And when a Roman executioner approached Perpetua with a sword, her last words before collapsing were aimed at her Christian companions: «Stand fast in the faith, and love you all one another and do
not let our sufferings be a stumbling block to you.»
but please don't let her suffer...
We can't let ourselves suffer multiple defeats off the trot or get bogged down by injuries and we'll have a decent shot.
If your dog is vocalizing, panting, profoundly limping, or exhibiting other symptoms of agony, don't let him suffer.
But I promise you we will
not let him suffer.
Instead of trying to save him, at this point we should be thinking of
not letting him suffer, it is excruciatingly painful when your digestive acids are eating through your body and your jaw locks up from the pain.
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.
Although I fought to the very end, IBD and lymphoma eventually took their toll, and my owner promised she would
not let me suffer.
I could
not let him suffer.
Don't let yourself suffer through a boring driving class.
Not exact matches
We say, «This is terrible, we can't
let people
suffer,» and we respond immediately.
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.
Don't
let your beauty or barber business
suffer because you can't find professional space to service your growing clientele.
And just as ascetics and Romantic poets were in the past reluctant to
let their
suffering go (it paid off in spiritual or aesthetic currency), so many contemporary victims have learned
not to
let their victimization go (having gained self - definition from it, a victimless condition becomes unthinkable).
If there was a GOD, one only GOD, it wouldn't make people
suffer with disease and especially wouldn't
let people worship it.
When one discovers that
NOT «remembering the sabbath» doesn't make them a bad person, yet it is treated with the same severity as killing people according to god, then why would a Christian have any reservations towards
letting people
suffer and die?
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?
Let me make it clear, I was
not bullied or abused by my dad or by my sweet husband of 30 plus years, so this is
not a matter of me imagining this because of anything I've
suffered in the past.
I have seen people to stuck in depression because they don't want to
let Christ heal their
suffering.
Suffering, also, is nothing new and we are called to
let it lead us into new directions, such as prayer, and
not get us to wallow forever in bitterness.
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.
The Christian community dares to praise the God who did
not exempt Jesus from the agony of the cross but
let him share undeserved
suffering with us.
In its cruder versions, God is the king who fights on the side of his chosen ones to bring their enemies down; in more refined versions God is the father who will
not let his children
suffer.
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!»
In the midst of all this reading, I learned
not only to empathize with the
suffering and the oppressed, but also to empathize with the oppressors, who -
let's face it - often shared my skin tone, my geography, my language, and my faith.
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.
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.
Do
not let your life consume itself in a futile counting up of the worthless
sufferings of the days and years.
But Mary's
suffering, along with her son's, remains encompassed by the «
Let it be done to me» and the «
Not my will, but Thine.»
The
sufferings themselves could have different names, but
let us
not multiply names.
Let us consider what is essential; that the real sufferer does
not benefit others by his
suffering, but rather is a burden upon them.
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.
But, they must
not be at the complete expense of
letting others needlessly
suffer.
Do
not let this man
suffer in vain.
The only truth I can say to these people is to
not let their faith
suffer because of someone else's actions.
Plus IF this God
suffered as Human than he would have understood the Reality of it and IF he was so compassionate and even empathetic, he would HAVE FIXED things out of sheer desire to
not let anyone
suffer so randomly and soemtimes allegedly at his very hands.
1 Peter 4:16: ``... but if anyone
suffers as a Christian,
let him
not feel ashamed, but in that name
let him glorify God.»
For a God who
lets the innocent
suffer and who permits senseless death is
not worthy to be called God at all....
If He
let them be, this would keep
suffering in the world and then we could accuse God of
not acting.
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.
if you do
not let go of the «self», there will never be an end to your
suffering.
Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, 2 Timothy 3:12 Yet if anyone
suffers as a Christian,
let him
not be ashamed, but
let him glorify God in that name.
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.
Hey, LA, when your 15 - year - old dog stops eating, can't walk, and is subsequently diagnosed with bone cancer, do you just
let the animal
suffer, or do you actually have balls enough to provide a humane death?
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.
sun, since you don't seem to understand morality,
let me help you: Treat others as you wish to be treated: If you see someone
suffering, help them because you would want help in that situation.