Sentences with phrase «of despair as»

At the same time, I read stories of despair as some potential buyers give up and say that a house is out of their reach for now; they waited too long.

The disturbing film amounts to a claustrophobic endurance test; one that offers no hope, just tons of despair as it chronicles the degradation of a main character whose mental illness all but obliterates her life.

What emerges is a portrait of a man sinking rapidly into a pit of despair as he comes face to face with his own darkest nightmares of personal failure.

«Michelle was coming off the heels of a really bad relationship, and I was just in a place of despair as well.»

And herein, in the fact that the relation is spirit, is the self, consists the responsibility under which all despair lies, and so lies every instant it exists, however much and however ingeniously the despairer, deceiving himself and others, may talk of his despair as a misfortune which has befallen him, with a confusion of things different, as in the case of vertigo aforementioned, with which, though it is qualitatively different, despair has much in common, since vertigo is under the rubric soul what despair is under the rubric spirit, and is pregnant with analogies to despair.

It is true that a distinction is made also in paganism, as well as by the natural man, between being in despair and not being in despair; that is to say, people talk of despair as if only certain particular individuals were in despair.

Not exact matches

Burnout was first identified in the 1970s in studies of overworked, overstressed «helping professions,» such as health workers and teachers, who found all their efforts never slowed the flow of pain and despair.

She and her husband watched with despair as water rushed into their southern barbecue restaurant, with a force that reminded her of Niagara Falls.

For example, she mentions Elon Musk's period of despair when Tesla nearly went bankrupt in 2008, and what Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick describes as the «blood, sweat, and ramen» years.

The Dark Night of the Soul is universally understood as a period of spiritual desolation and utter despair.

It was «the spring of hope» but it has ultimately altered to «the winter of despair», as only Charles Dickens could describe.

U.S. business groups are pinballing between despair and panic as negotiations over a new North American Free Trade Agreement resume, with the Trump administration's hard - line demands risking a worsening standoff and perhaps the eventual collapse of the talks.

Consider not just the appalling record of the twentieth century; consider as well the sullenness of so many high school students today, the emptiness of their elders in college, the despair of the underclass, the desperate fun - seeking of the jet set, the divorce rate, the incidence of child abuse, and on and on.

---- I am continually amazed by some in this blog and others that seem to be in a CONSTANT state of despair, as a Christian.

And it is because I see this problem as so far from solution, yet so central to my own sense of satisfaction with our public life, that I despair over our government's lack of commitment to its resolution.

The poem is no cry of despair, as Vivian would have it, but rather an illustration of the path to redemption.

I offer the above deposition as preface to confessing my dismay» I can not say despair because despair is a sin» over the state of Lutheranism in America today.

As a committed pessimist, I was decidedly rebuked by his claim that pessimism is not an option for Christians, and that cynicism and despair are the besetting sins of our age.

Yet, unlike him, they do not despair over the seemingly impassable gap between the inner and the outer, the mental and the natural; instead, they reveal that the world is not dreadfully dead (as we have believed since Descartes and Newton) but utterly alive and awaiting our free transformation of it.

That said, I despair that every single one of the candidates for the most powerful position on the planet is evidently willing to seek guidance from the little voices in their heads as if they were real.

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.

In their moment of shared grief and despair, those who had held him as a hero reached for symbolism and ritual.

A vital church family, beamed down by the effect of God's Word as a sort of fifth column in that land of cool exteriors and quiet despair.

«But just as the man of God began to despair, he found help from an unlikely source: atheists.»

She has learned to lie as a survival mechanism, to give hope in the face of despair just to make people «better.»

The prophets of the Hebrew Scripture were concerned with understanding the fate that had befallen exiled Israel and their identity as God's people in the midst of so much hope and despair.

Whereas the Jansenism of old despaired that anyone could really be loved by God, be good enough to receive Holy Communion, or be saved, its newer version has so little faith in the power of God to change hearts that it presumes God does not care for something so insignificant as the human heart.

Notice that for Rubenstein the death of God can truly be greeted only with despair, but this is a despair that drives us to nothingness as our ultimate situation.

And if I still refused to understand him, he would no doubt bring me to despair by the coldness of his irony, as he unfolded to me that he owed me as much as I owed him.

As my friend Caitlin Doughty says, grief produces a «snowflake of despair.»

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.

It would learn these things not principally from the «content» of the stories but from their «form»; whether a novel is, like O'Connor's, an experience of coming to belief within a recognizably Christian universe, or, like Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse - Five, an experience of deepening despair over the ways of the universe, it would see them both as parabolic stories.

The traditions of exile suggest four ways of speech and of faithful imagination that the church can practice and offer as antidotes to denial and despair.

I feel that what must be done is to bring the «absurd hero» within the context of a revised, naturalistic, neo-Whiteheadian ontology — this merger will dispel the harshness of bleak despair from the one position and the remnants of parsonage Victorianism from the other as it links creative insecurity, adventure, with a more penetrating metaphysical analysis than the existentialists were ever able to achieve.

Yet Christians, as Thabiti Anyabwile notes, can resist «the temptation to hopelessness,» even in the «thick fog of despair that settles on entire blocks of families mangled and maligned by mass incarceration.»

It is better for denomination or network leaders to be prepared to respond to dying churches rather than to react to the despair of confused churchless members as churches move toward closure.

Alfred North Whitehead brilliantly defines the human body as the primary field of human expression.14 So every bodily action becomes symbolically the incarnation of a human attitude in the whole gamut from ecstatic fulfilment to boredom and despair.

Thus, congregation members perform the healing function of pastoral care as they come together in the midst of chaos, offering hope and wholeness in the midst of fragmentation and despair.

For example, when she first realised that she was dying of TB she responded to this illness not with despair but with joy; joy because she recognised it as the «call of the Beloved» to come and be with her in heaven.

I am learning that, as a process of liberation from either injustice or despair, healing is a process of finding — if need be, creating — redemption in suffering.

And, where it works its sublimest magic, our culture of empty spectacle can so stupefy the intellect as to blind it to its own disquiet, and induce a spiritual torpor more deplorable than mere despair.

The tone of the article was one of whimsical despair at the unalterable depravity of «Mr. Bones» who has willfully spent some 18 of the past 20 years as a guest of the city.

From Nadia Bolz Weber «The Sarcastic Lutheran»: «So when I reject my identity as beloved child of God and turn to my own plans of self - satisfaction, or I despair that I haven't managed to be a good enough person, I again see our divine Parent running toward me uninterested in what I've done or not done, who covers me in divine love and I melt into something new like having again been moved from death to life and I reconcile aspects of myself and I reconcile to others around me.

Suffer as we must in a time that has already so ravaged the Christian spirit, we must resist the supreme temptation of despair and renounce every desperate effort to identify a broken and empty humanity as the sole fruit of grace.

It was black, like the sky, and as I stared into it, the most terrible, lonely sense of despair rushed through my body.

Congregational pastoral care occurs when members reach out through very concrete acts such as sitting by the bedside of someone who's ill, listening as parents describe their fears and grief when a teenager leaves home, offering hope to someone in despair, or praying for those who suffer on the margins of the church and society.

The Mother, the Child, and the bare manger: the lowly man, homeless and self - forgetful, with his message of peace, love and sympathy: the suffering, the agony, the tender words as life ebbed, the final despair: and the whole with the authority of supreme victory.»

For indeed Christianity was complicit in the death of antiquity and in the birth of modernity, not because it was an accomplice of the latter, but because it alone, in the history of the West, was a rejection of and alternative to nihilism's despair, violence, and idolatry of power; as such, Christianity shattered the imposing and enchanting façade behind which nihilism once hid, and thereby, inadvertently, called it forth into the open.

CE further «The Mother, the Child, and the bare manger; the lowly man, homeless and self - forgetful, with his message of peace, love, and sympathy the suffering the agony, the tender words as life ebbed, the final despair and the whole with the authority of supreme victory.»

To me that was a heartbreaking picture, of course, but it was also an image of something amazing and glorious: the sheer ecstasy of innocence, the happiness of a child who can dance amid despair and desolation because her joy came with her into the world and prompts her to dance as if she were in the midst of paradise.