Sentences with phrase «things than death»

«When we look at health systems we look at other things than death,» Ho explains.

After all, aren't there more important things than death, physical harm, or loss of property?

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Perhaps the only thing more sure than death and taxes is death plus taxes.

I don't think an individual has to face their own death, other than their death of perspective and the way they see things.

God's promised fulfillment includes, among other things, the image of a New Jerusalem where «death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain any more, for the former things have passed away» (Rev. 21:4) As we begin to engage in the business of genetic co-creation, how can we be sure that our path goes toward this fulfillment rather than toward some irreversible destruction?

These are more than cliche - swaggering words to me, this is the raw begging in my veins: I have done things I would rather die a thousand deaths than for even one person to ever know.

The only thing he can do is to admit that he is acting so out of his own fears and emotions (not to defend oneself in battle is difficult, more difficult than to accept a death sentence calmly); or else he can say that he is fighting for others, not to save his own life.

But even if the world gathered all its strength, there is one thing it is not able to do, it can no more punish an innocent one than it can put a dead person to death.

The idea here is exactly what Paul says in Romans 8:31 - 39: God's power does not remove us from persecution, danger, difficulty, sickness and death, but makes us more than conquerors in and through all such things.

If you want to have a discussion about the deeper things in life — love, death, aging, loneliness, joy — you are more likely to find someone game for the topic in church than elsewhere.

And even if such things are so painful and hard to bear that we men say, or at all events the sufferer says, «This is worse than death» — everything of the sort, which, if it is not a sickness, is comparable to a sickness, is nevertheless, in the Christian understanding of it, not the sickness unto death.

But Christianly understood death is by no means the last thing of all, hence it is only a little event within that which is all, an eternal life; and Christianly understood there is in death infinitely much more hope than merely humanly speaking there is when there not only is life but this life exhibits the fullest health and vigor.

Your Religion has cause more pain, death, and suffering than any athiest has ever cause.Following a book that was written by kings of old days has to be the most ignorant thing out there.

Queen Victoria, the Empress of India among many other things, was eight years from her death, but it was evident that Indians were no longer, could no longer be, simply colonial subjects: Gandhi was arriving in South Africa after completing his studies in London, and Indian independence, which stands as the very paradigm of the end of empire, was only a little more than fifty years in the future.

Who but a madman or a prophet — or an artist who sees more deeply into things than the rest of us — would have imagined, as Percy did in a 1971 novel, that state governments might recognize a right to die, and that arrangements would be made for the sick and elderly to push a button that would waft them away into a «happy death» in Michigan, a «joyful exitus» in New York, or a «luanalu - hai» in Hawaii?

There is only one thing more fearful than the thought that death ends all: that one is in such dreadful condition that he hopes that death ends all, because he is fearful of what is to come afterward.

In the speculation on the misuses of atomic weapons, we began to hear things like mega-deaths; more reassuring to say «one mega death» than 1,000,000 deaths.

«Are you willing to believe that love is the strongest thing in the world — stronger than hate, stronger than evil, stronger than death — and that the blessed life which began in Bethlehem nineteen hundred years ago is the image of the brightness of the Eternal Love?

Religion is the single most dangerous thing that has ever existed on earth and it is responsible for more death and harm to human beings than any other thing throughout history.

Gil you have asked some very good questions why does bad things happen in the world i personally do nt know God did nt explain to Job either why he had to suffer.What i do know is that God desires that none of us should perish but that all would have eternal life in him through Jesus Christ.This world will one day pass away and the real world will be reborn so our focus as christians is on whats to come and being a witness in the here and now.Both good and bad happens to either the righteous or the sinner so what are we to make of that.What we do know is that God will set all things right at the appointed time the wicked will be judged and the righteous will be rewarded for there faith isnt that enough reason for us to believe.Free will is only a reality if we can choose between good and bad but our hearts are deceitfully wicked we naturally are inclined toward sin that is another reason whyt we need to be saved from ourselves so what are we to do.For me Christ died and rose again that is a fact witnessed by over 500 people that were alive at the time and was recorded by historians how many other religious leaders do you know that did that or did the miracles that Jesus did.As far as the bible is concerned much of the archelogical evidence has proven to be correct and many of prophetic words spoken many hundreds of years ago have come to pass including both the birth and the death of Jesus.Interested in what philosophy you are believing in if other than a faith in Jesus Christ so how does that philosophy give you the assurance that you are saved.Its really simple with christianity we just have to believe in Jesus Christ.brentnz

We can rejoice that we are saved not through the immanent mechanisms of history and nature, but by grace; that God will not unite all of history's many strands in one great synthesis, but will judge much of history false and damnable; that He will not simply reveal the sublime logic of fallen nature, but will strike off the fetters in which creation languishes; and that, rather than showing us how the tears of a small girl suffering in the dark were necessary for the building of the Kingdom, He will instead raise her up and wipe away all tears from her eyes» and there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying, nor any more pain, for the former things will have passed away, and He that sits upon the throne will say, «Behold, I make all things new.»

does «biblical christianity» still require us to stone to death those who work on the sabbath, commit adultery, curse their parents, worship gods other than yahweh, etc etc or did jesus change his mind about those things after his «virgin birth»?

Boldest: Shari Johnson with «My Lesbian Daughter, The Bible, and Sex» «When I hear terms like «God's design» and «Biblical marriage» I have to wonder who decides these things... We keep a death grip on the scriptures that suit us — and the translation of those scriptures becomes more a matter of tradition, opinion and convenience than the Word of God.»

In that system of processing those things which elude our natural mind, we must at some point settle that the greatest thinkers in history failed to answer quite a bit more than they obtained in their understanding & they certainly, even at the height of their skill set were unable to elude an inevitable natural death that no man can evade.

But what Swinney accomplished in the Fiesta Bowl is more impressive than any single thing he's done in nearly a decade in Death Valley.

It's probably way too many days later for anyone to actually read this, but I just want to say that joking about addiction is certainly no worse than joking about any number of other things, like religion or death, which people do all the time.

And even if you think those things do constitute re-homing, death, or abandonment, I strongly believe that an animal's quality of life shouldn't be of less importance than a human's.

It would be one thing to say, «it's ok, I'd rather die an agonizing death with an undelivered fetus after 72 hours of labour than have a c - section and a live baby so why don't you just prescribe me some morphine so I can go home and gather my family» which would be bizarre but at least demonstrate understanding of the consequences.

The terrible thing is that I know of more deaths in NC than are listed here and I suspect Dr. Amy does too.

The definition of «acute maternal morbidity» given by another poster really seemed to me to be the sort of thing where there would be lots more morbidity than death.

The FACT is... more women DO die in hospital births (from things that could be prevented, or from unnecessary interventions) than in home births, and that women were NOT «dying in droves» from home births back in the day... death during birth was fairly uncommon until women were forced into dirty birth centers with doctors knocking them out and delivering their babies without being held to any sanitation standards because promiscuity was on the rise and we had to keep the «dirty women» separate from the rest of the hospital.

There are ten things a community should know to prevent sudden cardiac death, which kills an estimated 350,000 people in the United States each year, more than all forms of cancer.

I mean, don't people realize that when you cut the greatest cause of death in all well fed societies since records were kept by more than 1/2 we are going to start noticing other things?

The truly shocking thing about homebirth is that even when you include malpractice and negligence in the hospital statistics, homebirth STILL has a death rate that is 450 % higher than hospital birth for comparable risk women.

Things can become difficult if you wait as 18 % of deaths in children are due to the unexpected injuries, other than vehicles.

The thing about witnessing death — and I'm a newcomer to this — is that the image of the victim lasts much longer than the purposefulness that induces one to march on past.

For one thing, the actual bill makes changes that are far less scary than the «death panels» and «health care rationing» that dominated conservative discourse last year, leaving Republicans little to yell «boo» over.

It does not mention the one thing which would do more than any other to prevent these deaths: scrap drug testing.

«The only thing more appalling than the grand jury failing to secure an indictment of Daniel Pantaleo are the reports that show he is still collecting substantial overtime pay two years after Eric Garner's death,» Mark - Viverito said through a spokeswoman.

This latest plan, unveiled less than a month before the one - year mark of Eric Garner's death and one week before a video of a cop punching a Harlem man made the news, will likely seek to achieve two things: to create a larger pool of informants, and to utilize public complaints to argue that Bratton's Broken Windows theory — the aggressive policing of low - level offenses to deter more serious crime — is what New Yorkers still want.

This is no small thing: Of the more than 36,000 U.S. gun deaths each year, two - thirds are suicides.

Science, oddly, is a lot better at predicting things like the death of stars than next week's weather.

As far as certain death in a science fiction plot line goes, being ejected into the vacuum of space is more than a pretty sure thing.

Some people seem to open up to it through traumatic experiences, as people describe when they've come near death or at another moment when they touch something much deeper than the usual way they thought about things.

That would be a lot more interesting than beating to death this «Arsenic in rice» thing.

Reply quickly to keep the conversation going, and if you feel like you're running out of things to discuss then find a reason to end the chat rather than letting it die an embarrassing death.

The plan is to interrogate the guy and then pass along whatever clues he provides to the authorities, but Eve gets trigger - happy, and the next thing they know, the thug is dead and they're no better than the person responsible for their kids» deaths.

The fact that major characters come close to death more than once and you never feel a thing about them possibly dying is also a major problem.

Those later elements are really the only thing that sets this apart from the countless other cop - tracks - down - a-killer movies out there, because for all its clichéd plot points and stock characters, it's obvious screenwriters Robert Fyvolent, Mark R. Brinker, and Allison Burnett are more concerned about coming up with graphic death scenes than anything else.

Though the biker drama's penultimate season has plenty of things worth celebrating (including a larger role for Mark Boone Junior and excellent guest stars like CCH Pounder, Donal Logue and Walton Goggins), a lot of the conflict this time around seems to be less about driving the narrative than shocking the audience, none more so than the death of Maggie Siff's Tara.