Sentences with phrase «death struggle for»

It's just not the big life - or - death struggle for him that it used to be.

Thomas Friedman brings us to Yemen where bone - dry villages engage in deadly life - and - death struggles for water.

Thousands and Millions of families are dying death struggling for justice in Indian courts who are overly sympathetic to women causes.

Not exact matches

These are life - and - death questions for the entrepreneurs struggling to establish themselves as future industry leaders.

While entrepreneurs will talk about their near - death experiences months and years later, it's rare for anyone to talk about the struggle while they're in it.

He struggled to shake off the «living death» that had enveloped him for more than a year and left him wondering whether to fall quietly into the abyss or rise again.

The Herald coverage of the WR AGM said Jean's characterized the WR's struggle with the NDP as a life or death battle for Alberta but put a different spin on the WR's battle with the PCs — it was «a principled check on a wayward dynasty» and urged the WR to make the PCs feel welcome.

Our flesh, although put to death, still struggles for prominence.

To have grain and have it «more abundantly» decalres rather outrightly that there are many «grain» therefore for Christ to say that we «might have [it] more abundantly» declares without much doubt that we become eternal in the Life / death Life / death struggles throughout eternity.

With regard to another post regarding faith... I have seen my preemie child struggling for life... I have held the hand of an old person as they slipped from life to death... I have stood vigil in the room of a man of faith as over 40 friends and family crammed into a room sharing pain and suffering as he slipped away suffering from cancer at a young age.

Many deaths were in the fight for power and the struggle to keep it.

Causing the death of an unborn child is in the Bible, for in the Bible at Exodus 21, it says that «in case men should struggle with each other and they really hurt a pregnant woman and her children do come out but no fatal accident occurs, he is to have damages imposed upon him without fail according to what the owner of the woman may lay upon him; and he must give it through the justices.

For example, a Heritage Foundation document titled «Time to Repeal Federal Death Taxes: The Nightmare of the American Dream» emphasizes stories that rarely, if ever, happen in real life: «Small - business owners, particularly minority owners, suffer anxious moments wondering whether the businesses they hope to hand down to their children will be destroyed by the death tax bill,... Women whose children are grown struggle to find ways to re-enter the work force without upsetting the family's estate tax avoidance plan.&rDeath Taxes: The Nightmare of the American Dream» emphasizes stories that rarely, if ever, happen in real life: «Small - business owners, particularly minority owners, suffer anxious moments wondering whether the businesses they hope to hand down to their children will be destroyed by the death tax bill,... Women whose children are grown struggle to find ways to re-enter the work force without upsetting the family's estate tax avoidance plan.&rdeath tax bill,... Women whose children are grown struggle to find ways to re-enter the work force without upsetting the family's estate tax avoidance plan.»

Events of great consequence for the world took place in these centuries: the fall of the Persian empire; the conquests of Alexander the Great and their dissolution after his death; the long struggles between the Greek dynasties of Syria and of Egypt; and the advance of Rome as residuary legatee of them all.

Since the fall of Mosul to Sunni militants in June, the world has struggled to accept the failure of the American project in Iraq, the rise of «political Islam» and the marking of Iraqi Christians and other minorities for death or expropriation.

An over-arching burden for peace and justice, setbacks in the freedom struggle, death threats and personal doubts and guilt from his own moral failings left King a ragged man.

«Raise me up then, matter, to those heights, through struggle and separation and death; raise me up until, at long last, it becomes possible for me in perfect chastity to embrace the universe.»

If we struggled in school, we were expected to show up for extra tutoring and studying until we figured it out (chemistry was nearly the death of me).

Serious social scientists have no professional vocabulary to deal with the mystery of death, the human search for meaning, the moral struggle, the primacy oflove or the drama of salvation.

Although Azzam had been the mentor of Osama bin Laden for 10 years, a power struggle between them ended in 1989 with the death of Azzam and his two sons in a bomb blast in Peshawar on their way to Friday prayers.

Hill has come to see how his struggles are not separate from God's providence for him - they do not disqualify him from living the Christian life and being pleasing to God, but are rather «part and parcel of what it means to live by faith in a world that is fallen and scarred by sin and death».

In Evangelium Vitae, Blessed John Paul II says Mary is the «living word of comfort for the Church in her struggle against death».

For you too, as for all lands, the struggle, the traitor, the wily person in office, scrofulous wealth, the surfeit of prosperity, the demonism of greed, the hell of passion, the decay of faith, the long postponement, the fossil - like lethargy, the ceaseless need of revolutions, prophets, thunderstorms, deaths, births, new projections and invigorations of ideas and meFor you too, as for all lands, the struggle, the traitor, the wily person in office, scrofulous wealth, the surfeit of prosperity, the demonism of greed, the hell of passion, the decay of faith, the long postponement, the fossil - like lethargy, the ceaseless need of revolutions, prophets, thunderstorms, deaths, births, new projections and invigorations of ideas and mefor all lands, the struggle, the traitor, the wily person in office, scrofulous wealth, the surfeit of prosperity, the demonism of greed, the hell of passion, the decay of faith, the long postponement, the fossil - like lethargy, the ceaseless need of revolutions, prophets, thunderstorms, deaths, births, new projections and invigorations of ideas and men.1

The desire is not merely a wish to survive death or to be compensated for earthly struggles.

If man simply evolved from billions of years of time, chance, struggle and death, why is he accountable for sin.

For all who believe in a God of love, justice, and mercy, it will mean constant prayer not only for the victims of the «culture of death,» but also for those who are joined in the great struggle on their behalf, and, indeed, for those misguided souls who, by political action or by personal involvement in the killing of the unborn or infirm, have made themselves their oppressoFor all who believe in a God of love, justice, and mercy, it will mean constant prayer not only for the victims of the «culture of death,» but also for those who are joined in the great struggle on their behalf, and, indeed, for those misguided souls who, by political action or by personal involvement in the killing of the unborn or infirm, have made themselves their oppressofor the victims of the «culture of death,» but also for those who are joined in the great struggle on their behalf, and, indeed, for those misguided souls who, by political action or by personal involvement in the killing of the unborn or infirm, have made themselves their oppressofor those who are joined in the great struggle on their behalf, and, indeed, for those misguided souls who, by political action or by personal involvement in the killing of the unborn or infirm, have made themselves their oppressofor those misguided souls who, by political action or by personal involvement in the killing of the unborn or infirm, have made themselves their oppressors.

That God's providential will for the world is not transparent but hidden from human sight requires that we walk by faith, that we struggle through the valley of doubt as well as the shadow of death.

Protestant liberalism is not infallible, but what are the alternatives: They are in recent times to retreat behind a revelation claim (neo-orthodoxy), to deny the reality of God (death of God), to dwell on one important yet narrow aspect of the struggle for justice (liberation), or to recite stories.

This trivialization of nuclear concerns was a misreading of the across - the - board struggle taking place with issues of life and death, of the widespread sense that this may be the «last chance» for human civilization.

In The Bible Tells Me So, Peter Enns attempts to present an approach to Scripture which allows for us to accept that it has historical and scientific errors and that it contradicts itself at various places, and yet still retain the Bible as an important witness to the theological and spiritual struggles which were faced by our forefathers in the faith, and more importantly, as a historical document about the life of Jesus and how the death and resurrection of Jesus resulted in the transformation of the first century mediterranean world.

They do indeed struggle with Satan, their accuser, but they conquer him «by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they did not cling to life even in the face of death» (12:11).

When England was engaged in her life - and - death struggle with Napoleon, Carey, now in India, was proposing periodical interdenominational and international gatherings for co-operative planning for the world - wide preaching of the Christian Gospel.

I am instead, slowly but surely, learning to view that journey — of struggling, failure, repentance, restoration, renewal in joy, and persevering, agonized obedience — as what it looks like for the Holy Spirit to be transforming me on the basis of Christ's cross and his Easter morning triumph over death.

And for him, God's death is the necessary outcome of that struggle.

Death means that everything we create, the purposes for which we struggle, the ends after which we strive, for which we make sacrifices — all are at last nothing.

In a world where struggle for survival at the expense of others is the law, He showed that death for others is the ultimate act of love.

Thomas Merton says that, for the soul in the life and death struggle of some phases of the advanced spiritual life, any kind of rationalisations are absurd luxuries.

He began to struggle for his OWN survival, at the expense of his neighbor, even if this survival could be only temporary (and therefore illusory), since «death reigned from Adam to Moses, even upon those who did not sin as Adam did» (Rom.

As for me, I am trying in some small measure to follow in the footsteps of those individuals, however imperfectly, and struggling to know the meaning of birth, death, suffering, success, failure and purpose.

Cullmann finds a New Testament Christ who has no time for trivialities at the moment of death, a Christ who struggles to the end against a terrifying enemy, crying out from the cross, «My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?»

Jeremy good message and quite relevant for today God is still looking at our hearts and motives for serving him or are we serving our own agenda as Jonah was.He did nt feel compassionate towards his enemies and who could blame him they had cruelly killed many Jews it was a question of life or death to his own people.The Jewish nation was no more deserving of Gods grace than the other nations that is revealed by sending Jonah to preach a message of hope and life.Ultimately God calls all by faith in him and is willing to be merciful to all nations and peoples that do not not deserve it just like us it is by grace that we all are forgiven.I am pleased that God is sovereign and knows whats best he is merciful to us.Our human nature is that it is better to kill our enemies before they can kill us and that is essentially Jonahs message that is why he struggled to be obedient to Gods will.Gods message is to forgive those that trespass against us and show mercy.Its complicated and it is natural to protect ourselves and our families from those who would seek to destroy them but ultimately its about trusting God with everything easier said than done.If it comes to a choice we will have to trust God and ask for his strength because we cant do it in ours.As Christ laid down his life for us are we ready to lay our lives and the lives of our families as a sacrifice for him.To me that is where the story of Jonah is leading to we have the choice to fight our enemies or to love them as God loves them.brentnz

God's gift of reconciliation in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus gives us the courage to struggle for human forgiveness and repentance in our relations with our neighbors.

For more than half an hour he stayed there, struggling between life and death, dying in slow agony under our eyes.

Shortly before his death, Mark Twain wrote: «A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle... they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages...

where the struggle is in regards to Jesus» will and Gods will being done is I believe, In Jesus flesh struggling to keep up with the Spirit if you know what I mean... Jesus never asked to be saved John 12:27 but He prayed for strength as His soul was sorrowful even unto death... Obviously due to the separation He would «feel» on the cross (I've read your article on The Father never forsaking Jesus on the cross-Psalms 22:24 and 2 Cor 5:19 but just felt the separation as a man) So that's what I'm leaning towards in this whole interpretation...

Hi Jeremy, I have been thinking and trying to put all the pieces together... I still believe that Jesus flesh was still struggling through the ordeal but His Spirit was willing... I agree that Jesus wasn't asking to be saved and was in fact saying He is ready to drink the cup but It appears that's Jesus was asking for strength and that God will give Him the power to endure... Such as Heb 5:7 says that Jesus prayer was heard and that God was able to save Him from death meaning Jesus wasn't allowed to die until He fulfilled the prophecy of the cross... I believe Jesus had the power to lay down His life and the strength was given by God the Father.

In Romans 7, he wrote about the ongoing struggle with sin that every person experiences (both believer and unbeliever alike), and concluded that description by rejoicing that God has provided a way through Jesus Christ for people to be freed from the bondage to decay and corruption that was brought about by the body of death.

OK I say this if your religion was not working in your country and you come too USA too seek a better life for you and your family your man made religion hasFAILED YOU.because if I say if your religion is the be all end all there is no need too come too USA too seek a BETTER LIFE OR LIFESTYLE YOU WOULD BE SUPER BLESSED IN YOUR FALSE HOOD MAN MADE RELIGIOUS RELIGION PHONY SYSTEM OF GIMMICKS AND GAMES DREAMING AND SCHEMING STRESS STRUGGLES AND STRAINS RELIGION WORLDWIDE RELIGION HAS DONE MORE DESTRUCTION AND DEATH AND POVERTY SICKNESS THEN LEARNING THE WHOLE TRUTHS ABOUT WISDOM

As I've spent the past few years struggling with doubt and grasping for faith, I've found that being ready with an answer does not do justice to the seriousness of questions like, why does God allow innocent children to starve to death?

It is significant that Vatican II (and also the Uppsala Assembly of the World Council of Churches) defines the church as the sacramental sign of the unity of all humanity, and also speaks of the presence of the Paschal Mystery among all peoples (see Decree on the Church, and the document on the Pastoral Constitution of the Church in the Modern World) This approach assumes that in Christianity, acknowledgment of Salvation (understood as the transcendent ultimate destiny of human beings) finds expression and witness in the universal struggle for Humanization (understood as the penultimate human destiny) in world history which is shaped not only by the forces of goodness and life, but also by the forces of evil and death.