Sentences with phrase «horror of»

Few, if any, thinkers have known the sheer horror of existence which Nietzsche unveiled.

It is precisely this conventional, conscience - oriented morality that man's innermost self struggles to fulfill, and that Luther, to the horror of all well - meaning, decent Christians, undermined.

Why should the contemporary Christian be innocent of the knowledge of Hell unless the Church has succeeded in establishing itself as a haven from the horror of the modern world?

While the religious or the ecclesiastical Christian has increasingly become incapable of speaking about damnation, the radical Christian, who has been willing to confront the totally alien form of God which has been manifest in our time, has known the horror of Satan and Hell, and can all too readily speak the language of guilt and damnation.

But the horror of it, the death in it, and the «solitude» known there, are all summed up in those words «in constant iteration: I, I, I».

He did kind of stink, and I'd noticed he was scratching a little, and I do have a horror of fleas in the house, but all that isn't really sufficient to explain why I find myself suddenly wet to the knees and keeping company with two thoroughly soaked short people, not to mention a wet dog who now smells like Pine - Sol — the flea shampoo was marked «Mountain Fresh,» or something like that.

Earnest and proper liberals throughout America often express a horror of any limits on Internet access at public libraries.

In reality, then, the real horror of waterboarding is almost entirely psychological.

When parents have sought to bar homosexual teachers from the classroom lest their children (horror of horrors) become homosexual, essentialist theories have provided a seemingly authoritative basis for denying the possibility.

But Justice O'Connor's prior abortion opinions did not prevent her from adhering in Stenberg to all that she had previously criticized, and now in a context far more explicit as to the underlying horror of late «term abortion.

They don't shrink from the horror of his crimes or the pain felt by his victims, but they don't want us to think he was insane or simply evil.

An 11 year old girl being actually raped cries out for god to save her from the horror of what is presently happening to her.

The pointless horror of the Tsunami finally did it for me.

«But though by the end of the battle the men felt all the horror of their actions,» he writes, «though they would have been glad to stop, some incomprehensible, mysterious power still went on governing them, and the artillery men, covered with powder and blood, reduced to one in three, though stumbling and gasping from fatigue, kept bringing charges, loaded, aimed, applied the slow match; and the cannonballs, with the same speed and cruelty, flew from both sides and crushed human bodies flat, and the terrible thing continued to be accomplished, which was accomplished not by the will of men, but by the will of Him who governs people and worlds.»

The horror of the Holocaust has surely opened the eyes of many Christians to the reality of the Jewish people.

The quality is pretty bad, but you don't really need the images to get the... horror of it... Not the horror of hell, but the horror that Christians would use such tactics to try to scare people into heaven.

The more he stresses his autonomy, the more he lives the horror of the death of God — a life of total alienation.

The Diocese of Leicester said: «The Remembrance parade and service... will be a time to honour the fallen and remember the horror of war.

Please don't be blinded by the horror of an extreme view.

The horror of it should wash over you within 3 seconds of reading this post.

I have a lively horror of being a here - today - gone - tomorrow poverty tourist with our friends in developing nations.

Mary would have seen the horror of sin.In her immaculate state, she would have experienced the trials of this world every bit as forcefully as her Son.

The lower - case term got him into trouble because a pathological horror of chaos caused him to lead his followers into maintaining order at the expense of peasants and reformers, as they have done ever since.

At the same time, the horror of hell, as real deprivation on the part of those who were loveless, because they could not love nor accept love, finds its parallel in the state of lovelessness and hence of utter despair, concerning which this psychology has so much to say.

Freelance reporter Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra spoke with both women about their memoir, Captive in Iran: A Remarkable True Story of Hope and Triumph Amid the Horror of Tehran's Brutal Evin Prison (Tyndale Momentum).

Ann Widdecombe briefly acknowledged the pain and horror of recent scandals, conceded historic failures and then pointed out that the Church is so much more than its sexual teaching.

I can not even begin to describe the horror of it all... They flew the al - Shabaab flag and lined up dead bodies in the streets and kept shouting «Allahu Akubar» [«Allah is greater»].»

However, the horror of atheist regimes in the 20th century made this claim incredible (in the original sense).

Contemplating the humanity of Christ brings the horror of the Way of the Cross home to us.

Man falls into unlove, and experiences the boredom and horror of life without meaning.

Captive in Iran: A Remarkable True Story of Hope and Triumph Amid the Horror of Tehran's Brutal Evin Prison

Then in got in their lungs and they fought to spit it out and desperately gasped for air, fighting the horror of the death they knew was coming.

Whoever has not grasped the horror of death can not join Paul in the hymn of victory: «Death is swallowed up — in victory!

This fact helps us understand the horror of quite moderate African Christians when Euro - American churches dismiss biblical strictures against homosexuality as rooted in the Old Testament, and therefore outmoded.

Only he who apprehends with the first Christians the horror of death, who takes death seriously as death, can comprehend the Easter exultation of the primitive Christian community and understand that the whole thinking of the New Testament is governed by belief in the Resurrection.

But with their love of family, they must have opposed the horror of the international slave trade... NO?

According to police reports, when told by the guard to dismount and go through a different exit, he began to shout obscenities at the police and even insulted the officers by calling them» horror of horrors» plebs.

Islamic countries seem to all demand their countries be run under some form of Sharia; just look at the photo of the girl in Time on August 9, 2010 and the horror of such law becomes evident.

Soft just war theory is characterized by seven key components: a strongly articulated horror of war; a strong presumption against war; a skepticism about government claims; the use of just war theory as a tool for citizen discernment and prophetic critique; a pattern of trusting the efficacy of international treaties, multilateral strategies and the perspectives of global peace and human rights groups and the international press; a quite stringent application of just war criteria; and a claim of common ground with Christian pacifists.

Hence admiration and wonder at the inexhaustible life forces of nature is as wholly lacking as the typically modern horror of blind nature against which spiritual, personal life rebels in vain.

He suggests that the horrible nature of such military tactics may be more than counterbalanced by the horror of other means of warfare or of being an enslaved people.

The Potter's House pastor and writer T.D. Jakes has created a powerful new video that he's posted on Instagram showcasing the unimaginable horror of the modern - day slave trade.

We are sustained in the evangelistic task not only by the horror of a world without Christ, or by gratitude, but above all by the all - powerful intercession of him who prays, «That all may be one that the world may believe».

He passed in some superhuman manner through our human horror of pessimism.

Later, much to the horror of his wife, who enjoys the prestige of her husband's profession, he confesses to his church session that he is no longer able to preach and must leave his assignment «at the corner of Straight Street and Broadway» (just one of many references to the conflict between God and Mammon).

«The Challenge of Peace,» for example, presented a stark condemnation of the savagery and horror of war, especially modern warfare and an envisioned nuclear war.

I wonder if it is not the horror of this sight that makes it impossible for me not to look at the Christ hands in our altar painting.

By reading Joseph Conrad, a particular favorite of mine, I have learned something of the horror of estrangement, alienation and the life - destroying energies of loneliness.

Horror of horrors — Even if we killed ourselves he would probably be chasing us around in the afterlife like those characters in the former television show «Sleepy Hollow».

The horror of the Tribulation will not touch them because it pits only evil people against evil people.