Sentences with phrase «of misery which»

Happiness engulfed our little shelter this weekend when 100 dogs were released from a life of misery which this province continues to allow but the SPCA tries to contain.

There are no tense muscles, stiff joints, or that sense of misery which we have to carry with us as we move around.

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The world is on the cusp of generational change in terms of leadership and technology, but must avoid the dangers of past such transitions, which resulted in dramatic wars and huge misery, Sir Bob Gel

But one visitor bucks the trend and presents «a spiced honeymead wine that I've really been into lately» — for which the king banishes him to the «pit of misery.»

May allows that he can imagine extreme circumstances in which he hopes he would have the «courage» to put someone out of his misery.

Misery, sorrow, poverty, loneliness, helplessness, and guilt mean something different in the eyes of God than according to human judgment; that God turns toward the very places from which humans turn away; that Christ was born in a stable because there was no room for him in the inn — a prisoner grasps this better than others.

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.

Their misery was not at the level of money or social position, which was high, but at the level of contempt.

There is a French proverb which says that the bed of misery is prolific.

We live in a world in which for some, misery is the only reality of existence: people starve to death, live in abject poverty and know unrelieved distress and isolation all their days.

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.

In cultic language, the event is recalled in abject misery in the same Psalm which extols the grace of God in the David - Zion covenant:

Nobody knows how many easy fortunes have been made by those exploiters of human misery who peddle some pill or potion which they claim will cure some burdensome ailment.

He finds himself spiritually at home in the hospital ward for the insane, where he and his fellow inmates are free to acknowledge the misery which most of us suppress.

This is why the ultimate revelation of God is not the sight of God's glory — which is what Moses wanted — but the sight of God exposed in the misery of a condemned criminal, hanging naked on a cross and enduring an excruciating death.

There is plenty of misery here, for which «pro-lifers» are answerable, largely because of their policy of denying clinical care for poor women.

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:

They spoke of «the miseries which had entailed on them by the slave trade» and» the duty of making some recompense for the injuries and wrongs, which by our participation in that nefarious traffic, we had inflicted on Africa...» This position led evangelicals to argue that Britain's role in Africa should be that of guardian and protector of the people.

The renewal of the world is the Christian hope, and even though, because of our mortal limited lives, like Moses we do not live to witness the consummation, but see it only in embryo, it is sufficient reward to have been used by God in this mighty process of the redemption of the world from the evil, suffering and misery to which man himself has contributed.

We ought not to thank God for them without being sensitively aware of the misery and confusion of the world, penitent for our share in causing it, responsive to the call of God to help make possible for all men the blessings in which we rejoice.

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

She said that for Reinhold the Christian faith was «a present fact, and a present truth about life that illumines our existence and gives meaning, relieves us of some of the miseries of guilt in which all men are involved,..

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.

Thus the world, which to the eyes of the Hinayanist is in a state of the deepest and most hopeless misery, acquires a brighter luster.

The idea was affirmed by Benjamin Rush who called for a university dedicated to «those branches of knowledge which increase the conveniences of life, lessen human misery, improve our country, promote population, exalt the human understanding, and establish domestic, social and political happiness.»

James, the brother of Jesus, wrote the following in an open letter to the early church: ``... Weep and howl for your miseries which are coming upon you... [Your sin] will be a witness against you and will consumer your flesh like fire.»

When these are defied there is set in motion, whether in an individual life or in the social order, a chain of consequences which may take the form of vast destruction and misery; or which may work silently in the individual soul in the loss of the meaning of life, the fading of the glory, — but it happens.

At the same time it was predicted that the ungrateful town of Mecca would at first endure an awful misery which would bring some of the people from incredulity to an attraction of their souls toward heaven, then it would have prosperity which would make them forget God, and finally Mecca would suffer a humiliating defeat in the first battle (Surah XLIV, 9 - 16).

I was going to my work after breakfast one morning, thinking as usual of her and of my misery, when, just as if some outside power laid hold of me, I found myself turning round and almost running to my room, where I immediately got out all the relics of her which I possessed, including some hair, all her notes and letters, and ambrotypes on glass.

Asserting that in our time the whole planetary system must be taken into account in planning for a humanly desirable future, he argues that the prime end must be to redirect the use of human and technological resources to overcoming the gap between the affluent nations and that much larger portion of mankind which still exists in hunger, poverty, disease, and misery.

Is not this belief in providence, then, a piece of childish innocence, which has not yet reached maturity and has not yet opened its eyes to the misery and suffering of life?

Still further, Hartshorne points out that our loveless physics and biology have produced in our time loveless politics and economics, with the results that we have seen the revival of human cruelty on an unprecedented scale and the adoption of callous economic policies which leave the alleviation of human miseries to the automatic functioning of the «market.

There is no technical solution which, by itself, can save us from the miseries of overpopulation and the disasters of ecological disruption.

If, for example, we are dealing with a juvenile delinquent, at what point are we to see this fourteen - year - old boy as responsible in spite of the social misery and disorder or family disintegration in which his life may be lived?

James, the brother of Jesus, wrote the following in an open letter to the early church: ``... Weep and howl for your miseries which are coming upon you... [Your sin] will be a witness against you and will consume your flesh like fire.»

Unwisely, he assumed such competence when he endorsed socialism — a program for alleviating misery on which every conceivable category of experts has failed to reach agreement and concerning which the training of a bishop hardly bestows expertise.

But I wept, for at the bottom of that gulf I saw the extreme of misery from which I had been saved by an infinite mercy; and I shuddered at the sight of my iniquities, stupefied, melted, overwhelmed with wonder and with gratitude.

The God of the Bible — the God of the Exodus, the God of the prophets, the God of Jesus — cares deeply about suffering and thus is passionately against that which is the source of unnecessary human social misery.

Though the problem is so rooted in the nature of both Church and secular society that it is always present, yet it has a peculiar urgency for the modern church which is confronted with unusual evidences of misery in the life of human communities and of weakness within itself.

Only that philosophy is right which wants not only to demonstrate and to interpret, to contemplate and to describe, but also wants to change the world and to transform it in the direction of perfect social justice and equality, freedom from hunger and misery, from injustice and exploitation.10

But consider the price at which that comfort is purchased: it requires us to believe in and love a God whose good ends will be realized not only in spite of» but entirely by way of» every cruelty, every fortuitous misery, every catastrophe, every betrayal, every sin the world has ever known; it requires us to believe in the eternal spiritual necessity of a child dying an agonizing death from diphtheria, of a young mother ravaged by cancer, of tens of thousands of Asians swallowed in an instant by the sea, of millions murdered in death camps and gulags and forced famines.

The answer was an unqualified «yes,» sweeping aside all the Old Testament passages which indicate that God is the one who avenges the misery of the poor and the suffering of the oppressed; sweeping aside also the New Testament passages which counsel the unfortunate to practice the virtue of patience and exhort servants to obey their masters even if the master is unjust.

I saw professors, priests, and people were whole and at ease in that condition which was my misery, and they loved that which I would have been rid of.

This one's a little complicated because Job is most famous for the relatively brief period of his life in which he had nothing except misery.

It is a history of defeat, national humiliation, economic misery, and the tangle of social pathologies for which the Weimar period has come to stand.

Delta immortality was the position taken early on by American Reform Judaism, as expressed in this official statement from the 1885 Pittsburgh platform: «We assert the doctrine of Judaism that the soul is immortal, founding this belief on the divine nature of the human spirit, which forever finds bliss in righteousness and misery in wickedness.

Katie must have known very well the anguish and misery that lay behind the words, understood how her husband was making the greatest gesture he could of protest against a life which had become finally too burdensome: «To my kind and dear mistress of the house, Luther's Katherine von Rora, a preacher, a brewer, a gardener, and whatever also she is capable of doing.

Reform was precisely what was required, reform of institutions so deeply involved in the injustices and so deeply implicated as causes of the sheer poverty and misery, the resentment and the envy which were the boiling origins of a likely social revolution.

On the other hand, the techniques of postcivilization also offer us the possibility of a society in which the major sources of human misery have been eliminated, a society in which there will be no war, poverty, or disease, and in which a large majority of human beings will be able to live out their lives in relative freedom from most of the ills which now oppress a major part of mankind.