Sentences with phrase «suffer affliction»

According to Philo, the great crime of male same - sex behavior — pederasty, specifically — was that males would «suffer the affliction of being treated like a women» which Philo referred to as «the greatest of evils, unmanliness and effeminacy.»

who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God» The lesson: We ALL suffer affliction and God wants us to comfort and love one another through it!

By this person's statement it makes me think of them choosing the oppisite of what Moses chose as we see in Hebrews 11:24 - 26 By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; 25Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; 26Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.

The scriptural answer must be that «Satan» is an angel, obediently performing God's decisions to allow Job to suffer affliction.

Not exact matches

There still is some debate over what to call the affliction that Canada suffered last year.

Maybe Julie is suffering from the same affliction I was accused of.

O solace in affliction to suffer as one who is guilty, what solace then to suffer as one who is innocent!

Her present affliction is youth, and she suffers from its innate inability to stand up bravely against the evils of conservatism.

In this way the richness of both present experience and Christian theology is flattened and reduced to the single focus of our mission of realizing God's future within our present suffering and affliction.

How little they are confined to the events of the first Good Friday is amply illustrated by the words which a disciple of St. Paul puts into his master's mouth: «Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the Church» (Col. 1:24).

Such a sufferer is not seeking release from the suffering but only from a sympathy, in so far as this also can be an affliction.

In each case, the speaker is on the point of dying: Job suffers from afflictions he can not understand, Paul is in prison for preaching the gospel, Jesus is in Jerusalem just before his passion.

The Nazi doctors had learned the ethic of their profession: that a physician may not relieve one human being's affliction at the cost of another fellow human's suffering.

So then in the Christian understanding of it not even death is the sickness unto death, still less everything which is called earthly and temporal suffering: want, sickness, wretchedness, affliction, adversities, torments, mental sufferings, sorrow, grief.

To understand the nature of suffering from the ancient, medieval and Reformation perspectives may help us to stop fearing pain and affliction the way we do.

What is lacking in Christ's afflictions is filled as believers suffer for Jesus and for his Church.

Lent is a school of suffering, a discipline for death, an annual invitation to share in Christ's afflictions.

Even when Paul experiences the limit of affliction by dying a martyr's death, even then Paul's suffering isn't his own.

As his patients suffer from bizarre afflictions like Tourette Syndrome, anosmia (loss of the sense of smell), and deficient proprioception (the ability to sense one's own body), there is an unmistakable «freak show» appeal to the book.

I am now rejoicing in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am completing what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church.

The principal points Paul made in that address are (1) to recall to their minds the character and quality of his ministry to them; (2) to remind them of the trouble the Jews gave him and the anxiety and suffering he underwent in their behalf; (3) to state that he preached repentance and faith in Jesus Christ as the essence of the gospel; (4) to testify that he went now to Jerusalem not knowing what would happen to him there except that he knew by the Holy Spirit that afflictions awaited him; (5) to assure them that nothing concerned him, not even the loss of life itself, so long as he could testify to the grace of God in Jesus Christ; (6) to say that he had no regrets about his ministry to the people in Ephesus, for he was clean of the blood of all the people there, for he preached the full gospel to all of them; and (7) to admonish them to be diligent in their oversight of the Ephesian church and to feed the church of God there, which Christ purchased with his own blood.

It is one of my pet peeves because I think it is probably the worst affliction the church suffers from.

It bids a man believe in reality and have courage to fight against all the afflictions of reality, and still more against the bloodless sufferings he has assumed on his own responsibility.

It is that crucial motif in Christianity that theologians have called the kenosis, the humiliation of God: The same God who has all power, who created this world and all possible worlds, has taken upon himself the form and the fate of an ordinary man, and indeed a man who suffered the most agonizing afflictions of betrayal, torture, despair, and death.

Indeed, he had consciously recognized his afflictions as serving a divine cause, so that he could say to God, «Know that for thy sake I have suffered reproach.»

(John 12:24) Affliction, being thus redemptive, was in consequence itself redeemed; «Christ crucified,» whom Paul rightly called a stumblingblock to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, was proclaimed as the wisdom and power of God; (I Corinthians 1:23 - 24) and, not stopping with any negative apologetic to explain the cross, the early Christians positively gloried in it (Galatians 6:14) and made it their ambition to know «the fellowship of his sufferings.»

Job, a virtuous man, suffering incredible afflictions and so facing in acute form the problem of life's injustice, blazed tentative trails toward a solution.

St. Paul says in Colossians 1:24 «Now I rejoice in what I am suffering for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ's afflictions, for the sake of his body, which is the church.».

The servant takes on himself the afflictions and iniquities of Israel and the nations, and through his sufferings he carries forward the covenant between God and Israel, the covenant to hallow the whole of community life, which Israel has not fulfilled.

In a world in which we inevitably suffer from illness and disease, in which many fear that they will also suffer from the technological expertise of their caregivers, and in which some therefore seek death on their own terms and at a time of their own choosing, it is good to be reminded that affliction by itself does not necessarily produce good character.

But he made a professional option to suffer and to endure affliction in this land which he published in his book The Sambeis and its Tributaries: A Real Eye Opener for the Western World.

Our boy Chambers suffers from this very same affliction.

If so, hers would have been an extreme form of what, it turns out, is an affliction suffered by most parents.

For years, Biden has suffered from a terrible affliction called Verpes (pronounced Vur - peez), the slang name for verbal herpes, from the Latin herpius verbulus.

But working - class immigrant neighborhoods like these in Brooklyn suffer many afflictions: shabby buildings, drug dealing, too many young men with guns and too few with jobs.

«Yet often families and even healthcare providers are left with too few options to effectively help those suffering with this affliction.»

They all suffer from the same or similar afflictions.

Because dogs suffer from many of the same afflictions that can strike people — cancer, heart disease and diabetes, among them — the authors hope that Fidos genome will help narrow the search for disease - causing genes in his owner.

Individuals with this condition suffer from cataracts, diabetes, heart disease and other afflictions that don't typically strike until old age.

The old man's skeleton indicates he suffered from a number of afflictions, including arthritis, and had numerous broken bones.

Almost everyone, at one time or another, has suffered through the affliction of a painful, throbbing, or disabling headache.

If you ever suffer from an affliction that stops you from eating solid food for a while, this diet offers a pretty good path back to solids without hurting yourself.

An estimated 50 - 70 million Americans suffer from some form of insomnia, with the affliction most common among the obese population and those with hypertension (high blood pressure), anxiety, and depression.

I suffer from this horrible social affliction called shyness, which tends to put a bit of a damper on one's...

Anne Dorval gives an extraordinary performance as the mother, who lashes out at the boy but can't disguise her own suffering when he lands an emotional punch; their scenes together reminded me of Paul Schrader's Affliction for their sense of familial love gone hopelessly sour.

As Abby loses her gift of touch, her socially awkward dentist brother inadvertently heals a patient suffering from a jaw disorder, and though he claims that it was just a fluke, he continues to cure hundreds of other patients who reverently seek him out to take away their own afflictions.

The plot kicks in with a heftier boot when Gabrielle (who suffers from the rarely - seen - in - cinema affliction kidney stones) is sent to a Swiss spa for a cure.

Genuinely original and semi-unclassifiable, Spring is set in a village on the Italian coast where a young American drifter (Lou Taylor Pucci) and a charming but strangely elusive woman fall in love — despite the fact that she suffers from a mysterious affliction that causes her body to mutate and drives her to feed off whoever's unlucky enough to come her way.

When Diane meets her neighbour Lionel (Robert Downey Jr), who suffers from a rare affliction (his entire body is covered in soft hair), her creativity is unleashed and Diane begins to see the world from a completely different perspective.

Whilst the story and the world it is set in are detailed and well - rounded, the game does suffer from one old - school RPG affliction — excessive story.