May God bless you with tears... to shed for
those who suffer pain, rejection, hunger, and war, so that you may reach out your hand to comfort them and to turn their pain into joy.
As Elaine Scarry points out in The Body in Pain, to someone
who suffers pain, nothing is more certain than the pain; she suggests that the experience of pain may be as close to a textbook case of «certainty» as we have.
You will act the prince of the kingdom
who suffers the pain of subjugation in the game world of sword and magic, find your followers in the vast Atmora continent, build your own army, defeat your enemies and recover the former glory of the kingdom of CasadoriaGame...
Not exact matches
«A lot of people approach leadership from a different perspective, but for me a true leader is someone
who confronts fear, embraces
pain, and welcomes
suffering.
Women
who rode a lot on saddles made for men, she adds, could find themselves
suffering from a range of health problems, such as lower back
pain and bladder disorders.
While the best electric shavers for men will not be able to give you a perfectly fully smooth face, this isn't necessarily a bad thing — especially for men
who frequently
suffer from
pain and irritation.
Where as my time in the startup community taught me to find my niche, find the people
who suffer from that
pain, listen to what potential customers are saying rather then convince the customer my way is right, find the people
who want to join my cause, «volunteer management», how to deal with failure both emotional and rationally how to listen to «advice» and seperate the wheat from the chaff quicker (e.g. become more coachable) and be more willing to re-invent the plan.
I just can't «believe» in an invisible being
who ignores
pain and
suffering and threatens all
who don't kneel with eternal damnation.
The fear of the great nothing is too much for my mind to bear, and I can sleep at night by convincing myself that the absolute nothing we all face one day will instead be full of happy choirs of angels, reward for any
suffering I've endured, punishment of the wicked and evil (it
pains me to think those
who cause so much evil will not
suffer for eternity, so hell is a great comfort too), and that I'll get to see all those I currently miss since the death of friends and family are so painful.
She said: «My twenty - nine - year - old daughter's choice to die gently rather than
suffer physical and mental degradation and intense
pain does not deserve to be labelled as reprehensible by strangers a continent away
who do not know her or the particulars of her situation.
And then hear him pray through the excruciating
pain for those
who are killing him, «Father, forgive them, they don't know what they are doing,» and say to his disciple about his mother Mary, «behold thy mother,» (i.e., he was looking out for her and entrusting her into the car of his close friend, even as he
suffered).
But our Father is a fair and just God
who wishes us all to seek his comfort, peace, serenity, guidance and spiritual abundance and
who demonstrated sacrifice by sending His son Jesus
who endured great
pain and
suffering so we could be free indeed.
Dear Natasha... As you forgive those
who have mistreated you, then, you are allowing yourself to be free and as you help your brother in need instead of leaving the
pains of this life you are sharing in the
sufferings of Jesus.
Maybe Money is not inherently evil, but given the current state of the world it seems it has been teh leading cause for
pain suffering and a capitalist web of influence that has taken over everything the worlds resources have to offer and kept it from those
who can not pay.
When you say that love is the most important thing, I hope your heart includes loving those women
who have made the unthinkable, unbearable decision that spared an embryo from being born into a traumatic, awful experience... from a situation of
pain and
suffering... from an environment where people are incapable of loving the child or providing for that child's basic needs.
«If we look at the Scriptures, we see a God
who weeps with those going through
pain,
who is compassionate for those
who suffer and condemns those
who do injustice,» Reese said
We are the one
who cause
pain, hate, and
suffering not him.
Mr Lawrence,
who speaks to young people to spell out the dire consequences of carrying a weapon, said: «Right now with the violence, and the knife crime violence, it is even more urgent now that I talk to these youngsters and explain to them the
pain and the
suffering they inflict on families.
With regard to others, it is our duty to cultivate within ourselves respect for the sacred and to show the face of the revealed God — the God
who has compassion for the poor and the weak, for widows and orphans, for the foreigner; the God
who is so human that he himself became man, a man
who suffered, and
who by his
suffering with us gave dignity and hope to our
pain.
Those
who preach faith as the cessation of
pain,
suffering, poverty, restless nights and turbulent days are offering false comfort.
Those
who rise in leadership will see the temptations, the failings, the hurts, and may now choose a different path that doesn't introduce chaos and
pain and
suffering and alienation.
Julie's story obviously stands out, but each story of
pain and
suffering at the hands of men and women
who claim to be «called by God» contributes to a narrative whole that must never be forgotten.
In so doing, He
who is both true God and true man assumed our guilt and experienced the fullness of our
pain, thus transforming
suffering into the means of salvation.
In this kind of theodicy Gethesemane, the cross, and the resurrection are important foci for understanding the depths of God's love,
who, in creating an unimaginatively complex matrix of matter eventuating finally in persons able to choose to go against God's intentions, nonetheless grieves for and
suffers with this beloved creation, both in the
pain its natural course brings all its creatures and in the evil that its human creatures inflict upon it.
If all those
who suffer in the world were to unite their
sufferings so that the
pain of the world should become one single grand act of consciousness, of sublimation, of unification, would not this be one of the most exalted forms in which the mysterious work of creation could be manifested to our eyes?
No one
who has had one whom he loved die in such straits will fail to welcome the compassionate realism of the graveside prayer, «
Suffer us not at the last from any
pains of death to fall from thee».
Thirdly, mission is a task of consolation, because every human
pain is our
pain, every human life is important and the church is there to commit itself in the name of God to
suffer with those
who suffer and to weep with those
who weep.
I'm so sorry to everyone
who has
suffered pain from someone
who says they follow Jesus.
A universe with
suffering in it precludes the Christian God (he says), so the onus is now on John or anyone else
who sees
pain to stop
pain.
To know that someone
who caused widespread
pain and
suffering in this life is no more should be enough.
If our families of origin invoke
pain and
suffering in our hearts (our experience of the flesh, as Paul would say), we can be comforted by the knowledge that we are adopted into another family — literally, as is the case for the Robertses, or spiritually and ultimately, for everyone
who becomes a Christian and is redeemed by God in Christ.
The Bishop of Leicester has said sorry for the «
pain and anguish»
suffered by victims of a choirmaster
who was jailed for sexually abusing choirboys in the city.
For example, if you lived in NYC during the attacks, and the plane that crashed into the WTC killed several of your relatives, it would only be natural to celebrate the death of a man
who caused so much
pain and
suffering for you and your family.
Her only excuse for being a «liberal» in this matter was that the
pain and
suffering she had endured as an aging widow
who had reared a large family alone had purged her heart of the pride that prevents people from loving and understanding others.
So said Maria, one of millions of women worldwide
who suffer in silence while the
pain and the grief of an abortion...
I would consider anyone to be a person of faith
who still believes in the goodness of life in spite of all the
pain and
suffering that s / he has either witnessed or personally experienced.
If God demanded the death of an innocent and blameless person before forgiving anybody, if God turned away even from those
who repented until someone else
suffered for their sins, if God demanded the
pain and blood of the cross before admitting anyone into right relationship... what kind of blood - thirsty, sadistic being would this be?
What would make this hypocritical was if I followed up my statement with something like, «People
who believe in atheism are all butt - weasels and they are single leading cause of all the
pain and
suffering in the world and we should abolish it.»
Because of
who they are, because of the great qualities they have, realized and potential, because of the limitations,
pain, misconceptions,
suffering and stresses that they face (or currently avoid) even when those things spill out into negative attitudes, harmful and self - harming behaviors.
Rather, God is the self - limiting, vulnerable lover of humanity and the earth
who enters into intimate relation with creatures and accepts their
pain and
suffering into himself.
Rather, those
who «make peace,»
who through their willingness to
suffer pain and even death transform the situation to one in which real peace becomes possible.
Eve may be the goddess Ninti
who in the Sumerian creation mythology was a goddess of life and the «goddess of the rib», because she healed a
pain in Enki's rib, a
pain he
suffered from a curse placed upon him from eating plants in the garden.
This is of importance to the thought and to the talk, so that discord shall neither exist nor be kindled; so that the talk shall not incite the active person
who is able to accomplish much in the outer world to compare himself in a conceited way with the sufferer; nor provoke the heavily laden sufferer
who apparently spends his time in useless
suffering, despairingly to compare his uselessness, his
pain, his not merely superfluous, but for others even burdensome existence, with the great accomplishments of the active ones.
As a child I used to
suffer tortures of shyness, and if my shoe - lace was untied would feel shamefacedly that every eye was fixed on the unlucky string; as a girl I would shrink away from strangers and think myself unwanted and unliked, so that I was full of eager gratitude to any one
who noticed me kindly; as the young mistress of a house I was afraid of my servants, and would let careless work pass rather than bear the
pain of reproving the ill - doer; when I have been lecturing and debating with no lack of spirit on the platform, I have preferred to go without what I wanted at the hotel rather than to ring and make the waiter fetch it.
Free, also, of supernatural hocus - pocus here is a genuine Friend
who does everything divine power can do to defeat the world's
pain and
suffering.
«O loving Creator, bring healing and hope to those
who, at this time, grieve,
suffer pain, or
who have been affected by the earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
He acknowledges that the book is aimed at people
who have
suffered more extreme forms of
pain, such as those in his own congregation
who lost loved ones when the Twin Towers fell on 9/11.
Sharon presents a view of God which allows us to see Him as completely loving and nonviolent, as one
who suffers with us in our
pain.
I learned one of the most important life lessons quickly when I lived in India with young women
who had survived years of literal sex slavery: People's stories of
pain and
suffering are sacred.
I'll remember the grace and mercy and loving - kindness in His character, and I'll pray to a Father
who can give the blind eyes to see and
who is working even now to create a world free of
pain,
suffering, crying or death, where many tribes worship as one, holy people.