Sentences with phrase «only despair»

One may view it as a temporary blip, while the other may only despair.

They express not only his despair over the aids infection, but also carry reflections on religion and human existence.

Despite inflicting such horrors upon me, this tale is one filled with not only despair but inspiration.

Now bodiless and with his soul trapped in purgatory, Lokan can only despair for his human daughter and her mother, Bryn.

She found hope where others might have experienced only despair.

Some indeed appeal to us in these days who say it is only the despair of all human knowing and experience, which may open our minds to God.

After the act of fornication, there is only despair?

Not exact matches

Yet, viewing life as always being difficult and expecting the worse will only lead you down the path to greater despair.

We've been told that we need to save more, that housing prices are unsustainable, that bailouts in Europe will help solve the globe's economic problems, only to see Greece and Italy descend further into despair.

If you — like MDY's Galina Datskovsky — despair of finding a financial expert who isn't motivated by visions of big sales, you might consider a consultation with a fee - only financial planner who sells no investment products and earns no commission income.

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

You can't imagine my personal despair when a friend and client, pleased with his long - term performance but exasperated by my avoidance of the «glamour» tech stocks in late - 1999, moved his retirement account to E * Trade, assuring me that he was only going to invest in «solid» techs like Lucent, Cisco, and Sun Microsystems.

In the end we didn't know his heart, only God did, and in his last breath, couldn't a man so driven by despair at what he had done ask forgiveness from God?

After the act of fornica tion there is emptiness and despair because you can only think, Is this all there is?

I was taught that there were only 2 sins the Spirit could not forgive despair and presumption: presuming to know the mind of God and presuming to judge for him surely is a sin against the Spirit, your sin, and you should perhaps ponder your own salvation, not someone else's.

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.

We live by the promise that God will raise us too — not only some day when we die the big death, but today, in our dead - as - a-rock-in-the-wilderness despair, loneliness, fear or shame.

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.

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.

Both believe that human existence apart from «grace» can only culminate in despair, and thus both have developed a fundamentally hostile attitude toward the modern consciousness.

The Old Testament stories of exile might be a resource, perhaps the only resource, to move us from denial and despair to possibility.

But if there is only change, and nothing is stable, one could not appeal to an enduring natural beauty to melt the icy despair of Europe.

For if the time comes when despair sees violence as the only possible way, it is because Christians were not what they should have been.

For Lutheran Christians, such despair in face of the universal and radical human predicament can only be overcome through the gospel, which announces forgiveness of sins and redemption of life under the conditions of an ambiguous world chained by sin and death.

Inflated expectations can only lead to fanaticism and revolutionary violence or to despair and disillusionment.

You are right: atheists only promote meaninglessness and despair..

Atheists only promote meaninglessness, destruction and despair.

He is present to us only in his absence, and to know the absent or the missing God is to know a void that must be filled with despair and rebellion, an Angst deriving from a ressentiment that is itself created by an inability to bear a full existence in the present moment.

We see only the thinnest slice of human violence and sometimes despair.

As the suffering continues, there settles over him finally a dull despair, broken only rarely by an unnatural and terribly enfeebling intensity, as when the gambler hopes on and on that some day he will meet with luck.

Only if we withdraw from the fight, out of indifference or despair.

That treadmill only leads to pride (Yeah, I'm doing pretty well)... or despair.

It was only when He took our sin upon Himself on the cross, it was only when the crushing despair of being separated from God came upon Him, that He finally felt what we humans have lived with since we were born.

Pastors tend to invoke «wilderness» only as a metaphor for confusion or despair.

I find it interesting that it's only believers who ever argue that being an atheist means having a life of meaninglessness and despair.

And then their pain, loneliness, despair, hurt, fear, depression, heartache, loss, anger, frustration, bitterness, resentment, etc., etc., only gets worse.

And not only this, but that they have recognized that the very thing which was leading me to despair — the meaningless absurdity of life — is the only incontestable knowledge accessible to man.»

I see evidence of it in the peace that washes over me in moments when I used to only feel despair.

If you choose to go this way, there are only two possibilities: either you deceive yourself about yourself, forgetting that you are a sinful man, confusing the demands of God with the standards of middle - class integrity and thus satisfying yourself; or you really take God's will seriously and fall into despair when you see that you can never be just before that will.

But despite the linguistic problems associated with this designation, it seems that the epithet «preacher,» in the sense of «pastor,» is indeed an appropriate one, at least theologically.36 According to Duncan Macdonald, we have done Qoheleth an injustice by viewing his work as reflecting only a spirit of resignation and 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.

For this indeed is happiness, but happiness is not a characteristic of spirit, and in the remote depths, in the most inward parts, in the hidden recesses of happiness, there dwells also the anxious dread which is despair; it would be only too glad to be allowed to remain therein, for the dearest and most attractive dwelling - place of despair is in the very heart of immediate happiness.

If one would have a common name for this despair, one might call it Stoicism — yet without thinking only of this philosophic sect.

It is as far as possible from being true that the vulgar view is right in assuming that everyone who does not think or feel that he is in despair is not so at all, and that only he is in despair who says that he is.

So long as one does not regard man as spirit (in which case we can not talk about despair) but only as a synthesis of soul and body, health is an «immediate» determinant, and only the sickness of soul or body is a dialectical determinant.

And this is a matter of course, the ideal also is rare; and only in a purely ideal sense is this distinction between manly and womanly despair entirely true.

For so far as the child is concerned, one does not talk about despair but only about ill - temper, because one has only a right to assume that the eternal is present in the child, and has never a right to demand it of the child, as one has a right to demand it of the grown man, to whom it applies that he shall have it.

But far more desperate than this is the mistake that despair belongs only to youth.

No, despair verily is not something which appears only in the young, something out of which one grows as a matter of course — «as one grows out of illusion.»

And, oh, when the hour - glass has run out, the hourglass of time, when the noise of worldliness is silenced, and the restless or the ineffectual busyness comes to an end, when everything is still about thee as it is in eternity — whether thou wast man or woman, rich or poor, dependent or independent, fortunate or unfortunate, whether thou didst bear the splendor of the crown in a lofty station, or didst bear only the labor and heat of the day in an inconspicuous lot; whether thy name shall be remembered as long as the world stands (and so was remembered as long as the world stood), or without a name thou didst cohere as nameless with the countless multitude; whether the glory which surrounded thee surpassed all human description, or the judgment passed upon thee was the most severe and dishonoring human judgement can pass — eternity asks of thee and of every individual among these million millions only one question, whether thou hast lived in despair or not, whether thou wast in despair in such a way that thou didst not know thou wast in despair, or in such a way that thou didst hiddenly carry this sickness in thine inward parts as thy gnawing secret, carry it under thy heart as the fruit of a sinful love, or in such a way that thou, a horror to others, didst rave in despair.