The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.
The partition separating life from death is so tenuous. The unbelievable fragility of our organism suggests a vision on a screen: a kind of mist condenses itself into a human shape, lasts a moment and scatters.
Hope is such a tenuous quality. To feel it and then to be denied what one most longs for. . . Better, surely, not to hope at all, than to open the heart to a hope that is impossible.
The people who survive avoid snowball scenarios in which bad trades cause them to become emotionally destabilized and make more bad trades. They are also able to feel the pain of losing. If you don't feel the pain of a loss, then you're in the same position as those unfortunate people who have no pain sensors. If they leave their hand on a hot stove, it will burn off. There is no way to survive in the world without pain. Similarly, in the markets, if the losses don't hurt, your financial survival is tenuous.
But Jesus and Christianity have a tenuous relationship at best.
The link between rational individual behavior and collectively desirable outcomes is extremely tenuous.
Influence is a very tenuous matter. I try to avoid it in every respect. I don't want to be influenced by anybody.
I just recently became aware of how tenuous my life is. I don't have time for fear.
I wasn't going to say anything about that, Tabitha," he said quietly. "I only wanted to tell you that your compassion for other people overwhelms me. ""Oh. " She offered him a tenuous smile. "I'm just used to people condemning everything I do. "He lifted her hand to his lips and kissed her knuckles. "I don't condemn you, my lady. I only admire you.
Sanity is tenuous. Tenuous. Comes and goes. Many of the brightest people floating about this planet have only a finger's grip on sanity, if that.
Memory is a tenuous thing, like a rainbow's end or a camera with a failing lens.
Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.
