Sentences with phrase «face life and death»

So she included stories about dogs who face life and death.

Stop transferring your own inabilities to cope with reality onto the rest of us who don't need a fairy tale to face life and death.

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.»

«I'm fortunate enough to work in the rehab facility, so I get to see people who are facing life and death with addiction.

Katniss and Peeta (Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson) hardly have time to celebrate their survival during the Hunger Games before they find themselves back in the arena facing another life and death battle called the Quarter Quell.

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.

That's because they're likely facing a crisis that involves one of life's biggest stressors, ranging from birth and death, to marriage and divorce, to a new house or job or no house or job.

Face it, the main reason for religion in most people's lives is fear of death and hope for something afterward.

There is always the need for a person (who is facing death) to satisfy themselves in the context of «you have lived out a good and decent life».

As seems Mr.Stephen Hawking had suffered a lot from early age and from age of 21 to 69 tied to a chair facing death every day, had no chance to live a natural loving life... towards which he had been in the state of denial towards God existence for not having his pleadings answered...?

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...

Let's face it, the belief that an infitely old, all - knowing sky - god, powerful enough to create the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies, will cause people to survive their own phsical deaths and live happily ever after in heaven, if they follow some random laws laid down in Bronze Age Palestine = Judaism.

Hope amidst suffering, hope when men know only defeat and despair, hope when death seems to smother out the shoots of life springing from the hearts of men, hope for our society, our world, our city, our schools, courts, prisons, legislatures, hope for our children, for our elderly, hope for all the millions of men and women over the face of this globe who simply want to live out their lives as free human beings not trampled down and stepped on by the overlords of this world.

Some refugees believe they have a better chance at asylum if they become Christian; forcing them to return to places like Iran and Afghanistan — where converts can face the death penalty — would threaten their lives.

This knowledge will change forever how we live, how we face death and how we begin to see beyond the grave.

Such a Resurrection, moreover, would offer in itself no promise of risen life beyond death for those who have to face both death and corruption.

People today face complex problems, difficult decisions, and increasingly ambiguous choices about matters of life and death.

For Lutheran Christians, such despair in face of the universal and radical human predicament can only be overcome through the gospel, which announces forgiveness of sins and redemption of life under the conditions of an ambiguous world chained by sin and death.

No one has reached maturity until he has learned to face the fact of his own death and shape his life accordingly.

As he heard the speaker describe the anxiety and resistance of basically affluent people facing death after a comfortable life, he could think only of the many people he knew, like his parents and relatives, who suffer so much so unjustly.

His comprehensive pro-life perspective stirred every segment of the American Church, and the stark contrast he drew between the Culture of Life and a Culture of Death framed the great moral issues facing America in a way that still defines them today.

Religious faith at its best is an attempt to define the meaningfulness of life and give life ultimate nobility in facing death.

If refusal to face squarely the fact of death is found so widely in these days, so also is loss of belief in a continuation of human existence, beyond death, in what used to be called the «after - life» It is indeed true that among conventionally - minded church - people and many others there is a vague feeling that when the body dies the «soul» goes on.

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.

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.

Before the end of his life, however, Jesus, facing rejection and death himself, must have warned his followers of the violent opposition they would meet if they remained loyal to him.

Our lives become all jumbled, and we push consideration of death and immortality aside, as if by doing so we can avoid facing these negative feelings.

Rev Kuwa Shamal Abazmam Kurri who faced the death penalty or life imprisonment was acquitted of all charges in January, while Christian aid worker Jasek from the Czech Republic received a presidential pardon and left Sudan in February.

Their mature and down to earth faith came to recognise God's divine providence, to trust in his love and care in daily life and even when faced with suffering and death.

If that is the case, I suggest you allow SMHMore to instruct and guide you through life, and I suggest that you rely on SMHMore, as you face the inevitability of death and the grave.

In The Bible Tells Me So, Peter Enns attempts to present an approach to Scripture which allows for us to accept that it has historical and scientific errors and that it contradicts itself at various places, and yet still retain the Bible as an important witness to the theological and spiritual struggles which were faced by our forefathers in the faith, and more importantly, as a historical document about the life of Jesus and how the death and resurrection of Jesus resulted in the transformation of the first century mediterranean world.

They do indeed struggle with Satan, their accuser, but they conquer him «by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they did not cling to life even in the face of death» (12:11).

You used to run into people in the bake shop, the butchers, the candle - stick maker, the church narthex and the women's relief society... So there were plenty of opportunities to discuss all manner of things and to share life, seasons, festivals, deaths... Modern life, suburbia, commuting, everyone working at all hours... has killed much of this face to face life and contact in so many spheres, depending on where you live.

RD.. How path - et - ic to see your hate and fear driving you to death...!?! Man pull your self together and have the courage to face the returns of your deeds... Wars were always there in life whether were religious or not so stop doing it on your self... Beside learn to wish people well whether you agree or disagree with might you succeed in life rather than being a loser... by being a cowered... My posts were meant for the friendly people I had known for some time, whom I found they were full of compassion and not for black hearted one's like you who hate all God creations...

God who came to us as a baby, God whose glory we have glimpsed in the face of Jesus Christ, is the God who is with us and for us in our birth, our life, in death and eternity.

There is the last question of the Christian's relation to the things loved in this life, and the nature of his hope in the face of death.

The death of Jesus is portrayed in Christian faith and hope as an act of life, as an affirmation of life in the face of death, and the cross of Jesus are symbols not of death, but of an unquenchable and invincible life that this world can neither give nor take away from us.

Like any Christian individual faced with death, the church then realizes that the important question is not how to save its life but rather how to keep its soul, how to face loss, impoverishment, and even death without surrendering its self, its work, and its service.

That said I also believe that Jesus of Nazareth was the revelation of God, that God showed us His face through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus.

Especially the theme of God's word and promise, but also those of exodus, redemption, covenant, justice, wisdom, of the Logos made flesh, of the Spirit poured out on the face of creation, of the compassion, paternity and maternity of God, and especially the Trinitarian character of God — all of the indispensable elements in a Christian theology — communicate their depth only when they are united with the theme of divine self - abnegation which, at least to Christian faith, comes to its most explicit expression in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus?

His cartoon characters are mortal beings who need truth in the face of death and eternity, not just affirmation and self - actualization on their way to their «best life now.»

Because of what he witnessed after his sister's death, Dreher realized he had no roots where he lived» no one to care for him and his family should they ever face a similar crisis» and something his mother said, after Ruthie's diagnosis, kept resonating:

It is the free person, God's creature, facing the ultimate issues of life and death, but facing them in their final dimensions, and making decisions which arise from the creative courage of one who has faced and accepted the conditions of real life.

Yet, in the face of death - dealing stones he clings to Jesus, the Living Stone, who has already passed through death and has taught him the way.

Who lives and will not face death?

So in the Book of Daniel we find this conviction stated: «Many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt,» (Daniel 12:2) and in two late Isaian passages a similar expectation is expressed: «He hath swallowed up death for ever; and the Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the reproach of his people will he take away from off all the earth: for Yahweh hath spoken it»; (Isaiah 25:8) «Thy dead shall live; my dead bodies shall arise.

Satan attacks me in my thoughts day and night and he makesit so i can barely eat i pray to the lord and he consoles me god is REAL i used to e a drug dealer the most violent and disruptive of men and one night i came under attack from satan and felt like satan was makeing me into someone im not putting thoughts in my head of death suicide and sexual immorality then i read the wqordof god and everything felt better when i read the Book «The Advocate» spiritual warfare is real and god can save you from satans tourment do nt let Satan claim the rights to your soul i had trouble believing in god for years my mind worked in science and fact but the fact is that God is real and living and when you leave this earth you Will face Judgement

In short, grow up, stop cuddling your Bible and face the uncertainty of life and the certainty of death with a bit of intellectual and emotional courage.

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.»