"10 The American dramatist‟s concept of family is centered on his dream of the ideal family and his desire to make peace with it rather than understand it. ... To briefly consider O'Neill‟s concept towards paternal relationships, one can notice that the fathers, in his works, represent the powerful old patriarchs who rule over the minds if not always the wills of their families, reflected by Ephraim Cabot in Desire, Abraham Mannon in Mourning, and James Tyrone in A Long Day's Journey, while the mothers are used by their men like their lands. At the same time, the mother re...

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I was born again and filled with the Holy Spirit in 1978 and deep within me was placed a burning desire to study the Word. I attended Bible Studies at my local church, but this did not satisfy my desire for a deeper knowledge of the Word of God. ... This is why I understand the parable found in Luke 8:6, concerning the seed that fell on rocky ground, took root, but due to lack of moisture it soon wilted and died. ... Although the knowledge gained was invaluable, I still had a desire to study further. This desire was finally fulfilled when I was given the opportunity to study for my Bachelor o...

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Gilgamesh is a hero -- more beautiful, more courageous, and more terrifying than the rest of us; his desires, attributes, and accomplishments epitomize our own. Yet he is also mortal: he must experience the death of others and die himself. ... Thus Gilgamesh turns his attention away from small personal desires to loftier personal desires -- desires that benefit rather than harm Uruk. ...

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He desired and wanted to emulate Jesus Christ in all the things he did by living out the Gospel and inviting and teaching many others to do the same. ... Before he died, Saint Francis went up to Mount La Verna to pray and contemplate upon the Passion of Christ. ... A religious has been killed by the letter when he has no desire to follow the spirit of Sacred Scripture, but wants to know what it says only so that he can explain it to others. " Francis took a literal approach to the Bible which caused him to live a life of poverty. ... He died poor in the eyes of man, but supremely rich in th...

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What he's saying is that there was no reason for him to steal the pears, no need or desire. ... The ability and desire too perverse is evil. So if we do possess that ability and desire then we must possess evil. ... Augustine is a good example of the love God desires. ... Therefore, when some dies at the hands of God it is good. ...

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Christ allows each of us the very same opportunity to declare our faith, with a gentle reminder such as, "If you desire a further witness, cast your mind upon the night that you cried unto me in your heart, that you might know concerning the truth of these things. ...

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Egyptians also believed that the gods lived, died, went into battle, and had human emotions. ... After seeing the people's misery, he decided to become a hermit, leave all his wealth, become poor and live an underprivileged life away free human desire. ... He believed that human desire was the cause of all human suffering. People brought suffering upon themselves in accordance to the human desires they submitted to (182). According to Buddha, the more one desires, the more he suffers. ...

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This covenant provides us with a proper understanding of GOD's attitude toward sin and His desire to redeem His creation. We can also see GOD's desire to fellowship with His people. ... This covenant is conditional and depends entirely on Israel's willingness and desire to follow GOD's law. ... In the Noahic Covenant GOD's desire to fellowship with man and his anger towards sin are both expressed. ... In the New Covenant, GOD's desire for fellowship is fulfilled as well as the law of GOD, and the promise of the Messiah. ...

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Buddhism was created with the belief that all life is suffering because of desire. So to achieve "Nirvana", or the ultimate Buddha state, you must extinguish all desire. ... Jesus is believed to have died through crucifixion and then resurrected from the dead by God to illustrate forgiveness of human sin, the conquering of death, and denial of Satan. ... With the knowledge that a person (or myself), desires to ascend into heaven with the ultimate holy, living a life consistent with achieving this is the same state of consciousness as the eastern religions attempt to achieve ...

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Socrates, believed that the soul was immortal, he taught that the search for truth should be the most important goal in ones life, which would only be fulfilled finally after you die and the soul is released from the body. ... There is one definite that connects these two philosophers together even though they cam from two different Ages, which is freedom from the fear of death or dying. ... He felt that people should not listen to priest since all they do is put fear of death into the hearts of man making them fear dying and at the same time making them not find happiness in their lives but l...

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How we have been able to give our senses a passport to everything superficial, our thoughts a divine desire for wanton leaps and wrong inferences!... "Even the body within which individuals treat each other as equals, as suggested before "and this happens in every healthy aristocracy "if it is a living and not a dying body, has to do to other bodies what the individuals within it refrain from doing to each other: it will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow spread, seize, become predominant "not from any morality or immorality but because it is living an...

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A question that really leaves my mind confused is that if God did exist and die then why was his body missing from the tomb. ... According to Thomas, he believed that all people desire happiness, but they can only satisfy this desire through direct communion with the omnipotent being. ... Christianity also believed that the omnipotent being died in our place to save us all from sin (www.religoustolerance.com). ...

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He could give us, His children, everything our hearts desire. ... Instead he gives us everything His heart desires for us. ... He asked her, "Who died?" She replied, "God died. ... 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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We are always willing to reach for the top and always have the desire to be better than others are and this is the main cause for people like Gray becoming self-centered. ... These are trifles and mere old wives" tales.(128-130) Despite the fact that Mephistophilis guarantees him that he will find out what hell is when he dies and actually experience it, Faustus still denies it and declares that it is completely made up. ... When she dies, she takes his whole childhood away. ... It is when he dies and is taken to hell when he realizes what he has done and recognizes his sins. ... We cann...

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Secondly, there were the similarities of great friendship: Gilgamesh and Enkidu's friendship was so strong that when Enkidu died Gilgamesh lamented his friend and kept his body until worms came out of his nostrils. ... Gilgamesh realizes that he would die just as his friend Enkidu did. ... Then, we see the desire to live forever, immortality/eternal life. ...

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Every hero, as a general rule, desires to be remembered for more than one heroic tendency. ... Just Beowulf's touch would make a mortal man want to die. ... Also, once he knew that he was going to die, Arthur did a very noble thing. ...

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In the evening, Satan does not approach Adam, but appears as a toad and whispers "discontented thoughts, / Vain hopes, vain aims" and "inordinate desires" into the ear of Eve. ... Either man must die, or justice must. ... After none in Heaven dares to die in the place of fallen man, the Son pleads with the Father, "Behold me then, me for him, life for life / I offer, on me let thine anger fall." ...

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Therefore, to enjoy something is to value or desire it as an end in itself and to use something, on the other hand, is to value it as a means of obtaining something higher. ... The cause of Augustine misery lies in the fact that he tries to love his friend for his own sake; he loves a transient being as though he was an immortal, and therefore must be devastated when his friend dies. ... Sure, he would have been sad that his friend had died, but he would have had the satisfaction of knowing that he lived on in god. ...

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The spirit man told her that if she would renounce God and Christ, then he would do whatever mischief she desired. ... The role of the manlike spirit was to lie with her carnally whenever she desired him to. ... Because at the time, one out of every four babies died before their first birthday, it must be concluded that it was not Elizabeth who caused the death of the child. Instead, the child may have died because of malnutrition and starvation. ... Finally, if he had two spirits to do whatever mischief he desired, then why did he not use them for his benefit? ...

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It focuses on God's sovereignty, stating that God is able and willing by virtue of his omniscience, omnipresence, and omnipotence, to do whatever He desires with His creation. ... " Limited Atonement "Jesus Christ died to save only those who were given to him (elected) by the Father in eternity past. Since Christ did not die for everyone, but only for the elect, his atonement is wholly successful.... "(Fairchild) Scripture basis - Romans 9:16 "It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God's mercy.... Jesus died for all peoples' sins, ...

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Nabonidus, the fourth king after the death of Nebuchadnezzar in 562 BC, himself died in 539 BC, after a seven-year reign. Belshazzar, his son, had evidently been coregent; but in fulfillment of Dan. 5:25-28, he too died. ...

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God had told Eve that if she ate from the tree she would die. ... The serpent also said, "You will not die; for God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God (ch. 3 line 4-5). ... God then turned to the women and said, " I will greatly increase your pangs in child bearing; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you" (ch. 3 line 16). ... Antigone loved her brother so much that she was willing to die if she was caught burying him. ... Upon returning to the palace he informs his wife Eurydi...

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The man's last remark is reminiscent of the advice given to Job by his wife: "Curse God and die " (Job 2:9). ... His problem is that his desire to keep going appears to lack a rational foundation. ... Because it is in the nature of human beings to desire that the things they do make sense, he grasps for beliefs that will make his struggle make sense. ... Rather, the desire comes first: because he wants to keep going, he believes "or tries to believe "that he is on a divine mission. ...

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However the person who believes in God and afterlife knows that when they die there will be no more sadness and suffering because if God created all beings and God is Happy, then they will be happy as well in the afterlife. ... And according to Epictetus, "If then indeed you consider yourself isolatedly, it is natural that you should live to old age, should be prosperous and healthy; but if you consider yourself as a man, or part of a whole, that you should at one time be sick; at another time take a voyage, and be exposed to danger; sometimes be in want; and possibly die before your time...

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It is the phobia of unwanted emotions that instigate Wiesel's desire to always attend to his father. ... Instead of dying and entering a blissful heaven, Wiesel endures more suffering. ... Several sufferers disagree with the assumption that God is dying. ... "The idea of dying, of no longer being, began to fascinate me. ... When Wiesel's father dies, Wiesel ends his memoir abruptly. ...

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