Sentences with phrase «face death with»

So if they even consider it, they face death with considerable peace.

She left a powerful example of how to face death with courage and dignity.

He tries to face his death with a typically American determination to live for the moment.

She is able to declare that «I now do believe in a life after death, beyond a shadow of a doubt,» and she suggests that «truly religious people with a deep abiding relationship with God have found it much easier to face death with equanimity.»

He faced death with courage and offered comfort to his followers.

There being no Christ to judge or forgive him, no community to sustain or check, no vocation to fulfill or frustrate, Rabbit faces death with all that is left: an egotheistical eroticism.

And he faced death with absolute certitude about the life to come.

Not exact matches

The series of hearings will determine whether he faces life in prison or the death penalty, a decision to be made after family and friends testify to judge and jury about their interactions with the mystery man.

Bradley has been charged with knowingly transporting people who are in the country illegally, and if convicted could face the death penalty.

«The shameful scale of the public health crisis London faces, with thousands of premature deaths caused by air pollution, must be addressed,» Khan said.

She shared a recent conversation she had with Sheryl Sandberg about her new book Option B, in which the Facebook COO writes about resilience in the face of her husband's sudden death.

Faced with the crucible of his mother's accidental death and the crisis at his company, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick wisely decided to accept his investors» advice to turn the fledgling company's leadership over to a new CEO.

Even when faced with the worst of tragedies, such as a death in the family, resilient people collect, plan, and act until things are back to normal.

Her husband Carl (who's also the company CEO), added: «Most of us have faced hardship, and some of us combat and that «near death experience» Mayor Landrieu spoke of, so we can identify with what New Orleans went through, and how it can distill and clarify for you what you really want out of the future.

Coral Gables police officers won't face charges for death of Aviel Gutierrez, who died in December 2016 after he was shot with a Taser stun gun during a bizarre confrontation.

In the case that you pass, the policy beneficiaries should file a claim with the insurer, after which point the circumstances of your death will be reviewed and receive the payout (also called a death benefit or the face value of the policy) so long as everything is in order.

The percentage of the death benefit you can receive is generally less than 50 %, what qualifies as a terminal illness varies depending on your policy, and the payout you receive may be deducted with interest from the face value of your policy.

can I pray that if all else fails that I face death and the end of my time on this Earth with the dignity that I may have done all I need to do and that I will see his or her face and hear that I did go?

When faced with our own mortality, when the undeniable finality of death is understood to be real and true, God, such as he is, disappears.

I suffered a terrible car accident... during 3 weeks I almost died «many times»... Now I can read a beautiful article like this one and agree with it... Believe me... no matter your faith, your fortune or whatever you may be involved with... on the face of death if you are human you will only care about your loved ones... you will remember about the moments you were happy together and dream they happen again... you will remember your childhood like you were 7 again... you will ask forgiveness and try to show your love, no matter how hard you are... In the face of death we realize that nothing more then our family matters... For the professor, once his life of arrogance reaches an end, he will then understand what is the meaning of family...

Resisted the temptation to say, when faced with death, «It's obvious you want to destroy Christianity.

The latter group may have a particularly hard time with religious issues when they face the prospect of death; their anger at the church may deepen.

God has redeemed the crucifixion so that we now sing songs about it and listen to sermons about the horrible death of an innocent victim with smiles on our faces.

After months of uncertainty and trial, the Sudanese women who once faced a death sentence for apostasy and adultery arrived in the U.S. with her family Thursday night.

Under the spotlights and surrounded by ruddy - faced Irishmen, burdened with emotional and physical pain, he looked like death.

To multitudes of people today independence does not mean Socrates, facing death and saying, «Men of Athens, I honor and love you, but I will obey God rather than you»; it means, «The heck with old rules!»

The Qur» an illustrates this sudden, instinctive faith in Allah by describing in detail Pharaoh's feeling when he was faced with death by drowning and realized the impossibility of escape, «And We brought the Children of Israel across the sea, Pharaoh with his hosts pursued them in rebellion and transgression, till, when the (fate of) drowning overtook him, he exclaimed: I believe that there is no God save Him in whom the Children of Israel believe, and I am of those who surrender (unto Him).

At first, in the face of persecution, torture and death, Christians of the first three centuries continually relied on their faith and their communities to endure with the result being a rapid growth of Christianity throughout the empire.

After various struggles with the unromantic face of persecution and martyrdom, Garrpe dies trying to save apostate Christians from death, and Rodrigues chooses to apostatize to save others from torture and death, urged on by the apostate Ferreira to this «greatest act of love.»

You whose loving wisdom fashions my being out of all the forces and all the hazards of earth, teach me to adopt here and now, however clumsily, an attitude the full efficacy of which will be plain to me when I am face to face with the powers of diminishment and death: grant that having desired I may believe, and believe ardently, believe above all things, in your active presence.

When the thief on the cross says, «Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom» (Luke 23:42), the moment is a decisive break with the values of the other thief, and a definitive statement of faith in the face of death — not just his own, but Jesus» too.

The sick person faces death in the company of the church militant and triumphant through viaticum and the anointing with oil.

When he faced death by crucifixion, he spent the night in prayer and told his disciples, «My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death.»

Riding the publicity wave of Brittany Maynard, a young woman who suffered much and became the human face of the death - with - dignity movement, they have redefined compassion as respect for a patient's autonomous determination of the time, location, and method of death.

The point for us is that for these two 20th century professors — as much as for any mystic wrapped in contemplation in some more remote ashram — the inevitability of death brought one face to face with the question of whether his existence had any point.

Buchanan depicts, with the help of depressingly indisputable data, the apparent death wish of European countries that have stopped having babies and face the prospect of losing their national identities under the pressure of Muslim immigration and EU homogenization.

If there is some kind of continuation after death I would imagine that it would be of such a different nature as not to resemble at all anything thought up in Christian theology and i would face it with a curious mind, not a fearful mind.

To respect your spouse fully, means to respect them with your words, with your actions, face to face and online, until death do you part.

We must face the Anti-Christ (whomever he may be) and undergo the persecution, then at God's appointed time, Christ will take His people up (the Rapture) to be with Him, but the Anti-Christ will remain on earth, and those «left behind» will have an opportunity to accept Christ as Savior, but will face death for doing so.

If we were in Martin Luther King Jr shoes and facing death threats, would we back down and save our own skin or would we continue with the cause, come what may?

And Norbert Lohfink expresses a similar viewpoint in the chapter «Man Face to Face With Death» in his book The Christian Meaning of the Old Testament.

A possible real connection with the animal kingdom is itself of relatively little theological importance, for anything in it that would be important for the theological interpretation of human life in the present, can also be known without it, that is to say, the vulnerability of man in face of the powers of this earth, man's temptation to see himself from the point of view of his animality, his liability to death, man's dynamic orientation and task of developing to his perfection from below upwards, beyond his beginnings.

Here are three typical answers: «He is as much a necessity to my spiritual existence as the elements of pure air are to my physical system»; «If I were convinced that there is no God, I fear a sense of loneliness would become intolerable»; «As for any repose, or ability to face life and death with composure, any incentive to be perfect in things hidden from outsiders, any exhilaration in living and trying to do my best — I can not conceive it without the idea of God.»

There are four affirmations about Jesus Christ that historically have been stressed in Christian faith: (1) Jesus is truly human, bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh, living a human life under the same human conditions any one of us faces — thus Christology, statement of the significance of Jesus, must start «from below,» as many contemporary theologians are insisting; (2) Jesus is that one in whom God energizes in a supreme degree, with a decisive intensity; in traditional language he has been styled «the Incarnate Word of God»; (3) for our sake, to secure human wholeness of life as it moves onward toward fulfillment, Jesus not only lived among us but also was crucified for us — this is the point of talk about atonement wrought in and by him; (4) death was not the end for him, so it is not as if he never existed at all; in some way he triumphed over death, or was given victory over it, so that now and forever he is a reality in the life of God and effective among humankind.

The normal eschatological situation, which gives life urgency by facing us with the inevitability of our own death, the hunger for meaning, and the fear of suffering and loss, becomes apocalyptic when it appears that there is no longer time for normal urgency.

Since death is inescapable, we have every reason to face up to its reality and come to terms with it, so far as we are able.

When faced with the question of why does death occur like this (or at all for that matter), a typical theology responds by declaring that the origin of death is sin.

Hitchens is resolute in his beliefs and is CONSISTENT with them even in the face of death.

Both men spoke not as private persons but instead quoted from our deepest public memories, which are eloquent in the face of death when we, as solitary individuals encased in our personal experiences of loss, so often are wordless with grief.

Perhaps it is our inability to face the prospect of our own death, our own intimate participation in the ways of nature, that causes us to be uncomfortable with killing animals to meet human needs.