I think you're trying to point out some inconsistencies in common Christian beliefs, and I probably agree with at least some of your points, but it's hard to get clear on what you're
saying through the anger and insults.
Not exact matches
Let me repeat what I
said above — that the Christian can not participate in a movement that makes violence and men's
anger a factor in its strategy; nor can he credit an ideology that promises to establish a new order
through violence.
I am speaking of... what every one must know in his own case: how difficult it is to command himself, and do what he wishes to do; how weak the governing principle of his mind is, and how poorly and imperfectly he comes up to his own notions of right and truth; how difficult it is to command his feelings, grief,
anger, impatience, joy, fear; how difficult to govern his own tongue, to
say just what he would; how difficult to rouse himself to do what he would, at this time or that; how difficult to rise in the morning; how difficult to go about his duties and not be idle; how difficult to eat and drink just what he should, how difficult to regulate his thoughts
through the day; how difficult to keep out of his mind what should be kept out of it.
I don't mind reason # 1, but it's reason # 2 that I continuously ask myself, why bother preaching Jesus to them, why do I even bother showering the love of Jesus to those that continuously spits out rubbish and vile to the Man who never fails to soothe my pain and wipe my tears dry every night — who has NO IDEA of the beauty and heavenly love of God, NO IDEA of the
anger and pain the Almighty went
through in the Old Testament, NO IDEA of His heart and the love that He is capable of, NO IDEA of the meaning of the Cross and the things that were nailed to it, NO IDEA of what they're
saying at all.
Gregory
said that he had been able to find freedom from
anger and hate
through fasting and adopting a vegetarian diet.
Appollonius continued to explain incarnation, the Word becoming flesh and the revelation of God
through Jesus Christ and his passion, victory over sin and went on to
say that,» He has taught us to rein in our
anger, to direct our desires, to restrain our instincts, to dissipate our sorrows.
The cord running
through Western theology, from Ambrose to Anselm and beyond, that only the violent sacrifice of a perfect and sinless Jesus could appease a God whose honor has been affronted and whose
anger has been aroused is, as Michael Welker
says, «nothing less than destructive of faith.»
But when my questions evolved into the kind without easy answers, Dad refused to respond with empty platitudes or weak apologetics, and instead simply took my hand, walked with me
through all the pain and
anger and fear that accompanies religious doubt, and
said, «I don't know, Rachel.
Unhealthy
anger has been strolling
through the ranks for a while now, masquerading itself as passion or exhortation or social justice, and we've
said, «Yes, go ahead.
Singer and actress Cher, who told the crowd she has lived
through 12 Presidents,
said protesters have to use their
anger for good.
«I think the petition has spread simply
through passion,
anger, frustration, and the love my petition signers have for New York and its rich history,» Mann
said.
He
said the internet had «fostered an
anger and a bitterness» and he noted that «all the death threats I have had as an MP have all been
through social media, either Twitter or Facebook or emails».
«While I share the disappointment and sadness felt by millions of people across America in the decision made by the grand jury in St. Louis County not to indict Officer Darren Wilson, I hope we can honor the memory of Michel Brown
through peaceful protests and peaceful dialogue, instead of
anger and violence,»
said Congressman Charles Rangel.
Robb
said the division among the advocates ultimately «reflects the pain and
anger advocates, survivors go
through.
«A common setup for
anger is not thinking about what the other person is going
through,»
says Alice Domar, PhD, executive director of the Domar Center for Mind / Body Health in Boston.
Let's just
say that he's working out some
anger issues and resentment
through his story, which we see played out on the screen as Susan reads page after page with increasing alarm and dread.
She must find a way to
say goodbye to the love of her life, travel
through the fear and
anger of her loss, and stand up for her rights as Orlando's partner —
through authentic use of her own voice.
The reason for this quest is told
through a series of cut scenes whose drama won't be spoiled here, but it's safe to
say that
anger and rage are his driving forces.
«In three thirds of the film, she is going
through anxiety, depression, desperation,
anger, rage,»
says Cruz about her character.
There are those who
say the sound my country makes at night, the sound I hear when flying, the sound my nation exhales as it sleeps, is the sound of prayer, the sound of Jesus Christ arising from the basalt in the Rockies, splitting hearts of granite as he shakes off chains of time and is reborn, and there are those who claim the sound my nation makes at night is the metallic hiss of money in the forge or the sound of slavery's jism misspent in
anger and assimilation, or that the sound my nation makes is the sizzle of cosmetic simulation, the sound the cutting edge of surgical removal makes, the sound of History slipping into coma, cosmic silence, almost total,
through which, in my dream of flying, I perceive a hopeful distant note — the sound my country makes — a note so confirming and annunciatory that it seems to bend into itself, bend into its own impending future like an announcing angel comin» round the mountain, bend the way a shadow bends, conforming to the curvature of Earth, wailing gently
through the night.
It's not all about what's
said and heard
through conversation, since purposefully visible displays of emotion such as worry, fear, or
anger are often the most important signs of all.
On seeing the Mona Lisa she
said: «I looked
through the doorway and the excitement quickly turned to frustration and
anger.
«Everybody's path is going to be very different and unique, and they need to be respected in that path and the choices that they make,»
said Nichole Hockley, whose 6 - year - old son, Dylan, was one of 26 people shot to death on Dec. 14, 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. «Grief can express itself in so many ways and cycle
through multiple points during the day: shock, denial,
anger, blame, sadness.
I support the two of you
through this process largely by helping you
say, and feel, «the most true thing», which is often hiding underneath the
anger and frustration which has brought so many to seek couples counseling.
Once he gains awareness of let's
say, his
anger, in the playroom, and expresses it
through symbolic play, it gets processed and its intensity fades, and over a few sessions that
anger becomes only a memory and slips into the past, where it no longer causes outbursts or aggression.
Are you
saying that at the end of this process, actually just going
through the dividing of assets — which is really, in the end, all you're trying to do — actually makes people's
anger dissipate?
Dr Laura Markham likes to
say all kids have an emotional backpack they carry around and when they feel safe they unload it
through tears
anger or laughter.