And a score from acclaimed composer (and Sergio Leone favorite) Ennio Morricone virtuously captures
the wretchedness of the metropolitan abyss, adding another level of darkness to this gritty crime drama.
Perfect mercy consists intaking on
oneself the wretchedness of another, to deliver him from it.
Such is the Divine Mercy of the Son of God, who becomes a man, assuming
the wretchedness of sinful humanity, sin excepted, in order to deliver it from death and eternal damnation.
Only in him, in his cross, is
the wretchedness of man made fully apparent.
There is another way that I also will not follow — the way of an existentialism based on
the wretchedness of the human condition, where philosophy provides the questions and religion the answers.
I want to be and remain in the church and little flock of the fainthearted, the feeble and the ailing, who feel and recognize
the wretchedness of their sins, who sigh and cry to God incessantly for comfort and help, who believe in the forgiveness of sins.»
The wretchedness of religion is at once an expression of and a protest against real wretchedness.
Augustine observed infants and concluded that they epitomized «
the wretchedness of the human condition.»
We can't sell even ourselves on God's participation in the cross of Christ by resorting to what Bonhoeffer called «clerical tricks» — stressing
the wretchedness of the human condition so that people will be driven to resort to the church's theological nostrums.
He knew that
the wretchedness of Judah had reached such desperate proportions that a holy God must act, that the very depth of the lowliness of his people called into question God's honor.
Not exact matches
Yet that experience
of putrid beauty in art offers a glimpse
of the libertine's mingled pleasure and
wretchedness, and is arguably more powerful for it.
And when I look on my people I see them work and work and toil and labor, and at the end
of the week they have only for their wages
wretchedness and misery.
In the face
of abysmal
wretchedness she asserted the sole sovereignty and the unfailing justice
of her God, and interpreted her calamities as his appointment in punishment for her sins.
That is, God had to make us capable
of evil, so that in our
wretchedness he could show us the power
of a love that sees sin quite realistically, but wipes it away and gives us to share in his own power
of loving.
It is admittedly a choice
of evils, and admittedly it can be abused, as when resorted to merely as a convenience rather than to escape probable future
wretchedness.
So then in the Christian understanding
of it not even death is the sickness unto death, still less everything which is called earthly and temporal suffering: want, sickness,
wretchedness, affliction, adversities, torments, mental sufferings, sorrow, grief.
Yes, when late autumn comes, even the flower can speak the wisdom
of the years and say with truthfulness, «All has its time, there is «a time to be born and a time to die»; there is a time to jest lightheartedly in the spring breeze, and a time to break under the autumn storm; there is a time to burst forth into blossom, beside the running water, beloved by the stream, and a time to wither and be forgotten; a time to be sought out for one's beauty, and a time to be unnoticed in one's
wretchedness; there is a time to be nursed with care, and a time to be cast out with contempt; there is a time to delight in the warmth
of the morning sun and a time to perish in the night's cold.
For as the Church prays, the sufferings we endure, if taken to Christ in the Sacrament designed for forgiveness, can bring us «increase
of grace and the reward
of eternal life», or, quoting from St Vincent de Paul, «the throne
of God's mercy isset on my
wretchedness».
The collect for ash weds is helpful here — ... create in us new and contrite hearts, that, lamenting our sin and acknowledging our
wretchedness (= helpless to do it ourselves), we may receive from you, the God
of all mercy, perfect forgiveness and peace, through our Lord Jesus Christ.
But as this unmaking
of religion reveals that religion is «true», in the sense that it is an invention
of human beings to compensate for and to sublimate their real
wretchedness, a second kind
of criticism has to follow: religion has to be made false, i.e., the secular world has to be changed.
The first third
of the work — a series
of aphoristic reflections on man's «vanity» and «
wretchedness,» as well as his «greatness» — culminates in a series
of paradoxes under the chapter heading «Contradictions,» in which Pascal attempts a religious synthesis
of these two contrasting themes.
Yet the creative impulse
of the human spirit seems equally forceful in situations
of wretchedness.
He really goes further, and reaches faith; for all these caricatures
of faith, the miserable lukewarm indolence which thinks, «There surely is no instant need, it is not worth while sorrowing before the time,» the pitiful hope which says, «One can not know what is going to happen... it might possibly be after all» — these caricatures
of faith are part and parcel
of life's
wretchedness, and the infinite resignation has already consigned them to infinite contempt.
And by disbelief I do not mean some sort
of brave rejection
of the doctrine, some defiant demand flung at heaven for possession
of one's own soul; I mean merely the impotence
of an imagination that finds the very notion
of sin incomprehensible, the conscience
of a man who is sure that, whatever sin might be, it surely lies lightly upon a soul as decent as his own, and can be brushed off with a single casual stroke
of a primly gloved hand; I mean an habitual insensibility to the illuminations and chastisements
of beauty, a condition
of being wholly at home in a world from which mystery and sin and glory have all been banished, and in which spiritual
wretchedness has become material contentment.
Why do Christian institutions take part in pressuring the Israelis to place themselves once again in mortal danger and throw the history — and faith — laden parts
of the city back into
wretchedness?
Life, then as now, often seemed a helterskelter affair
of pleasure and
wretchedness befalling men with no discernible relation to their moral quality.
Almighty and everlasting God, you hate nothing you have made and forgive the sins
of all who are penitent: Create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we, worthily lamenting our sins and acknowledging our
wretchedness, may obtain
of you, the God
of all mercy, perfect remission and forgiveness; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever.
The call
of Christ is not a call to perpetual
wretchedness; craven cowering is not the goal
of Christian life.
Wretchedness consists in being deprived
of what one ought to have.
All evil, all
wretchedness, is for him something dreadful; it is
of the great kingdom
of Satan; but he feels the power
of the Saviour within him.
I must say that I do not mean to imply that the windmills I seek to charge this year are somehow on a level
of wretchedness as those that King and the Civil Rights leaders faced down in their own day.
So the June 4 uprising and the 31st December revolution which were borne out
of a state
of uncontrolled corruption,
wretchedness and gloom has oft been described as a coup d'état by a group
of characters who ought to know better.
Such misplaced moral indignation, she wrote, «leave [s] behind one trail
of people dying who might have been saved, and another
of people desperate enough to offer their organs thrust back into the
wretchedness they were hoping to alleviate.»
«Hostiles» continues the recent resurgence
of the Western genre, an unsettling portrait
of all the capacities America holds, both for greatness and for
wretchedness.
As in his earlier movies Kick - Ass and Nowhere Boy, he is an attractive, open presence, but he is out
of his depth here, especially when he has to suggest Vronsky's later agony and
wretchedness, and the fact that he, as well as Anna, has made sacrifices for their affair.
Eva is simultaneously at the centre
of this atrocity and at its margin: she must pay dearly in her
wretchedness every waking moment and yet can make no restitution.
Oh my goodness, but this stilted, utterly implausible film manages the astonishing feat
of being both histrionic and monotonous at the same time, trolling us with the most absurd clichés, yet doing so with the kind
of quiet solemnity meant to convey a unique
wretchedness to it all.
Laskis, Materrazzi, and Good remind the viewer that to be a woman — and more importantly, to be human — means an acquisition
of varying degrees
of passivity and chaos, comeliness and
wretchedness, creativity and dysfunction, youth and maturity, femininity and masculinity.
His paintings are filled not with paint but with an iconography
of wretchedness and guilt.
While the prevailing architectural tone
of each chamber channels the iconography and aura
of humdrum Americana, from generic mid-western malls, to abandoned arcades once echoing neons and chatter, to cabins in the woods; a degree
of infused
wretchedness supplements the moving images.
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As self - will is the root
of all sin and misery, so whatsoever cherishes this in children ensures their after -
wretchedness... whatever checks and mortifies it promotes their future happiness and piety.