Desire can lead us to the life we were meant to live. And, desire can get us into a heap of trouble, too. Or just profound disappointment. Desire is a lot like love in ... The same holds true when we abandon our heart's deep desires.
Author: John Eldredge
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc
ISBN: 9781418584726
Category: Religion
Page: 349
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Sanctification is an awakening, the rousing of our souls from the dead sleep of sin into the fullness of their capacity for life. Desire often feels like an enemy, because it wakes longings that cannot be fulfilled in the moment.
Author: John Eldredge
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc
ISBN: 9781418589011
Category: Religion
Page: 506
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This 3 in 1 special edition contains "The Sacred Romance", "Waking the Dead", and "Desire" authored by John Eldredge. John Eldredge is the director of Ransomed HeartTM Ministries in Colorado Springs, Colorado, a fellowship devoted to helping people discover the heart of God. John is the author of numerous books, including Walking with God, Fathered by God, Waking the Dead, Desire, and Love & War (with his wife Stasi). John and Stasi live in Colorado with their three sons. He is an avid outdoorsman who loves being in the wild.Caridad Svich. Alchemy of Desire/ Dead—Man's Blues a play with songs by Caridad Svich ALCHEMY OF DESIRE/DEAD-MAN'S BLUES A Play with Songs By Caridad. Front Cover.
Author: Caridad Svich
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 9781105943379
Category: Fiction
Page: 83
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Award-winning play with songs by Caridad Svich that examines grief, loss and the power of love. A young woman loses her husband in a recent war. A community rallies round to save her.“On Harming the Dead.” Ethics 97 (2): 341–352. Feldman, Fred. 1991. ... “Past Desires and the Dead. ... “Desires.” Mind 117: 267–302. Murphy, Mark. 1999. “The Simple Desire-Fulfillment Theory.” Noûs 33(2): 247–272. Nagel, Thomas. 1970.
Author: Ben Bradley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780190271459
Category: Philosophy
Page: 517
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Death has long been a pre-occupation of philosophers, and this is especially so today. The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Death collects 21 newly commissioned essays that cover current philosophical thinking of death-related topics across the entire range of the discipline. These include metaphysical topics--such as the nature of death, the possibility of an afterlife, the nature of persons, and how our thinking about time affects what we think about death--as well as axiological topics, such as whether death is bad for its victim, what makes it bad to die, what attitude it is fitting to take towards death, the possibility of posthumous harm, and the desirability of immortality. The contributors also explore the views of ancient philosophers such as Aristotle, Plato and Epicurus on topics related to the philosophy of death, and questions in normative ethics, such as what makes killing wrong when it is wrong, and whether it is wrong to kill fetuses, non-human animals, combatants in war, and convicted murderers. With chapters written by a wide range of experts in metaphysics, ethics, and conceptual analysis, and designed to give the reader a comprehensive view of recent developments in the philosophical study of death, this Handbook will appeal to a broad audience in philosophy, particularly in ethics and metaphysics.The second book in the steamy, romantic Body Finder thriller series by Kimberly Derting.
Author: Kimberly Derting
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 9780062069795
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Page: 331
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The second book in the steamy, romantic Body Finder thriller series by Kimberly Derting. Violet and Jay are finally dating, but adjusting to the new relationship is not as easy as Violet anticipated. Especially when she has to split Jay’s time and attention with his new best friend, Mike, and Mike’s pesky younger sister—who happens to be obsessed with Jay. Meanwhile, when Violet’s special abilities lead her to the body of a young boy, her tip to the police puts her on the radar of the FBI. Violet tries to fend off the FBI’s questions while maintaining the semblance of a normal life, but somebody’s leaving her threatening notes and an echo around Mike’s house reinforces that all is not right. Violet is forced to admit that perhaps the only people who can help her figure it out are the very people she’s desperate to avoid—the FBI. Desires of the Dead is the compulsive second book in the four-book Body Finder series by Kimberly Derting.What connection is there between the resurrection of Christ , and our having good desires ? Read Rom . vi . 3-13 . 4. Can we have good desires unless we seek to be dead to evil desires ? 3. How is this truth taught us in the Baptismal ...
Author: George Wolfe Shinn
Publisher:
ISBN: HARVARD:AH5TFJ
Category: Bible
Page: 218
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Symbolism is heavily overlaid here; not only is desire for Elizabeth shown to be secretly desire for the dead mother, but desire for life is secretly a desire for death. The novel invites us to align Victor's “beautiful” dream of ...
Author: Jeremy Tambling
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9781350184169
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 561
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Providing the most comprehensive examination of the two-way traffic between literature and psychoanalysis to date, this handbook looks at how each defines the other as well as addressing the key thinkers in psychoanalytic theory (Freud, Klein, Lacan, and the schools of thought each of these has generated). It examines the debts that these psychoanalytic traditions have to literature, and offers plentiful case-studies of literature's influence from psychoanalysis. Engaging with critical issues such as madness, memory, and colonialism, with reference to texts from authors as diverse as Shakespeare, Goethe, and Virginia Woolf, this collection is admirably broad in its scope and wide-ranging in its geographical coverage. It thinks about the impact of psychoanalysis in a wide variety of literatures as well as in film, and critical and cultural theory.And Paul now proves that only through the Law were sinful desires wrought in him , by saying that apart from law sin is dead . Hence dead denotes a state in which working is impossible . Now it is because of its power and activity that ...
Author: Joseph Agar Beet
Publisher:
ISBN: WISC:89094606209
Category: Bible
Page: 446
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Thou hast given him his heart's desire . ... Could the infinite multitude of desires , good or bad , transient or constant , noble or base , loving or selfish , which ... Words without desire are not living prayer , only a dead form .
Author: Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones
Publisher:
ISBN: UOM:39015064580601
Category:
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“Both my car and my phone are dead. So, that would be a big fat no.” “Alright. Why don't you come with me?” “No, that's okay.” He smiled again. “Sweetheart, my club's yard is right down the block.
Author: Piper Davenport
Publisher: Trixie Publishing, Inc.
ISBN:
Category: Fiction
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Danielle Harris is the daughter of an overprotective police chief and has led a sheltered life. As a kindergarten teacher, she’s as far removed from the world of Harleys and bikers as you could get, but when she’s rescued by the sexy and dangerous Austin Carver, her life is changed forever. Although Austin ‘Booker’ Carver is enamored by the innocent Dani, he tries to keep the police chief’s daughter at arm’s length. But when a threat is made from an unexpected source, he finds himself falling hard and fast for the only woman who can tame his wild heart. Will Booker be able to find the source of the threat before it’s too late? Will Dani finally give her heart to a man who’s everything she’s been warned about?