Sentences with phrase «despair all»

The most tragic result is that countless young people who have sensed the despair of the musicians in their churches have never considered a career in church music even though in other respects it appeals to them.

In despair, Elijah woke up to find fresh bread baking on hot stones and water — left just for him.

Part poetic meditation, part absurdist satire, Snow vividly depicts present - day Turkey as pervaded by despair.

For human rights future and culture, is there hope or despair?

Their despair was real but the stoicism with which they met it struck me as romantic, lacking strength.

I have decided that, rather than be someone who denies the existence of the mountain entirely — whatever that represents in the moment — or simply gives up in despair, that I will be a woman who picks up small stones and moves them.

Woody Allen once remarked that humanity is at a crossroads: «One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction.

In that darkness, I felt despair over the state of my soul.

Matthew Warren, 27, committed suicide «in a momentary wave of despair» at the end of a lifetime struggle «with mental illness, dark holes of depression and even suicidal thoughts,» the pastor wrote to the staff of his Southern California megachurch.

We can slink away in despair and denial or we can crawl back into God's big saving hands, Isaiah proclaimed, and the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus confirmed, that this God who knows all, creates all, controls all and plans all also loves all.

It's about despair.

Our hearts, though heavy, need not despair.

Their mother watches over them, but her face shows the fear and despair many Iraqi minorities have felt over the past few days.

The prophets of the Hebrew Scripture were concerned with understanding the fate that had befallen exiled Israel and their identity as God's people in the midst of so much hope and despair.

We understand the raw desperation behind her eyes, her hunger for love, her despair over leaving Green Gables, her longing for home.

when roads of light and storm open from darkness in a man or a woman are turned away from in dread, in a wave of weakness, in despair and with relief.

They do not despair, although they do not base their hopes on guidance from national and global leaders.

The goal is to keep families together by supporting and empowering single moms, allowing them to break the cycle of poverty, abuse and despair and live lives of wholeness and hope.

There is a cross that's a bridge across to dreams — and no crosscurrent of evil can undercut it, and no crosswinds of despair can overtake it, and no crossfires of any suffering hell can burn it down.

So we neither despair nor glory in the change of weather.

I was surrounded by extreme poverty, illness, disaster, trauma, homelessness, despair, hunger, thirst... When do I stop the list?

On the other hand, we may not keep them and not hear the gospel and despair entirely...

Complacency and despair both support continuation of present patterns.

She has learned to lie as a survival mechanism, to give hope in the face of despair just to make people «better.»

The natural tendency is to despair, to give up or to take short cuts like the Zealots.

I have seen the shadow of despair that haunts many of them in the absence of a sustaining faith.

Reading this account, which covers the period from 1492 to 1783, while following reports on the 2016 presidential campaign, will enable us to maintain a degree of philosophical detachment rather than falling into fits of apoplexy or despair.

«When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won.

He's been called to proclaim hope in the midst of despair, to tell the exiles in Babylon that God is on the way to deliver them just when they have begun to seriously doubt it.

The Spirit is always most visible to us when we're beaten, broken and in despair; the Spirit is less visible and less important when we're winning, prosperous and in charge of the world.

It is the Christian nemesis: death and despair displaced by life and hope.

We live by the promise that God will raise us too — not only some day when we die the big death, but today, in our dead - as - a-rock-in-the-wilderness despair, loneliness, fear or shame.

«But just as the man of God began to despair, he found help from an unlikely source: atheists.»

She tells Ruth Dickinson about her journey from despair to recovery... More

A vital church family, beamed down by the effect of God's Word as a sort of fifth column in that land of cool exteriors and quiet despair.

I've always felt the strongest connection to Jesus» first disciples when I read about their various responses to the events of Passion Week — the confidence following Jesus» triumphant entry into Jerusalem, the fear after his arrest, the doubt and despair in the shadow of the cross, the surprising joy of meeting the resurrected Lord.

Why do we commit ourselves to the political process when there is so much cynicism and a malaise of despair in politics today?

Neither complacency nor despair could contribute to the needed repentance.

The despair, the joy.

Jesus came not to castigate the victims of sin but to cast out demons which bind us in sin — the demons of despair, of self - righteousness, of vengeance.

I have been burned out and I know despair.

If our pastoral practice is driving people into despair, even to the point of taking their own lives, you don't have to be an Oxbridge ethics professor to work out that there is something wrong with the theology that informs it.

And yet tragedy and despair and meaninglessness also abound, and we must not neglect addressing Ourselves to the human condition.

In their moment of shared grief and despair, those who had held him as a hero reached for symbolism and ritual.

Believing in such a cruel, harsh tyrant of a God leads to coldness, legalism, arrogance, self righteousness and despair.

Hope amidst suffering, hope when men know only defeat and despair, hope when death seems to smother out the shoots of life springing from the hearts of men, hope for our society, our world, our city, our schools, courts, prisons, legislatures, hope for our children, for our elderly, hope for all the millions of men and women over the face of this globe who simply want to live out their lives as free human beings not trampled down and stepped on by the overlords of this world.

That way lies death and despair.

Despair is the end result of temptation's line of questions.

Too often modern sensibilities and the penchant for morbid social drama beget a world where life is hell and family is a chariot of despair.

From this position he can accurately paint the despair felt by many young blacks.