Sentences with phrase «of misery as»

This could also translate to your dog having fits of misery as the cycle of flea season manifests.

You should see responding as taking a step further to finding your ideal date, rather than simply putting your potential suitor out of their misery as they wait expectantly for your response.

The leader of the opposition, who is enduring a torrid January, must make as much of this misery as he can to keep the grumblers in the media and his party off his back.

The child who has had early bad experiences is by no means doomed to a life of misery as a loving, caring environment will serve to overcome most challenges.

I seriously hope we beat manure and put mourinho out of his misery as he has been talking rubbish about wenger for ages.

That God may someday see this world of misery as it was meant to be» Lord hear our prayer.

Not exact matches

The experts aren't shocked by this — particularly bad outbreaks of flu are often trailed by another strain of the illness known as «influenza B» — but it's a bummer for the rest of us who were hoping we were finally out of the woods when it came to flu misery.

While Harvey is technically packing less of a wallop as a tropical storm, heavy rains are still drenching parts of southeastern Texas and neighboring southwestern Louisiana, complicating rescue missions and compounding the misery for millions of Americans.

As the busy summer travel season starts in June, the best way to beat the misery is to steer clear of the most miserable airports.

Jurich's first reason to skip car ownership is perhaps the simplest — commuting by car is objectively awful (really, study after study ranks it as one of life's most misery - inducing activities), so given that she lives in a place that provides alternatives, it simply makes sense to take them.

Officials at San Francisco International, No. 3 in MileCards» 2017 Summer Flight Delay Study and described as «a pocket of misery,» did not return requests for comment.

Purchases, we all know, can sometimes make us very happy, the choices afforded by financial security (or lack thereof) have a huge impact on quality of life, and trying to keep up with the Joneses is generally regarded as a recipe for misery.

While the Big O no longer has a single professional sports team that uses it, there is one bright spot in all of the misery: the Big O skateboarding pipe — originally the entrance to the Olympic park — has become famous among Montreal skateboarders as a must - skate landmark.

The Canadian thinker Charles Taylor, in any case, is gaining status as the world's premier philosopher of modernity, the most judicious, the one who makes the most apt and discerning distinctions, the one who best sees both modernity's grandeur and its misery.

A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell - mouths mercy, and invented hell - mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!

HGI may provide us with the power of knowledge and the opportunity for attaining a new and unprecedented level of human health, but it may also provide us with opportunities to exercise our greed and shortsightedness so as to open up new depths of human injustice and misery.

We are reminded not just of our strength but of our weakness as well; not just of glory but also of misery; not just of pleasure but also of finitude; not just of warmth and the coming - to - be of the self in relation with others, but also of limitation and isolation; not just marriage but divorce; not just trust but betrayal and desertion; not just good feeling but pain, suffering, daily reminders of mortality, impermanence, the inevitability and the necessity of death.

Awareness of how far short of the new creation he fell had fueled his guilt and misery, even as he interpreted the depressive attacks as failure to live in Christ.

However, as we see daily, this leads not to any real emancipation but to a deepening crisis and misery reflected in the broken hearts, minds and lives of somany of our fellow - citizens in our culture.

Because, my God, though I lack the soul - zeal and the sublime integrity of your saints, I yet have received from you an overwhelming sympathy for all that stirs within the dark mass of matter; because I know myself to be irremediably less a child of heaven than a son of earth; therefore I will this morning climb up in spirit to the high places, bearing with me the hopes and the miseries of my mother; and there — empowered by that priesthood which you alone (as I firmly believe) have bestowed on me — upon all that in the world of human flesh is now about to be born or to die beneath the rising sun I will call down the Fire.

Wish him well as he continues to sow love where there is hatred, seek peace where there is strife, bring joy where there is misery and above all else share the gospel message of Christ with all mankind.

And as to the comfort the gospel speaks of, it seems that Christianity ought no longer to be the comforter of the poor and the afflicted, because, forsooth, «if you comfort them you divert them from seeking material, concrete means for ending their misery; if they are comforted by faith, they will not set to work to solve the economic problems.»

A person is merciful when, being affected by the sorrow and misery of another as if it were their own, they endeavour to dispel such misery.11 This is exactly what Christ does in the Gospel.

The Jews faced a difficult and momentous dilemma: either the accumulated miseries of Israel were due to Yahweh's failure as a powerful god, or else he was the one true God who, with righteous judgment, had decreed their national distress as punishment.

But as much as I would love to blame the culture or the church (or men) for all of our misery, I'm pretty convinced that the only way women can ever be happy again is if we cut ourselves some slack.

If the Christian acts as mediator or advocate, as representative of the poor, it is not to get little concessions or to conciliate points of view or to harmonize opposing interests; no, it is to plead the cause of absolute misery before absolute power (power is always absolute!)

Is it less «monstrous and repulsive» [as Dilthey had stigmatized the doctrine of original sin] that sickness and misery are inherited from generation to generation?

God in His will through history had into reality seemingly illogical or cruel events to happen in our world, but no one is spared if the purpose is for the good of humanity, wars pestilence even the holocust has a reason and purpose beyond our comprehension at our times but will be reveald in the future, The Phillipine catasthrophy for example is viewed by some as Gods punishment, we experienced the brunt of natures punishing power but it also unveiled the true feelings and concern of the whole world in helping us materially and spiiritually by aiding and consoling us that was unprecedented in history, The whole world had demostrated, to me, a kind of humanitarian concern and love that trancends races and culture, A kind of demonstration by higher being the we humans is one with Him.The cost of human lives and misery is nothing in history compared to its positve historical consequences

Marx's view of religion as a failure of nerve, a rationalization of misery and injustice and a projection onto an otherworldly future of that which ought to be realized here, would seem in this hymn to find quintessential expression.

By willing to suffer all you are committed to the Good, having changed your garments — yes, as when the dead rise up and cast off their grave clothes, so you have cast off the mantle of your misery.

It contains misery as well, a level of misery that we adults know only rarely.

Ronnie G this is not about the Meat Puppet — it is about a person who is scamming anyone who listens to her she is leveraging other folks misery just do a Google search on her and her organziation as for my contribution to society — my employees and I fund and support two food kitchens on weekends for disadvantaged youth if you were able to master the use of tools we would invite you to join us — go phuck yourself

Yet the Psalms also contain, intense and profound laments over the miseries of life — miseries which are seen as a genuine part of the world created by God:

Through all the «scenes» what we see and hear is a moving mosaic of many scenarios, schemes used and discarded by both central characters as they try to explain the causes of their misery and the forms of their salvation.

We enslave and abuse them, we take over their countries and their resources, we exploit their poverty by investing in their poverty and virtually use them as slave labour, as we close down factories in our own country to make a fortune out of others misery, while at the same time put people out of work in the home country.

Indeed it is precisely because capitalism is morally indifferent — and so productive of great miseries as well as great blessings — that many idealists early in the nineteenth century saw it as evil, rejected it entirely, and sought to replace it.

The common enemy will make thee believe, as soon as thou fallest into any fault, that thou walkest in error, and therefore art out of God and his favor, and herewith would he make thee distrust of the divine Grace, telling thee of thy misery, and making a giant of it; and putting it into thy head that every day thy soul grows worse instead of better, whilst it so often repeats these failings.

But then in turn Christianity has discovered an evil which man as such does not know of; this misery is the sickness unto death.

The Reformed Journal editor recognizes that suffering will be the necessary style of the Christian's entire life.38 Just as God entered fully into history in the Christ - event, taking upon himself its pain, so Christians must commit themselves to the human situation, assuming its misery.

The upside - downness of the world into which we are thrown by Jesus the disturber turns out also to reverse our misery as well.

Ah, so much is said about human want and misery — I seek to understand it, I have also had some acquaintance with it at close range; so much is said about wasted lives — but only that man's life is wasted who lived on, so deceived by the joys of life or by its sorrows that he never became eternally and decisively conscious of himself as spirit, as self, or (what is the same thing) never became aware and in the deepest sense received an impression of the fact that there is a God, and that he, he himself, his self, exists before this God, which gain of infinity is never attained except through despair.

And, oh, this misery, that so many live on and are defrauded of this most blessed of all thoughts; this misery, that people employ themselves about everything else, or, as for the masses of men, that people employ them about everything else, utilize them to generate the power for the theater of life, but never remind them of their blessedness; that they heap them in a mass and defraud them, instead of splitting them apart so that they might gain the highest thing, the only thing worth living for, and enough to live in for an eternity — it seems to me that I could weep for an eternity over the fact that such misery exists!

An especially impressive facet of Hartshorne's vision of God is his relentless insistence that, in the midst of all God's joy and bliss, God also suffers most poignantly and excruciatingly as he witnesses the misery and tragedy of the creatures.

And just as families select artifacts that suggest past happiness in order to soften the blows inflicted by actions of family members in less happy times, congregational histories can create illusions: authors might relate in two sentences the experience of an unhappy pastorate that led to two decades of misery — and distort the whole story by dwelling on the beauty of the old sanctuary, hence suggesting general happiness.

Yes, I do think scripture gives us reason to think the misery of hell varies in quality as well as intensity, depending on the patterns and kinds of sin committed.

In the popular imagination, the Inquisition was seen as a greedy body obsessed with profiting from the misery of its victims.

She could be serious as well as humorous, and frequently expressed her hopes and ideals, as a way of resisting the evil she knew was rising outside the annex: «I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.»

There one can see a touching picture of all human miseries, not of those poor attrackted by the alms of sovereigns, or of those insects who attach themselves to the reach, but of starving beggars deprived of necessities by the «charity» of their bishops so as to prevent them from becoming corrupted by affluence.

In them we find clearly articulated such themes as the importance of the communidades de base («grass - roots «Christian groups); Jesus as the liberator from hunger, misery, oppression and ignorance; the refusal to separate Christian sanctification from «temporal» tasks; challenges to capitalism (as well as to Marxism); the theory of «dependency» on inhuman economic systems; the need for liberation from neocolonialism; the need for «conscienticization»; the need for the church to support the downtrodden; the correlation of peace and justice; and the reality of «institutionalized violence.»

It is as though empirical theologians accepted Whitehead's claim that, apart from the consolations of religion, life seems to be «a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience» (SMW 192).