Sentences with phrase «what despair»

And herein, in the fact that the relation is spirit, is the self, consists the responsibility under which all despair lies, and so lies every instant it exists, however much and however ingeniously the despairer, deceiving himself and others, may talk of his despair as a misfortune which has befallen him, with a confusion of things different, as in the case of vertigo aforementioned, with which, though it is qualitatively different, despair has much in common, since vertigo is under the rubric soul what despair is under the rubric spirit, and is pregnant with analogies to despair.

This is what the despair which wills desperately to be itself is not willing to hope.

Moreover there is in this case a greater consciousness of what despair is; for despair is precisely to have lost the eternal and oneself.

But this is the only way immediacy knows how to fight, the one thing it knows how to do: to despair and swoon — and yet it knows what despair is less than anything else.

-- Here there is no infinite consciousness of the self, of what despair is, or of the fact that the condition is one of despair; the despair is passive, succumbing to the pressure of the outward circumstance, it by no means comes from within as action.

A distinction of course must be made as to whether he who is conscious of his despair has the true conception of what despair is.

But without pursuing the thought to this extremest point, we here merely call attention to the fact that, although the degree of consciousness as to what despair is may be very various, so also may be the degree of consciousness touching one's own condition, the consciousness that it is despair.

So then, for conscious despair there is requisite on the one hand the true conception of what despair is.

When immediacy is assumed to have self - reflection, despair is somewhat modified; there is somewhat more consciousness of the self, and therewith in turn of what despair is, and of the fact that one's condition is despair; there is some sense in it when such a man talks of being in despair: but the despair is essentially that of weakness, a passive experience; its form is, in despair at not wanting to be oneself.

He knows what despair is, he is acquainted with it, and hence he is not satisfied with a man's assertion that he is in despair or that he is not.

In this form of despair there is now a mounting consciousness of the self, and hence greater consciousness of what despair is and of the fact that one's condition is that of despair.

When we focus on Him and His greatness, what fear, what need, what despair can consume us?

It is quite incredible to have her come to your home and in just a few minutes watch her get your dog to do what you despaired of getting him to do...

Not exact matches

So I think the person in pain has to bring that out: that mentioning what happened is not going to trigger a flood of despair.

My family and life - framing help me remember what really matters, so I am able to avoid the downward spiral of despair.

For example, she mentions Elon Musk's period of despair when Tesla nearly went bankrupt in 2008, and what Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick describes as the «blood, sweat, and ramen» years.

«Even if we're full of despair over what the internet has become, it's good to remind yourself [that] it's an amazing thing,» Denton said.

The moral is to not despair when an investment turns out badly, but try to figure out what you can takeaway from it, as well as what you can salvage the situation.

One of the most powerful ways of combating our despair is to continue to worship and proclaim God's name and his power despite what season we may be in.

In the end we didn't know his heart, only God did, and in his last breath, couldn't a man so driven by despair at what he had done ask forgiveness from God?

If we sit still we all have a certain amount of awe and wonder, of curiosity, of creativity, of joy, guilt, and hope, despair, wanting... But, the difference is, what we confess in the creed does not come to us from our own head or soul.

Far from being the authors and finishers of our own lives, we are the creatures of what Cheever calls «an indecipherable collision of contingencies that can produce exaltation or despair.»

The Psalter gave him a language for despair, metaphors to describe what it meant to feel poured out on the ground, melted down like a blob of wax, dried up like a broken clay fragment.

I feel that what must be done is to bring the «absurd hero» within the context of a revised, naturalistic, neo-Whiteheadian ontology — this merger will dispel the harshness of bleak despair from the one position and the remnants of parsonage Victorianism from the other as it links creative insecurity, adventure, with a more penetrating metaphysical analysis than the existentialists were ever able to achieve.

For if the time comes when despair sees violence as the only possible way, it is because Christians were not what they should have been.

but it is a vessel of grace and guided by One who knows where we need to sail and what waters we need to navigate even if those waters are rough and choppy to the point of despair we shall be guided through, flawed vessel that we are.

Getting the wrong response can be what pushes a person to depression and despair.

What I loved about the rituals of grief — the viewing, the flowers, the stories, the songs, the laughter, the sobbing, the burial — was that they forced me to keep moving, to avoid getting stuck in a place of despair.

He is in despair; what more is there to hope for?

Thus — speaking as a Christian — I say that while I can not call violence good, legitimate, and just, I find its use condonable (1) when a man is in despair and sees no other way out, or (2) when a hypocritically just and peaceful situation must be exposed for what it is in order to end it.

Have you considered what it is to despair?

From Nadia Bolz Weber «The Sarcastic Lutheran»: «So when I reject my identity as beloved child of God and turn to my own plans of self - satisfaction, or I despair that I haven't managed to be a good enough person, I again see our divine Parent running toward me uninterested in what I've done or not done, who covers me in divine love and I melt into something new like having again been moved from death to life and I reconcile aspects of myself and I reconcile to others around me.

What do we expect when we are in despair and yet go to a man?

The reasons for the difficulty in answering what time is are several, including the paradoxes of being and non-being; the experiential and emotional weightiness of the subject (consider, for example, the temporal character of hope, despair, regret, satisfaction, and boredom); and the metaphysical centrality of time in understanding such things as substances, events, causation, and consciousness.

Is this not what many of us thought we had walked away from in frustration and despair years ago?

It was only when He took our sin upon Himself on the cross, it was only when the crushing despair of being separated from God came upon Him, that He finally felt what we humans have lived with since we were born.

When you encounter people who are filled with depression and despair, who, or what, do you point them to?

When then the whole of existence has been altered for the immediate man and he has fallen into despair, he goes a step further, he thinks thus, this has become his wish: «What if I were to become another, were to get myself a new self?»

When immediacy despairs it possesses not even enough self to wish or to dream that it had become what it did not become.

This was precisely what Jesus could do for people who were on the edge of despair.

No, it is not the aesthetic definition of spiritlessness which furnishes the scale for judging what is despair and what is not; the definition which must be used is the ethico - religious: either spirit / or the negative lack of spirit, spiritlessness.

«After having been informed by a revelation from God what sin is, then before God in despair not to will to be oneself, or before God in despair to will to be oneself,» is to sin — and certainly it is rare for a man to be so developed, so transparent to himself, that this can fit his case.

So far from being considered in despair, he is just what a man ought to be.

But the opposite of being in despair is believing; hence we may perceive the justification for what was stated above (I.A) as the formula which describes a condition in which no despair at all exists, for this same formula is also the formula for believing: by relating itself to its own self, and by willing to be itself, the self is grounded transparently in the Power which constituted it.

This form of despair (i.e. unconsciousness of it) is the commonest in the world — yes, in what people call the world, or, to define it more exactly, what Christianity calls «the world,» i.e. paganism, and the natural man in Christendom.

He himself knows well enough in a way up to a certain point that he is in despair, he notices it in himself, as one notices in oneself that one is going about with an illness as yet unpronounced, but he will not quite admit what illness it is.

Luther experienced what he described as attacks of utter despair, as the frightful threat of a complete meaninglessness, when belief in his work and message disappeared and no meaning remained.

The self is its own lord and master, so it is said, absolutely its own lord, and precisely this is despair, but it also is what it regards as its pleasure and enjoyment.

It is his disclosure of God's love, standing by man through all tragedy and despair, to which we give our witness in the faith that death can not hold or destroy what Jesus was and what he brought into human existence.

The condition requisite for healing it always this about - face, and from a purely philosophical point of view it might be a subtle question whether it is possible for one to be in despair with full consciousness of what it is about which one despairs.)