Sentences with phrase «from afflictions»

Particularly for low - income women, who suffer from these afflictions at disproportionate rates, access to mental health and substance abuse treatment is critical.

Last year, I wrote about how John Holdren of Harvard University came up with roughly similar losses in years of life from the afflictions attending affluence and poverty.

Go Wild Free Your Body and Mind from the Afflictions of Civilization John J. Ratey and Richard Manning Little, Brown (Hachette Book Group USA), New York, 2014 Hardback: 288 pp.

Faith for Buddhist, or this Buddhist anyway, is faith that a lifetime of sitting will free me from the afflictions of greed, hate and delusion.

Ben, celibate gay man who works with our GLBTQ youth ministry, said that it took him 9 years to come to his senses and he is so blessed to be healthy and free from the afflictions that have hobbled so many of those GLBTQ brothers and sisters who remain trapped in the twilight zone of fornication... separated from God and yet so close with the simple renunciation of sinful acts.

In each case, the speaker is on the point of dying: Job suffers from afflictions he can not understand, Paul is in prison for preaching the gospel, Jesus is in Jerusalem just before his passion.

Here, apparently, a man has come to an exorciser to be freed from his affliction.

Indeed, critics complain that the mayor's personal fortune is bank - rolling his re-election and silencing democracy, but it is that wealth that frees Bloomberg from the affliction of so many other popularity - craving, poll - watching politicians.

If you ever suffer from an affliction that stops you from eating solid food for a while, this diet offers a pretty good path back to solids without hurting yourself.

Prior to the boom in Pit Bull popularity, the Doberman Pinscher was rumored to suffer from an affliction of the brain in which the skull became too small to accommodate a dog's grey matter.

Once the public accepts these phrases, they have bought into the idea that they need to be relieved from the affliction of taxes and that they need to fix the tort system.

Not exact matches

Letter to Doctor Benjamin Rush from Thomas Jefferson Washington, April 21, 1803 Dear Sir, — In some of the delightful conversations with you, in the evenings of 1798 - 99, and which served as an anodyne to the afflictions of of the crisis through which our country was then laboring, the Crhistain religion was sometimes our topic; and I the promised you, that one day or other, I would give you my views of it.

«Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world» Religion is not the invention of man; if you are withuot Christ in your heart, you are fatherless and a widow.

In a sort of «trusting despair,» fiducial desperatio, the sinner afflicted by grace discerns in his afflictions the saving hand of God, whose redemptive love secures itself from abuse by hiding under its apparent opposite.

@ Chad — I have for James 1:27: Pure religion and undefiled before god and the father is this: To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

which goes on to say in verse 24: For He has not despised or abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, and he has not hidden his face from him, but has heard, when he cried to him.

Maybe Julie is suffering from the same affliction I was accused of.

A: «That in all affliction and persecution I may await with head held high the very Judge from heaven who has already submitted himself to the judgment of God for me and has removed all the curse from...

Her present affliction is youth, and she suffers from its innate inability to stand up bravely against the evils of conservatism.

It's about salvation — rescue from all the self - induced afflictions to which humanity is prone; forgiveness when those afflictions overcome us; ultimately, life within the embrace of the Thrice - Holy God.

Like Sam Keen, Jürgen Moltmann seeks the liberation of humankind from its modern afflictions, and so gives a functional cast to his theology; he too offers a diagnosis of the world's misery, a vision of the world's possibilities, and a prescription for liberation, i.e., salvation.

Such a sufferer is not seeking release from the suffering but only from a sympathy, in so far as this also can be an affliction.

There is no evidence the disciples profited from their evangelistic efforts and in fact Paul incurred many afflictions for the resurrected Christ.

«James 1:27: Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.»

A.P. Nirmal particularly depended on the Deuteronomic account of the affliction, toil and the oppression of the foreparents of the Israelites to expound the movement of Dalits from a «no people» to «God's people.»

To understand the nature of suffering from the ancient, medieval and Reformation perspectives may help us to stop fearing pain and affliction the way we do.

The double entendre continues in Jabez's prayer as an adult, «Oh that you would bless me and enlarge my border, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from hurt and harm» («b, «my affliction,» «my ouch,» that is, his obesity).

As his patients suffer from bizarre afflictions like Tourette Syndrome, anosmia (loss of the sense of smell), and deficient proprioception (the ability to sense one's own body), there is an unmistakable «freak show» appeal to the book.

It is one of my pet peeves because I think it is probably the worst affliction the church suffers from.

Matthew (4:23 - 25; cf. 9:35) elaborates Mark's statement, specifying the varieties of afflictions healed as well as the regions from which the people came, including not only Galilee, but Syria, the Decapolis, Transjordan, and Judea (cf. Mk 3:7 - 8; Lk 6:17).

In the fifth stage the self never complains about anything that happens to it, it is indifferent to everything except Allah and finds everything equal that comes from Him, whether good or bad, affliction or blessing.

A: «That in all affliction and persecution I may await with head held high the very Judge from heaven who has already submitted himself to the judgment of God for me and has removed all the curse from me....

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

«He is our repose as the one freeing the law from the contingent slavery in the flesh during the present life; our healing, as the one healing [us] of the affliction of death and destruction through his Resurrection; our grace, as the distributor of sonship in the Spirit by God the Father through faith, and of the grace of divinisation for each one according to worthiness.»

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world (James 1:27)

From being a hard hater, their God became, in their imagination and belief, a merciful lover of his people, the depth of whose sacrificial compassions it strained their language to fathom: «In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.»

«Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.»

In a world in which we inevitably suffer from illness and disease, in which many fear that they will also suffer from the technological expertise of their caregivers, and in which some therefore seek death on their own terms and at a time of their own choosing, it is good to be reminded that affliction by itself does not necessarily produce good character.

If not aloud, at least in his heart he said the rest: «For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard» (Psalm 22:24).

Like millions of other people who have been delivered from every kind of sin and affliction, I too took Jesus Christ up on His offer, and He supernaturally changed me forever.

If we believe our affliction comes from God and is like Christ, who are we to mess with it?

White does not simply present Malory's romance as an allegory for the ills of his age, though he recognizes its relevance, much less as a panacea for his own afflictions in any sense other than the humble one in which all polite literature is a welcome respite from terrestrial agonies.

In these we see the patterns of God's activity: liberation from bondage, comfort for the afflicted and affliction of the comfortable, life overcoming death.

Even novelists known for their religious beliefs have tended to depict the supernatural's immanence through its absence, preferring psychological pain to demonic affliction, and dark nights of the soul to the voice from the whirlwind.

Our boy Chambers suffers from this very same affliction.

Coincidentally, though they took different routes back from devastating physical afflictions (Weathers from hypothermic coma, Armstrong from cancer), they ended up in the same place, snug in the arms of their loved ones.

These hormones protect the mammalian mother from post partum afflictions and are actually referred to as the «love hormones» in the medical literature.

For years, Biden has suffered from a terrible affliction called Verpes (pronounced Vur - peez), the slang name for verbal herpes, from the Latin herpius verbulus.

They all suffer from the same or similar afflictions.

Affliction seems to be stalking the region and frankly this has been the case over the years and indeed from day one.