It was there because prayer doesn't work and god doesn't exist; but, he came up with some cheap rationalization that god
let him suffer for a good and ultimately positive reason.
I felt I had failed as a mother, that I had
let her suffer for ten weeks.
Firstly,
let yourself suffer for some time.
I assure you he'll still make it to the vet for the care he deserves and that like every other dog I've been chosen by, he's mine til the end no matter what — but I can't
let him suffer for the next 6 + weeks until I can afford a trip to the vet.
You may get a cheap flight but the airlines are going to
let you suffer for being cheap.
Not exact matches
If you restate his argument in an uncharitable way, he is saying that the solution
for the problem of excluding non-accredited investors in value appreciation is not to
let them participate in private markets, but instead to
suffer them to populate an earlier public market
for private investors seeking liquidity.
«I think that we've all
suffered enough, more than any kid should have to this year, and I think that having to study
for a test that either
lets you graduate high school or not is very unfair,» said Alexa Kitaygorodsky, a ninth grader who was in the freshman building when the shooting happened.
The usual roundaround answers from a pastor to human
suffering, i.e. god knows what he's doing, so keep quiet., or that god favors some
for reward and
let others die.
Let's thank our as - shole of a god
for these fine gifts and all the horrid
suffering that they cause.
Once you fully
let go of that delusion and see us
for what we are, just another specie vying
for survival and dominance based on instincts that evolved before we had the ability to inflict widespread death,
suffering, and destruction on other people, there is less cause
for cynicism.
Im not trying to convince you of anything but I will ask you this, If your son was being smashed in ready to be nailed to a cross and left in the sunshine to
suffer and die, and you had the power to stop it but instead turned away and
let it happen then tell me what was that
for?
I've always disagreed, and think that even if there is a heaven, I'll be there when I die, because any actual god worth having doesn't need or want your belief, and wouldn't keep a good person to their core out of heaven...
let alone burn and
suffer for eternity in hell.
and I praise god
for all the abuse and
suffering that I went through because that made my faith in him only stronger because in all my
suffering,
let see: loosing my mother when I was 2, sexual abuse from my father, beatings from my stepmother and father, homelessness, hunger, one bad marriage of 10 years with am alcoholic and abusive husband, cancer, removal of thyroid due to cancer, now I have auto ammume disease, financial loses.
Perhaps the torment
suffered by «minor» sinners is limited, but even a constant water drip is unendurable over a long period,
let alone
for eternity.
Let him say: «Yes, we exploit and oppress, we can not do otherwise, but we are condemned by God
for doing so, and we
suffer.»
This is the God, then, who
lets the
suffering of man go on, who is deaf to his cry, who does not prevent the persecution, who
for some time grants neither deliverance nor answer to prayer, so that one can understand the accusation of man against him, the accusation of the king: «This trouble is from the Lord!»
When Christians searched the Old Testament
for texts bearing on the Resurrection they would be struck by Psalm 16:10: «Thou wilt not abandon my soul to Hades, nor
let thy loyal servant
suffer corruption», This prophecy was a powerful weapon in the armory of Christian apologetic.
Now
let us once again speak of the wish, and hence of
sufferings,
for the duration of the
suffering makes it heavier and heavier.
Let us properly dwell upon it, being convinced that
for the deadly disease of «busyness» there is no medicine so specific as the pondering of the hard path of the true sufferer and as a fellow human being sharing with him in the common lot of
suffering.
Of course, but
let us understand one another; the journey of which we speak is not long, neither is the lot cast, unless you have already found the way out of your
suffering: it is only a single step, a decisive step, and you, too, have emigrated,
for the Eternal lies much nearer to you than any foreign country to the emigrant, and yet when you are there the change is infinitely greater.
Instead, He
lets them prosper while His true disciples are in the trenches, often living from paycheck to paycheck,
suffering for the Gospel.
Instead of
letting the guilt of our lack of
suffering leave us helpless, we give thanks
for being unscathed, and show that gratefulness by climbing down into the trenches with the bloodied and binding up the wounds of the broken.
How ironic that such a peaceful mantra would actually serve to cause even more grief and
suffering (
let me point at the middle east
for example, KKK, slavery in the U.S. (to some extent), Holocaust and other forms of religious persecution, and finally the manipulation of peasants to fill up the coffers of child molesting Popes... which makes modern politicians of this day look like a Saint).
For a God who
lets the innocent
suffer and who permits senseless death is not worthy to be called God at all....
Let us now say good - by
for a while to all this way of thinking, and turn towards those persons who can not so swiftly throw off the burden of the consciousness of evil, but are congenitally fated to
suffer from its presence.
As
for foreigners,
let them be returned to their own countries, there to
suffer restraint.»
Furthermore,
for this man's sake God came to the world,
let himself be born,
suffers and dies; and this
suffering God almost begs and entreats this man to accept the help which is offered him!
You first do not see the inherint evil in eternal
suffering for a minor transgression (namely disbelief), add on top of that your willing acceptance
for a life sentence in prison
for jaywalking (with the analogy given), well
lets just say I was blown away.
In the Book of Maccabees it is written: «At the time there were bad people in Israel who persuaded the people by saying, «
Let us make a covenant with the nations around,
for we have experienced much
suffering since we separated ourselves from the heathens.
moreover, my flesh shall dwell in hope,
for thou wilt not abandon my soul to death, nor
let thy loyal servant
suffer corruption.
I use the play to mess with people who haven't
let themselves come to grip with the human
suffering of Job, and have settled
for an easy answer.
I have a proposal:
Let's ask John Paul II
for a good miracle: The cure of 100,000 african children
suffering from AIDS, or any other significant contribution to mankind.
As to the divine consequence, it is the growing awareness of a cosmic Love, a cosmic Lover, that holds us tight, that never
lets us go, that stays with us in all our problems and troubles and
sufferings as well as in our joys and delights, that lives with us and
for us, and that in the end receives us into his own life — where we are forever loved in the Love that endures, beyond all «changes and chances,» in the everlastingness that is God himself.
The
suffering of Belgium, as a whole, may plausibly be interpreted as punishment
for national sin, but when individual personality is singled out and the character and fortunes of Cardinal Mercier,
let us say, are clearly visualized and deeply cared about, then the formula, «all
suffering is deserved punishment,» becomes precarious if not incredible.
So, since they are
let it be known that they will have to
suffer for us stupid americans who didn't do what they should have done a long t ime ago.
God was having to face a decision on whether He would
let mankind
suffer for our own sin, or if He would take all that sin and pour it out upon His one and only, perfectly righteous, everlasting Son.
It's common in my experience
for some folks to take the view that God does not exist or that if he does exist that he must be evil because of all the
suffering he
lets happen in the world.
Let him lie
for a while in solidarity with the dead, just as he
suffered in solidarity with the living.
This goes to the heart of purpose of human creation, Allah says that humans will be tested through losing their wealth and loved ones and personal
sufferings in the same way when they are tested by having wealth and children's so we can see who was the most patient and righteous at the end so
let's not blame God
for all evils a human being is able to commit.
A self face to face with Christ is a self potentiated by the prodigious concession of God, potentiated by the prodigious emphasis which falls upon it
for the fact that God also
for the sake of this self
let Himself to be born, became man,
suffered, died.
Lest this whole matter seem to be accompanied by funereal tones,
let me reemphasize that the central reason
for reappraising your lifestyle and values is not the fear of having a heart attack or
suffering some other disasters.
He had told his people, «
Let us rejoice that we have to
suffer for our faith, because in doing so, we are preparing
for martyrdom.»
Let's also leave the fragile treats such as lace cookies or fruit pie
for that time when we are going straight to our hosts and when the goodies will not
suffer in transit.
Let Liverpool
suffer with an unmotivated player who won't play at home games because of fan abuse anyway and buy two or three decent homegrown players
for the same amount of cash.
He said, «We will never play a defensive system — that would be a disaster, because to
let Arsenal have the ball in London would mean
suffering too many attacks in our area
for 90 minutes.
For one thing he
suffered more than once from not having a top top quality striker in front of him and teammates that
let's be frank are wasteful in front of goals (Walcott, Welbeck among others).
Let's just be real
for once.It is well known that we have an injury curse at Arsenal, I mean every season we
suffer so much coz of injuries.
We have been
suffering defeats like that
for over a decade now, As if Wenger is going to
let this one bother him.
Nevertheless, Conte makes a fair point as with his side competing
for three different targets this season still, he can't afford to
let a striker go and be short in that department, especially having not so long ago
suffered with a goal drought having scored one goal in four games in all competitions earlier in the month.
all i'm saying is that every time the team has a break our amazing passing
suffers for a few mnts,
lets play defensive
for a few mnts until we gel and by playing defensive it will draw out the other teem and allow us to counter attack with fierce speed that we have