Sentences with phrase «own wretchedness»

Yet that experience of putrid beauty in art offers a glimpse of the libertine's mingled pleasure and wretchedness, and is arguably more powerful for it.

And when I look on my people I see them work and work and toil and labor, and at the end of the week they have only for their wages wretchedness and misery.

He knew that the wretchedness of Judah had reached such desperate proportions that a holy God must act, that the very depth of the lowliness of his people called into question God's honor.

In the face of abysmal wretchedness she asserted the sole sovereignty and the unfailing justice of her God, and interpreted her calamities as his appointment in punishment for her sins.

That is, God had to make us capable of evil, so that in our wretchedness he could show us the power of a love that sees sin quite realistically, but wipes it away and gives us to share in his own power of loving.

We can't sell even ourselves on God's participation in the cross of Christ by resorting to what Bonhoeffer called «clerical tricks» — stressing the wretchedness of the human condition so that people will be driven to resort to the church's theological nostrums.

It is admittedly a choice of evils, and admittedly it can be abused, as when resorted to merely as a convenience rather than to escape probable future wretchedness.

Augustine observed infants and concluded that they epitomized «the wretchedness of the human condition.»

That place is our human condition that is spelled out in Watergate; mangled bodies and land in Indochina; dry, dusty, suffering starvation in Africa; inconceivable poverty, oppression and torture in South America; humiliation and wretchedness in the slums here «at home»: and all this supported by economic structures and a system which we have supported and which destroys human beings and rapes the good earth.

The 17thcentury philosopher Blaise Pascal wrote, «Being unable to cure death, wretchedness and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.»

So also in the Christian terminology death is the expression for the greatest spiritual wretchedness, and yet the cure is simply to die, to «die from.»

So then in the Christian understanding of it not even death is the sickness unto death, still less everything which is called earthly and temporal suffering: want, sickness, wretchedness, affliction, adversities, torments, mental sufferings, sorrow, grief.

Yes, when late autumn comes, even the flower can speak the wisdom of the years and say with truthfulness, «All has its time, there is «a time to be born and a time to die»; there is a time to jest lightheartedly in the spring breeze, and a time to break under the autumn storm; there is a time to burst forth into blossom, beside the running water, beloved by the stream, and a time to wither and be forgotten; a time to be sought out for one's beauty, and a time to be unnoticed in one's wretchedness; there is a time to be nursed with care, and a time to be cast out with contempt; there is a time to delight in the warmth of the morning sun and a time to perish in the night's cold.

The wretchedness of religion is at once an expression of and a protest against real wretchedness.

Just as our joy is turned into wretchedness, so also is our wretchedness turned into joy.

For as the Church prays, the sufferings we endure, if taken to Christ in the Sacrament designed for forgiveness, can bring us «increase of grace and the reward of eternal life», or, quoting from St Vincent de Paul, «the throne of God's mercy isset on my wretchedness».

The collect for ash weds is helpful here — ... create in us new and contrite hearts, that, lamenting our sin and acknowledging our wretchedness (= helpless to do it ourselves), we may receive from you, the God of all mercy, perfect forgiveness and peace, through our Lord Jesus Christ.

I want to be and remain in the church and little flock of the fainthearted, the feeble and the ailing, who feel and recognize the wretchedness of their sins, who sigh and cry to God incessantly for comfort and help, who believe in the forgiveness of sins.»

But as this unmaking of religion reveals that religion is «true», in the sense that it is an invention of human beings to compensate for and to sublimate their real wretchedness, a second kind of criticism has to follow: religion has to be made false, i.e., the secular world has to be changed.

My greatest pleasure would have been to marry the girl to whom I was engaged; God knows how much I wanted to: but here again is my wretchedness.

The first third of the work — a series of aphoristic reflections on man's «vanity» and «wretchedness,» as well as his «greatness» — culminates in a series of paradoxes under the chapter heading «Contradictions,» in which Pascal attempts a religious synthesis of these two contrasting themes.

[6] We grow a hard shell which we use to protect ourselves from admitting our own wretchedness and our need for God's mercy.

They come to the belief blog because they are absolutely convinced that spiritual people are responsible for their chronic wretchedness.

Yet the creative impulse of the human spirit seems equally forceful in situations of wretchedness.

He really goes further, and reaches faith; for all these caricatures of faith, the miserable lukewarm indolence which thinks, «There surely is no instant need, it is not worth while sorrowing before the time,» the pitiful hope which says, «One can not know what is going to happen... it might possibly be after all» — these caricatures of faith are part and parcel of life's wretchedness, and the infinite resignation has already consigned them to infinite contempt.

And by disbelief I do not mean some sort of brave rejection of the doctrine, some defiant demand flung at heaven for possession of one's own soul; I mean merely the impotence of an imagination that finds the very notion of sin incomprehensible, the conscience of a man who is sure that, whatever sin might be, it surely lies lightly upon a soul as decent as his own, and can be brushed off with a single casual stroke of a primly gloved hand; I mean an habitual insensibility to the illuminations and chastisements of beauty, a condition of being wholly at home in a world from which mystery and sin and glory have all been banished, and in which spiritual wretchedness has become material contentment.

Why do Christian institutions take part in pressuring the Israelis to place themselves once again in mortal danger and throw the history — and faith — laden parts of the city back into wretchedness?

Life, then as now, often seemed a helterskelter affair of pleasure and wretchedness befalling men with no discernible relation to their moral quality.

There is another way that I also will not follow — the way of an existentialism based on the wretchedness of the human condition, where philosophy provides the questions and religion the answers.

You've accepted your wretchedness, I have accepted that you ARE wretched.

To quote Pascal himself: «Being unable to cure death, wretchedness and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.

People commit suicide because they have lost hope that their wretchedness can be overcome.

Only in him, in his cross, is the wretchedness of man made fully apparent.

Almighty and everlasting God, you hate nothing you have made and forgive the sins of all who are penitent: Create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we, worthily lamenting our sins and acknowledging our wretchedness, may obtain of you, the God of all mercy, perfect remission and forgiveness; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever.

The call of Christ is not a call to perpetual wretchedness; craven cowering is not the goal of Christian life.

If I offer up this prayer, how can I live in contradiction with this prayer — to flee my neighbor, to flee my neighbor's wretchedness?

Paul in his letter to the Romans (which has been quoted) chapter 7 including chapter 8 reveals our wretchedness but gives us a way out.

Such is the Divine Mercy of the Son of God, who becomes a man, assuming the wretchedness of sinful humanity, sin excepted, in order to deliver it from death and eternal damnation.

Wretchedness consists in being deprived of what one ought to have.

Perfect mercy consists intaking on oneself the wretchedness of another, to deliver him from it.

But now the temple stands completed, its ritual long since resumed — and the same wretchedness and economic frustration prevail.

All evil, all wretchedness, is for him something dreadful; it is of the great kingdom of Satan; but he feels the power of the Saviour within him.

Yet not only did Quixote press on, he charged with fervor, absolutely resolved in their wretchedness, convinced that their elimination would bring peace to the land.

I must say that I do not mean to imply that the windmills I seek to charge this year are somehow on a level of wretchedness as those that King and the Civil Rights leaders faced down in their own day.

So the June 4 uprising and the 31st December revolution which were borne out of a state of uncontrolled corruption, wretchedness and gloom has oft been described as a coup d'état by a group of characters who ought to know better.

Such misplaced moral indignation, she wrote, «leave [s] behind one trail of people dying who might have been saved, and another of people desperate enough to offer their organs thrust back into the wretchedness they were hoping to alleviate.»

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Nothing else in Musketeer movie history comes even remotely close to its staggering wretchedness.

«Hostiles» continues the recent resurgence of the Western genre, an unsettling portrait of all the capacities America holds, both for greatness and for wretchedness.

A scene in a club where Marina tries to cauterise her wretchedness morphs into a mysterious choreographed spectacle.