Sentences with phrase «with this despair for»

Toller's wife left him after their son was killed during his military service, and he has been living with despair for so long it's no longer clear, even to him, whether he's in a dark night of the soul or has passed through to the sickness unto death.

We are now going to have to live with this despair for the rest of our lives, and if I live to be 100 I don't think a single day will pass by without my thinking that we inadvertently killed one of the dogs that we loved so deeply.

Not exact matches

For those of us who feel our inbox is beyond all help (aka limping around the track with hundreds of thousands of emails), don't despair.

I also fought my loneliness and personal despair by keeping a journal and by relying on my new friendships for comfort amidst the frustrations of dealing with new daily struggles.

When you're done feeling sorry for yourself and wallowing in your despair, you'll have something in common with the rest of humankind.

When the VCs learned about the findings, the researchers write in the HBR article, «the VCs reacted with a mixture of emotions: despair for being involved in creating bias, denial of being part of it, becoming upset with the facts, and feeling relief about the fact that gender bias was finally becoming transparent.»

Between the peaks of success, valleys of despair, nights with lost sleep, and uncertainty, it's no wonder entrepreneurship isn't for everyone.

The falling prices have been serious enough to prompt online posts with suicide hotlines for virtual currency investors in despair.

These statistics depict an extent of deprivation, a degree of misery, a sense of hopelessness and despair, a fundamental alienation that is difficult for that great majority of Americans who lack direct experience with this social stratum to comprehend.

Notice that for Rubenstein the death of God can truly be greeted only with despair, but this is a despair that drives us to nothingness as our ultimate situation.

For example, when she first realised that she was dying of TB she responded to this illness not with despair but with joy; joy because she recognised it as the «call of the Beloved» to come and be with her in heaven.

Moral and ethical dilemmas become opportunities for the church to express its care by its willingness to sit with people in the midst of turmoil and despair.

But also, there's this: when I was sad, when I had real legitimate reasons for grief or despair or anger or any emotion that was perceived as negative or dark, I had nowhere to go with it.

For instance, the congregation might pray for anonymous victims of domestic violence, for those trying to make difficult decisions in their life, for family members who are disagreeing with one another, and for those members of the congregation touched by the hurt or despair of otheFor instance, the congregation might pray for anonymous victims of domestic violence, for those trying to make difficult decisions in their life, for family members who are disagreeing with one another, and for those members of the congregation touched by the hurt or despair of othefor anonymous victims of domestic violence, for those trying to make difficult decisions in their life, for family members who are disagreeing with one another, and for those members of the congregation touched by the hurt or despair of othefor those trying to make difficult decisions in their life, for family members who are disagreeing with one another, and for those members of the congregation touched by the hurt or despair of othefor family members who are disagreeing with one another, and for those members of the congregation touched by the hurt or despair of othefor those members of the congregation touched by the hurt or despair of others.

The Psalm does not question the relationship of David and Mount Zion to all Israel3 In its moods of deepest despair, the Old Testament story finds hope for the future of all Israel in the certainty that God would realize his purpose in the David - Zion covenant with the re-establishment of that rule in some form.

Replacing «for God so loved the world» with «for God so hated the world» (which I believe Calvinism requires) is so disorienting to me, so dark and frightening and hopeless, that I fear it would lead me to despair.

I wasn't raised in a Christian home, but God revealed himself to through his creation and then his word, and then when I believed in him, he gave me an awsome life and a releationship with him and many others that believe as I do for we love one another and try to help others find the truth that has hope not despair.

I hurried back to my hole, and, rage giving place to despair, sought for the potion that was to procure abortion, and swallowed it, with a wish that it might destroy me, at the same time that it stopped the sensations of new - born life, which I felt with indescribable emotion.

I never settled into a regular church and soon I was back with the world... the drinking, the sex, the smoking... part of me still longed for Jesus as I felt the despair that comes with living in sin.

And to me their songs about society and war and life and despair show our need for reconciliation with our Creator.

Modern man has learned to be wholly concerned with his own feelings, and even despair at their unreality will not instruct him in a better way — «for despair is also an interesting feeling.»

With such a goal no one competes with others for a place in the conversation, nor rudely interrupts, nor despairs of «getting a word in edgewise.&raWith such a goal no one competes with others for a place in the conversation, nor rudely interrupts, nor despairs of «getting a word in edgewise.&rawith others for a place in the conversation, nor rudely interrupts, nor despairs of «getting a word in edgewise.»

How far complete clarity about oneself, as to whether one is in despair, may be united with being in despair, where this knowledge and self - knowledge might not avail precisely to tear a man out of his despair, to make him so terrified about himself that he would cease to be in despair — these questions we shall not decide here, we shall not even attempt to do so, since in the sequel we shall find a place for this whole investigation.

Resignation regarded as despair is essentially different from the form, «in despair at not willing to be oneself,» for it wills desperately to be itself — with exception, however, of one particular, with respect to which it wills despairingly not to be itself.)

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.)

For so it is with men in this world: first a man sins from frailty and weakness; and then — yes, then perhaps he learns to flee to God and to be helped by faith which saves from all sin; but of this we are not talking here — then he despairs over his weakness and becomes, either a Pharisee who in despair manages to attain a certain legal righteousness, or he despairs and plunges again into sin.

The believer possesses the eternally certain antidote to despair, viz, possibility; for with God all things are possible every instant.

Rather than trading shot for shot, rage for rage, despair for despair, I will step out of that cycle of death and walk straight out onto the water, with my eyes on Jesus, he is making a path in the wilderness.

Already a movement is under way to improve end - of - life care by educating health - care providers to respond better to the needs of dying patients, by creating new care settings or improving existing ones, by seeking changes in methods of paying for appropriate care, by educating the public through conferences, town meetings, television programming, and even Web sites (see www.careproject.net), by providing adequate relief of pain, by withholding or withdrawing treatments that only prolong dying, by keeping company with those who are lonely, and by being a resource of meaning and hope for those tempted to despair.

which would run through his mind a hundred times together, until one day out of breath with retorting, «I will not, I will not,» he impulsively said, «Let him go if he will,» and this loss of the battle kept him in despair for over a year.

If in the ruins of Rome, St. Augustine dreamed of a civilisation that should be the City of God on earth, and penned, even while weighted with despair and expectation of the end of the world, the noble outline of the Christian order which inspired so much of mediaeval thought, how much more reason have we today, with so much greater resources, to expect for our civilisation a resurrection out of our decay.

For the society is facing not only a new age of information, but also a new technological era which brings with it a challenge to all of the historical religions, and which can lead either to humankind «s next integrative steps toward new religious insights and meaning, or to a collapse of religious development and the emergence of a period of anarchy and despair.

How many times, in reading the liturgy for the Holy Communion, I have felt both exultation and despair at the moment of the Sanctus: «Therefore with Angels and Archangels, and with all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify Thy glorious Name; evermore praising Thee, and saying: Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Saboath...» Exalted because, in this language, this place and time and company of momentary lives are interpreted and blessed within the scope of an eternal action of God, released from the tyranny of death and what Dylan Thomas has so movingly alluded to when he laments that

Just when one is sodden with despair over the possibility of making alive the massive biblical symbol of fire, for instance --

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

Paul's whole conception of man — his creation in God's own image with the law of God written in his heart, his losing battle with a demonic enemy, the shameful captivity in which he is now held and the doom of death which awaits him — this whole conception, as well as the despair of one who awakes to the realities for which the conception stands, is expressed in the words with which Paul ends what we know as the seventh chapter of Romans:

But faith brings forgiveness for guilt, hope for despair, communion with God instead of isolation, help for temptation, and life through death.29 The new being belongs to the future; the old being belongs to the past.

Psalms of despair usually end with praise, he said, so praise is the only fitting prayer for the true believer.

(I avoid referring to God as He, because God, containing all things, is so much more than male and / or female) I, too, called out from the depth of despair and was surprised to immediately receive an answer, and an instruction, tailor made for me, which I won't detail here; though I'd love to sit down with all of you and buy a round of beer, kosher wine, juice or whatever and chat some more.

«We look back knowing that our prayers are needed with fresh urgency, as we cry them out to a God who shares deeply in the pain, anxiety, suffering and despair of all those persecuted for their beliefs.»

Nor should we be too harsh with the cynical or the despairing; there certainly is sufficient reason for despair.

But, for now, we don't have to know exactly why people are gay to put a stop to harmful practices that have left Justin, and so many like him, with no other option but despair.

A few of the obvious drives that pack us off, daily or weekly or episodically or, for some, in hope, permanently, are fear or even terror in the particular given set of circumstances; the sheer discouragement and exhaustion of facing questions without answer; profound disillusionment — it takes many forms — with the pertinent, prevailing system or systems; deep and bitter contempt for one's own society, bred of the abysmal failure to attain in consistent practice even a semblance of the justice professed and acclaimed; despair — so it was with the college generation of the late sixties — over the formidable obduracy of a political establishment in going its merciless way quite apparently deaf to the cries of anguish of its empathetic and real victims, victims by the tens of millions here and around the world.

For Chagall, images of hope tinged with despair, of joyous celebration in the face of death, remained in the foreground of his essentially Jewish religious imagination.

In the first case he wailed with such Dantesque despair when I extracted the rattle from his mouth that I was convinced for a moment that he had knocked his teeth out.

For there God's goodness is pictured in such terms of mercy and compassion that one sometimes despairs of reconciling such grace with the world's hideous evils and mankind's frightful sufferings.

The men I work with have gone through every kind of anger, resentment, and despair, but most have come to feel profound gratitude for their punishment.

Jews, both pious and secular, who want to find some way to live at peace with Palestinians despair over the zealotry of the Gush Emunim, who believe God has given their people land on which Palestinians have also dwelt for generations.

In Narnia, Edmund falls so far short of goodness that he finally realizes, with a shock of despair, his need for forgiveness.

For when hate, and anger, and revenge, and despondency, and melancholy, and despair, and fear of the future, and reliance on the world, and trust in oneself, and pride that infuses itself even into sympathy, and envy that even mingles itself with friendship, and that inclination that may have changed but not for the better: when these dwell m a man — when was it without the deceptive excuse of ignoranFor when hate, and anger, and revenge, and despondency, and melancholy, and despair, and fear of the future, and reliance on the world, and trust in oneself, and pride that infuses itself even into sympathy, and envy that even mingles itself with friendship, and that inclination that may have changed but not for the better: when these dwell m a man — when was it without the deceptive excuse of ignoranfor the better: when these dwell m a man — when was it without the deceptive excuse of ignorance?