Sentences with phrase «of affliction in»

In her new book about stage fright, journalist Sara Solovitch describes her earliest memories of the affliction in...

It is an unfortunate sort of affliction in my case, seeing as how a love of stripes is a style blogger convention; at last count, I have only 3 striped tops in my closet, which would probably get me kicked out of the blogging sisterhood if anyone knew about it.

The states in the bottom 10 tend to have a number of afflictions in common: complex, nonneutral taxes with comparatively high rates.

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Of course, Affliction isn't the only company zeroing in on the MMA scene.

To Foster's point, Affliction, whose other staffers also sport huge muscles and acres of scar tissue, has seen average annual growth of more than 300 percent in the past two years.

The financial affliction of negative homeowners» equity, in which the house is worth less than the mortgage due, is fast fading.

Letter to Doctor Benjamin Rush from Thomas Jefferson Washington, April 21, 1803 Dear Sir, — In some of the delightful conversations with you, in the evenings of 1798 - 99, and which served as an anodyne to the afflictions of of the crisis through which our country was then laboring, the Crhistain religion was sometimes our topic; and I the promised you, that one day or other, I would give you my views of iIn some of the delightful conversations with you, in the evenings of 1798 - 99, and which served as an anodyne to the afflictions of of the crisis through which our country was then laboring, the Crhistain religion was sometimes our topic; and I the promised you, that one day or other, I would give you my views of iin the evenings of 1798 - 99, and which served as an anodyne to the afflictions of of the crisis through which our country was then laboring, the Crhistain religion was sometimes our topic; and I the promised you, that one day or other, I would give you my views of it.

«Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world» Religion is not the invention of man; if you are withuot Christ in your heart, you are fatherless and a widow.

So it is god changes the DNA of microbes to become resistant to antibiotics, causing many needless deaths and painful afflictions upon the human race, directs the mud to flow to kill a hundred plus children at a school in Wales..

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.

In a sort of «trusting despair,» fiducial desperatio, the sinner afflicted by grace discerns in his afflictions the saving hand of God, whose redemptive love secures itself from abuse by hiding under its apparent oppositIn a sort of «trusting despair,» fiducial desperatio, the sinner afflicted by grace discerns in his afflictions the saving hand of God, whose redemptive love secures itself from abuse by hiding under its apparent oppositin his afflictions the saving hand of God, whose redemptive love secures itself from abuse by hiding under its apparent opposite.

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...

The finer values are withering away; the vision of a universal human family is vanishing; and Eccelsiastes which tells us: the Lord is full of compassion and mercy... and forgive the sins and saveth in time of affliction is now anathema to those who wield power, accumulate wealth and crave after sensual pleasures.

O Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction» (Jeremiah 15:15,16; 16:19.)

In this way the richness of both present experience and Christian theology is flattened and reduced to the single focus of our mission of realizing God's future within our present suffering and affliction.

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

Only those who know God as Jeremiah did — «My strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction» (Jeremiah 16:19)-- can so make free with him.

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).

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. 4:17).

«32 Out of a well - conceived pastoral theodicy, the pastor will help the oppressed to understand that their affliction may be a meaningful test of faith: «See how I tested you, not as silver is tested, but in the furnace of affliction; there I purified you» (Isa.

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 passioIn 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 passioin prison for preaching the gospel, Jesus is in Jerusalem just before his passioin Jerusalem just before his passion.

When we look at the contemporary Latin American world, we see an oppressed people bearing an affliction as painful as that of the Hebrew slaves in Egypt.

I wonder sometimes if the Jesus of the bible might not have been an atheist as he informed people that it was not he who did the healing «Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace and be healed of your affliction.»

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.&raquIn my flesh I complete what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the Church.&raquin 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.

Many of the songs the Lord has given me were birthed in the furnace of affliction and pain.

«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.»

5 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.

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.

The basis of religion, in general, is a violent affliction on this planet and will always be regardless of if it's Islam or Christianity.

So then in the Christian understanding of it not even death is the sickness unto death, still less everything which is called earthly and temporal suffering: want, sickness, wretchedness, affliction, adversities, torments, mental sufferings, sorrow, grief.

This God may say something outrageous, such as, «I have seen the afflictions of the Palestinians who are in Israel.

And yet Paul stubbornly says, «I fill up what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ in my flesh.»

They are the «afflictions of Christ,» though they occur in Paul's own flesh.

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.

I spent a major portion of my book Borderland Christianity trying to salve the affliction theologically while clinging to some semblance of a Christian perspective that preserved the element of transcendence in its God - talk.

You see, one of the greatest connections we can make with someone is in the sharing of an affliction.

On this reading, Jabez's corpulent affliction continues into adulthood, meaning lie needs increased amounts of food (and so more arable property) to sustain his girth and, in his anxious and hungry eyes, his very life.

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.

As servants of God we have commended ourselves in every way: through great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger in honor and dishonor, in ill repute and good repute.

Two nearby Methodist churches enjoyed better fortune during the time of Bigelow's affliction, and the people of Bigelow frequently base their self - assessment upon their sense that the programs in the two other churches are livelier and church life more opulent.

This statue constitutes one of the most unexpected, and welcome, placements in Manhattan — almost as if Joel Osteen's I Declare: 31 Promises to Speak Over Your Life contained an appendix on what it means to «fill up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions» (Col. 1:24).