Sentences with phrase «fear of terror»

Interestingly, a fear of terror, war and occupation or a loss of economic and physical well - being made little difference.

Titled «The Basic Viewpoint and Policy on the Religious Question During Our Country's Socialist Period,» it reasserts the standard Marxist view of religion as a response to the human fear of the terrors of nature — a response manipulated by class societies to rationalize the power of the upper classes and justify the plight of workers and the poor.

Their removal - after which they were cleared by security staff and allowed to board a later flight - came as all UK airports were on a high state of alert following fears of a terror plot to blow up several transatlantic flights.

We also hear throughout all the voice overs of citizens interjecting their fears of terror and chaos.

Not exact matches

In 2018, there are reasons to surrender to hopelessness: mass murder in schools, domestic terror paralyzing communities, and a climate of fear that tears families apart.

There is also a growing mistrust of political correctness, a terror of even of speaking your mind for fear of the liberal backlash it might cause.

Our first two categories enjoy maximum popularity at peaks of fear: Terror over economic collapse drives individuals to currency - based assets, most particularly U.S. obligations, and fear of currency collapse fosters movement to sterile assets such as gold.

Today we better understand the exaggerated fears that sparked the paroxysm of state violence that was the Great Terror.

The party's anti-immigration and anti-European Union stance is resonating with voters amid a climate of fear of terrorism and social instability, especially after last month's attacks, for which the Islamic State terror group claimed responsibility.

9:10)-- where of course «fear» does not mean blind terror but the reverence and worship, honor and obedience that are due a great king, who rules with both power and wisdom.

In moments of fear and terror a bonding of the deepest sort occurred between blacks and whites — a fact that made a deep impression.

Thus Jesus responds to Albion's terror of his own selfhood with these words: «Fear not Albion: unless I die thou canst not live; / But if I die I shall arise again & thou with me...»

Even though Christians and atheists also perpetrate acts of terror and violence (in places like movie theatres, elementary schools, and shopping malls), many of our neighbors react with particular fear and judgment when the perpetrator is identified with Islam.

Some people seem to want to do very little, for fear of antagonising Muslim extremists, while others talk of a «war on terror» as a way of eliminating these same extremists.

This, said one person, is the source of fear: «At the time my dad was ready to die, he was almost totally paralyzed, but he had this terror - stricken expression.

What of healing, God's healing — the healing of hate, bitterness, animosity, alienation, hostility, fear, terror, anguish?

Whereas the genius of the Greeks — so his story goes — was to gaze without illusion into the chaos and terror of the world, and respond not with fear or resignation but with affirmation and supreme artistry, they were able to do this only on account of their nobility, which means their ruthless willingness to discriminate between the «good» — that is, the strength, exuberance, bravery, generosity, and harshness of the aristocratic spirit — and the «bad» — the weakness, debility, timorousness, and vindictive resentfulness of the slavish mind.

Repudiating the fear and dread inspired in men by Satan and his churches — an Angst deriving from an abject and selfish terror of death (38:38)-- Milton's purpose is to teach men to despise death and to move forward:

Generalized terror against civilians in Nicaragua, as in El Salvador, was part of a campaign to create a climate of fear and terror.

U.S. low - intensity - conflict strategy in El Salvador utilized generalized terror against civilians in order to sow fear and shape the collective memory of the people.

I too, have dealt with blasphemous thoughts against the Holy Spirit, so much, in fact, that I actually began to resent the Holy Spirit for even existing, because the very mention of him in the Bible would fill my mind with terror over blaspheming Him and thereby fearing unforgiveness and eternal punishment in hell.

Feelings of astonishment and fear, or of terror and disorientation, can signal the intimate presence of the divine.

I have NO such fears and have challenged your god many times to come and face me man to god however your god cowers in abject terror at the prospect of facing me he is a craven coward.

In April, I was fired from my job of 15 years because the nights of terror and fear lead to no sleep and I could not function.

When I first got saved, I.like many others, ended up on a vicious cycle of terror fearing I had committed this sin.

Proverbs 1:25 But you have ignored all my counsel, and would have none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear comes; When your terror comes as desolation, and your destruction comes as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish comes upon you.

Enough has already been written about the fear, violence and shear terror that is resulting from the actions of True Believers today among most of the world's major religions — primarily Hindu, Muslim, Jewish and Christian.

One missionary observed that Christianity offered Pulayas «deliverance from the fear of the devil, whom they stand in the greatest terror.»

Many today fear profound religious commitment as loss of autonomy, and others fear that it breeds terror.

And next, the matter of terror: «The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth... into your hand they are delivered» (Gen. 9:2).

They may perhaps be submerged again for the time being by a contrary wave of caution, fear of one's own courage, terror of false conclusions which people may like to draw.

5 You will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day, 6 nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at midday.

So we leave the story of Joseph's brothers, whose jealous fear of their brother led them to ditch him in the wilderness, and turn to the disciples, whose fears of the storm pale before their terror of the One who shows up to save them.

Terrorism / gay agenda is defined as political violence in an asymmetrical conflict that is designed to induce terror and psychic fear (sometimes indiscriminate) through the violent victimization and destruction of noncombatant targets (sometimes iconic symbols).

They can never bear to be alone, fearing the terror of the night around them or the demons within.

That there may be some who need compulsion, some who, if they were free - footed, would riot in selfish pleasures like unruly beasts, is doubtless true; but a man must prove precisely that he is not of this number by the fact that he knows how to speak with dread and trembling; and out of reverence for the great one is bound to speak, lest it be forgotten for fear of the ill effect, which surely will fail to eventuate when a man talks in such a way that one knows it for the great, knows its terror — and apart from the terror one does not know the great at all.

Whereas in the earlier Luther the fear of death was the ultimate form of unbelief, the Luther who discovered justification by faith understood that no matter how great our faith, it can not be strong enough to stave off terror before death.

In Gen 15, 7 - 21, God makes a covenant with Abram, showing himself in the «smoking furnace and a firebrand» (Gen 15, 17), whilst for Abram the whole experience is one of fear and dread: «Now as the sun was setting Abram fell into a deep sleep, and terror seized him» (Gen 15, 12).

Terror is different from fear, for in the grip of terror no one knows what to fear, what to avoid, what constitutes a crime or even a miTerror is different from fear, for in the grip of terror no one knows what to fear, what to avoid, what constitutes a crime or even a miterror no one knows what to fear, what to avoid, what constitutes a crime or even a mistake.

i was now more confused and terrified because why would i feel the holy spirit convict me of sin and lead me to repent and also to be healed the way i was if i was unforgiven, yet the fears and terror of this have haunted me to this day... try as i might and i have my husband and some friends who are saved tell me i did not commit the sin i thought i had and that because i had repented and had been so seeking after him, that i am allowing the enemy to accuse me....

It isn't that we never experience religious fear, but isn't our dread characteristically a dread born of unbelief, the secret terror that the analogical and symbolic character of our religious speech is but a cover - up of our embarrassment over the fact that we have only symbols and no proofs?

We feared that if we let down our guard we would be inviting the extension of Stalinist terror from country to country.

Hell is the difficult aspect of the scheme, for all too often it succeeded in introducing the element of terror or fear into human existence.

While I can never recall another instance when Egyptian Christians were so full of rage that they became so bold as to shed decades of fear taught to us by the various and numerous terrors inflicted upon us by members of the Muslim community, I can recall dozens of dozens of instances of Christians being killed by this same community over the past three or four decades.

I don't see there being any less terror for the migrants leaving war torn areas as there is for the fear of terrorist acts.

A few of the obvious drives that pack us off, daily or weekly or episodically or, for some, in hope, permanently, are fear or even terror in the particular given set of circumstances; the sheer discouragement and exhaustion of facing questions without answer; profound disillusionment — it takes many forms — with the pertinent, prevailing system or systems; deep and bitter contempt for one's own society, bred of the abysmal failure to attain in consistent practice even a semblance of the justice professed and acclaimed; despair — so it was with the college generation of the late sixties — over the formidable obduracy of a political establishment in going its merciless way quite apparently deaf to the cries of anguish of its empathetic and real victims, victims by the tens of millions here and around the world.

However, in the modern world we find the strange phenomenon of the Christian who is liberated from the fear of damnation, a Christian who apparently is incapable of experiencing terror.

Are not the fears and terrors we feel in the face of danger the crucial obstacles courage must overcome in order to be courage?

There's plenty to fear in 21st - century America, from terror strikes to the abductions and murders of children, especially if we have no sense that God cares or will do anything when we are imperiled.

The fear of being crushed by a trawler, however, can't be compared with the terror of having your Walkman die just days after putting to sea.