Sentences with phrase «inflicted upon those of»

Come to the meeting Brian has organized, if for no other reason than to help coagulate the flowing blood, from the wounds Ms.. A has inflicted upon those of us whose only intent is to earn a decent living and try as hard as we might to do things the right way, not just for the public, but for ourselves.

Not exact matches

In another, a scruffy bearded man peers through a set of blinds, his sinister eyes burning in anticipation of the evil deeds he will inflict upon the home's occupants — a home he found through a real estate brokerage's website, presumably.

Tell me, if the school charged the actual market value for the use of this space and the use of equipment, etc. and if that market value actually reflected the cost to the public, then the issue might become clearer to you because these religious people would scream at having to pay full price and the cost of any damages they may inflict upon the public property they are using illegally.

Maybe it is splitting hairs, but for me, the concept of punishment seems to imply the inflicting of pain upon someone else for something bad they did to you.

Even more important, we must never allow our appreciation for the goodness of all life to dull our awareness of the injustices inflicted upon others.

In this kind of theodicy Gethesemane, the cross, and the resurrection are important foci for understanding the depths of God's love, who, in creating an unimaginatively complex matrix of matter eventuating finally in persons able to choose to go against God's intentions, nonetheless grieves for and suffers with this beloved creation, both in the pain its natural course brings all its creatures and in the evil that its human creatures inflict upon it.

If god were merciful, she would not have inflicted the likes of you upon those of us who actually think.

This cruelty is compounded in light of the responsible deity having infinite alternatives which would not have involved inflicting severe terror, suffering and pain upon children and infants.

Third, no pattern of sexual behavior that is counter to natural biological forces will ever succeed, except by inflicting vast distortions upon the personhood of the one who is a victim of such a repressive moralism.

It would be a mistake to shut out all refugees who have been victims of the same sort of terror inflicted last week upon Paris and Beirut based on these concerns,» he continued.

By unnecessarily and cruelly inflicting suffering and death upon children / infants as the collateral damage of god's decision to exterminate their parents when these children / infants were incapable of a free will choice to engage evil or reject god.

... a broken marriage is a broken marriage; something that stands out as an unnatural smashing of what was built to last, a blasphemy against the unity of Christ and his church, an amputation inflicted upon a living body....

When abuse of animals is widespread, when the bellowing of thirsty animals in cattle cars is heard and ignored, when cruelty still prevails in many slaughterhouses, when animals are clumsily and painfully butchered in our kitchens, when brutish people inflict unimaginable torments upon animals and when some animals are exposed to the cruel games of children, all of us share in the guilt.7

Because animals can suffer, we have ethical obligations not to inflict upon them more pain, relative to their capacities for sentience, than we would inflict on creatures of our own kind, relative to our capacities.

Within weeks of ISIS» lightning - fast advance in Iraq and Syria last summer, the world's top Islamic scholars issued an open letter to al - Baghdadi, taking him to task on the poor Islamic theology that was dictating the horror he was inflicting upon the world.

Although racism at Garrett and in Evanston was not as obvious as in Arkansas, I believe that it was much more vicious, especially in terms of the structural brutality inflicted upon black dignity and self - confidence.

The fact that humans inflict harm upon themselves and others is in no means a reflection of the essence of the religion they follow especially if they are not PRACTICING!

That order is made up of priests who have left the Catholic Church behind and now live ordinary lives just ministering to the people without judgment and without inflicting fear upon them.

History clearly shows how the pilgrims couldn't paddle across the Atlantic fast enough to inflict their pain and misery to all those who disputed their righteous ways and once stepping foot upon the north continent, the sword of Christianity was sharp and swift.

You only need to read the story of Job to see that Satan ASKS God permission to inflict woe upon him.

And this is why they are still living in the past and still inflicting their own hatred and bigotry upon the rest of the world.

Sometimes the picture of hell has been painted in lurid fashion, with ghastly punishment inflicted upon «lost» persons; more frequently, at least in recent theological writing, this aspect has been muted or denied, and stress has been put on such ideas as persistence after death apart from God's presence — or even in that presence, which for the utterly unworthy man or woman would be horrifying, as when an evil person is compelled to be with someone whom he or she deeply hates.

God took upon himself what he inflicted on Ahab, just as he took upon himself and suffered the massacre of Ahab's house according to his own judgment.

It was written more than a decade ago, when theologians in different parts of the world were first realizing the depths of the crisis inflicted upon earth by...

Freud came upon the «death instinct,» which helped to explain the attraction of danger, as well as some of the internal dynamics of repression and self - inflicted pain.

Oh what a special mixture, bitter and sweet, of generous pride (if I may so speak), but of piercing, overwhelming anguish, did the thought of the race of Israel inflict upon him!»

Doctrine and Covenants 134:10 10 We believe that all religious societies have a right to deal with their members for disorderly conduct, according to the rules and regulations of such societies; provided that such dealings be for fellowship and good standing; but we do not believe that any religious society has authority to try men on the right of property or life, to take from them this world's goods, or to put them in jeopardy of either life or limb, or to inflict any physical punishment upon them.

It sounds good in communication courses but I wonder if it's an approach that really stands up in the face of an enemy who inflicts serious violence upon us.

Debtor nations are fearful of repudiating debts because of the consequences that the masters of the global economy could inflict upon them.

Catholics are in a good position to identify with this sort of pain inflicted upon Muslims.

Letting the Atheists revel in their own self - righteous delusions would be easy were it not for the tremendous amount of harm their inflict upon so many.

'' Letting the Atheists revel in their own self - righteous delusions would be easy were it not for the tremendous amount of harm their (sic) inflict upon so many.»

As a Jew, he has dared to take on the sacred cow of militaristic Zionism, and has even forcefully criticized such a revered figure as Auschwitz survivor and Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel, charging that Wiesel turns a blind eye to the suffering that Israel, «the homeland for persecuted European Jews and Holocaust survivors,» has inflicted upon the Palestinians.

It might just be barely possible to insist upon this precept that each should suffer for the evil he inflicts, if the self endured to experience the result of its own actions and decisions.

For lust, arrogance, covetousness, adultery, calculated competence iii compounding wrong, for deliberate murder, and for highhanded indifference to this wholesale shattering of covenant commandment — for all this, you shall know now the kind of violence you have perpetrated on Uriah, and the same loss of sexual prerogatives which you inflicted upon him.

It was only because they wanted to be indemnified for the loss of their houses and worldly goods, which had been left behind in the hands of their enemies in Mecca, and because they wanted to put an end to the persecution and violence which the enemies were inflicting upon their brethren in Mecca that the Muslims tried several times, unsuccessfully, to intercept enemy caravans passing near Medina.

After listening to a denial that God inflicts tragedies randomly, the journalist intervened with: «I don't understand what you are trying to say... What you seem to be arguing for is a slot machine God... the suffering that has been imposed upon the people of Haiti, many of them clearly innocent, is random.»

In his First Letter to the Thessalonians he speaks of the coming divine judgment, in which Jesus will inflict vengeance «upon those who do not know God and upon those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

It is one basic principle of Islam that you shall not inflict harm upon yourself so if your physical or mental condition does not allow to fast you will not fast and no one can force you to do that.

Here we can best understand Whitehead's point by analogy with works of the imagination, since this fourth way calls upon the resources of conceptual possibility to heal the wounds inflicted by actuality.

you must be so very proud of the damage felt today from the crusades your church inflicted upon the world back then

In that there is implied an indignity which can only be inflicted upon one by a higher power, for by oneself one can never become an object of pity.

Certainly the unhesitating and unreasoning way in which we feel that we must inflict our civilization upon «lower» races, by means of Hotchkiss guns, etc., reminds one of nothing so much as of the early spirit of Islam spreading its religion by the sword.

I've experienced powerful moments of true community within the church only to have them eventually wrecked and ruined by well - intentioned people trying to turn it into something greater, or packaging it and marketing it for church growth purposes, or inflicting it with pressure to subscribe to a homogenous ideology and lifestyle, or imposing a vision upon it that turns it into an end rather than a thing of beauty in and of itself.

Such psychological self - fulfillment seems to eclipse and even to justify the emotional carnage inflicted upon the once - loved ones who in retrospect now appear as agents or instruments of psychological oppression.

Individuals should be aware of the injury they inflict upon others and be willing to bear the consequences.

But they don't have a history of being good at math, as opposed to their history of relying on «Because I said so» is a sobering review of man inflicting horror upon man.

And whereas, it is the duty of nations as as well as of men, to owe their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord: And, in so much as we know that, by His divine law, nations, like individuals, are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world, may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole People?

In the end of the matter, it is not about the injustice that was and are inflicted upon the Indians, Chineses, Irish, Blacks, Polish, or Jew.

However demonic the Nazi terror that was inflicted upon millions of Jews» and members of other groups (including many Christians) judged unfit to live in the Aryan paradise» can the Holocaust really bear this theological weight within the scope of historic Christian faith?