Sentences with phrase «despairing men»

Theism deals with «wishful thinking», «make - believe», fantasy, magic — hopes of despairing men famously hallucinating in the desert who then «see» exactly what they want to see.

If it does not stay at that point, merely marking time, and if on the other hand there does not occur a radical change in the despairer so that he gets on the right path to faith, then such despair will either potentiate itself to a higher form and continue to be introversion, or it breaks through to the outside and demolishes the outward disguise under which the despairing man has been living in his incognito.

The despairing man who is unconscious of being in despair is, in comparison with him who is conscious of it, merely a negative step further from the truth and from salvation.

Most frequently, no doubt, the condition of the despairing man, though characterized by multiform nuances, is that of a half obscurity about his own condition.

By unconsciousness the despairing man is in a way secured (but to his own destruction) against becoming aware — that is, he is securely in the power of despair.

For in another sense, an ethical - dialectic sense, the despairing man who consciously remains in despair is further from salvation, since his despair is more intense.

A despairing man is in despair over something.

A despairing man wants despairingly to be himself.

The despairing man can not die; no more than «the dagger can slay thoughts» can despair consume the eternal thing, the self, which is the ground of despair, whose worm dieth not, and whose fire is not quenched.

As one who ascends in a balloon rises by casting weights from him, so does the despairing man sink by casting from him the good (for the weight of the good is uplift), he sinks, doubtless he thinks he is rising — he does indeed become lighter.

The despairing man is mortally ill.

Not exact matches

and of the lost condition of man, who seeks a way out of his complex of «despairing power» — what is really new is that Christians today find this prideful attitude excellent and consonant with the dignity of man.

A young man suffering from AIDS, who at first had a completely negative and despairing approach to the onset of his disease, was greatly helped by Victor Frankl's account of how prisoners in concentration camps who could find some sort of hope survived, when others succumbed to the terrors around them.

And if he does not essentially develop with the years, nor yet sink into sheer triviality, that is to say, if he remains pretty much a young man, a youth, although he is mature, a father and gray - haired, retaining therefore something of the good traits of youth, then indeed he will be exposed also to the possibility of despairing as a youth over the earthly or over something earthly.

Adam (man); Seth (Appointed); Enosh (Mortal); Kenan (sorrow); Mahalalel (the blessed God); Jared (shall come down); Enoch (teaching); Methuselah (his death shall bring); Lamech (the despairing); Noah (rest or comfort).

The Apocalypse, said Jerome, has «as many mysteries as words» (Letters 53:9) A despairing scholar said that the study of the Revelation either finds a man mad or leaves him so.

To develop this sense of «belonging» will be a way in which, here and now, life can become meaningful; for in the little cells of Christian faith and love which are our parishes as they ought to be, hope is implanted m men's hearts that lifts them above, and yet sends them back into, the community life of which they are also a part, knowing that they have passed from death into life, because they love the brethren and are therefore empowered to bring a stream of fresh, courageous, loving life to a sadly disillusioned and despairing world.

A man has sinned, so he can bear the punishment for it without despairing; but without blame to be singled out as a sacrifice to pity, as a sweet - smelling savor in its nostrils, that he can not put up with.

On the contrary, he gives to this despairing, defeated, and solitary man a superhuman and in some degree incomprehensible task.

For there are many doubtful matters which a man can not resolve or find the answer to by himself, and so he takes his brother aside and tells him his trouble... We must have many absolutions, so that we may strengthen our timid consciences and despairing hearts against the devil and against God... I will not let private confession be taken from me.

And then, like a shaft of light shining through Monet's trees, I saw God working behind the despairing, rebellious men.

Didn't kenny Rogers pen a song about wenger... The man is a joker can't stand seeing him on the bench any more sitting there like a giant Gallic slug in his stupid sleeping bag... Old tired arrogant failure... That's it really... just want him gone and whatever results determine that are fine with me... I can't believe the club I've supported over three decades has been brought to this state by an indifferent board and an idiot manager... It's utterly bizarre and despairing

NY TIMES - Apr 14 - Chinese men increasingly find themselves lovelorn and despairing as a growing number of women hold out for a mate with a deed.

There was the dour internet - parable of teenagers and parents «Men, Women and Children,» and the preposterous and over-baked melodrama «Labor Day,» about a despairing single mom (Kate Winslet) who finds renewal from a pie - making escaped convict (Josh Brolin).

It's not so much a crossover as a mosaic, and it sets out — among other impossible tasks — to shuffle the colourful, light - hearted hijinks of James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy films and Taika Waititi's Thor: Ragnarok with the angstier, despairing, politicised tone of the Russo brothers» Captain America sequels, while at the same time reconciling the science - fictional and magical worlds of Iron Man, Black Panther, the Hulk and Dr Strange.

It is almost as if the man who made a tv show about nothing but incessant talking wanted to make a bee movie with the same premise, but test screenings left the audience so despairing that scenes featuring Barry trying to stay alive within the machinery of a car or negotiating the impossibly complicated honey factory equipment had to be inserted to keep the children docile.

There's even a theory that Shakespeare's real backer was the young man's mother, despairing of ever having grandkids.

We can not maintain it half fortunate, half miserable, half confident, half despairing, half slave — to the ancient enemies of man — half free in a liberation of resources undreamed of until this day.