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In religions from Christianity to Islam, sympathy is expressed by offering personal prayers and assuring the bereaved that their loved one will proceed to heaven, or "a better place." Expressing sympathy without religious language can be useful in certain situations, such as when an acquaintance's...
I tried to be as much comfort for him as I could; I felt for him as for my closest. Here was a decent human being struck by a dread disease. He had suffered much in his life, beginning with the hell in his home. I knew that the specter of death was hovering over his mind and...
Brown (1996) further added that life-satisfaction is the way of thinking based on affection for oneself. He argued that every human being wants to feel good about himself, which is a basic human need; however, these feelings change across time and cultures. It is universal as well as dynam...
I am a woman who wants to go home but never figured out where it is or why to go there…I have lost the words to chant my bloodline. — Lisa Harris We are the sum of all our ancestors. Some speak louder than others but they all remain present, alive in our very blood and bone...
Now if anyone has caused pain, he has caused it not to me, but in some measure—not to put it too severely—to all of you. For such a one, this punishment by the majority is enough, so you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorro...
CHAPTER III. THE RELIGIOUS MOOD 45. The human soul and its limits, the range of man's inner experiences hitherto attaine...
Well-meaning religious phrases, such as“She’sinabetter place,”or“His spirit isall aroundyou,”werenot interpreted as words of comfort by our respondents,often instead servingasareminder of their minoritystatus in society.Apartic-ipant inHuganAtheist recalledaparticularexchangeafter her husband ...
Where else can you eat well, sleep in comfort, feel safe and enjoy the scene while you are traveling at speed at the same time? And we are only at the beginning. For we have just entered the age of super-fast trains, trains traveling at 150 miles an hour and more. Soon we will ...
Believers with higher God-mediated control may also disclose more of their fears and personal shortcomings to God. In other words, they may realize the parts of their lives where they need God more deeply. Cast in the context of the current study, this involves a higher degree of trust in...