Sentences with phrase «for wretchedness»

«Hostiles» continues the recent resurgence of the Western genre, an unsettling portrait of all the capacities America holds, both for greatness and for wretchedness.

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Yet that experience of putrid beauty in art offers a glimpse of the libertine's mingled pleasure and wretchedness, and is arguably more powerful for it.

And when I look on my people I see them work and work and toil and labor, and at the end of the week they have only for their wages wretchedness and misery.

In the face of abysmal wretchedness she asserted the sole sovereignty and the unfailing justice of her God, and interpreted her calamities as his appointment in punishment for her sins.

So also in the Christian terminology death is the expression for the greatest spiritual wretchedness, and yet the cure is simply to die, to «die from.»

Yes, when late autumn comes, even the flower can speak the wisdom of the years and say with truthfulness, «All has its time, there is «a time to be born and a time to die»; there is a time to jest lightheartedly in the spring breeze, and a time to break under the autumn storm; there is a time to burst forth into blossom, beside the running water, beloved by the stream, and a time to wither and be forgotten; a time to be sought out for one's beauty, and a time to be unnoticed in one's wretchedness; there is a time to be nursed with care, and a time to be cast out with contempt; there is a time to delight in the warmth of the morning sun and a time to perish in the night's cold.

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».

The collect for ash weds is helpful here — ... create in us new and contrite hearts, that, lamenting our sin and acknowledging our wretchedness (= helpless to do it ourselves), we may receive from you, the God of all mercy, perfect forgiveness and peace, through our Lord Jesus Christ.

I want to be and remain in the church and little flock of the fainthearted, the feeble and the ailing, who feel and recognize the wretchedness of their sins, who sigh and cry to God incessantly for comfort and help, who believe in the forgiveness of sins.»

But as this unmaking of religion reveals that religion is «true», in the sense that it is an invention of human beings to compensate for and to sublimate their real wretchedness, a second kind of criticism has to follow: religion has to be made false, i.e., the secular world has to be changed.

[6] We grow a hard shell which we use to protect ourselves from admitting our own wretchedness and our need for God's mercy.

They come to the belief blog because they are absolutely convinced that spiritual people are responsible for their chronic wretchedness.

He really goes further, and reaches faith; for all these caricatures of faith, the miserable lukewarm indolence which thinks, «There surely is no instant need, it is not worth while sorrowing before the time,» the pitiful hope which says, «One can not know what is going to happen... it might possibly be after all» — these caricatures of faith are part and parcel of life's wretchedness, and the infinite resignation has already consigned them to infinite contempt.

And by disbelief I do not mean some sort of brave rejection of the doctrine, some defiant demand flung at heaven for possession of one's own soul; I mean merely the impotence of an imagination that finds the very notion of sin incomprehensible, the conscience of a man who is sure that, whatever sin might be, it surely lies lightly upon a soul as decent as his own, and can be brushed off with a single casual stroke of a primly gloved hand; I mean an habitual insensibility to the illuminations and chastisements of beauty, a condition of being wholly at home in a world from which mystery and sin and glory have all been banished, and in which spiritual wretchedness has become material contentment.

All evil, all wretchedness, is for him something dreadful; it is of the great kingdom of Satan; but he feels the power of the Saviour within him.

As in his earlier movies Kick - Ass and Nowhere Boy, he is an attractive, open presence, but he is out of his depth here, especially when he has to suggest Vronsky's later agony and wretchedness, and the fact that he, as well as Anna, has made sacrifices for their affair.

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