Sentences with phrase «brought despair»

A brave archaeologist holds the mythical artifact said to have brought despair and ruination upon the Atarian empire.

Everyone we meet here has something they are ashamed of, something that has brought them joy, something that has brought them despair.

It was the best of ports, it was the worst of ports, it was a game of wisdom, it was a game of foolishness, it was the combat system of belief, it was the combat system of incredulity, it was released during the holiday season of Light, it was released during the holiday season of Darkness, its price in the spring will give hope, its price in the winter brings despair, it has everything going for it, it has nothing going for it, it will go straight to GOTY lists, it will go direct in the other way — in short the game is so like the previous game that some of its noisiest authorities insist on its being recieved, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

Not exact matches

So I think the person in pain has to bring that out: that mentioning what happened is not going to trigger a flood of despair.

Like the prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi, Tuesday's 567 point DJIA bounce brought hope where there was despair, light where there was darkness, and joy where there was sadness.

Where there is doubt, let us bring faith, Where there is despair let us bring hope.

And I spent many years living for myself, being my own god and it brought me to severe despair, discontentment and near physical death.

And if I still refused to understand him, he would no doubt bring me to despair by the coldness of his irony, as he unfolded to me that he owed me as much as I owed him.

I feel that what must be done is to bring the «absurd hero» within the context of a revised, naturalistic, neo-Whiteheadian ontology — this merger will dispel the harshness of bleak despair from the one position and the remnants of parsonage Victorianism from the other as it links creative insecurity, adventure, with a more penetrating metaphysical analysis than the existentialists were ever able to achieve.

I don't need to share in other people's religion or spiritual beliefs to respect them and see how in so many cases it brings them so much strength and peace in times of despair.

We either find ourselves at the mercy of our «needs» which leads to a low grade despair, or divorced from the life and pleasure that sexuality brings, living in a kind of discontented numbness.

More important, as I have written, «In trying to reach a consensus of the faithful, the key to bringing persons together is in sharing opinions, ideas, dreams, hopes, doubts, feelings of despair or joy, and those normal human expressions that make us who we are.»

In one of the early sessions I was suddenly reminded of Elijah's posture of despair on Mt. Carmel (1 Kings 18:42) and of the later Christian hesychasts» imitation of this posture in the practice of the Jesus prayer — their theory being that the posture expressed physically the «bringing of the mind down into the heart.»

But it is also held that globalization has brought in its wake, great inequities, mass impoverishment and despair, that it has fractured society along the existing fault lines of class, gender and community, while almost irreversibly widening the gap between rich and poor nations, that it has caused the flow of currencies across international borders, which has been responsible for financial and economic crises in many countries and regions, including the current Asian financial crisis, that it has enriched a small minority of persons and corporations within nations and within the international system, marginalizing and violating the basic human rights of millions of workers, peasants and farmers and indigenous communities.

When this is lacking, when a human existence is brought to the pass that it lacks possibility, it is in despair, and every instant it lacks possibility it is in despair.

It is his disclosure of God's love, standing by man through all tragedy and despair, to which we give our witness in the faith that death can not hold or destroy what Jesus was and what he brought into human existence.

Among other things (to mention only one which, if rightly understood, would bring thousands, yea, millions under this category), it completely overlooks the fact that one form of despair is precisely this of not being in despair, that is, not being aware of it.

He felt that the biblical portrayal of the human predicament could liberate the liberal mind from its rationalistic fixations, show the limitations of all human schemes, and save men from guilty despair when their visions did not bring in the Kingdom of God.

Or (to mention a case which is more rarely to be seen in real life, but which dialectically is entirely correct) this despair of immediacy occurs through what the immediate man calls an all - too - great good fortune; for it is a fact that immediacy as such is prodigiously fragile, and every quid nimis [excess] which demands of it reflection brings it to despair.

Recently, the American Conservative's Rod Dreher mentioned his «despair on the gay marriage question,» while two paragraphs later, assured readers: «If I thought there was nothing to be done but surrender, I wouldn't even bring this stuff up.

You have returned to find so much more To despair: the flesh whiter, More helpless, the city stinking As never before, and those Whom you had so carefully avoided Are bringing tea and blankets now, The bounty of their gardens.

the life change that brought me out of suicidal despair into a life of gratitude and contentment (there's that word again).

The story is well known: on descending from Sinai, in the presence of the incredible pretension of the Israelites to make themselves a god (which they could control since they had made it) to replace the mysterious Liberator, out of anger and despair, Moses breaks and destroys the miraculous talisman he was bringing: the stone tables on which God himself had written.

I know that great temptation brings great suffering, but if you can you should feel exhilaration rather than despair.

We bring it all to each other and abide into the end of it all: body soul spirit mind past present future dreams despair curiosities evolutions desire deference silence song weariness wonder.

And consumed by this hatred, they poisoned all they touched, bringing death, darkness and despair.

For the society is facing not only a new age of information, but also a new technological era which brings with it a challenge to all of the historical religions, and which can lead either to humankind «s next integrative steps toward new religious insights and meaning, or to a collapse of religious development and the emergence of a period of anarchy and despair.

Al - Hadid sura 57: In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful No misfortune can happen on earth or in your souls but is recorded in a decree before We bring it into existence: that is truly easy for Allah: (22) In order that ye may not despair over matters that pass you by, nor exult over favours bestowed upon you.

People can bring us euphoria one moment and despair the next.

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!

We are, then, resident in this world, with the task of making it, so far as may be, a replica of the perfect justice and utter charity of our homeland, but not surprised nor in despair when the work can not be brought to complete fulfillment because the conditions of our present place of residence do not permit, or our selfishness and pride interfere.

All that time lost would be enough to bring me to despair if I didn't know the secret — that I had to write those four or five angsty, wandering pages to get to the page that matters, the one that says something true.

But faith brings forgiveness for guilt, hope for despair, communion with God instead of isolation, help for temptation, and life through death.29 The new being belongs to the future; the old being belongs to the past.

This is what Jesus did; He came to the hurting and brought peace to those in despair.

6 By a succession of misfortunes a man is brought to the depths of despair from which death in the end seems to offer a glad release.

Newbigin is absolutely right that Christianity, or at any rate Christian mission and apologetics, is always involved in a pluralist tension — the tension between confidence in God and uncertainty about living out that truth in the world, between faith as God's gift and understanding as a form of growing discovery, between knowing who God is and seeking to bring that knowledge into situations of despair or resistance, not to say anything about the diversity and conflict of views among self - avowed Christians.

Faced with the choice between hopelessness and God, too often we choose despair and wallow in the torments that such a decision brings.

I will be taking a look at your blog — and one of the issues that I will be looking for is, what is it that brings you, «despair, anxiety, sorrow, suffering?»

An optimism of grace, a worldly optimism faces despair not with the conviction that out of it God can bring hope, but with the conviction that the human conditions that created it can be overcome, whether those conditions be poverty, discrimination, or mental illness.

From the resurrection of Jesus Christ flows hope and confidence that God in the midst of despair can bring the greatest future and life and purpose.»

Yet it is together, as church, that we are meant to witness to peace in a cruel and violent world and bring a message of hope in the face of despair.

Thus religion's approach to man «come of age» has been to bring him to a sense of guilt and despair to make him sense his need for Christ.

It faces despair not with the conviction that out of it God can bring hope, but with the conviction that the human conditions that created it can be overcome, whether those conditions be poverty, discrimination, or mental illness.

Such a man asseverated with stronger and stronger expressions how much this relapse tortures and torments him, how it brings him to despair, «I can never forgive myself for it,» he says.

Mahler brings us into direct confrontation with the world by establishing the counterpoint between joy and tragic despair.

YOUR HURT AND DESPAIR OF SEEING OUR BELOVED TEAM TURNED INTO JOKE IN UK AND EUROPE... BRING SOMEONE WHO BENCH RAMSEY..

The final whistle brought joy to Arsenal, and pure despair to Wigan.

Despite bringing in five new players during the winter break — including Portuguese striker Hugo Almeida and Hungarian front - man Adam Szalai — and replacing coach Michael Frontzeck with successful ex-Bremen coach, Thomas Schaaf, it was same old story of HDI - Arena despair when the spring term begin on Saturday with a sobering 2 - 1 home loss to newly - promoted Darmstadt.

This country has seen enough despair brought on by people who lack a basic sense of decency and responsibility to others.

I thought that I had resolved my problems through my strong faith, but recently, to my despair and shame, sexual urges toward my own daughter have brought the self - loathing back.