest and find ways to keep things interesting in the kitchen.

Even the day before yesterday this is what I exactly told my friend -LRB--LRB-(I'm tired of watching Ozil on the flank as he is struggling a lot & I wish him to get injured)-RRB--RRB- For me Ozil's injury is a blessing in curse we all were complaining & blaming Wenger about the formation; players selection & for using players out of position now this all problems are going to be solved thanks to Ozil's injury.

TODAYS DEBACLE WILL BE THE EXACT POLAR OPPOSITE, a blessing in reality, though perceived in the moment as a curse.

Seen at that time as a blessing BUT actually, a curse.

I know Ju is as selfless as they come and that can be a blessing, but it can also be a helluva curse..

OT Aguero broke his two ribs and Mendy got a serious knee injury Mendy will be out for 9 months and aguero for at least two months after a car accident in Amsterdam, that's curse of overspending playing fringe players in eurpa is blessing in disguise as we avoid injuries to key players thatsy big blow to city quick recovery

Yet that Ukip dividend for the Conservatives — on a night when the party Nigel Farage once led lost 123 seats and held just three — could become a curse as well as a blessing, at least for those Tories who fear the consequences of an all - singing all - dancing hard Brexit.

However, Charney notes that having a crystal - clear emotional memory may be as much a curse as a blessing.