Sentences with phrase «mystery of the suffering of»

It includes the depth and mystery of the suffering of God known to us through the suffering of Jesus upon the cross.

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In the last six years of John Paul's life» as his physical condition deteriorated, and some called for his abdication, insisting that he was no longer capable of managing the bureaucracy of the Church» the mystery of the interconnection of love and suffering was dramatically realized on the world stage.

This mystery is richly captured in John Allen's description of John Paul as «a living symbol of human suffering, in effect, an icon of Christ on the cross.»

In a time in which the human body seemed to lose any iconic significance, in the weakness of his failing body, John Paul participated, as Cardinal Lustiger noted, in the suffering of his Redeemer, for the «mystery of salvation happens when Christ is on the cross and can not do or decide anything other than to accept the will of the Father.»

If it is through the suffering faithful believers that this mystery is shared in the world, then perhaps deliverance will come from faithful people of the unshackled East and not from a West anesthetized by material comfort and thus still unaware of its own capacity for self - destruction.

This is what he said: Some rabbis of old forbade calculating the End, on the grounds that the time of it was a mystery, but also expressed the wish not to be there when it happened, since the sufferings that went with it would be too terrible.

In response to a world that thinks sufferers require simply a positive attitude to help them in their dire situation, Farmer seeks to offer fresh insights into the mystery of suffering.

However, the mystery of the Cross tells us that in God's Wisdom, which is the ultimate wisdom, evil and suffering are conquered in a way that goes against our natural instincts and expectations - not by miraculous intervention, but by humble acceptance; or at least, that the miraculous triumph follows on from sacrifice rather than preceding it.

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What I got a chance to talk about and what we as a community got a chance to discuss was the awesome mystery of suffering.

We come to the deepest mystery when we see in the suffering of Jesus a disclosure of the suffering of God.

The Messianic mystery is based on a real hiddenness which penetrates to the innermost existence and is essential to the servant's work of suffering.

The mystery of evil is not the mystery of suffering per se, but the mystery of destructive, apparently senseless suffering.

«The great scattering which followed the splitting - up of the state... is endowed with the mystery of suffering as with the promise of the God of sufferers.»

The patient may rebel or submit; may accuse himself, or accuse outside powers; and he may or he may not be tormented by the theoretical mystery of why he should so have to suffer.

And we can understand this mystery only if, beginning with the revelation of God in Jesus Christ, we realize that God as Father suffers from all that his creature, his Son, suffers.

Known for such legendary songs as «Ring of Fire» and «I Walk the Line,» Cash, particularily in his final years of life, brilliantly expressed the Christian mystery of suffering and redemption through his work.

The mystery of suffering, linked to the mystery of Christ's passion, engages us: it is part of the mystery that is every human person.

Suffering and mystery, to which Feuerbach attributed the existence of religion, are now seen more precisely as the sorrows brought about by enforced, unreasonable, incomprehensible and alien conditions of life (social structure).

Crysdale shows great pastoral sensitivity to the indirectness and mystery of human suffering.

He joined his suffering with the paschal mystery of Jesus and trusted in the goodness of God.

A review of a book about the mystery of human suffering, especially as it relates to Christ's suffering.

But this critical Jew saw, not the mystery of an ancient Mass, but a solemn farce: two great hulks of dead matter nearly breaking the backs of suffering brutes condemned to carry the weight of alleged gods!

We can say: Sophia - God is in solidarity with those [160] who suffer as a mystery of empowerment.»

For instance, Job is not interested in the problem of suffering as such but in answering the mystery of his experience; he does not ask so much for an explanation of evil as for an opportunity to take his case directly to God (Job 12:122, 23:1 - 17, 30:19 - 23).

In faith's response to its kenotic image of God there lies a surprising way of bringing new meaning to our normally confused sense of mystery, to our puzzlement about evolution and other recent discoveries about the physical universe, to our perplexity at the broken state of social existence, and finally to our own individual longings and sufferings.

Brock echoed the insights of Heyward and Gerlach: it is our actions in the «fragile, resilient interconnections we share with others» that bring us into the realm of sacred mystery, bind us together in love and empower us in face of suffering and pain.

The relationship of the cross to our salvation, the connection between the suffering of Christ and human suffering, the need for God to become physically entangled in the world's evil and pain — this is too great a mystery for intellectual comprehension.

He must struggle to liberate himself from sin through ascetical practice and acts of charity, suffering through his abandonment of the world; he must pass beyond the material illusions of this life to the spiritual realities through a loving participation in the sacraments; and, above all, he must welcome the gift of grace that transforms hearts of stone to hearts of flesh in the reception of the Eucharist, which is «the end of everything -LSB-...] the sharing in the mystery.

What it means for God to love the world, to suffer, to give freedom to the creatures and to will communion with them is the very mystery of existence.

He has sought hard and relentlessly for at least 30 years, seeking the truth, longing for the correct formula, craving the perfect key to unlock the mystery of life with all its suffering, struggles and sorrows.

(Revelation 21:1) While their minds worked upon the problem of suffering — exploring its retributive and disciplinary aspects, its saving power in the form of self - sacrifice, its future solutions in the eternal realm, and its inexplicable residue of mystery — their practical devotion was given to the kind of world where man's monstrous cruelty to man would end.

Rather than explain the mystery of suffering by such a method, they left it a mystery.

His individual woes, however, presented to him a mystery, which in turn emphasized the mystery of personal suffering all about him.

Such developments of experience and thought no more took the sting of inexplicable mystery out of suffering in the New Testament than they did in the Old.

True, Ivan's Christ has offered the world freedom, which the world has forsaken for bread, but what Ivan leaves out of his «respondeo» to his brother is that Christ by his crucifixion has also offered the world the divine exemplar of suffering, the one interpretation of the mystery of human suffering that can stand up to Ivan's withering attack.

[I] t fictionally incarnates her firmest convictions about both race and religion... It enabled her to turn a racist icon into an ironic testament to the mystery of charity... This «artificial nigger» not only illumines the evident evils of slavery and discrimination but discloses the subtle grace inherent in suffering that can be redemptively borne because God in Christ has borne it himself.

Did I affirm that the stumbling block to his faith was the cornerstone of mine, and that conformity between the Cross and the suffering of men was in my eyes the key to that impenetrable mystery whereon the faith of his childhood had perished?

«Can it be,» asked Ratzinger, «that, despite all of our expressions of consternation in the face of evil and innocent suffering, we are all too prepared to trivialize the mystery of evil?

AND And teaches us to say yes And allows us to be both - and And keeps us from either - or And teaches us to be patient and long suffering And is willing to wait for insight and integration And keeps us from dualistic thinking And does not divide the field of the moment And helps us to live in the always imperfect now And keeps us inclusive and compassionate toward everything And demands that our contemplation become action And insists that our action is also contemplative And heals our racism, our sexism, heterosexism, and our classism And keeps us from the false choice of liberal or conservative And allows us to critique both sides of things And allows us to enjoy both sides of things And is far beyond any one nation or political party And helps us face and accept our own dark side And allows us to ask for forgiveness and to apologize And is the mystery of paradox in all things And is the way of mercy And makes daily, practical love possible And does not trust love if it is not also justice And does not trust justice if it is not also love And is far beyond my religion versus your religion And allows us to be both distinct and yet united And is the very Mystery of mystery of paradox in all things And is the way of mercy And makes daily, practical love possible And does not trust love if it is not also justice And does not trust justice if it is not also love And is far beyond my religion versus your religion And allows us to be both distinct and yet united And is the very Mystery of Mystery of Trinity

«Naming the mystery,» in turn, entails identifying and empowering the people and ideas capable of generating creative Christian responses to the perennial problem of human suffering.

From a black theology perspective, the primary ethical message announces the love of God in light of the daily reality of sin, the mystery of evil, and suffering in the world.

The mystery of the incarnation holds our greatest solace and comfort, namely that wherever we go in suffering, in hurt and sorrow and despair, God has gone there first, goes with us, shows up -LRB-!)

One mystery of cystic fibrosis is why most children suffer chronic and often deadly lung infections from a bug that rarely harms healthy individuals.

Acoustic weapons are shrouded in mystery - now, US and Canadian diplomats seem to be suffering from the symptoms of an attack.

Liability insurance, health insurance, peer pressure, lack of time, and other factors often keep them from investing in the education required to help the millions of people suffering from «mystery» symptoms which, when you look at the science, are not always that mysterious.

Today, with the exposure to a wide range of toxins, stress and environmental pollutants, it is no mystery as to why so many people suffer from skin issues.

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An underrated, compellingly uncharacteristic film in Bigelow's career, The Weight of Water suffers from over-ambition, juxtaposing a period murder mystery with a rarefied drama of sexual ennui and shortchanging both in the process.