Sentences with phrase «life rebelling against»

But Wang makes a convincing case that one can not escape the power of the past, even one that this artist has spent most of his life rebelling against.

«I've spent my life rebelling against these identities that people foisted on me,» says Simmons.

Thomas Bitmore understands family secrets, he's spent his life rebelling against his mother's success with the paranormal and the spiritual, aspects he's tried to keep from his wife and his children, denying his heritage and his sense of self in his efforts.

Thomas Bitmore understands family secrets, he's spent his life rebelling against his mother's success with the paranormal and the spiritual, aspects he's tri...

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Lyne: I was actively rebelling against them for a period, but it was also that I just didn't want the life that I saw a lot of people back in my neighborhood leading.

But it's unclear how rebels or terrorists, who live among Syrian civilians in east Ghouta, could retain sufficient territory to stage mortar or artillery attacks against medical evacuations or aid convoys under such heavy bombardment.

In the early 1970s the 18 - year - old Yuki, the son of a university vice president, rebelled against the Tokyo academic life in which he was raised, defying his parents and moving to the U.S..

We live in a world temporarily under sin due to it being subject to Satan, the fallen angel Lucifer who rebelled against the Father and caused Adam and Eve to sin; whereby, we all have been born into a fallen world and fall short of the glory of God because of it.

Such matters can not only be disrupting in themselves, but when rebelled against in self - pity as they often are, can upset one's entire psychophysical balance including the life of prayer.

International Christian speaker Danielle Strickland rebelled against her parents and God during her teenage years, becoming embroiled in a life of drugs and crime.

Perplexed and disturbed about a horrifying evil in his own life or the life of some one close to him, the believer may find it hard to trust God, may come to question God's goodness or his concern, may even come to rebel against God.

It is very simple, Tony, it is because we live in a world that has rebelled against God.

Is there not reason for Man, become aware of the direction in which Life is taking him, to rebel at last; to go on strike against a blind course of evolution which may not, in any event, betoken any real progress?

Notwithstanding, in the mean while they fight in spirit against the flesh, lest they should fulfill the lusts thereof; and although they feel the flesh to rage and rebel, and themselves also do fan sometimes into sin through infirmity, yet are they not discouraged, nor think therefore that their state and kind of life, and the works which are done according to their calling, displease God; but they raise up themselves by faith.»

«Because we have forgotten the biblical concepts of true authority and submission, or more accurately, have rebelled against them, we have created a climate in which caricatures of authority and submission intrude upon our lives with violence.

Although one might rebel against the natural, the natural will endure in the long run for it preserves life.

There may be something to learn from all this about the way in which pious men rebel against the idea of divine, incarnational authority and activity living on down the centuries in the Church.

Outwardly one may live a highly moral life; inwardly he continues to rebel against God and seek to magnify himself.

There is a sense then in which once the life in grace has begun it can never fall completely out of its apprehension of that grace, even when we rebel against God.

At bottom the Samaritans shared the fate of all those who, though appealing perhaps to age - old traditions, rebel against a situation that has evolved over a long period of time, and try to base their life on historical conditions which have long since disappeared.

In the last analysis Job protests, not his suffering, but an order of existence in which he is unable by his own devices to maintain his life in security and to achieve its fulfillment.17 It is his role against which he rebels.

Few of their children will rebel, for there is little to rebel against; they are more likely to be marginally involved in church life or to drift away.»

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.

(Isaiah 40:17, Daniel 4:35, Isaiah 42:1, Matthew 3:17, 17:5, Ephesians 5:2) And in order that He might demonstrate His love, and to bring glory and honor, and praise to Himself, and in order to demonstrate His relative attributes of mercy, grace, justice, and loving - kindness, He devised a plan in eternity past to create a universe where His creation would rebel against Him, and He would send forth His Son to the world to be born of a virgin, to live a perfect and sinless life, and to die a subst.itutionary death on a cross, shedding His blood for the forgiveness of sins.

Though we may rebel against God and thwart some aspects of His plan for our lives, God, in His sovereignty, uses all means necessary to keep His plan moving forward.

In summary, the virtues of organized religions include but are by no means limited to the following: they give their adherents something solid against which to rebel; they allow one to see farther by standing on the shoulders of giants; they insist on the primacy of lived experience; they work against illusion and historical insularity; they point to the power of the collective and the merits of deep diversity; and they are capable of the kind of mobilization that can transform the world.

The result has been the development of patterns of church life much like those against which the founders originally rebelled.

This is because Miguel's great - great - grandfather left the family to pursue his musical career, and now Miguel finds himself torn between rebelling against his family to realize his own dreams or staying close to his family and what they want for him in life.

From wiki: «Maccoby argued that the real Jesus was not a rebel against the Jewish law, but instead a Jewish Messianic claimant whose life and teaching were within the mainstream of first - century Judaism.

If I had continued to rebel against God's call I would have missed out on a life changing three years of fun, friendship and faith stretching that were pivotal to what God subsequently called me into.

Yes, He pleads with us and warns us and instructs us to not go down certain paths in life, but when we ignore His pleading and rebel against His instructions, and go in the way He has warned us not go, God does not throw up His hands and say, «Well, I'll be waiting here when you come crawling back to me in pain and agony from how you messed up your life.»

These messages were powerful shapers of your life and whether you have gone along with them or rebelled against them, they are still with you.

After his blistering «Alice in Wonderland» onslaught» during the second reading debate, the Tories» Brexit rebel - in - chief joined the revolt in the committee stage on EU nationals living in the UK and fairly consistently voted against the Government throughout the committee stage.

Over half of all Conservative backbenchers rebelled against David Cameron on the vote to ban foreign criminals claiming their right to a family life to avoid deportation, Labour said.

We live in a very «stimulating» world and it is difficult to predict whose system is going to rebel against it.

I rebelled against learning Romanian as a child — a decision which pains me now, as I am far more fluent in other languages than the one my mother lived half her life in.

The unusually well - defined cast of characters includes a family of thieves living in the mountains in southwest France — a widower and grandfather named Victor (Ivan Desny), his eldest son Ivan (Didier Bezace), Ivan's wife Mireille (Fabienne Babe), and Ivan and Mireille's son Justin (Julien Riviere)-- as well as Ivan's kid brother Alex (Auteuil), who has rebelled against his family by becoming a cop in a Lyons suburb.

Rebelling against his mother's (Lena Olin) clinginess, Clay secretly marries his girlfriend Sam (Jessica Alba) and chooses to have the procedure done by Dr. Harper (Terrence Howard), a malpractice suit - inundated surgeon who had previously saved his life and is now his best friend.

Liman and his screenwriter, Gary Spinelli (Chaos Walking, Stash House), apparently play fast and loose with the facts of Seal's life («dramatic license» in case you're wondering), but hew relatively close to the general contours and parameters of that same life, following Seal as he settles in Mena, Arkansas at the behest of his careerist handler, expands his drug - smuggling business with Schafer's willful ignorance as an ally, and turns a massive property (also bestowed by a generous federal government) into a training ground for the Contra rebels who fought against the Communist - allied Sandinista regime in Nicaragua in the «80s.

It appears that these two kids are rebelling against the uptight morals of their community and run away to listen to pop records, paint, and live generally as bohemians.

Composed by Mark McKenzie Sony Classical / 57m An as - yet unreleased animation which frames a contemporary story of an old man helping a young rebel navigate his way through life against the inspirational story of Father Maximillian Kolbe, the Polish priest whose story of inspiration and bravery while imprisoned at Auschwitz led to him later -LSB-...]

Both are wishing to rebel against their dull lives in search of adventure and fulfilling their dreams.

They dead just bring out the worst in the living, and there's plenty to draw out of the bitter father Ben Harmon (Dylan McDermott), a psychiatrist who needs to heal himself, resentful mother Vivien (Connie Britton), who still hasn't forgiven him for his affair, and angry teenage daughter Violet (Taissa Farmiga), who has plenty to rebel against.

Following on from the first Mockingjay, the second part of the story finds Katniss and the rebels making the final push against Donald Sutherland's scheming President Snow and the Capitol, with lives on the line and sacrifices to be made.

Then again, poor Elissa is too busy rebelling against her fairly rational mother Sarah (Elisabeth Shue) to be bothered with such things as the disappearance of a girl who killed her parents, the surviving son who still lives in the house, and what must be a string of other crimes in the area, which, apparently, even the local townsfolk have managed to overlook.

Another interesting twist is how screenwriter Linda Woolverton has made Alice into a feminist figure, an empowered young woman (a well - cast Mia Wasikowska) who rebels against the idea of others deciding who she should marry, what she should do with her life and what she should believe in.

We rebel against not only tyranny but the Platonic idea of «philosopher - kings» — persons groomed from youth, told they are crafted from precious metals, and guided into positions of power and lives of advantage.

The unforgiving evaluations, the intolerance for excuses, the talk of saving lives: These are the ever - present reminders that Canada and the staff are a band of rebels fighting against the corrosive culture of poverty laying siege to the families just outside our four walls.

The ship's doctor (Kemp's hated cousin) rebelled against this barbaric act, there was a mutiny, and some of the surviving crew made it to Florida with the remaining Africans, where they lived in a shared society in what sounds like an egalitarian tropical paradise.

When her daughter Molly and then her father come to the island unexpectedly, Julia finally rebels against the perfect, obedient roles she has lived for years.