Sentences with phrase «spiritual failures for»
So many people have been further harmed by the judgment of their religious peers who consider them spiritual failures for being physically or mentally ill.
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Marc Andreessen is fond of observing, most recently on this excellent podcast with Barry Ritholtz, that all of the dot - com failures turned out to be viable businesses: they were just 15 years too early (the most recent example: Chewy.com, the spiritual heir of famed dot - com bust Pets.com, acquired earlier this year for $ 3.35 billion).
Coptic Pope Shenouda III, the spiritual leader of Egypt's Coptic Christians for nearly four decades, died last month of renal failure.
It is no accident that perhaps the chief representative of the Ghibellines in the Comedy is Farinata degli Uberti, whom we meet in the company of other heretics in Inferno X. For Dante, Ghibellinism without God promises the certain spiritual failure of those who give themselves to the political world too enthusiastically.
The synod agreed that the evils responsible for the recent catastrophes were such things as pride in heart and body, a spiritual falling away, excessive profanity, breakdown of family life, and failure to observe the Sabbath.
If for any reason their spiritual senses become so benumbed that they are unable to discern danger, and through their failure to give warning the people perish, God will require at their hands the blood of those who are lost.
Perhaps God's consistent failure to come through with the blessings he prayed for — deliverance from sin, spiritual joy to replace his deep unhappiness — was evidence that God did not exist after all.
Personal and group egoism, lack of concern for the poor, failure to struggle for justice and for the freedom and dignity of all — these are manifestations of spiritual poverty.