Sentences with phrase «by accepting his fate»

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But precisely for this reason it is difficult to know whether we accept this cross in faith, hope and love to our salvation, or whether we only bear it protesting secretly, because we can not free ourselves from it but are nailed to it like the robber on the left of Jesus, who cursed his fate and blasphemed the crucified Lord by his side.

@Bama Not sure what you mean by money scam, but I agree that martyrdom is something a real Christian would accept as their fate.

Yet this was a most important oversimplification, for it made possible for the Jews to accept their fate as the just punishment of God, and to accept the Torah as the book by which they would live.

The Dun Commission of Christian scholars in 1950 in their report on The Christian Conscience and Weapons of Mass Destruction stated that «to accept general war as inevitable is to treat ourselves as helpless objects carried by a fated tide of events rather than as responsible men,» and went on to say, «One reason why fascism and Naziism gained their dread power over great nations was because otherwise decent people bowed before what they regarded as «inevitable» and allowed a «wave of the future» to inundate them.»

Never had I visited a land where such a tiny minority of people owned so much wealth while the majority, without enough to eat, accepted their portion as though decreed by fate.

We may have to accept the fact that, once again, just as fate did to us by the prodigious Daniel Addo and Nii Odartey Lamptey of the starlet ’91 fame, another of our immensely outstanding sons might not realize his dream of serving his nation at the elite level because he was a leader before his time!

«Finally, we wish to remind the President and those around him that Nigerians, by the 2015 elections, have committed the fate of the country in his hands for the next four years and are not willing to accept excuses for any economic failures under his watch.»

Given their similarities, the way Suu Kyi is acted by Yeoh pondered the question, was it Yeoh's acting that was robotic or is that simply how Suu Kyi is, just accepting her fate and going through the motions?

President Bill Clinton will decide whether to accept the proposal by late June, so the forthcoming meeting will come at the start of a period of intense lobbying over Freedom's fate.

Laura is more a symbol of the collateral damage of Mexico's billion - dollar drug war than a character, and she kind of becomes a numb zombie by the movie's latter half, perhaps accepting her doomed fate.

A girl is chosen by her village to be sacrificed to a monster, but she does not accept her fate and decides to fight the beast.

SYNOPSIS (via IMDB): Set in contemporary Chicago, amidst a time of turmoil, four women with nothing in common accept a debt left behind by their dead husbands» criminal activities, take fate into their own hands, and conspire to forge a future on their own terms.

Aware of this conundrum, the screenplay uses the scenario for two key decisions on the part of its leads: Kirk decides to break the central rule of Starfleet to save a member of his crew, and while surrounded by lava and waiting for the timer on the device to hit zero (The film uses a ticking clock a few times and to surprisingly successful effect), Spock kneels, outstretches his arms, and calmly accepts his fate.

Cancer is an awful thing (recently having taken legendary actors like Alan Rickman and iconic musicians such as David Bowie), so for those brief moments of emotional content where Deadpool accepts his fate, or decides to ditch the love of his life feeling that the top - secret experimental treatment that went wrong has left him far too horribly disfigured for anyone to properly love him, by extension we also grow to hate the villain Ajax increasingly more.

She doesn't document her son Ronan's death from Tay - Sachs disease symptom by symptom, but she maps the progress of her own sorrow as she seeks to accept his fate.

Together, Morris and «Oscar» find their way to an agreement that authors (especially in literary work, sorely tested by the digital dynamic) need to accept that a slower fate is theirs.

Instead of resenting this or trying to tempt fate by getting higher returns, simply accept that this is a trade off you WANT to make at this stage of your life.

The evolution of the British Parson Jack Russell Terrier will undoubtedly see the conformational and character changes created by show - ring ideals and accepted kennel club inbreeding practices, until this strain of terrier eventually meets a fate similar to the Fox Terrier, developing into something quite different from the sound working terrier that has been in existence for a long time.

Now pinned against the wall, he has accepted his fate, but at the moment of certain death, an object shrouded by shadows in the distance makes its way towards the two and gobbles the creature whole.