Sentences with phrase «not out of despair»

If I have outlined the cultural situation of Catholic writers in mostly negative terms, it is not out of despair or cynicism.

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So I think the person in pain has to bring that out: that mentioning what happened is not going to trigger a flood of despair.

If banks and VCs are out of your financial picture, don't despair.

«When I share my anxiety or sadness with a hyper - positive friend of mine, he usually insists that the situation doesn't merit despair, or reassures me that everything will turn out okay — neither of which make me feel better (or understood),» complains Newman.

The less - justified reason is that it became a very convenient political target for the larger international climate activism movement at a time of despair coming out of the [2009] Copenhagen climate talks, that Kyoto was dead and there might not be a successor.

Hope amidst suffering, hope when men know only defeat and despair, hope when death seems to smother out the shoots of life springing from the hearts of men, hope for our society, our world, our city, our schools, courts, prisons, legislatures, hope for our children, for our elderly, hope for all the millions of men and women over the face of this globe who simply want to live out their lives as free human beings not trampled down and stepped on by the overlords of this world.

If our pastoral practice is driving people into despair, even to the point of taking their own lives, you don't have to be an Oxbridge ethics professor to work out that there is something wrong with the theology that informs it.

Jesus came not to castigate the victims of sin but to cast out demons which bind us in sin — the demons of despair, of self - righteousness, of vengeance.

For the unfinished present to attain its fullness in the future, it is not only reasonable that it believe and hope, but it must of necessity, as the very law of its being, hope and believe; otherwise despair which takes the drive and soul out of the struggle will take over.

But I remain convinced that serious doubt, the kind that leads to despair, does not begin when we start asking God questions, but when out of fear, we stop.

From my admittedly limited vantage point, the gravest dangers for us seem to be not legalism but antinomianism, not intellectualism but sentimentalism, not scrupulosity but laxity, not despair but presumption, not all - out retreat but all - out assimilation, not pharisaic ritualism but anti-liturgical iconoclasm, not missionary timidity but evangelical over-hastiness, not self - referentialism but self - forgetfulness (and not the good kind), not stifling uniformity but disjointed miscellany, not clericalism but, for lack of a better word, laicism.

The terminus of the Spirit in this current «now and not yet» period, where everything is not yet complete, is not in the room of worship, but out on the edge of the Church in mission, where faith meets fear, light overcomes darkness and hope triumphs over despair.

He also understood that, if religion can not find expression in a way that gives meaning in the mainstream of the culture, it will burst out in sometimes violent ways among those who have despaired of the culture.

How far complete clarity about oneself, as to whether one is in despair, may be united with being in despair, where this knowledge and self - knowledge might not avail precisely to tear a man out of his despair, to make him so terrified about himself that he would cease to be in despair — these questions we shall not decide here, we shall not even attempt to do so, since in the sequel we shall find a place for this whole investigation.

No, despair verily is not something which appears only in the young, something out of which one grows as a matter of course — «as one grows out of illusion.»

And, oh, when the hour - glass has run out, the hourglass of time, when the noise of worldliness is silenced, and the restless or the ineffectual busyness comes to an end, when everything is still about thee as it is in eternity — whether thou wast man or woman, rich or poor, dependent or independent, fortunate or unfortunate, whether thou didst bear the splendor of the crown in a lofty station, or didst bear only the labor and heat of the day in an inconspicuous lot; whether thy name shall be remembered as long as the world stands (and so was remembered as long as the world stood), or without a name thou didst cohere as nameless with the countless multitude; whether the glory which surrounded thee surpassed all human description, or the judgment passed upon thee was the most severe and dishonoring human judgement can pass — eternity asks of thee and of every individual among these million millions only one question, whether thou hast lived in despair or not, whether thou wast in despair in such a way that thou didst not know thou wast in despair, or in such a way that thou didst hiddenly carry this sickness in thine inward parts as thy gnawing secret, carry it under thy heart as the fruit of a sinful love, or in such a way that thou, a horror to others, didst rave in despair.

«If there's one thing I know for sure, it's that serious doubt — the kind that leads to despair — begins not when we start asking God questions but when, out of fear, we stop.

I am not saying we should stay out of politics or throw up our hands in despair.

which would run through his mind a hundred times together, until one day out of breath with retorting, «I will not, I will not,» he impulsively said, «Let him go if he will,» and this loss of the battle kept him in despair for over a year.

One may, in other ways, feel sorrow for sin (the sorrow of regret, or remorse, or despair); but one can not feel the sorrow of repentance (which alone leads to forgiveness and salvation) unless one knows that God suffers because of our sin incalculably more than we — and that he suffers willingly and out of love for us.

As his body was carried out of town for burial, I could not help but wail in despair and angry.

Each time the alcoholic tried to express his deep feelings of guilt and despair, the pastor pointed out that things weren't as bad as he seemed to think.

Along with public failure, we find an erosion of our personal sense of life, a restlessness that generates anxiety that drives us to greed, and finally to despair that it won't really work out.

(I avoid referring to God as He, because God, containing all things, is so much more than male and / or female) I, too, called out from the depth of despair and was surprised to immediately receive an answer, and an instruction, tailor made for me, which I won't detail here; though I'd love to sit down with all of you and buy a round of beer, kosher wine, juice or whatever and chat some more.

Newbigin is absolutely right that Christianity, or at any rate Christian mission and apologetics, is always involved in a pluralist tension — the tension between confidence in God and uncertainty about living out that truth in the world, between faith as God's gift and understanding as a form of growing discovery, between knowing who God is and seeking to bring that knowledge into situations of despair or resistance, not to say anything about the diversity and conflict of views among self - avowed Christians.

Or when coming out of despair who can not identify with the words of Psalm 27: «The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear?

The scholars and technicians, not the «poor in spirit» or the «pure in heart,» will lead humanity out of its despair.

An optimism of grace, a worldly optimism faces despair not with the conviction that out of it God can bring hope, but with the conviction that the human conditions that created it can be overcome, whether those conditions be poverty, discrimination, or mental illness.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Serious doubt, the kind that leads to despair, does not begin when we start asking God questions, but when out of fear, we stop.

It faces despair not with the conviction that out of it God can bring hope, but with the conviction that the human conditions that created it can be overcome, whether those conditions be poverty, discrimination, or mental illness.

He did it out of love, not despair.

I am empowered by God not to repeat past mistakes; not to lash out at those who are persecuting me; not to seek vengeance in a perpetuation of the cycle of death and destruction; not to sink into despair over my own seeming powerlessness against whatever forces are defeating me.

But do not despair, for God is also wise, and He can step into the mess we have created, and work to redeem it and rescue us out of it.

If you run out of batter before you've baked 10 layers, don't despair — you'll just have thicker layers and therefore thicker frosting layers between each.

Despair not — these five tips from senior food editor (and resident whisperer) Rick Martinez will coax flavor out of even the saddest corn.

«I don't know if I'm drinking out of prosperity or despair,» he said.

The American team, which started the season with at least nominally high hopes for the men and superlative expectations for the women, has fallen near a state of despair, a condition caused by a series of disappointing races and agitated further by the fact that the team does not even have national uniforms and is, literally, out at the elbows.

Don't despair though, even if your little one nurses a little less than others, you can still incorporate some of the tips we talked about above to get the most that you can out of breastfeeding.

Maybe take a step back and assess how you'll feel in 5 years about supplementing or doing CIO or having a really crappy come - to - Jesus conversation with your husband vs. spiraling down into emotional despair and physical ruin that make take you months if not years to climb back out of.

And it wasn't good enough that whenever he appeared on TV, his description of a process, or his analysis of a problem, ended in confusion or despair on the party's position — Article 50, counter-terrorism, «7.5 out of 10» on Brexit.

The wording of online application forms was also criticised, after it was claimed good candidates were not selected for interviews while some consultants reportedly walked out of interviews in despair at the poor quality of candidates selected by the system.

People who are too frail or out of shape to hit the pool or treadmill shouldn't despair, however.

If a personal trainer is completely out of the question, do not despair.

I had an exceptionally difficult time and I will share more about that component of healing in a future post (it is an extremely important topic that isn't discussed nearly as much as it should be), but know this: not only did I eventually pull myself out of the depths of despair, I did a complete 180 in the attitude department.

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Of course, you want to meet someone to date soon, but despair not give any positive results out alone.