Sentences with phrase «something about death»

They get to see pets sometimes give birth, and they get to deal with the loss of losing a pet and understanding something about death.

So I've gotten a couple of emails asking me to say something about the death of McGovern.

Not exact matches

Finch's death also says something about the dangers of police violence.

It's something most people don't like to think about, but in the event of your death, an unpaid business loan can affect your family.

hey chut — we don't care how many comedians may know the cardinal direction of mecca while on stage as they shuffle for a laugh - something about your holy book espousing slavery or death to non-believers is really more the point of contention.

@ fimeilleur the carl sagan reference was more relevant before it became obscured by all the other posts.no one said any thing about a death bed conversion, that is something you assumed, (when you assume you make an ass of u and me) whether you believe in God or not is irrelevant, you will ultimately confront God, at that point in carls case after death you will know!.

You have to say something when your child asks you about God, life, death — comes with the job.

There is something literally death - defying about the contemporary opposition to cigarettes, a kind of rage that anyone would not choose 2.2 years of «healthy» life over a somewhat shortened and pleasurable existence, a resolute resistance to the intimations of death with which our ancestors knew how to live, and not only when they lit up.

So I doubt many will take her views seriously, since the fly in the face of what we have learned through the years about such Christians martyrs as Jim Elliot (speared to death by the Aucas and yet his son went back to be a missionary to them, because he LOVED them, something she might want to consider).

Considering it was a Mormon missionary who befriended my Grandfather and talked him into to joining the church at 70 years old, and than stole a million dollars worth of real estate from him, something the family knew nothing about until he was on his death bed, because he was too ashamed to tell anybody that he lost the family property.

believer fred, i think you said something about clinging to death helplessly, and depriving a child of the light... in different words.

(Indeed, it probably reveals something important about our age's sensibilities that we have come to find unthinkably ghoulish and unpleasant the once - venerable idea of creating a death mask as a memento of the departed.)

When, in the great movement of modern liberalism, we demythologized the state and rejected most of the metaphysical foundations of politics, we gained much» but we also lost something, and one of the things we lost is any coherent theory about the nation's continuing authority to enact such metaphysically fitting punishments as the death penalty.

There was something divine, then, rather than anything ignominious, about such a death!

If the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ tell us something profound about the mystery of who God is, they also reveal the depths of our own identity as sinners set free.

As we look at Genesis 2:16 - 17, we will be talking about Jesus Christ and Him crucified and how His death on the cross reveals something about the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

they don't mention anything about bounties on the kidnappings, kisnapping is a death penalty under federal laws — something thoes hollywood cowboys don't want to talk about --

@ Thinking man:» They had witness something so momentous, so extraordinary that when the authorities threatened with them death if they didn't shut up about Jesus Christ, they accepted death without fear.»

We wonder whether something of what he learned as he witnessed the smoke rising from Sodom and Gomorrah may have prepared Abraham for his greatest trial, enabling him to respond without so much as a peep of protest about the suffering of the innocent when God asks him to become not just an accomplice in the death of Lot but an actual killer of his own beloved son.

In some sense, indeed, Kierkegaard's life could be written as a kind of dark comedy; despite his premature death, and a great number of sadnesses that afflicted him along the way, there was something enchantingly absurd about his character, a certain benign perversity that often prompted him to make himself willfully ridiculous, and a peculiarly touching element of the ludicrous that clung to him all the way to his early grave.

Yet when most people are reading their Bibles (and they have their spiritual - colored glasses on), and read about some sort of sin that brings death, they put a spiritual twist on it, and think it is referring to spiritual death, or losing your eternal life, or something like that.

The writers insisted that God's Word is about something and what it is most immediately about is a historical event: the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus and the inbreaking of the kingdom he inaugurates.

Before we do this, however, we need to say something about what in conventional Christian idiom have been styled «the last things»: death, judgment, heaven and hell.

The way we have reacted to the death of our enemy says something about us; we must remember that when we have an enemy we make ourselves into an enemy as well, and we were horrified when our enemies celebrated in the streets because of 9/11 and yet now we are behaving the same way.

They can't handle death and need something to feel better about it.

If Philip Larkin's fine words about An Arundel Tomb (that what remains after death is our loving) are the truth — and something deep in human existence affirms that they are — then what matters most of all about any one of us is the way in which and the degree to which we are enabled to contribute, however imperfectly this must seem to us, to the delight of God and the implementation of God's will and way in the world.

When the pastor speaks of faith in eternal life, he will try to show that this faith is a declaration about present reality, not only a promise of something beyond death.

The conventional death notices in newspapers expressed, in carefully coded ways, their conviction that something was not normal about the death: «Suddenly, after a period of excellent health, our beloved son...»

We both smiled at this, and Susan commented that Plato, Augustine, and Dante might have something to show these students about the complexity of death and life alike.

But it is well to remember that not only did He interpose his body (which these days is the Church — something to think about and quite in line with the blog's point) between the woman caught in adultery and the mob out to persecute her quite literally to death, He also turned to her and said, «Go and sin no more.»

But something happened about the time I turned 30 and now thoughts of tragedy, death, and destruction occupy my thoughts.

«As clergy, we in our traditions know something about suffering, and we know something about our shared faith that love is finally stronger than anything, including hate and including death.»

Jeremy i am surprised you never countered my argument Up till now the above view has been my understanding however things change when the holy spirit speaks.He amazes me because its always new never old and it reveals why we often misunderstand scripture in the case of the woman caught in adultery.We see how she was condemned to die and by the grace of God Jesus came to her rescue that seems familar to all of us then when they were alone he said to her Go and sin no more.This is the point we misunderstand prior to there meeting it was all about her death when she encountered Jesus something incredible happened he turned a death situation into life situation so from our background as sinners we still in our thinking and understanding dwell in the darkness our minds are closed to the truth.In effect what Jesus was saying to her and us is chose life and do nt look back that is what he meant and that is the walk we need to live for him.That to me was a revelation it was always there but hidden.Does it change that we need discipline in the church that we need rules and guidelines for our actions no we still need those things.But does it change how we view non believers and even ourselves definitely its not about sin but its all about choosing life and living.He also revealed some other interesting things on salvation so i might mention those on the once saved always saved discussion.Jeremy just want to say i really appreciate your website because i have not really discussed issues like this and it really is making me press in to the Lord for answers to some of those really difficult questions.regards brentnz

JK: Could you say something about your views on immortality and the possibility of life after death?

In other words, the talk about the last things is not only, if it is at all, talk about something that happens in an imagined future state, once we have died the death which each man must die.

The talk about the «death of God», I believe, was an extraordinarily misleading, even if highly provocative, way of saying something important.

They did not use the word «death» for what was about to happen, however, and they did not speak of it as something that would happen to him.

Their son's battle with depression had been something only family friends knew about, but as his tragic death made headlines around the world, the Warrens» personal grief would be lived out in the public spotlight.

again, i totally expect you guys to talk among yourselves about how much of a sissyfied pinkass liberal commie i am or something, and i acknowledge i have never been under the threat of death, nor my loved ones, by a terrorist.

Our language is filled with euphemisms about death: somebody passed away, or «we lost Uncle Ned»; if a husband and wife discuss life insurance, one typically hears, «If something should happen to me...,» not, «When I die...» Graveyards became cemeteries and then memorial gardens, the corpse has become the remains (and a cremated corpse the cremains), burial has become interment, and the death certificate the «vital statistics form.»

i totally expect you guys to talk among yourselves about how much of a sissyfied pinkass liberal commie i am or something, and i acknowledge i have never been under the threat of death, nor my loved ones, by a terrorist.

There are certain ways of speaking about Jesus which imply, or even come near to stating, that Jesus did something to change the attitude of God to men, that somehow Jesus changed God's wrath into love, that somehow Jesus persuaded God to hold his hand and to pacify his anger to withhold his judgment of condemnation, that, to put it very crudely, Jesus by his sufferings and his death bought off God.

Something that I keep remembering about the church lately is that death ai nt» pretty and so often we judge others» journeys, try to change them if it doesn't look quite right, the way we think it's supposed to look, the way we think it should look for it to fit into our safe version of God.

A slow death has something comforting about it.

The work of Paul van Buren says something about the rather strange sense of community that one finds in the death of God group that two such different personalities as van Buren and Altizer could have a common theological vocation.

We say, didn't someone famous say something about «death and taxes» What was that?

«The devil seems to have hidden that message by disguising Halloween into something about darkness and death and witches.

That is to say, the fact of our death provides us with something we can readily enough forget or neglect — namely, the insistence that whatever we do, whatever we are, whatever we achieve, have about them the quality of finitude and mortality.

There is also something inherently evil about cheering for the end of the world and the death of everyone in it.

He became a naturalist and a bone hunter because something about the landscape had linked his mind to the birth and death of life itself.