Sentences with phrase «time of affliction»

The finer values are withering away; the vision of a universal human family is vanishing; and Eccelsiastes which tells us: the Lord is full of compassion and mercy... and forgive the sins and saveth in time of affliction is now anathema to those who wield power, accumulate wealth and crave after sensual pleasures.

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«We experience this not only as an hour of the heaviest affliction,» Buber wrote in 1952, «but also as one that appears to give no essentially different outlook for the future, no prospect of a time of radiant and full living.»

About ten years after the liberation — our lives having run for some time on a pretty even keel — I began to experience a variety of physical disabilities as well as mental / emotional afflictions; sometimes the two were difficult to distinguish.

Now, for the time that intervenes between man's death and the final resurrection, there is a secret shelter for his soul, as each is worthy of rest or affliction according to what it has merited while it lived in the body.

Two nearby Methodist churches enjoyed better fortune during the time of Bigelow's affliction, and the people of Bigelow frequently base their self - assessment upon their sense that the programs in the two other churches are livelier and church life more opulent.

When, for example, Jeremiah, thrown back on God amid the social disintegration of his time, entered into a trustful reliance on Yahweh — «my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction» (Jeremiah 16:19)-- he was unwittingly blazing a trail toward faith in immortality.

But my worst affliction is that the sun has shone on me for a long time, a vexation which, as you well know, is common, and certainly many people die of it!»

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.

While the former bespeaks of corroboratory evidence that the prophets provided to the historians of the Gospels, the latter reinforces the powerful veracity of the claims of the eye - witnesses since these were accepted by succeeding generations even through times of Christian affliction.

At that time, aged fifty, he had taken the measure of the affliction, and had even used the attacks to enhance his theology; it was almost his most familiar experience.

Over time, however, scientists began noticing that antibiotics can increase babies» risk of the very afflictions the drugs aim to protect against — such as fungal infections, late - onset sepsis, and a deadly intestinal disorder called necrotizing enterocolitis.

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

Celiac disease was a rare and unfortunate affliction that made living a «normal» life impossible because of the strict prohibition on, what seemed to me at the time, all food.

One day a massive young black man named John Coffey (Duncan, Armageddon) enters the pen of the damned, after being convicted for the rape and murder of two little white girls, and Paul discovers there's more to him than meets the eye when John miraculously cures an affliction that has been paining him for some time.

Many will know the pain commonly known as «Nintendo thumb», but you don't need to spend a great deal of time holding the Play to experience this affliction.

He lies almost motionless on a mattress lined with pee pads as his paw - rents Sharon Tan, 39, a homemaker and her husband Chai Jun Yea, 42, an architect, reminiscence about a time when Junior wasn't plagued by the afflictions of ageing.

Cats with the virus will, over time, succumb to a range of secondary afflictions that, in the end, usually prove fatal.

Once a certain level of stress has been reached, a hero will gain an affliction, a debuff that's permanent unless you splash out a sizeable amount back at your town for some destress time.

We get Afflicted from time to time during development, though we aren't quite ready to share with you what each of our predominant Afflictions are!

You can be addled with afflictions that decrease your magic abilities, frostbitten to the point of having a hard time pick - locking or pulling back the string on your bow, or weakened to the point where holding up your shield or striking with your sword becomes less effective.

The Narcissus tale attests to the fact that people in earlier times were not free of their own variations on these «modern» afflictions.