Fear of the unknown mixed
with fear of death.
It's how a lot of people deal
with their fear of death (and injustice in the world).
However, women should come to that decision fully informed, not because of marketing efforts designed to incite distrust in their own bodies or threatened
with the fear of the death of their infant.
I have no trouble living
with the fear of death.
Psychologists deal continually
with the fear of death and the lure of death, but it is quite clear that many modem psychologists have not known what to do with the meaning of death.
Not exact matches
As Christ claimed the victory over
death by
death, so a Christian defeats
death and the
fear of death with all
of its tragic consequences through a mindfulness
of death during his life.
The
fear of death is so strong in humans that they need to comfort themselves
with the idiotic notion
of some all powerful being.
That a dumb bronze - age myth can take the most precious, final moments
of a woman's lifetime, and corrupt them
with more than the
fear that looming
death itself already brings, is absolutely sickening.
Religion is, by and large, built on a profound
fear of death... and the church has used that
fear to perpetuate a system that is filled
with hypocrisy, ritual, judgment, and conflict.
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With all this talk about the
death of the international terrorist, Osama Bin Laden, it's hard to imagine that we are mirroring the image
of radical Islamic group, the Alqueda, when they heard the news that their attempts at striking
fear in the hearts
of millions
of Americans was a success on September 11, 2001».
He loved men so much that, even knowing many would reject his offer, he freely provided the costly atonement for all sin, so that no man need
fear punishment and
death, but could repent
of their wickedness and be restored to loving relationship
with God.
fear comes from the devil Heb 2:15
with the threat
of death but Jesus came to break that
fear and set us free John 8:36.
Even though I walk through the valley
of the shadow
of death, I will
fear no evil, for you are
with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me...
Again the trouble may lie in factors harder to cope
with — domestic disharmony, friction in one's work, a job one loathes but
fears to leave, worry about the future, lack
of success in some pivotal enterprise, separation by distance, by marriage, or by
death from one who is deeply loved.
Whatever the circumstances
of our lives, God is
with us — in peace, in war, in hope, in
fear, in life, in
death, in joy, in suffering.
Kevin and I found the voices
with which to articulate the sadnesses we had shared first in my father's
death, and now in Brenda's; Kevin talked in greater detail about the accident, the isolation
of grief, and
fears of the future.
Death is hard to deal
with but there's no reason to waste your life because
of your
fear of it.
Ya, though we walk through the valley
of the shadow
of death we must
fear no evil for God is
with us.
Here are three typical answers: «He is as much a necessity to my spiritual existence as the elements
of pure air are to my physical system»; «If I were convinced that there is no God, I
fear a sense
of loneliness would become intolerable»; «As for any repose, or ability to face life and
death with composure, any incentive to be perfect in things hidden from outsiders, any exhilaration in living and trying to do my best — I can not conceive it without the idea
of God.»
In the midst
of this dark incomprehensible world
of fate,
of death, it is the invisible contact
with Him who is above all, and who calls to us: «Have no
fear, I am here, thy Father, thy Creator and Redeemer.
I would go so far as to suggest that the capacity to celebrate sexuality is linked inextricably
with the capacity to court peace, instead
of war; justice, instead
of oppression; life, instead
of hunger, torture,
fear, crime, and
death.
The normal eschatological situation, which gives life urgency by facing us
with the inevitability
of our own
death, the hunger for meaning, and the
fear of suffering and loss, becomes apocalyptic when it appears that there is no longer time for normal urgency.
He is a sampling
of their programs: systematic study
of Dorothy Baruch New Ways in Discipline, (New York: McGraw - Hill Book Company, 1949) a mental health film entitled «Angry Boy,» a talk by a pediatrician, a trip
with their children to a zoo, a talk by the minister on «Handling a Child's
Fear of Death,» an a panel
of members on «Sex Education
of Young Children.»
Familiarity
with death meant that resurrection possessed a considerable poignancy for the women, bringing a hope that countered the ubiquitous
fear of death.
If the only thing that prevents you from beating your wife or scorching an innocent puppy to
death is
fear of HELL, then there is something seriously wrong
with you.
The Buddhist desire for annihilation is taken to be proof
of this, since
with no conception
of God, whose companionship could illuminate life beyond
death and make it a joy to be desired, such a life would be a fate to be
feared and avoided.
I think the conversation around the
fear of death has less to do
with fear, but more to do
with how we define
death.
It can be construed most narrowly as a
fear of death, but more richly as a longing for a different vision
of life's possibilities — a life that does not end, that remains engaging and fulfilling, and that unites us once and forever
with those we love, whether divine or human.
RD.. How path - et - ic to see your hate and
fear driving you to
death...!?! Man pull your self together and have the courage to face the returns
of your deeds... Wars were always there in life whether were religious or not so stop doing it on your self... Beside learn to wish people well whether you agree or disagree
with might you succeed in life rather than being a loser... by being a cowered... My posts were meant for the friendly people I had known for some time, whom I found they were full
of compassion and not for black hearted one's like you who hate all God creations...
Our tribe is the one that taught me to wrap myself in the truth
of Scripture: Even though I walk through the valley
of the shadow
of death, I will
fear no evil, for you are
with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
The Pauline uses
of flesh and spirit to connote life orientation contrasts the quality
of life lived «in the Spirit»
with a life lived in bondage to the
fear of death.
He can be sure that everything that can be said against him has been said, unsparingly, mercilessly — and to strive against the whole world is a comfort, to strive
with oneself is dreadful — he has no reason to
fear that he has overlooked anything, so that afterwards he must cry out as did King Edward the Fourth at the news
of the
death of Clarence:
To be sure, the sources and manifestations
of violence are complex But what do we make
of competitiveness, the cult
of winning, the armoring
of emotions, the tendency to dichotomize reality, the abstraction from bodily concreteness and the exaggerated
fear of death that is manifested in a morbid fascination
with it?
Human lives are distorted by a
fear of death, and that
fear accelerates in the modern world
with the atrophying
of various illusions about personal immortality.
Here we find
fear of a bodiless condition associated
with firm confidence that even in this intermediate, transient condition no separation from Christ supervenes (among the powers which can not separate us from the love
of God in Christ is
death — Romans 8:38).
The difference is you choose to hide from that
fear with the promise
of an after life while non-believers face that
fear knowing
death is all there is.
On the other hand, understanding
death as a natural event may further fuel the impetus toward euthanasia and assisted suicide: if
death is merely natural — the end
of a reasonable span
of a full and meaningful life
with nothing to be
feared — it may well be fully rational, completely reasonable, to end it when the capacities
of (natural) life no longer meet the needs, goals, and wishes
of the individual.
Imprecations about the yawning jaws
of hell gave way to a more pastoral concern
with loneliness, meaningless and the
fear of death.
As Marius lays out the crucial lectures, sermons, treatises and confrontations
of these early years, he aggressively sells his thesis, drawing the reader's attention again and again to Luther's obsession
with death — not hell, purgatory or even judgment, but annihilating
death — and the younger Luther's equation
of this
fear with unbelief.
He turns to Him
with all His human
fear of this great enemy,
death.
While it may be in some sense true to say,
with Brown, that the «actuality
of living - and - dying» is always in the present,
fear and concern for one's own
death is always
fear and concern for the future, and acceptance
of death is always acceptance
of the future, however immediate.
FOREVER HA HA HA HA HA» For thousands
of years, religion was used to keep the masses in line
with fear of punishments, reprisals, torture and
death.
Gil if we only received one blessing in this life and that was eternal life in Jesus Christ that alone would be enough but we are blessed way more than that because we have been sent his holy spirit to help us overcome our old nature.He never leaves us nor forsakes us whether good or bad happens he strengthens us in our weakness.It says in the bible that the rain falls on both the righteous or the wicked God is fair to all whether they deserve it or not he can not be anything else than a holy righteous loving and fair God.I do nt need to convince you to believe about God he will reveal himself to you if you are seeking the truth as he is the truth.I do nt try and make others believe its pointless.I know without a doubt that i am saved and my sins are forgiven.As a christian it will a joy to be
with the Lord there is no
fear in
death for those that love him.In the meantime i serve him
with all my heart until he calls me home.I love talking about the Lord but each
of us must walk according to what we believe.I trust my life to Jesus Christ and i choose to follow him who do you follow?
Sign or no sign, the
feared Cherokee jeeps that are identified
with death squads and disappearances patrolled the streets in front
of the offices.
The crisis for men centers on
fear of aging (and
death) coupled
with feelings
of not having realized the dreams
of youth in vocational achievement.
I don't respond well to threats, so I will respond
with one
of my favorite Biblical quotes: Yea, though I walk through the valley
of the shadow
of death, I will
fear no evil, because I am the meanest son
of a bi-tch in the valley.
Along
with alluding to Joel 2, Mordecai is also speaking to Esther's
fear of death.
The mystics say that until we lose our
fear of death and our attatchement to this earth, we can't be one
with God.
In his third speech
of the day, he renewed this request and quoted the 23rd Psalm: «Even though I walk through the valley
of the shadow
of death, I shall
fear no evil, for You are
with me.»
None wants a return to exaggerated
fear of death or preoccupation
with sin, guilt and judgment.