Sentence examples for eternal suffering from inspiring English sources
With the presence of melancholic suffering and the absence of temporal movement, a sense of hopelessness may arise in the individual because suffering without temporal movement becomes, from the sufferer's perspective, eternal suffering.
Of course, an all-good God would do everything possible to minimize the evil we suffer, but for all we know that minimum might have to include our annihilation or eternal suffering.
To one side was a banner featuring lust-crazed male ghouls; behind the mannequins, images of eternal suffering.
The implication of life after death as a risky search for meaning subtly refreshes the notion of eternal suffering, even if the movie is itself haunted by influences from "Poltergeist" to "Insidious".
Such statements are hardly radical among more liberal theologians, who for centuries have wrestled with the seeming contradiction between an all-loving God and the consignment of the billions of non-Christians to eternal suffering.
And if it's hard for the modern mind to understand why a good God would allow such misery on a temporal scale, imagining one who allows eternal suffering seems not only offensive but absurd.
That is the term that many Palestinians use in English; it sounds more eternal than suffering.
"Revelation is marked by mystery," he wrote, "eternal happiness by suffering, the certitude of faith by uncertainty, easiness by difficulty, truth by absurdity".
Meaning attaches to suffering, eternal life is coupled with death, hope emerges from our very darkest of days.
It's no surprise the film begins with a quotation from "The Book Of Job," one of the great poems of all time and the section of the Bible that directly addresses the eternal issue of suffering.
Any definition of justice and holiness that involves being unsatisfied unless the imperfect are suffering eternal agony seems to many of us as unworthy of a human being and if so, how much more unworthy of God whose justice must be better than our own.
