Sentence examples for evil suffering from inspiring English sources
I was embarrassed to tell him evil, suffering, death, and, occasionally, paradise.
Certainly, fantasies like the Harry Potter books -- like C. S. Lewis's Narnia series or Madeleine L'Engle's "A Wrinkle in Time" before them -- deal with good and evil, suffering, love and betrayal, albeit within a magical setting.
Between them are thoughts on love, evil, suffering, compassion, death, judgment and paradise, in that order, drawn from Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Mayan, Hawaiian, African and Asian sacred texts and poetry.
Her particular areas of expertise include The Johannine literature (the Gospel of John, 1, 2, and 3 John, and Revelation); evil, suffering, death and afterlife; the Bible and disability; and the use of the Bible in moral debate.
Two recent events that have dominated the news -- the death of Osama bin Laden and the tornadoes that ravaged the southeast -- have brought to light one of the fundamental questions humanity has struggled with since the beginning of civilization: Why do we have evil, suffering, pain, illness and death in the world?
Physical evil (or natural evil) is suffering brought about by the natural world (such as earthquakes); Leibniz believed that this is a penalty for guilt and exists to prevent a greater evil.
His origin is to be traced to the four Vināyakas, evil spirits, of the Mānavagŗhyasūtra (7th 4th century BCE) who cause various types of evil and suffering".
Freud turned inward, tracing evil and suffering to thwarted infantile desires and to civilization's inevitable discontents.
For example, in her essay, "Creed or Chaos," Dorothy Sayers argues that Christianity's advantage is that it gives value to evil and suffering.
In this harmony external evil and suffering take their place as necessary elements in the great pattern, the great dance of the universe.
He refuses to mark work on the Holocaust, arguing it would be inappropriate, and instead encourages pupils to create a personal response to their encounter with evil and suffering.
