Sentences with phrase «see despair»

But I'm distressed to see the despair of recently anointed law school graduates from a distance.

It almost seems as though where some see despair and horror, others see a PR opportunity, so who knows?

«To see the despair and shock in peoples» faces, it was emotionally draining,» he said.

The Diaper Bank also raises awareness of the diaper crisis in communities that may not directly see the despair created by the lack of a basic necessity for proper childcare.

See the video below and tell me whether you see despair or hope?

Anyone interested in a front row seat to see the despair that divorce or co-parenting issues can have on a parent and how the actions impact the child.

He has done his best for this club and I always see the despair on his face whenever he substituted - I know he loves this club and its culture but it just has not worked out for him.

You've ever thrown both hands up while driving in the hopes that the driver in front of you sees your despair in their rearview mirror.

Not exact matches

We've been told that we need to save more, that housing prices are unsustainable, that bailouts in Europe will help solve the globe's economic problems, only to see Greece and Italy descend further into despair.

Seeing my timeline during the convention last night made me despair.

You can see the water, or you know it's there, or you actually own a water allocation but have been told that you can't use it — don't despair.

Sadly, you also often hear about suicides, and there are few parents I know who don't despair when they see the blue glow from the bedroom where their child should be asleep.

This is possible to be happening, given that the traditional financial industry, kept in itself, without being able to see that there are new ways of doing transactions, until the idea of money created by the blockchain - bitcoin technology emerged, this left the industry on the verge of despair.

Psalm 27:13,14 (NAS) «I would have despaired unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord... Be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord.»

And it is because I see this problem as so far from solution, yet so central to my own sense of satisfaction with our public life, that I despair over our government's lack of commitment to its resolution.

The human - ness of all of us calls us to look back to see how our lives were — can I leave this earth with a sense of integrity or am I filled with despair?

In our time, a great many such people are worried and angry about the secularism, violence, cynicism, and despair they see welling up about them.

I have seen the shadow of despair that haunts many of them in the absence of a sustaining faith.

In that wrenching time, ancient Israel faced the temptation of denial — the pretense that there had been no loss — and it faced the temptation of despair — the inability to see any way out.

They see some who have turned to alcohol or other drugs to ease the emptiness and despair of a meaningless life.

But poverty is aggravating, terrorism by States and rebels who receive weapons from sources and countries where private arms industries flourish is hyper - active, the molested and downgraded gender and bonded labour see no relief in sight and marginalized Third World peoples and the Fourth World of utter destitution are in despair, with a Fifth World of refugees emerging everywhere with nowhere to go, despite Refugee Laws and the Red Cross.

It would learn these things not principally from the «content» of the stories but from their «form»; whether a novel is, like O'Connor's, an experience of coming to belief within a recognizably Christian universe, or, like Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse - Five, an experience of deepening despair over the ways of the universe, it would see them both as parabolic stories.

For if the time comes when despair sees violence as the only possible way, it is because Christians were not what they should have been.

In response to those who despair or who think that suffering is useless and so see suicide and euthanasia as quick ways out, Farmer recognises that the temptations to lose faith, to look inwards in anger and resentment, are all too real.

Thus — speaking as a Christian — I say that while I can not call violence good, legitimate, and just, I find its use condonable (1) when a man is in despair and sees no other way out, or (2) when a hypocritically just and peaceful situation must be exposed for what it is in order to end it.

From Nadia Bolz Weber «The Sarcastic Lutheran»: «So when I reject my identity as beloved child of God and turn to my own plans of self - satisfaction, or I despair that I haven't managed to be a good enough person, I again see our divine Parent running toward me uninterested in what I've done or not done, who covers me in divine love and I melt into something new like having again been moved from death to life and I reconcile aspects of myself and I reconcile to others around me.

Having said this, we must also say that the life of faith in relation to the life of vision is one of darkness, for we do not yet see the consummation of which faith gives the certainty.14 Again, in relation to reason, faith gives freedom, security, and deliverance from despair (Gal.

We see only the thinnest slice of human violence and sometimes despair.

I don't need to share in other people's religion or spiritual beliefs to respect them and see how in so many cases it brings them so much strength and peace in times of despair.

But we can also see pockets of Third World poverty, despair and institutional collapse.

The prophetic allows «the evil» to find the direction that leads toward God, and to enter into the good; the apocalyptic sees good and evil severed forever at the end of days, the good redeemed, the evil unredeemable for all eternity; the prophetic believes that the earth shall be hallowed, the apocalyptic despairs of an earth which it considers to be hopelessly doomed... (Moses, p. 188; Israel and the World, «The Power of the Spirit,» pp. 176 - 179.)

The seeds for mid-career despair are sown when, looking back, we see that so much of the calling seems to have been neglected.

I see evidence of it in the peace that washes over me in moments when I used to only feel despair.

See Nordentoft, Kierkegaard's Psychology, 75: «This synthesis - structure is a potential, and the possibilities it contains are, in brief, two: completion or despair.»

If you choose to go this way, there are only two possibilities: either you deceive yourself about yourself, forgetting that you are a sinful man, confusing the demands of God with the standards of middle - class integrity and thus satisfying yourself; or you really take God's will seriously and fall into despair when you see that you can never be just before that will.

But, in the final verse which can be taken as a summary of the whole second discourse, even their despair is seen as a temporary tribulation that will be put aside because of Jesus» victory over the world.

But now, as we have seen, sin is that despair which has been still further potentiated and qualitatively potentiated, and so this surely must be exceedingly rare!

This is everywhere to be seen, most clearly in the maximum and minimum of despair.

If one were to talk to him thus, he would perhaps understand it in a dispassionate moment, but soon passion would again see falsely, and so again he takes the wrong turn into despair.

«In the Great War we see heroism and cruelty standing side by side, we see cynical disillusionment and moral determination intertwining and we see hope and despair in equal measure and on every side.

This sort of despair is seldom seen in the world, such figures generally are met with only in the works of poets, that is to say, of real poets, who always lend their characters this «demoniac» ideality (taking this word in the purely Greek sense).

Anxiety turns us toward courage, because the other alternative is despair (see Chapter 6).

And herein consists the obscurity, especially in all lower forms of despair, and in almost all despairers, that with such passionate clearness a man sees and knows over what he is in despair, but about what it is escapes his notice.

Or (to mention a case which is more rarely to be seen in real life, but which dialectically is entirely correct) this despair of immediacy occurs through what the immediate man calls an all - too - great good fortune; for it is a fact that immediacy as such is prodigiously fragile, and every quid nimis [excess] which demands of it reflection brings it to despair.

In the mid -»70s a new despair permeates America, unlike anything we have seen since the 1930s.

Already a movement is under way to improve end - of - life care by educating health - care providers to respond better to the needs of dying patients, by creating new care settings or improving existing ones, by seeking changes in methods of paying for appropriate care, by educating the public through conferences, town meetings, television programming, and even Web sites (see www.careproject.net), by providing adequate relief of pain, by withholding or withdrawing treatments that only prolong dying, by keeping company with those who are lonely, and by being a resource of meaning and hope for those tempted to despair.

Surely if anything is omnipresent to our experience it is these two orders, yet to see them clearly for what they are has been very nearly the despair of all human philosophy.

Faith means to hear Jesus as God's Word to us, and see him as God's victory; and that alone means the end of despair.

I want to show that the churches have been victims of parasites, most often quite charming parasites, and that the exhaustion and despair we see in the faces of our pastors can, to some extent, be attributed to the energy sucked out of their veins by cheerful co-religionists who mock their host even as they grow fat on his livelihood, his patrimony.

Gill Sewell explained: «When you see a lot of despair and darkness in the world, it's lovely to have a space where you can go and be quiet, still and reflective alongside other people who are also seeking peace and goodness in the world.»