Sentences with phrase «dreadful disease!!!!»

The human race has within it the dreadful power to bring about its own self - destruction, and this is dramatically brought home by means of the legend of the great flood, where man was all but annihilated, because he had filled the earth with his violence and corruption.

My thought is as pure as that of anyone, and the thought of the man who is able to think such things will surely become pure — and if this be not so, he may expect the dreadful; for he who once has evoked these images can not be rid of them again, and if he sins against them, they avenge themselves with quiet wrath, more terrible than the vociferousness of ten ferocious reviewers.

Was it not dreadful to sit at table with Him?

«Terrible,» of course, is to be taken in the sense of «exciting» rather than «dreadful» or «horrible.»

It is an amazing, dreadful thing.

Mixed with these talents, he was, regretably, a dreadful racist.

And when one turns from nature's pitiless acts to man's, the suffering is so dreadful that one wonders how any God there may be can stand it.

This curious and rather insincere affair began in 1956 after the fiasco of the Suez invasion (dishonest and unsuccessful, a dreadful combination) exposed Britain's post-imperial weakness.

I have read it over and over again and it is a dreadful hate filled book written completely and totally by men.

Soul - crises such as mine, if experienced within an empathic and compassionate human relationship, within a culture that makes room for them without judgment and condemnation, have the possibility of becoming opportunities for personal growth and transformation rather than dreadful experiences simply to be endured and survived.

There's a truly dreadful intellectual dishonesty about you, Chad.

She can no longer trust what some of us might think of as her better side, explaining that if she had another child she would feel even worse because she would be admitting that the decision to have the abortion was a dreadful mistake, admitting that she and her husband «could in fact have managed to care for another life.»

It's just that although I know other people have reached the age of 60, I am convinced that with me it's some kind of dreadful mistake.

In the Greek tragedy, people do things intending to do the good thing but instead some awful, dreadful things happen as a result of their actions and they have to pay for it....

Recognizing those grim realities does not, though, lead to the conclusion that the Democratic ticket offers Catholics informed by the Church's social doctrine a safe haven in this dreadful electoral cycle.

Duranty's morals are neatly summed up in one of his 1935 dispatches: «It may be objected that the vivisection of living animals is a sad and dreadful thing, and it is true that the lot of [those] who have opposed the Soviet experiment is not a happy one,» but «in both cases, the suffering inflicted is done with a noble purpose.»

Isn't it dreadful to live a life without connection to God, and worse, to be punished for it, when it was God's choice and not yours all along?

Surrounded by all these books, the years that I have spent studying theology and learning Latin, Greek and Hebrew suddenly seem like the most dreadful waste of time and now I am determined to make up for it.

The Very Rev Andrew Nunn, Dean of Southwark Cathedral tells Premier why his Church wanted to join in: «These are our neighbours and they were very much involved in everything that went on that dreadful evening.

Such dreadful sin consciousness religious people maintain.

The depraved imagination has the capacity to dream up all sorts of dreadful things, but we threw out the baby with the bathwater.

I would like to reiterate that domestic abuse is a dreadful crime which should not, and must not ever be tolerated, regardless of the circumstances.

Incest, bestiality, orgiastic religious prostitution, child sacrifice, horrific torture, blood rituals, gang rape, cannibalism, and countless other dreadful activities were common occurrences.

That is a dreadful choice.

«As people with a deep faith in Jesus, we sincerely thank the thousands of people worldwide who have lifted up Kent and this dreadful situation in prayer.

They've been laboring under a dreadful, chafing yoke, and God has shattered it.

Dreadful imperfection will remain in persons and societies until our risen Lord Jesus returns at the Parousia to usher in the final consummation.

(57) There is not a population but We shall destroy it before the Day of Judgment or punish it with a dreadful Penalty: That is written in the (eternal) Record.

«New International Version (© 1984) How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers!

«May the many refugees from that country who are in need of humanitarian assistance find the acceptance and solidarity capable of relieving their dreadful sufferings.»

The reaction is hardly a new one: abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier wrote to Sarah and Angelina Grimke, early American abolitionists and advocates of women's rights, about their concern for women: «Is it not forgetting the great and dreadful wrongs of the slave in a selfish crusade against some paltry grievance of [your] own?»

All of the dreadful religious wars and persecutions of human history were carried out by zealots like you, smiling as they inflict the pain of separation.

In a crucial way, the mortgage crisis of 2008 was initiated by specific acts passed by Congress and fiercely defended against detailed warnings about the dreadful consequences to come.

Alone, alone, about a dreadful wood Of conscious evil runs a lost mankind, Dreading to End its Father lest it find The Goodness it has dreaded is not good: Alone, alone, about our dreadful wood.

High and low, rich and poor, trembling and falling before the appalling grave, the dreadful cholera.

-- hear those dreadful bellowings of the angry nations!

Lilith — it's comments like Wow's that make the world such a dreadful place for gay people.

The history of the Church shows us all too plainly the dreadful consequences of this identification of a static orthodoxy with faith in God through Jesus Christ.

I think its dreadful.

It was hell - fire in all its most dreadful tortures.

This would be a dreadful prejudice.

It is a dreadful matter to kill a man, but it is also dreadful to lock him in a hole, away from wife, children, parents, friends, and all that he held dear in life.

On every matter, the pope is not only the last word (arguably a legitimate and necessary role) but also the first word (arguably a dreadful displacement of ecclesial functions).»

He has a presentiment of the dreadful event, that a jealous criticism will many a time let him feel the birch; he trembles at the still more dreadful thought that one or another enterprising scribe, a gulper of paragraphs, who to rescue learning is always willing to do with other peoples» writings what Trop «to save appearances» magnanimously resolved to do, though it were «the destruction of the human race» — that is, he will slice the author into paragraphs, and will do it with the same inflexibility as the man who in the interest of the science of punctuation divided his discourse by counting the words, so that there were fifty words for a period and thirty - five for a semicolon.

On the other hand, the hero, precisely in order to be a hero, must be tried by dreadful temptations which the tears of Clytemnestra and Iphigenia provide for him.

You live with the private world of feeling dreadful about yourself.

On the one side it has the expression for the extremest egoism (doing the dreadful thing it does for one's own sake); on the other side the expression for the most absolute self - sacrifice (doing it for God's sake).

But his birth also elicits the dreadful response of Herod the Great who dispatches his soldiers to slaughter all the infant boys in Bethlehem and the surrounding regions.

Now it is certain that tears are a dreadful argumentum ad hominem, and doubtless there are those who are moved by nothing yet are touched by tears.

However, if it chanced that among the auditors there was one who suffered from insomnia — then the most dreadful, the profoundest tragic and comic misunderstanding lies very close.