Sentences with phrase «people face the death»

The sick person faces death in the company of the church militant and triumphant through viaticum and the anointing with oil.

As he heard the speaker describe the anxiety and resistance of basically affluent people facing death after a comfortable life, he could think only of the many people he knew, like his parents and relatives, who suffer so much so unjustly.

All of these people face the death penalty under Iraq's counterterrorism law.

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Bradley has been charged with knowingly transporting people who are in the country illegally, and if convicted could face the death penalty.

Even when faced with the worst of tragedies, such as a death in the family, resilient people collect, plan, and act until things are back to normal.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP)- Four white people are facing charges in the deaths of two black men whose bodies were found dismembered and chained to cinder...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP)-- Four white people are facing charges in the deaths of two black men whose bodies were found dismembered and chained to cinder blocks in an Oklahoma City pond, but the prosecutor handling the case said Thursday the killings are not believed to be racially motivated.

Whoever, in the face of the martyrs» suffering and death, asserts that their monotheism and their confession of Christ is a source of violence, demonstrates a degree of thoughtlessness that holds people in contempt.

Face it, the main reason for religion in most people's lives is fear of death and hope for something afterward.

There is always the need for a person (who is facing death) to satisfy themselves in the context of «you have lived out a good and decent life».

For someone who is young and, hopefully, a long way from your the time of your own death, you have captured the essence of the needs of a person facing their own impending death.

Let's face it, the belief that an infitely old, all - knowing sky - god, powerful enough to create the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies, will cause people to survive their own phsical deaths and live happily ever after in heaven, if they follow some random laws laid down in Bronze Age Palestine = Judaism.

To multitudes of people today independence does not mean Socrates, facing death and saying, «Men of Athens, I honor and love you, but I will obey God rather than you»; it means, «The heck with old rules!»

Washington (CNN)-- One man's face, even 406 years after his death, has become an icon for people looking to stand up to power.

One of the important discoveries in the experience of counseling is that for a person to begin the search for himself is like facing death.

Ceremonials play an important part in helping people of all ages face death and face away from it.

People today face complex problems, difficult decisions, and increasingly ambiguous choices about matters of life and death.

More necessary than the calculus of people's scores is a disciplined sensitivity to the narratives they construct in the face of death and absurdity.

My ultimate standard of moral judgment is found when I face the questions: Does this act bring life or does it bring death to the persons involved?

The real problem here is that Islam is controlled not by its moderates, but by its radicals — the radicals who appear in YouTube videos describing the «proper» way to beat your wife or who advocate the extinction of another race of people, or demand that non-Muslims convert or possibly face death.

people do realize it's not these Muslims many of us feel uncomfortable around... it's the ones who think the girl in the picture should be stoned to death because we can see her face and she's smiling... we don't like the ones who want to kill us

A people who lack courage in the face of death, whether on neighborhood streets or in the hospital bed, will be hard pressed to resist the temptation to abandon the neighbor or to discard the just war discipline, say, by engaging in preventative strikes against an uncertain threat.

I know it's not a life or death issue, but how can people support a man that just told them a bald - faced lie??

I guess facing the prospect of a lifetime of nagging, never having «marital relations» again and fear of death is seems rational to some people.

We must face the Anti-Christ (whomever he may be) and undergo the persecution, then at God's appointed time, Christ will take His people up (the Rapture) to be with Him, but the Anti-Christ will remain on earth, and those «left behind» will have an opportunity to accept Christ as Savior, but will face death for doing so.

Dr. Boerma earlier warned that if help did not reach Bangladesh by Christmas 1974, 1 million persons would face imminent death.

If refusal to face squarely the fact of death is found so widely in these days, so also is loss of belief in a continuation of human existence, beyond death, in what used to be called the «after - life» It is indeed true that among conventionally - minded church - people and many others there is a vague feeling that when the body dies the «soul» goes on.

John and Darwin, like all the people who reject the Lord Jesus Christ you put your hope in the appearance of today rather than the hopelessness that awaits you when you face death and the grave.

If they had shouted «fire» in a crowded elevator and people had been stampeded to death, they would have had to face consequences.

Both men spoke not as private persons but instead quoted from our deepest public memories, which are eloquent in the face of death when we, as solitary individuals encased in our personal experiences of loss, so often are wordless with grief.

The pastor described the typical stages people go through when they are faced with an impending and untimely death.

The death - of - God myth symbolically articulates, from within the Christian perspective which is my religious framework, my own inability any longer to affirm anything more in the way of grace and love than the human faces and voices and bodies around me, those persons with whom I enter into relationships of various kinds and intensities and patterns of communion and brokenness.

You used to run into people in the bake shop, the butchers, the candle - stick maker, the church narthex and the women's relief society... So there were plenty of opportunities to discuss all manner of things and to share life, seasons, festivals, deaths... Modern life, suburbia, commuting, everyone working at all hours... has killed much of this face to face life and contact in so many spheres, depending on where you live.

RD.. How path - et - ic to see your hate and fear driving you to death...!?! Man pull your self together and have the courage to face the returns of your deeds... Wars were always there in life whether were religious or not so stop doing it on your self... Beside learn to wish people well whether you agree or disagree with might you succeed in life rather than being a loser... by being a cowered... My posts were meant for the friendly people I had known for some time, whom I found they were full of compassion and not for black hearted one's like you who hate all God creations...

Psalm 107 lays out four different groups of people who are facing misery, despair, and even death.

If it can be proved that these people have a genuine faith, and that they would face death if they returned, then they will be granted permission to remain in the UK.

People have often fled countries where they face certain death or torture.

We begin by agreeing that the good death is the one that happens when we are among our own, surrounded not by beeping meters and blinking monitors but by the faces of family and people who care.

To quote Paul again: «Now if the ministry of death, chiseled in letters on stone tablets, came in glory so that the people of Israel could not gaze at Moses» face because of the glory of his face, a glory now set aside, how much more will the ministry of the Spirit come in glory?

While many people I've known who are facing death make radical changes in order to die well, I occasionally meet some who change very little.

It is the free person, God's creature, facing the ultimate issues of life and death, but facing them in their final dimensions, and making decisions which arise from the creative courage of one who has faced and accepted the conditions of real life.

Bottom line is that people don't want to believe they will cease to exist after death so have invented a fairy tale to be able to face the inevitable.

«On the one hand, we have somebody who - if he isn't redeemed - faces death or danger or captivity, versus a theoretical possibility that someone could be harmed if these people go back to terror,» he said.

I had always thought that if the wartime Gestapo ordered me to kill ten Jews or face death myself, the proper (and under these specific circumstances, Christian) response was to kill the person who gave me the order (with a distant second place to simply awaiting death).

So in the Book of Daniel we find this conviction stated: «Many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt,» (Daniel 12:2) and in two late Isaian passages a similar expectation is expressed: «He hath swallowed up death for ever; and the Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the reproach of his people will he take away from off all the earth: for Yahweh hath spoken it»; (Isaiah 25:8) «Thy dead shall live; my dead bodies shall arise.

She is able to declare that «I now do believe in a life after death, beyond a shadow of a doubt,» and she suggests that «truly religious people with a deep abiding relationship with God have found it much easier to face death with equanimity.»

Updike's fiction has been obsessed with death ever since his first novel, The Poorhouse Fair, described a group of elderly people facing their slow doom in a nursing home.

He faced death and died in such a way that people are forced to face the important questions of life.

-- someone touched me, woke me out of my dreams of desertion and death, spoke to me face to face, voice to ear, person to person, and gave me food and drink.