Although painful, experiences can sometimes teach valuable lessons. I've had a few of these lessons thought to me thought a painful experience. ... I will give you some of my experiences that I went through that have thought me lessons. Some of my experiences are very painful and some are lessons taught to me at a cost. ... My father was sick for a good while, I attended church on an off, when my father died I stopped going. ...

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The boy has a choice, stay in the room and die, or take a leap of faith into his father's arms. ... Abram lived about 2,000 years before Christ lived. ... Maybe he was bowing before a foreign god? ... The second lesson that can be taught is about patience. ... This is another one of those "don't compromise" lessons. ...

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Jesus is viewed as the son of God, sent by God to teach us his lessons. ... Christians believe Jesus died for our sins. ... Christians pray before dinner, before bedtime, or important events. ... Just seven days after his birth his mother died. ... Each figure then took the lessons they learned and taught it to people thus creating each religion. ...

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Victor states, "During every hour of my infant life I received a lesson of patience, of charity, and of self-control"(39). ... Victor disregards the lessons that he learned as a child and becomes obsessed. ... Perhaps Victor is alienated from God in the sense that he feels himself a supreme being, a creator, or an arbiter of who shall live and die. ... He expresses a love for the beautiful sights and smells of nature before his despair, but later he says, "Winter, Spring, and Summer passed away during my labours; but I did not watch the blossom or the expanding leaves - sights which before alw...

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He saw some principles of evolution much before Darwin published his facts. When his best friend Arthur Hallam died Tennyson was extremely depressed. ... In the next section he contradicts the last by seeing the sun and stars as slowly dying with no hope for rebirth, "The stars," she whispers, "blindly run; A web is wov"n across the sky; From our waste places comes a cry, And murmurs from the dying sun: (Tennyson 3.5-8). ... If you are good then before people thought they would go to heaven. ... Matthew Arnold liked to teach lessons of the wrongs of current society through hi...

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In my opinion Jonah wanted to die because he was ashamed and did not want to commence God's mission, but since he cannot commit suicide he wanted them to push him of the ship. ... But since Jonah was not in the mood to reason, God used a lesson to help Jonah understand the problem with his uncompassionate way of thinking. ... While Jonah had been happy the day before, his circumstances changed to become "unbearable." Jonah again begs to die, apparently with more earnestness than he had before. Now, using the lesson of the plant, God confronts Jonah's problem of misplaced compassion...

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The stony ground offers enough soil for the seeds to be able to grow, but because it is not deep enough the plants do not take root and are soon die in the sun. ... Another lesson would be salvation is more than just hearing the gospel. ... The lessons of the Parable of the Good Samaritan are that we are to set aside our busy lives and show love and compassion for others. ... The younger son wants his money from his father's estate which he was expecting to inherit when his father died and also wanted freedom from his family. ... But before he could get home his father was already looking...

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Before I began this class, I really had no idea what the word Philosophy meant. ... What I failed to realize was that not only does Philosophy answer these questions but it also gets us to question things that we never once thought of before. ... It's going out and asking questions to learn things we did not once know before. ... The Odyssey teaches us valuable lessons, and so does the Bible. ... We have Martin Luther King Jr., who died for what he believed in. ...

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He asked her, "Who died?" She replied, "God died. ... The lesson here is that we must be careful not to get caught up in the special effects, but pay attention to the real story. ... Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow." - Isa 1:17 Isaiah gave this word of God long before the birth of Jesus, but the message is like that of Jesus. ... And HE said, "Go and tell this people..." - Isa 6:8-9 LORD, please give the heart to accept Your WORD and share it with our dying world!...

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God could say the very same thing to the man who brought his son before Him in Mark Nine. ... Nephi declared that we must "follow the Son, with full purpose of heart, acting no hypocrisy and no deception before God, but with real intent" (2 Nephi 31:13). ...

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The book of Malachi "and the Old Testament itself "ends like this: Lo, I will send you the prophet Elijah before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes. ... The man's last remark is reminiscent of the advice given to Job by his wife: "Curse God and die " (Job 2:9). ...

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Before evil can be understood on a cosmic level, it must first be understood on the level of an individual. ... At the same time, before I can enter into a discussion about Greek and Roman daemonology, I must first discuss some of the earliest beliefs in demons that would later influence Greek and Roman beliefs. ... Another major influence on Greek and Roman beliefs in the existence of evil spirits was the assertion by Zarathushtra in Iran shortly before 600 B.C. that evil manifests itself from a principle separate from the divine. ... Even though there was a history of daemonology in place be...

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