Sentences with phrase «endure suffering for»

Finally, to measure their support for radicalism, they were asked whether they would sacrifice their life or endure suffering for an important cause.

Not exact matches

The company that lost billions, suffered a humiliating defeat here and endured an ordeal that left its employees drained, exhausted and ultimately jobless, titled the website for Canuck shoppers «Target loves Canada.»

When your perfectionism gets out of control, using hard work as the justification for the unnecessary pain and suffering you endure is easy.

Maybe I could promise them some future reward for being docile... for turning the other cheek... Even better; what if I could convince them that they could endure suffering in this world because it was meaningless?

The fear of the great nothing is too much for my mind to bear, and I can sleep at night by convincing myself that the absolute nothing we all face one day will instead be full of happy choirs of angels, reward for any suffering I've endured, punishment of the wicked and evil (it pains me to think those who cause so much evil will not suffer for eternity, so hell is a great comfort too), and that I'll get to see all those I currently miss since the death of friends and family are so painful.

Dr Williams, who is Chairman of Christian Aid which is providing humanitarian assistance in South Sudan, said: «The recent escalation of violent conflict in Juba since July 7 has caused yet more appalling suffering for the people of South Sudan who have over the past two and a half years endured the terrible consequences of a return to war and the bitter disappointment of hopes denied or deferred.

Sometimes you must endure the suffering of others for a long time.

With this gesture, the Vatican said, the Pope «desired to show his closeness, attention and prayer also to all those who suffer for their faith, in particular to Christians who are enduring persecution or limitations imposed upon their religious freedom.»

And yet, ironically, if ever we've suffered in this way for the sake of Christ, then we know the power of weakness, that spiritual force and joy of obedience that energizes us to endure the suffering with grace.

For in waiting for the next sunset, I will endure much sufferiFor in waiting for the next sunset, I will endure much sufferifor the next sunset, I will endure much suffering!

If we take the good for granted, we lose perspective also on the suffering that we must endure.

Prayers are offered up for the persecuted and interventions attempted in the hope that their life may be saved even though the persecuted may endure their suffering with joy.

These religious truths teach us how to understand our world, endure suffering, make hard choices that will lead to better futures and otherwise allow us to become who we are meant to be with some grati - tude for the experience overall.

All other martyrs have Him to turn to for strength and consolation in their sufferings, for the grace to endure and the hope of triumph.

They gave up so much, they suffered so much, they endured the searing agnosticism and cynicism of the Greek mind, always looking for just that sort of thing to say... they also endured the searching, probing minds of the Jewish Pharisees, seeking with desperation to stop this «new heresy» form spreading.

So, you can pray for the family that has endured this suffering.

More than the gruesome tales of how they were tortured, it is more horrifying to imagine how mankind could create a burning hell on earth, that was what it must have been for the Christians of Lyons and Vienne; yet these primitive Christians suffered and endured just believing that a man called Jesus gave his life for many others.

Here the pastoral care of the black pastor (or the pastor of black persons) becomes the instrument for releasing the power to endure suffering, alienation, rejection and abuse within a context of understanding that goes beyond resignation but stops short of irrational rage.

We have MUCH historical evidence of the unbelievable amount of persecution and suffering that His followers endured... for centuries and still continues today.

For weary generations the Jews have not ceased to toil, sweat, groan, travail, and endure the sufferings and experience the sorrows of a misunderstood and despised people, all in order that they might come a little nearer the discovery of the truth about God.

You don't show any care for the life that child will endure because if a woman wants an abortion and isn't allowed one, chances are that poor innocent child is going to suffer for it.

For Freud then, authenticity is about being willing to endure the sufferings and anxieties of life.

But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God.

At about 1:50 I just love the look of joy on that woman's face when she talks about everyone who is «not saved» enduring horrible suffering for five months.

While I am in sympathy with your plight and suffering you endured while traveling in the Middle East, if you are truly a present Christian you should be a follower of Christ's words and life and be concerned for men who face eternal damnation as Jesus taught.

To summarize briefly, he is one who has been given and has accepted a calling from God, and devoted himself body and soul to his service, bearing witness to the truth of God, enduring many sufferings, and in the end laying down his life for the sake of others.

Her only excuse for being a «liberal» in this matter was that the pain and suffering she had endured as an aging widow who had reared a large family alone had purged her heart of the pride that prevents people from loving and understanding others.

For as the Church prays, the sufferings we endure, if taken to Christ in the Sacrament designed for forgiveness, can bring us «increase of grace and the reward of eternal life», or, quoting from St Vincent de Paul, «the throne of God's mercy isset on my wretchedness&raquFor as the Church prays, the sufferings we endure, if taken to Christ in the Sacrament designed for forgiveness, can bring us «increase of grace and the reward of eternal life», or, quoting from St Vincent de Paul, «the throne of God's mercy isset on my wretchedness&raqufor forgiveness, can bring us «increase of grace and the reward of eternal life», or, quoting from St Vincent de Paul, «the throne of God's mercy isset on my wretchedness».

We've been given hints that he endured great suffering and has lost the people who were dear to him — he's made references to being a father, for instance, but «not anymore.»

Buddhists have an explanation for the suffering that Paul endured.

Christ suffered spiritual once and for all for us so that we don't have to but there is still plenty of suffering we endure here of the physical kind.

The capacity to endure a great suffering for the sake of a large purpose is one of the decisive marks of maturity.

Catholics realize that the suffering we endure should be offered with Christ's in atonement for our sins and the sins of others.

Can a theory of momentary events provide any clue to an understanding of realities that emerge, change, thrive and suffer decline, endure for millennia?

Yet on himself he bore our sufferings, our torments he endured, while we counted him smitten by God, struck down by disease and misery; but he was pierced for our transgressions, tortured for our iniquities; the chastisement he bore is health for us and by his scourging we are healed.

By using suffering for God's glory and for his purpose, and not just enduring it as helpless victims, we can triumph inwardly through suffering; in us, as in Jesus Christ, the victim can emerge the victor.

But if you endure when you do right and suffer for it, you have God's approval.

For it is a credit to you if, being aware of God, you endure pain while suffering unjustly.

The Syriac Orthodox have suffered for centuries and are enduring one of their worst trials right now, and Colbert is using them for a cheap gag.

Walk with them two miles, give them your spare coat... and perhaps praying for strength to endure, for the wisdom to see God, even in the darkness - and who understands suffering, and only for an «instant» miraculous healing if that is God's will... and that many people would believe and find a way to connect with God as a result if that does happen.

It might just be barely possible to insist upon this precept that each should suffer for the evil he inflicts, if the self endured to experience the result of its own actions and decisions.

Thus he is radically dependent upon others for his happiness, for he must suffer when others either endure or produce suffering.66 The panentheistic God perpetually actualizes himself both in the sublimely blissful joy of sharing the joys of others and in the cosmic crucifixion of feeling supreme sympathy for the agonies of all creatures.

-- What leads those who have endured great suffering continue to believe that all things work together for good?

Your husband will answer to God, and you must answer to God for how you respond to your husband, even when he causes you to suffer.Just as we are to obey government in every ordinance, and servants are to obey their masters, even the ones who are abusive and surly, «likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands»... You can freely call your husband «lord» when you know that you are addressing the one who put him in charge and asked you to suffer at your husband's hands just as our Lord suffered at the hands of unjust authorities... When you endure evil and railing without returning it, you receive a blessing, not just as a martyr, but as one who worships God.»

It all makes sense in the light of the Son's surrender to the Father's will, just as the suffering we ourselves endure before the hoped - for glory only makes sense within our own sonship and submission to the Father.

(Berakot 5a as quoted by George Foot Moore: Judaism in the First Centuries of the Christian Era, Vol I, p. 547) If suffering is thus in itself expiatory for the individual, why may it not be so for society, especially if it is voluntarily chosen or innocently and patiently endured?

As to the divine consequence, it is the growing awareness of a cosmic Love, a cosmic Lover, that holds us tight, that never lets us go, that stays with us in all our problems and troubles and sufferings as well as in our joys and delights, that lives with us and for us, and that in the end receives us into his own life — where we are forever loved in the Love that endures, beyond all «changes and chances,» in the everlastingness that is God himself.

The early Christians, therefore, intuitively treated suffering not as ignominy to be endured, but as opportunity to be used, and their typical attitude was positive and triumphant, as when Paul said, `' We know that to them that love God all things work together for good.»

Mass Debater, hawaii, Unfortunately, doing right is an abstraction for many, if not all, but doing right by one another, this is what brings a loving, and peaceful and a prolonged life doing righteously among us all, and until then well, people will endure sufferings from in difference, greed, imposed poverty, sickness, hate, war, perversion, stealing, etc..

I know the American people are much attached to their government; I know they would suffer much for its sake; I know they would endure evils long and patiently before they would ever think of exchanging it for another.