Sentences with phrase «self into despair»

Niebuhr used this phrase to describe the initial work of grace that shatters the sinful self into despair and repentance (conversion).

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But in an intemperate and immoral woman, self - esteem can never be more than a posture or an illusory construction that eventually crumbles and collapses into self - contempt; self - contempt which, if it does not find redemption, can lead to despair.

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.

When then the whole of existence has been altered for the immediate man and he has fallen into despair, he goes a step further, he thinks thus, this has become his wish: «What if I were to become another, were to get myself a new self?»

As we face our obstacles to spiritual growth, there are times when it is easy to fall into a sense of despair and self - diminishment and lose our confidence on the path.

If a man really develops with the years, if he ripens into essential consciousness of the self, he may perhaps despair in a higher form.

Newbigin is absolutely right that Christianity, or at any rate Christian mission and apologetics, is always involved in a pluralist tension — the tension between confidence in God and uncertainty about living out that truth in the world, between faith as God's gift and understanding as a form of growing discovery, between knowing who God is and seeking to bring that knowledge into situations of despair or resistance, not to say anything about the diversity and conflict of views among self - avowed Christians.

[Religion] is a challenge to self - pity and despair, temptations common to all of us, but especially to those born into the wrong social class....

His sorrow, his concern, his despair, is selfish (like the dread of sin which at times almost frightens a man into sin) because it is self - love which would like to be proud of itself, like to be without sin — and consolation is what he is least in need of, wherefore also the prodigious quantity of consoling thoughts the physicians of the soul prescribe only make the sickness worse.

For precisely this it is he despairs of, and to his torment it is precisely this he can not do, since by despair fire has entered into something that can not burn, or can not burn up, that is, into the self.

If a man in despair is as he thinks conscious of his despair, does not talk about it meaninglessly as of something which befell him (pretty much as when a man who suffers from vertigo talks with nervous self - deception about a weight upon his head or about its being like something falling upon him, etc., this weight and this pressure being in fact not something external but an inverse reflection from an inward experience), and if by himself and by himself only he would abolish the despair, then by all the labor he expends he is only laboring himself deeper into a deeper despair.

is interpreted as God's mercy attempting to keep man from hiding, from entering into self - reproach, self - torment, and religious despair.

Despite plenty of scientific evidence that diets don't produce lasting results for most people and despite countless numbers of dieters, most of them women, thrown into a lifetime of damaging despair, low self - esteem, and self - hatred thanks to failing diets, our culture still blindly adheres to the low - calorie diet as the panacea for all life's problems, including those extra pounds.

Do you find yourself dipping into a state of self - pity or despair every now and then?

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Like quicksand, these self - defeating thoughts pull us even deeper into despair and we may become seduced by seclusion.