Sentences with phrase «real lives of the suffering»

Walker simply has to define the God of the oppressed as containing the contingent actuality of the real lives of the suffering masses.

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But the real life Bakken is also suffering from a lack of interest, a development that doesn't bode well for the oil - producing region.

It was analytically inadequate, making an analogy between Portnoy, a fictional fetishist and pervert, and Weinstein, a real - life sociopath, a comparison that had the effect of underplaying Weinstein's crimes and diminishing real women's suffering.

This doesn't always happen, because we live in a twisted world (cf. the book of Job), but when we experience pain and suffering, it is never because God is punishing us for some real (or imagined) sin against Him.

Holiness for me was found in the mess and labour of giving birth, in birthday parties and community pools, in the battling sweetness of breastfeeding, in the repetition of cleaning, in the step of faith it took to go back to church again, in the hours of chatting that have to precede the real heart - to - heart talks, in the yelling at my kids sometimes, in the crying in restaurants with broken hearted friends, in the uncomfortable silences at our bible study when we're all weighing whether or not to say what we really think, in the arguments inherent to staying in love with each other, in the unwelcome number on the scale, in the sounding out of vowels during bedtime book reading, in the dust and stink and heat of a tent city in Port au Prince, in the beauty of a soccer game in the Haitian dust, in the listening to someone else's story, in the telling of my own brokenness, in the repentance, in the secret telling and the secret keeping, in the suffering and the mourning, in the late nights tending sick babies, in confronting fears, in the all of a life.

For example, a Heritage Foundation document titled «Time to Repeal Federal Death Taxes: The Nightmare of the American Dream» emphasizes stories that rarely, if ever, happen in real life: «Small - business owners, particularly minority owners, suffer anxious moments wondering whether the businesses they hope to hand down to their children will be destroyed by the death tax bill,... Women whose children are grown struggle to find ways to re-enter the work force without upsetting the family's estate tax avoidance plan.»

Job thought he had a good case to argue before God but the heart of it is our hearts are deceitfully wicked no matter how good we have lived we are still sinners and certainly do not deserve the grace of God.In the book of Job there are some real jewels especially why we do suffer satans plan is to destroy us but Gods plan is to build our faith hope and love towards him in our time of suffering.brentnz

Thus in dealing with the real human problems, such as the relief of suffering, the adjustment of personality, the release from fear and ignorance, the care of the physically or mentally defective or of the aged and infirm, there is nearly always a desperate shortage of living agents, and among their small number the cozily non-committed agnostic is very rarely to be found.

Even if he does not leave the spot, his life moves along a laborious path away from that wish, perhaps into useless sufferings, for we are talking of the real sufferer, hence not of the ones who have the consolation that their sufferings are serving some good cause, are of benefit to others.

Some people have speculated that the REAL reason Hitler hated the jews so much was due to a nasty case of syphillis that he suffered with most of his adult life.

It is the world in which we live and die, the world in which we grow older and suffer illness, the world of real time where our purposes have to be accomplished.

It had made him devote the rest of his life, at the cost of immense risk and suffering, to the one task of spreading the good news: that God had said «Yes» to Jesus; thus his way of life had been vindicated; that what he did and said had been true after all; that love, understanding, forgiveness, self - sacrifice are the real things that matter in the end.

I never truly felt the pain of unbelief until I began to believe,» observes Christian Wiman in My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer, a rich, beautiful, spiritually honest, theologically informed assembly of fragmentary, God - haunted reflections about suffering, death, love, life, poetry, and the shimmering gift of the real.

Tell me when you, yourself have suffered some «real» injury, significant loss of freedom or danger to your life, imprisonment, death... from a Christian.

It had made him devote the rest of his life, at the cost of immense risk and suffering, to the one task of spreading the good news: that God had said «Yes» to Jesus; that his way of life had been vindicated; that what he did and said had been true after all; that love, understanding, forgiveness, self - sacrifice are the real things that matter in the end.

Were Dostoevsky living at this hour, he might well ask whether the American reduction of nearly every aspect of human existence, including religion itself, to either entertainment or commodification constitutes a yet worse kind of herd - existence than the one Ivan describes — a subtler and therefore deadlier attempt to relieve humanity of its suffering and sin, and thus of its real character and interest.

People have rightfully lambasted you over the idea that watching a child suffer from an ear infection is a life altering trauma and giving you examples of what real life altering traumas are.

That this House expresses deep concern at the impact of the UK Government's policies on Wales; notes the UK Government's real - terms reduction of the Welsh Budget by # 1.5 bn; notes that Wales currently suffers from the lowest average rates of pay in Britain and has the highest proportion of individuals affected by cuts to social security including the Bedroom Tax; further notes that Wales suffers the highest energy bills in the UK and that these, along with low pay, have compounded the cost of living crisis in Wales; and calls on the Government to immediately scrap the Bedroom Tax, freeze energy bills and undertake measures to increase pay rates in Wales.

The main difference is that the type of stress we're used to experiencing today is most often of an emotional nature, meaning that it usually doesn't endanger our lives in a direct, real way, but still causes a certain degree of emotional suffering.

But I do struggle with the diet aspect of living a healthy life and just like an real life diet and exercise are a marriage you can not cheat and expect that you wont suffer the consequences, if you do think that way you wrong.

Clementene Coates specialises in giving a new lease of life to old, forgotten furniture which may have suffered a few knocks and bruises, but underneath it all has real beauty.

Many singles had met their significant other through the traditional way of dating but they still suffer abuse after the marriage so whether it is through online dating or traditional dating, you will only know the real color of a person when you can already live with him or her.

The new Overboard is a gender - swapped reimagining of the 1987 comedy of the same name, the one where a stuck - up heiress (Goldie Hawn) suffers amnesia and then gets convinced by a vengeful carpenter (Hawn's real - life boo, Kurt Russell) that she's a blue - collar wife and mother.

Critic Consensus: While it's certainly timely and beautifully filmed, The Bling Ring suffers from director Sofia Coppola's failure to delve beneath the surface of its shallow protagonists» real - life crimes.

Critics Consensus: While it's certainly timely and beautifully filmed, The Bling Ring suffers from director Sofia Coppola's failure to delve beneath the surface of its shallow protagonists» real - life crimes.

Spencer Tracy is a hardcase newspaper editor being sued for libel (he «s guilty), Myrna Loy is the society gal suing him, Walter Connolly is her rich father, William Powell is the newsman Casanova trying to get the goods on Myrna, and Harlow is Tracy's long - suffering fiancé, who marries Powell (Harlow's real - life inamorata) as part of the plot.

Streep stars opposite her real - life daughter Mamie Gummer, who plays her fictional daughter; Rick Springfield, who takes on the role of a Flash member in love with Ricki; and Kevin Kline, who portrays Ricki's long - suffering ex-husband.»

Afterimage: The great Polish director Andrzej Wajda's final film, and one of his best, features a towering performance by Boguslaw Linda as a real - life Polish avant - garde artist suffering for his intransigence under Communism.

Brandy is suffering under the extremely strict stewardship of her mother Patricia (Jennifer Garner), who imagines that she is «protecting» her daughter by obsessively tracking her every move, whether online or in «RL» (Real Life, dude).

Director Bennett Miller has now made three consecutive features based on real - life people and / or events, and to my mind his films suffer from a failure of imagination, skimming lightly (but often self - importantly) over the surface of the verifiable.

Although this circular dialog sounds like Abbot and Costello rhetoric, it is in fact part of the script from Glitter, Mariah Carey's semi-autobiographical film, which suffered several release date delays due to the star's real - life emotional traumas.

The most charitable way to interpret what The Greatest Showman is doing is flipping the script on Barnum, letting the «freaks» take a tale that had to be full of suffering in real life and make it their fight song.

Yes, all the stock characters and storylines are there (Helen Hunt's character becomes a storm chaser because of the trauma suffered when her father got sucked into a tornado), but tornado season in Oklahoma is a lot like a real - life disaster movie.

Atwood based it on the real life of a poor, disenfranchised, long - suffering Irish - Canadian immigrant and maid who was found guilty of murder in 1843.

Unnaturally thin, these two actors deserve real credit for committing to the art and bringing to life these characters who suffer tremendously in the name of religion.

«Witness for the Prosecution» (1957, Billy Wilder) From the famous Agatha Christie short story, Billy Wilder expertly fashions one of the screen's trickiest trial - drama / murder mysteries — with Charles Laughton as the wily, wheelchair - bound barrister, his real - life wife Elsa Lanchester as his long - suffering nurse, and Tyrone Power and Marlene Dietrich as the incendiary couple caught up in a legendary triple - reverse surprise ending.

We are all painfully aware of the real life ordeal suffered by Aron Ralston in 2003.

Movies such as Mr. Holland's Opus, Stand and Deliver, Dangerous Minds, and others can help you see that other teachers have suffered doubts but soldiered on to make a real difference in the lives of their students.

If you're tired of watching real, live people drive race cars, you won't have to suffer much longer.

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As Gob's obsessions deepen, we are taken from the battlefields at Chickamauga Creek to the society balls of New York, from innocent childhoods in Homer, Ohio, to the building of the Brooklyn Bridge; and as the machine grows, so does the amazing cast of real and imagined characters: Walt Whitman, ministering lovingly to the Civil War wounded; Mrs. Woodhull and her sister Tennessee, doing business on Wall Street and riding churning tides of scandal; Gob's friend Will Fie, a war veteran who builds a house from glass images of suffering and death; Maci Trufant, Victoria Woodhull's protege and Gob's great love; and even unnatural Pickie Beecher, a child who seems to float sinisterly between the living and the dead.

While it hardly needs saying that these reflect my personal experience of depression, I hope that the drawings convey the real anguish suffered by the one in five of us who live with this illness.

Cynics will regard this as new age naiveté, or unadorned utopianism, or a blindness to the «realities» of real life of greedy corporations, or bad bosses, or the inevitable suffering of real work.

Why did they suffer in poverty while he gave his «real» wife and son a life of luxury?

Any action that claims to be in the name of furthering animal protection but which results, directly or indirectly, in real or threatened suffering, pain, and / or taking of human or animal life is totally antithetical to this ethic of compassion that guides our actions for a more humane world.

Suffering and pain are real, and they decrease the quality of life significantly.

A list of recent, real - life examples of the kind of severe suffering that many laboratory animals experience behind the closed doors of university and company laboratories.

Please consider sponsoring one of these dog's freedom flights to Los Angeles to find love and a real life after suffering unimaginable horrors.

Puppy mills are sadly a real thing and until we make a stand to STOP supporting them — dogs will continue to suffer because of those who feel that dogs are products and not lives.

And while today the recipient of my daughter's empathy is a spider who now has a permanent home by the nightlight, she is acquiring the tools needed to allow her to make a real difference — for the better — in the life of a lonely or suffering or scared animal or person.