Sentences with phrase «of affliction for»

Politics, while hardly ignored (in works by Andrea Bowers, Sam Durant and Harrell Fletcher, among others), exchange claims of affliction for a greater emphasis on formal allure.

But if you can tick off more than half these items, my bet is you will have made a great start in delaying the onset of this affliction for yourself or anyone you love.

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We've finally begun beating back a disease that's been called «one of the world's most intractable human afflictions» — and the simple bed net is one of the key reasons for this success.

If you're going to read the Qur» an as a non-Muslim, try not to let your prejudices get in the way — because you're overlooking everything Islam stands for and adding to the affliction of Muslims.

which goes on to say in verse 24: For He has not despised or abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, and he has not hidden his face from him, but has heard, when he cried to him.

The voice proceeds: «I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows....

A: «That in all affliction and persecution I may await with head held high the very Judge from heaven who has already submitted himself to the judgment of God for me and has removed all the curse from...

Like Sam Keen, Jürgen Moltmann seeks the liberation of humankind from its modern afflictions, and so gives a functional cast to his theology; he too offers a diagnosis of the world's misery, a vision of the world's possibilities, and a prescription for liberation, i.e., salvation.

For many, the evil occurs in an affliction of the personal or family body.

How little they are confined to the events of the first Good Friday is amply illustrated by the words which a disciple of St. Paul puts into his master's mouth: «Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the Church» (Col. 1:24).

This is why St. Paul can say in a remarkable statement that we «fill up in turn what is outstanding in the afflictions of Christ for the sake of his Body which is the Church» (Col 1:24).

The parishioner who can not meaningfully experience this deep dimension of forgiveness may fall into a habit that Gregory calls «immoderate affliction «26 — forever overemphasizing one's deficits, always being too hard on oneself, seemingly making it impossible for God to forgive.

Indeed, the animal rights movement's fury against the speciesist use of animals» a necessary element for human flourishing, particularly in medical research» has increased to the point that scientists are now under threat of death by the most radical liberationists for daring to experiment on rats or monkeys to find cures for cancer and other human afflictions.

But as I stood where I last saw her alive, feeling again the grief, I remembered what Paul said about the afflictions we face in this life: «For our momentary light affliction is producing for us an absolutely incomparable eternal weight of glory» (2 Co. 4:1For our momentary light affliction is producing for us an absolutely incomparable eternal weight of glory» (2 Co. 4:1for us an absolutely incomparable eternal weight of glory» (2 Co. 4:17).

In each case, the speaker is on the point of dying: Job suffers from afflictions he can not understand, Paul is in prison for preaching the gospel, Jesus is in Jerusalem just before his passion.

John Paul opens Salvifici Doloris with St. Paul's mysterious statement to the Colossians: «In my flesh I complete what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the Church.»

By this person's statement it makes me think of them choosing the oppisite of what Moses chose as we see in Hebrews 11:24 - 26 By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; 25Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; 26Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.

«We experience this not only as an hour of the heaviest affliction,» Buber wrote in 1952, «but also as one that appears to give no essentially different outlook for the future, no prospect of a time of radiant and full living.»

Your faith may well be an undying principle of conjuring desires but your rumors of the messiah returning will not lift up our civilizations desires to be on our own wanton ways for living our generational based afflictions in mindful aspirations without any godly influences derailing our commonwealths» visions.

Colossians 1:24 says, ``... I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ's afflictions, for the sake of his body, which is the Church.»

Lent is a school of suffering, a discipline for death, an annual invitation to share in Christ's afflictions.

About ten years after the liberation — our lives having run for some time on a pretty even keel — I began to experience a variety of physical disabilities as well as mental / emotional afflictions; sometimes the two were difficult to distinguish.

I am now rejoicing in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am completing what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church.

Now, for the time that intervenes between man's death and the final resurrection, there is a secret shelter for his soul, as each is worthy of rest or affliction according to what it has merited while it lived in the body.

He interpreted their dreams, and matters came out as he had foretold; but his long affliction was not yet ended, for the Pharaoh's butler, in the quaint phrase of the Hebrew writer, «did not remember Joseph, but forgot him.»

The principal points Paul made in that address are (1) to recall to their minds the character and quality of his ministry to them; (2) to remind them of the trouble the Jews gave him and the anxiety and suffering he underwent in their behalf; (3) to state that he preached repentance and faith in Jesus Christ as the essence of the gospel; (4) to testify that he went now to Jerusalem not knowing what would happen to him there except that he knew by the Holy Spirit that afflictions awaited him; (5) to assure them that nothing concerned him, not even the loss of life itself, so long as he could testify to the grace of God in Jesus Christ; (6) to say that he had no regrets about his ministry to the people in Ephesus, for he was clean of the blood of all the people there, for he preached the full gospel to all of them; and (7) to admonish them to be diligent in their oversight of the Ephesian church and to feed the church of God there, which Christ purchased with his own blood.

Theologian Robert Jenson calls homoerotic attraction a «grievous affliction» for those who experience it, and part of the grief is the feeling that we are perpetually, hopelessly unsatisfying to God.»

Gay men have vigorously fought off the only public health measures that could significantly contain the spread of AIDS — contact tracing and testing of partners — methods long used for syphilis and other sexually transmitted afflictions.

Accentuating what one scholar has called a «kinship of affliction,» she draws variously on the shared difficulties of caring for these children, as well as on the notion that children with Down syndrome physically «resemble one another more than they resemble their families of origin,» to place a kind of boundary around the lives described.

The testimonies of women (and it is almost always mothers) who care for children with disabilities remain separate, in a distinct category of «affliction,» rather than seeping into the broader analysis of the individual decisions to terminate pregnancies.

A: «That in all affliction and persecution I may await with head held high the very Judge from heaven who has already submitted himself to the judgment of God for me and has removed all the curse from me....

«He is our repose as the one freeing the law from the contingent slavery in the flesh during the present life; our healing, as the one healing [us] of the affliction of death and destruction through his Resurrection; our grace, as the distributor of sonship in the Spirit by God the Father through faith, and of the grace of divinisation for each one according to worthiness.»

Human affliction, especially the monstrous inhumanity of man to man, was to them a practical, rather than a theoretical, problem; it represented not only a conflict of ideas but a conflict of individual and class interests, a struggle for justice in personal character or social organization against selfishness, ill will, and inequity.

When, for example, Jeremiah, thrown back on God amid the social disintegration of his time, entered into a trustful reliance on Yahweh — «my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction» (Jeremiah 16:19)-- he was unwittingly blazing a trail toward faith in immortality.

Not sporadic and occasional, but constant and fundamental is this treatment of affliction as opportunity, not disgrace, an indispensable implement for building faith and character, rather than a means for their destruction.

Faith for Buddhist, or this Buddhist anyway, is faith that a lifetime of sitting will free me from the afflictions of greed, hate and delusion.

To begin with, there is the call to «complete what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church» (Col. 1:24).

St. Paul says in Colossians 1:24 «Now I rejoice in what I am suffering for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ's afflictions, for the sake of his body, which is the church.».

But my worst affliction is that the sun has shone on me for a long time, a vexation which, as you well know, is common, and certainly many people die of it!»

If not aloud, at least in his heart he said the rest: «For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard» (Psalm 22:24).

White does not simply present Malory's romance as an allegory for the ills of his age, though he recognizes its relevance, much less as a panacea for his own afflictions in any sense other than the humble one in which all polite literature is a welcome respite from terrestrial agonies.

In these we see the patterns of God's activity: liberation from bondage, comfort for the afflicted and affliction of the comfortable, life overcoming death.

And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which [are] in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows; And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

Even novelists known for their religious beliefs have tended to depict the supernatural's immanence through its absence, preferring psychological pain to demonic affliction, and dark nights of the soul to the voice from the whirlwind.

And therefore St. Paul in the beginning of his Epistles professeth this, and in the first to the Colossians plainly avoucheth that he fils up that which is behinde of the afflictions of Christ in his flesh for his Bodie's sake, which is the Church.

It is for our good and can only come through kind affliction that is meant to chip away at the lump of coal to reveal the diamond... and unfortunately it does hurt, but God is indeed righteous yet his ways are mysterious.

Whatever the particulars of her affliction, the warm, humid climate of south Florida worked wonders for her ability to manage her asthma attacks.

Monk for manager now, Koeman 6 months ago, Pochetino 9 months ago, Martinez a couple of years ago, Laudrup............ that is some vicious knee - jerk affliction you have there fella.

Seeing ourselves through lenses of negativity is a common affliction for people of all ages.

In fact, it took a fierce public reaction and backlash for the government to even make a U-turn on providing 9/11 first - responders with healthcare for the afflictions they got by helping in the aftermath of the attacks.