Sentences with phrase «overwhelmed by»

Maybe custom and habit and the quotidian ramble are just The things we need to keep us from being overwhelmed by the profligacy Of miracle, the huge of the tiny, the gift of every single thing there ever is.

When pastors try to master ministry on their own, they are overwhelmed by the fearfulness of it.

On the shore of a mountain lake at sunset, we are overwhelmed by beauty.

Shortly after the famous psychologist Abraham Maslow suffered a near - fatal heart attack, he wrote in a letter: «The confrontation with death — and the reprieve from it — makes everything look so precious, so sacred, so beautiful, that I feel more strongly than ever the impulse to love it, to embrace it, and to let myself be overwhelmed by it.

But he was quickly overwhelmed by the white majority.

If they didn't feel overwhelmed by their shortcomings, they wouldn't be there in the first place.

As a result, we find ourselves trapped in a cultural ecosystem that is constantly disappointed and overwhelmed by stories that are momentary.

Of being reminded of & overwhelmed by the realization of God's fingerprint in my story and how my story is so intertwined with others stories and that God has ordered it all!

Sometimes we are overwhelmed by the sheer hugeness or complexity of something.

But now that Israel had been overwhelmed by these nations, one could only do one of two things: either acknowledge that their gods had done the overwhelming, and thus deny YHWH; or assert that YHWH himself had overwhelmed his people, and thus deny the power of the gods of Babylon.

They would either call order an illusion or else be so overwhelmed by the failure of the world to conform to their preferred patterns of order that they would fail to affirm the order that does exist.

Having been overwhelmed by other nations, Israel had two choices: either acknowledge that their gods had done the overwhelming, and thus deny YHWH; or assert that YHWH himself had overwhelmed his own people, and thus deny the power of the gods of Babylon.

It is directed to those who feel overwhelmed by the complexity of the issues they face.

On that rainy February day, Turner told me that he'd come back from Iraq and felt like the bomb defuser in the movie «The Hurt Locker,» who goes into a grocery store and is overwhelmed by the mesmerizing variety of cereals.

It was a feeling of complete glory and being overwhelmed by God's goodness and kindness.»

Churches serving as unofficial shelters can quickly find themselves overwhelmed by demand and logistics.

We think we have to choose between being overwhelmed by the truth or pretending the truth doesn't exist.

I've been overwhelmed by the response, and so grateful for your input.

But there are many youngsters who have been brought up in the Faith but who in adolescence are overwhelmed by the atheist intellectual atmosphere of our times and who begin to assume that you can't have a modern scientific outlook and also be a Catholic - that God can not be demonstrated to exist at all.

And as the individual relinquishes his negative, aggressive feelings toward himself and toward life, he finds himself overwhelmed by strong positive ones such as love, friendliness, peacefulness.

With all the fascination that detail could exert upon his scholarly mind, the author never appears overwhelmed by it.

I have been overwhelmed by the generosity and support of so many friends, bloggers, writers, readers, pastors, and churches.

Crisis intervention takes place whenever one person responds to another human being who is overwhelmed by his own feelings and is unable to function in his normal manner.

What is needed in place of this is what most clergymen already have — an intense interest in helping someone who is in trouble, the ability to conceptualize a problem, and the ability not to be overwhelmed by the person's feelings of depression or confusion.

Socialist healthcare this, free handouts this, equal pay for unequal work that... even this poor elderly man has been overwhelmed by this nonsense.

It is evident that the Spirit is working on him, for now that he is without the law, he admits that he feels «unmoored, overwhelmed by choice.»

Overwhelmed by sentimentality, Asbury realizes that martyrdom is going to be denied and he must come to terms with mystery.

Any Victorian would have readily agreed with the philosophical injunction that the virtuous person will put «reason in the driver's seat,» lest the conscience be overwhelmed by some sudden outburst of passion.

For many of us it is the only time in our lives when we truly stand in awe and are overwhelmed by wonder.

He is writing about being overcome or overwhelmed by whatever people are baptized into.

Sometimes they were overwhelmed by feelings of depression and abandonment.

We have even, in moments of grace, been so drawn to intimacy with Christ that we are overwhelmed by the prospect of such a relationship to the Divine passion, such commitment from such a lover.

Having only just arrived at the World Meeting of Families, here we were at Panera, already impatient with our children, overwhelmed by the crowds, and angry with ourselves for failing to live up to the ideal of Catholic family life.

But the prophet is overwhelmed by the sense of Yahweh's coerciveness.

But when you recall that the word «baptism» means «immersion into» or «overwhelmed by» or «fully identified with» then these passages become much more clear.

This gives the individual who is overwhelmed by the trauma he encounters in society something to do within the direction of an answer.»

One of my favorite anxiety moments in the Bible is found in 1 Kings 19 when Elijah is so overwhelmed by his circumstances that he wants to end his life.

Within a few days, hundreds of blog posts, signs, and tweets started pouring in, and I was overwhelmed by the creativity and insight brought to this conversation from Christians from around the world.

6 The punishment inflicted on him by the majority is sufficient.7 Now instead, you ought to forgive and comfort him, so that he will not be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.

Overwhelmed by these contradictory theories, we cry out with Mary, «They have taken away my lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.»

I have been overwhelmed by the love this congregation has shown us over the last year, and it's an honor to be asked to speak at a place that feels like home and among people I consider family.

I was more than a little overwhelmed by the responses, both the sheer number and the content, but I did my best to respond to each one.

For his part, Sam's father, overwhelmed by the responsibilities of being a single parent and his apparently unlimited liability in the face of Sam's seemingly interminable dependence on him, lived his life as though his identity were simply that of the man whose son has an appalling medical history, whose wife has committed suicide, who alone is responsible for caring for his almost unmanageable son for the rest of his life.

As the blog posts and signs continue to roll in, I am overwhelmed by the creativity, humor, and insight you've brought to the Rally to Restore Unity.

Being a part of a church plant has forced me to confront a vicious cycle in my life, a cycle that goes something like this: 1) I resolve in my head to live like Jesus in community with those around me, 2) I start reading Shane Claiborne books and memorizing the Sermon on the Mount, 3) I get overwhelmed by how impossible it all seems, 4) I get distracted by work and daily tasks, 5) I give up, 6) I feel guilty.

watch the big mouths keep silent, overwhelmed by the power of his words.

The inexpressible sadness of our era is that as soon as the dream is revived it dies, overwhelmed by the harsh realities of a world where finally only military might settles international disputes and where even the prospect of total annihilation can not generate a sustained effort for the abolition of war.

The handful of earlier verses in the koran that speak of tolerance (when mohammad was weak and needed to rearm and resupply) are overwhelmed by an avalanche of later ones that carry a much different message of hate, punishment and DEATH.

He came late on a winter night, when King was overwhelmed by fear after receiving yet another call from someone angrily threatening his life.

The second is the normal nature of the physicality of the soul, which explains why it can be overwhelmed by emotion and creativity.