Sentences with phrase «for fear of death»

I never even made it to actually playing a game, for fear of death by hopeless boredom while waiting for the game to launch.

I never even made it to actually playing a game, for fear of death by hopeless boredom while waiting for the game to launch.

The Deputy Governor told the people that there was no need for fear of death now since death is what no mortal can avoid.

It's not exactly a nuanced point (hopefully Gervais will eventually learn to direct without a 2x4), but it struck a chord because I often wonder if I would still be a Christian were it not for my fear of death.

Not exact matches

They're the ones who drove Robin Williams» grief - stricken daughter off of Twitter, who caused one female journalist to call the police in the middle of the night for fear that death threats might be carried out, and who turned Pepe the frog into an official hate symbol, over the objections of the cartoonist who created him.

Realizing that Jews have been the scapegoats of all Western history, that they have been made to bear responsibility for everything from the Black Death to the economic ills of the Germans, these observers fear that the enormous increase in Jewish numbers in America will lead to charges that the Jews have monopolized the opportunities for economic advance and that these charges will pave the way for Fascism here as they paved the way for Hitler in Germany.

The 2009 best of the Hot List features articles about ahy being bullish after the financial crisis was an easy call to make for long - term investors, despite the fear in the market, the importance of the philosophy - «don't fight the Fed», and why investors should ignore those who predict the death of equities.

In January, the European Parliament's ad hoc Rule of Law committee in a scathing report cited a deepening «perception of impunity for criminals» in Malta in the aftermath of the Panama Papers revelations two years ago, and a culture of fear after Caruana Galizia's death.

For example, parents may want to gift to a child via a large life insurance policy, but they hold back out of fear that the death benefit might reduce the child's motivation to pursue a degree or build a career.

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.

Unfortunately, fear of death, no matter how effective as a tool for social engineering, is not the proper moral grounds for virtue...

Leave it to religion to dictate how you should think and act, down to your last moments of life, for fear of experiencing even greater pain after death... and why shouldn't they know?

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

Ask a Jewish holocaust survivor, a Christian who lives in a predominantly fundamentalist Muslim country and lives in fear of death for havin a bible in the house, or a Muslim who isn't quite the right «flavor» of Musilim for their community, etc..

Most importantly, note this: I am a Christian, I'm gay, I'm a recovering alcoholic, I believe in Evolution, I believe the universe is 13 billion years old and that the Earth is 4.5 or so billion years old, I believe man evolved from lower primates and that Adam was the first man who God gave a soul and sentience, I do not believe in hell but I do believe in Satan, I do not believe the Bible is a book of rules meant to imprison man or condemn him but that it is rather a «Human Existence for Dummies» guide, I believe Christ was the son of God but I do not believe Christianity is the only «valid» religion, I do not believe atheists will go to hell, while the English Bible says God should be feared, the Hebrew word used for fear, «yara», such as that used in the Book of Job, actually means respect / reverence, not fear as one would fear death or a spider.

For the fearful it seems to be a tool to quell the natural, innate fear of death.

I think they have not for so long because of fear from powerful religions that could hurt them in business or just being stoned to death.

He loved men so much that, even knowing many would reject his offer, he freely provided the costly atonement for all sin, so that no man need fear punishment and death, but could repent of their wickedness and be restored to loving relationship with God.

Hence his death was seen as the realization of his eschatological selfhood: free from the demonic power of the fear of death, he was free to give his life for his neighbour.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me...

We might invent other new religions out of fear of death and fear of our own insignifigance, but Jesus (apart from being a real guy who got killed 2000 years ago for saying we should be nice to each other) exists only in our minds.

* worship God, who has never been, at any time for any reason, a capricious God of death, war, murder, destruction, violence, abuse, vengeance, hate, fear, lies, slavery, systemic injustice, oppression, conditional acceptance, exclusion, segregation, discrimination, shunning, ostracism, eternal condemnation, eternal punishment, retribution, sacrifices, patriarchy, matriarchy, empire, nationalism, only one culture, only one race or portion of the population, parochialism, sectarianism, dogma, creeds, pledges, oaths or censorship — and who has never behaved as a Greco - Roman or narcissistic deity.

The only thing he can do is to admit that he is acting so out of his own fears and emotions (not to defend oneself in battle is difficult, more difficult than to accept a death sentence calmly); or else he can say that he is fighting for others, not to save his own life.

«For certain people we might tell the gospel as the message of deliverance from the fear of death, loss, and failure and all that that entails.

Recently, for example, planeloads of American fundamentalists have been travelling to Israel to view the site, Megiddo, where they believe the great clash among the nations will break out, and the battle of Armageddon will bring to an end the world as we know it.7 As this event is believed to herald the return of Jesus Christ, they have no fear for their own future, understanding from the words of Paul quoted above, that they will be «raptured» (lifted up into the sky and preserved from destruction) and that only non-believers will perish in the death of the old world.

Men's hearts will fail them for the fear of things coming upon the earth, people who have been provoking on the day of the Lord, will seek to die, and death will flee from them in that day.

For someone so anxious I have no fear of death, but I am incredibly afraid of pain — physical and emotional.

It is love to obey God, and by having a swift death penalty we love the people in our society [many of whom are our enemies also] and offer them the best chance for a life free from fear and crime.

That is not what you said... you said that theists are theists because they fear death... by default those who do not «fall for the story of heaven» don't fear death.

Since no evidence exists for any gods all belief in them is unfounded and speaks more to the fear of death which is as alive today as it was at the founding of the belief!

This is the need for peace of soul, for conquest of fear, for strength in weakness, for the ability to «be of good cheer» even in the face of deepest trouble, and to be «faithful unto death» where death is real and terrible and not to be evaded.

Ya, though we walk through the valley of the shadow of death we must fear no evil for God is with us.

But, knowing our natural fear of death, those who invented and developed the religions added this in as a powerful incentive for belief.

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.»

Christians regard themselves as a Chosen People in the sense that to them has been entrusted the message of God's grace to sinful (selfish) man in Jesus, who was shown to be the Christ by his coming alive in the Christian community where, because the fear of death is gone, the rule of love replaces that grasping for security which is the cause of sin.

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.

There are those for whom the fear of death is the constant overtone of life.

He who is ready to surrender his hopes, ambitions, and life itself, for the love of God and his fellowmen, no longer fears death and the end of human existence, for that self - centered concern which wants to cling on to life beyond its appointed span, and seeks to bring it back again in some supernatural realm, has already died.

And he believed that if we seek one all - embracing term for the full range of religious emotions, we will find it only in the «feeling of dependence,» of which each religious response to nature is, so to say, a concrete individuation: fear of death, gloom when the weather is bad, joy when it is good and so on.

Familiarity with death meant that resurrection possessed a considerable poignancy for the women, bringing a hope that countered the ubiquitous fear of death.

The Christian is still keenly aware of the tragedy of human life, and the limitations in which his mortality involves him, but death no longer holds any fears for him.

The Buddhist desire for annihilation is taken to be proof of this, since with no conception of God, whose companionship could illuminate life beyond death and make it a joy to be desired, such a life would be a fate to be feared and avoided.

But to the extent that it ignores the finger Lincoln points at the Civil War — to the extent that it forgets the decimation of a generation of young Americans at the beginnings of manhood; to the extent that it forgets the windrows of corpses at Shiloh, the odor of death in the Wilderness, the walking skeletons of Andersonville, 623,000 dead all told, not to mention the interminable list of those crippled, orphaned, and widowed whose pensions became the single largest bill paid by the federal government for the following half - century; to the extent that it ignores how the war cost the United States $ 6.6 billion, rocketed the national debt from $ 65 million to $ 2.7 billion, retarded commodity growth for the next thirty years, and devalued its currency — then the call for reparations opens itself up to a charge of willful forgetfulness so massive that resentment, anger, and bitterness, rather than justice, will (I fear) be its real legacy.

In fear, fear of death, of pain, of despair, of fear itself, I have prayed for strength, for hope, for courage, but perhaps like you I have always felt it foolish to pray that the pain itself would go away, although I have been driven to my knees by the immense force of several terrible events.

To his criterion for discerning satanic «Christianity» we might add these: hostility toward those who are different; projecting evil on other who are then demonized; claiming doctrinal certitude; breeding psychic dependency, unconsciousness, stagnation, fear, guilt, or hatred; depicting God as a monster (as in ascribing the death of loved ones to God).

Against this morality, Socrates, in Plato's Phaedo, insists that warriors who die for the city out of fear for their own death or the death of others in the city, or fear of loss of honor, are sacrificially trading a lesser fear of dying in battle for a greater fear of shame, loss of nobility, and the loss of the city itself.

It can be construed most narrowly as a fear of death, but more richly as a longing for a different vision of life's possibilities — a life that does not end, that remains engaging and fulfilling, and that unites us once and forever with those we love, whether divine or human.

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...

The darkest fear of all, the fear that has the power not only to shape a life for death - dealing, but also to distort an entire community, is the fear that lurks beneath the pretense of power and privilege, the fear which crouches behind the doorways of prejudice and preys upon the least of those in the community.

The darkest fear of all, the fear that has the power not only to shape a life for death - dealing, but also to distort an entire community, is the fear that lurks beneath the pretense of power and privilege, the fear which crouches behind the doorways of prejudice and preys upon the least of these.