Sentences with phrase «sacrifices were made on»

Sacrifices were made on their end to make sure we were happy with the deal we were getting.

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However far you've come, the trip has been tough on everyone, with sacrifices being made in varying degrees all around.

Incase Sonic Made by a company that's famous for stylish iPhone cases and boasting the most fashion - forward design of any audiophile - grade headphones on the market, the unimaginatively named Sonics are easily dismissed as sacrificing function for form.

Because the average salary for a woman still lags behind men's (the American Association of University Women says women earn 82 cents for every dollar a man makes one year after graduation) and lenders favor two - income households over single earners, Lautz says women are «making the most sacrifices to get into a home, but they're still placing a high value on owning a home of their own.»

He said that politicians and even different groups have to sit down and decide what the most important frame is, and make sacrifices on the others.

These are slim, lightweight and and made to be portable without sacrificing on sound quality.

You don't make sacrifices like that to be cheated on,» has even garnered over 35,000 favorites.

Though investors and analysts sometimes question fast - casual chains about the cost sacrifices they may be making by holding a firm line on their menus, Shaich isn't dissuaded.

And finally, it emphasized love and gratitude for the lives they've been allowed to live because of the earlier sacrifices made on their behalf.

But on Monday he said, «The final straw came this weekend,» when Trump appeared on This Week With George Stephanopoulos and discussed how he's made sacrifices for his country by building and providing jobs.

In Paradigm Capital analyst Spencer Churchill's estimation, a cut to short term profitability might be a «sacrifice» Uralkali is making «to try and get their former partner back on side.»

The Province of B.C. is willing to make significant environmental sacrifices for projects that will bring economic benefits to the Province of B.C.. On the other hand, they will block a project needed by a land - locked sister province, a project that would benefit all of Canada, claiming that they are doing so because they must protect the environment, protect the land from damage and reduce global warming.

Finally, they also invest invest their time and efforts in the business, from working long hours or pitching in on duties that don't technically fall under their job responsibilities to occasionally making personal sacrifices when time doesn't permit them to be in two places at once.

Yet, Millennials are also prepared to make personal sacrifices to make an impact on issues they care about — whether that's paying more for a product (70 % vs. 66 % U.S. average), sharing products rather than buying (66 % vs. 56 % U.S. average) or taking a pay cut to work for a responsible company (62 % vs. 56 % U.S. average).

Many first - timers are making sacrifices and spending less on nonessential purchases.

«The most important and fulfilling thing in my day to day life is taking care of my five children, who are ages 3 - 13 but on the business side, it's knowing CSSCS has so quickly made a difference in people's lives that makes the sacrifices I have made all worthwhile.

NOt unorthodox!!!! Its about sacrifice or just making an extra effort in your daily life in remembrance of what God has done for us... whether it be good deeds, praying more, spending less on vices or earthly pleasures, etc...

The problem was that moneychangers were exploiting the people's legitimate need and turning their monopoly on animals - for - sacrifice into a profit - making machine.

Of course, simply making a sacrifice is all well and good, but one should also be committed to attending church on each of the holy days during Lent.

The reason I ask your opinion initially is because I think there is a better way, today, for the creator of the universe to make him / her / it's self known to humankind, rather than to rely on a 2,000 year old story of sacrifice.

You mean as part of what it means to make sacrifices the greatest of which being God having to make the greatest sacrifice of all that unlike Abraham who was at the last minute spared from having to make the sacrifice of his beloved son Isaac, God on the other hand due to his love for all of us imperfect beings had to actually sacrifice his beloved son.

This is one reason why Jesus was able to offer forgiveness of sins to people who had not yet made the «Temple - suggested sacrifice» and He was offering this forgiveness chronologically prior to His death on the cross.

Recently there has been great agitation in Pakistan about the enormous wastage involved in animal sacrifice and suggestions have been made that the money spent on slaughtering animals should be spent on social and philanthropic activities, but the conservative groups remain unconvinced.

St Luke makes clear the context of the Last Supper: «Then came the day of Unleavened Bread, on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed.»

On Sunday, let us remember that true liberation is found in sacrifice, that the Church usually thrives under persecution, and that our extra resources and freedoms only make us more responsible to care for our neighbors.

«Jesus Christ, our Lord and God, when he was about to offer himself once on the altar of the Cross to God the Father, making intercession by means of his death, so that he might gain there an eternal redemption, since his priesthood was not to be extinguished by death, at the last Supper, «on the night that he was handed over», left to his beloved Spouse the Church a visible sacrifice, such as the nature of man requires, by which the bloody sacrifice achieved once upon the Cross might be represented and its memory endure until the end of the age, and its saving power be applied to the remission of those sins which are daily committed by us.»

John puts the supper on the night before the Passover (In 13:1; 19:31, 36, 42), so that the crucifixion takes place at the time when the lamb was killed, making Jesus himself the true Passover sacrifice (cf. I Cor 5:7).

If that was true, there would be no need to tell people about how sinful and deepicable they are, how they need to be «saved» and how they can be «saved» by believing there was a human sacrifice made on their behalf a long time ago.

But this «Therefore» doesn't make sense if you look a the end of chapter 11, where Paul has digressed in a lengthy doxology, which while it discusses intriguing mysteries of God and praises God, doesn't lead to the logical conclusion that we should present ourselves as living sacrifices to him, but if you read into that «οὖν» an «as I was saying earlier», you can see that before the doxology he issued an important warning in Romans 11:22 — if God is willing enough to be so severe as to cut of the natural branches (the Jews) he will certainly be willing to cut of the ones that have been grafted on (the Gentiles); Romans 12:1 - 2 is a very logical «therefore» to follow Romans 11:21 - 24.

First, Protestants wanted to reject completely any possible notion that the original sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross could or should be repeated in any form 1n order to make it efficacious for the salvation of men.

There is only one thing that makes one a Christian: belief in the atoning sacrifice of Gods Son Jesus Christ on our behalf.

Come on get real samson old testement its in there wilful sin my definition is walking away from the Lord and doing opur own thing knowing what you should do but still do what you want to do.In the life of Samson WE SEE Gods forgiveness and the sacrifice is the same as today repentence we are saved by the grace of God if we turn from our own way.He was disobedient to his parents and to the Lord his heart was no different from ours wilfully disobedient he chose sin over the Lord all the time sleeping with prostites and lying with foreign woman going his own way and yet God saves him not only that he was Gods chosen instrument to deliver his people.The sad part is his term was only 20 years if he had walking in the ways of the Lord he should have had that ministry for 40 years that is the term of completion.We cut ourselves short when we choose sin over the Lord which is an idol by the way.We all have those areas in our lives that we keep to ourselves thats wilful they are our demons and our comforters.Until we surrender all to the Lord we can not be overcomers and will be influenced by satan like samson it is clear warning to us wilful sin or making sin an idol in our lives has consequences better to serve the Lord with all our hearts even though samson did nt for much of his life God still showed him his grace and faithfullness.You can also see wilful sin in the Life of David yet God saves him but not all were saved in the life of saul as he wouldnt listen to the Lord and kept walking according to his flesh.

Hence Jesus Christ, son of God, son of man, is able to make the sacrifice on account of men, and all of humanity, even though, as God he was the offended one.

Ex-President Eliot, of Harvard, says that the strongest appeal that he was ever able to bring to bear on wayward boys consisted in making clear to them how much they had been sacrificed for and how much their failure would mean to those who cared.

They took along with them four principal priests, who made their laws and instructed them in their rites, and ceremonies and in the most superstitious, cruel, and bloody sacrifices ever known, as will be seen farther on in this account, where the sacrifices are described in detail.

We can see that this might make sense to someone brought up in the ancient Jewish tradition in which an unblemished animal was sacrificed to God to make atonement for the sins of the people, and in which the iniquities of Israel were all put on the head of a goat which was then driven out into the wilderness, taking the people's sins with it.

For that, I encourage the pastors and the monks to offer to the faithful a real education in liturgy, for a more profitable participation, which is before all a union with Christ, who offeredHimself in sacrifice on the Cross, made present in the eucharistic act.»

But what was outrageous about this governor's stance on the economy is that when he came into the State House, he said everyone has to make sacrifices yet, he gave the wealthy large tax breaks while leaving the middle class and the poor with the task of carrying the load.

This congress has gotten to the point where sacrifices are going to need to be made by people on both sides of the spectrum if we are going to see any real improvement in this deficit.

Attendance upon cults to Zeus both in Jerusalem and on Gerizim was made compulsory and in December, 167, this pagan sacrifice was instituted in the Jerusalem Temple.

And they got upset and were trying to figure things out and finally became so frustrated that the Law was so hard to follow and God kept sending them into captivity and there was so much death and eventually the prophets started prophesying about a day that would come where the hearts of the fathers would return to their children and a sacrifice that would be the final sacrifice so that they could all stop killing so many animals (which God also admitted He never wanted in the first place because that was not the point), and also that God would eventually wipe out the old system and write his law on their hearts and minds so that they could finally follow him without making so many mistakes and messing up everything.

Fr Crean's article on the Eucharist (Sept 09) stresses the need to see the sacrifice of our Lord's mortal body as the essential fact which makes the offering of the Mass a sacrifice; and his thesis is usefully complemented by the editorial comment, which reminds us that «the presence of the Lamb that was slain for our sins is inseparable from his risen and glorified presence before the Father in heaven».

Second, before any sacrifice was made, the High Priest removed his beautiful and ornate garments that he normally wore, and put on simple, plain linens.

When the book on absurdity states things like a God made Adam and Eve and flooded the earth and came to the earth as a man to sacrifice itself to prove it was God.

When you are living on top of one another, you have to make some sacrifices of personal freedom to keep everyone safe.

Isaac he must love with his whole soul; when God requires Isaac he must love him if possible even more dearly, and only on this condition can he sacrifice him; for in fact it is this love for Isaac which, by its paradoxical opposition to his love for God, makes his act a sacrifice.

I think we should turn the table on him and make him explain the 100s and 100s of texts that say we are saved by Christ alone, by His actions, His sacrifice, His faithfulness, His love, His sinlessness, His purity, being God in the flesh, the Creator dying for His creation.

It is interesting that people who use Leviticus against the gay community forget the part that talks about religious sacrifices, making women sleep in tents outside during their period, the dietary restrictions placed on them and how to cleanse a leper, all of which appear in Leviticus.

More on topic though, the butchery of animals is in fact explicitly demanded by your religion; the bible is very clear that you should sacrifice and burn an animal today because the smell makes your sicko Christian sky fairy happy.

It would make more sense if Jesus, a compassionate human being, offered himself to the blood - thursty God as a self - sacrifice for the benefit of all mankind, but the Christian understanding of the mission God sent his son on, and its purpose, is just wonky.