Sentences with phrase «death struggle of»

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.

Grounds the life - and - death struggles of the downtrodden in the quotidian: where to sleep, how to get clean, who to love.

Not exact matches

The now -90-year-old legend delivers an emotionally charged dramatic performance as a jazz musician who struggles with the death of his wife and the possibility that she was unfaithful to him.

The selection of a new Supreme Court justice following the death of Antonin Scalia on Saturday is shaping up to be a protracted struggle.

Other parts of the plan include «Help Those Struggling with Addiction» and «Cut off the Supply of Illicit Drugs,» which is the section that includes seeking the death penalty against certain drug traffickers.

Haftar's potential death could mean a renewal of violence and a power struggle that could hit the OPEC country's oil output.

He and brother Prince William both struggled with their mental health after the death of their mother, Princess Diana, in 1997.

«I know how awful it is to watch people you love struggle as the disease robs them of their mental capacity... It feels a lot like you're experiencing a gradual death of the person that you knew,» he said in a blog post about the dementia investments.

Although its early investors got Quincy through those near - death experiences, the struggling fashion startup couldn't gain enough traction to secure a Series A round of funding from venture capitalists and the young company — barely a year old — shut its doors in January 2013.

The above logo didn't appear until 1984, after Michael Eisner took over as CEO of The Walt Disney Company and helped revitalize the studio that was struggling in the years after the death of its founder.

Since 2013, when Nicolás Maduro took power after the death of Hugo Chávez, the socialist country has struggled with skyrocketing inflation, food and medicine shortages, a shrinking economy and rising violence and corruption.

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.

There is a long history at play here between Kanye's obsession with celebrity, his sense of kinship with bombastic figures like Trump, and his very public struggles with his mother's death in 2007, his mental health, and his recently disclosed opioid addiction.

The outcome of a war will not only lead to a sharp escalation in human casualties and displaced families, who have yet to come to terms with the death and destruction from the conflicts in Iraq, Yemen and Syria, but the region itself may no longer be the landscape it currently is as most countries in the area will struggle to recuperate from the large - scale devastation caused by a war.

He said: «We gather today, a community shocked by the event which caused the death of Rae Logie, struggling to comprehend all that has happened here among us.

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.

the answer to that is the incarnation itself, that Christ would take upon himself humanity and the pains and struggles of the human condition, including the pains of death.

It was the spiritual guide, the moral and legal code, the political system, the sustenance of life, whether that meant endurance of hardship, the endless struggle against nature, battle with enemies, or the inevitable processes of life and death.

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.

In a statement from St James & Emmanuel, the church Lizzie was part of, the clergy team explained that it had emerged following her death «that part of her struggle was a battle to reconcile her faith with her emerging sexuality».

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.

Clearly, the Twelve struggled to conceive of a kingdom that would begin not with the death of their enemies, but with the death of their friend.

Carrying one's own instrument of death, struggling to maintain any dignity at all.

After various struggles with the unromantic face of persecution and martyrdom, Garrpe dies trying to save apostate Christians from death, and Rodrigues chooses to apostatize to save others from torture and death, urged on by the apostate Ferreira to this «greatest act of love.»

First of all, the death that Jesus endured was the consequence of the struggle he waged against those who wielded religious and political power.

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 men.1

Lifton has dedicated his career in psychiatric research to investigating a variety of uniquely modern confrontations with death and man's perennial struggle to overcome it.

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

«If you live by the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the flesh, you will live» I don't believe God takes away salvation, but we do have a role and this is what I have always struggled to understand.

The simple fact is that local governments are struggling to keep up with the chaos, and have not had the resources to verify any accurate national estimated number of deaths.

Its life and death struggles are obvious and dramatic; it results in changing the course of history are evident and striking.

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 oppressors.

There he is free to make explicit the Christian claim that Isaiah 53 was a text, «as authoritative scripture, that exercised pressure on the early church in its struggle to understand the suffering and death of Jesus Christ.»

Jubilance, exaltation, revulsion - all those emotions mingled as people of faith struggled to find an appropriate response to bin Laden's death.

It chooses and sets in order... [Creation is the] conflict of energy and resistance, a struggle of life against death, from which the word takes its impetus....

Dana and I spoke with our children of Ruth's ultimate healing — of having faith that their sister was no longer in pain, no longer struggling but in the presence of the one who would wipe away every tear in a place where there is no more death or sorrow or crying or pain (Rev. 21:4).

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.

G - D (a supreme being) has brought me through the death of a 20 - year old niece, my sister, my mother, several surgeries and the typical struggles in life — ALL w / in only the last 10 years.

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).

Even now, more than ten years later, I remain awed by their valiant struggle, mounted at great personal cost: drained finances, lost privacy, media scorn, impugned motives, death threats — and eventually Bob's death, which the family believes was caused by the stress of watching helplessly as his daughter died by court order.