Sentences with phrase «despairing self»

But we also have the potential for hell, to become a tight little ball of despairing self - centredness.

Like the fire which Prometheus stole from the gods, so does this mean to steal from God the thought which is seriousness, that God is regarding one, instead of which the despairing self is content with regarding itself, and by that it is supposed to bestow upon its undertakings infinite interest and importance, whereas it is precisely this which makes them mere experiments.

So the despairing self is constantly building nothing but castles in the air, it fights only in the air.

This hiddenness is precisely something spiritual and is one of the safety - devices for assuring oneself of having as it were behind reality an enclosure, a world for itself locking all else out, a world where the despairing self is employed as tirelessly as Tantalus in willing to be itself.

Not exact matches

Then comes defiance, which really is despair by the aid of the eternal, the despairing abuse of the eternal in the self to the point of being despairingly determined to be oneself.

Hence the self in its despairing effort to will to be itself labors itself into the direct opposite, it becomes really no self.

Now he has indeed become king, and yet, by despairing over his sin, and about the reality of repentance, about grace, he has also lost himself, be can not even maintain himself in his own eyes, and he is precisely as far from being able to enjoy his own self in ambition as he is from grasping grace.

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.

Wounds: Anger management, lack of self - worth, aloofness and isolationism, cutthroat competition style — needing to be No. 1 or refusing to participate, comparing and despairing

You feel like crap: weepy, despairing, and not like your happy self.

Instead of despairing over small deviations from your diet, self tracking allows you to see exactly how much (or little) your choices will affect your goals.

It is also a movie about forgiveness, how hard it can be to offer it to another and how a life without it — forgiveness of another and of the self — can be raw and despairing.

In other «Sin City» relationship news, the not - so - incredible hulk named Marv (Mickey Rourke), self - appointed guardian of gold - hearted, despairing stripper Nancy (Jessica Alba), tells her she looks hot after she scars herself and goes on the attack against evil Senator Roark (Powers Boothe).

Last year, I was given a copy of a draft essay from Dubos» final year in which he reflected on the themes that shaped both his bacteriological work the underpinnings of his stance as a self - described «despairing optimist.»