Sentences with phrase «acts of sacrifice»

Seemingly inconsequential acts of sacrifice and love impact others in ways we could never imagine.

Remarkable acts of sacrifice would suddenly be performed.

Perhaps after several months or years of putting aside their own needs in favor of the other spouse, and after countless acts of sacrifice and love, they may have found that there was a relationship worth saving there.

The act of sacrifice may stand as an example for many other cultic acts, the performance of which has a socially integrating effect.

Round about me on every side was the biggest congregation I ever had: behind the altar, on either side, and in front, row after row, sometimes crowding one upon the other, but all quiet and silent, as if they were straining their ears to catch every syllable of that tremendous act of Sacrifice — but every man was dead!

So tired of the superior mother complex of some mothers who think Breastfeeding is the ultimate act of sacrifice.

We [say]: «Teach the youth the act of sacrifice and discipline.

Clegg said after the election that he had no choice but to go back on his word: a national economic disaster loomed, national interest trumps party politics, amassing power and all its trappings through brazen dishonesty was actually an act of sacrifice!

But their labor is an act of sacrifice: When most plants soak up TNT, a harmful chemical reaction occurs in the energymaking mitochondria of the plant's cells, stunting its growth dramatically and eventually killing it.

And Nelson's goofy foil's final act of sacrifice comes off as his one out - of - character moment.

That act of sacrifice will be something I will never forget.

All the weapons / spells require something to that effect, although perhaps the most impressive act of sacrifice is to get the weapon Exculibur (sic), where you literally rip out your own spine through your mouth.

That act of sacrifice shows Gill's character; he goes out of his way to do important things for others.

Not exact matches

The act of Stepping Up means that you have the courage to be vulnerable and do what needs to be done... regardless of the personal sacrifices or political fallout.

As Thay remarked, «The monk who burns himself has lost neither courage nor hope... he believes in the fruition of his act of self - sacrifice for the sake of others.

' God only acted that way after hundreds of years of the Isrealites engaging in Baal worship that involved the blood sacrifices and canabalism of their children (and lots of other unmentionable perverted stuff).

For instance, in a colorful case involving a city ordinance restricting the practice of animal sacrifice, the Court severely criticized officials for acting out of animosity towards the Santeria religion, which engages in the ritualistic slaughter of pigeons, goats, and turtles (among other animals) and at least sometimes leaves the carcasses along roadsides and in other public places.

Secondly, if you are going to base your arguement on it, God only acted that way after hundreds of years of the Isrealites engaging in Baal worship that involved the blood sacrifices and canabalism of their children (and lots of other unmentionable perverted stuff).

Again and again, in what Brown calls «quiet acts of self - sacrifice,» he took up his pen in defense of the Church.

There are plenty of deluded people who give away all their worldly goods or perform heroic acts of self - sacrifice that you never hear about, because such actions aren't crimes and thus don't get reported on the news.

Everyone was saved from the beginning, it just took a true act of love and a then understanding of sacrifice for us to finally realise it.

Eid al - Adha commemorates when God appeared to Abraham - known as Ibrahim to Muslims - in a dream and asked him to sacrifice his son as an act of obedience.

Every act of self - sacrifice is an act of creation or new creation.

Without the Fall of man, without the original sin of Adam and Eve, Christ's sacrifice, His sacred deed, would have been to draw together the whole of humanity into a relationship of full communion with God in one act of joyful recognition and adoration.

Animal sacrifice, therefore, deeply rooted in traditional custom and congenial with contemporaneous Semitism, was the central act of Hebrew worship.

Worship of Satan doesn't have to be some blatant act of human sacrifices, etc by an unbeliever.

«My kingship is not of this world,» says the Johannine Jesus (18:36)-- who also says of his followers, «they are not of the world» (17:14) Jesus» glorification comes through an act of self - sacrificing love.

He has experienced awe, the religious passion, during the dark vision between the sacrificial pieces; he has enacted the new covenant marked by (self --RRB- circumcision — a symbolic act of «partial sacrifice,» betokening dedication to God's ways; he has been God's partner in the judgment on Sodom and Gomorrah, and in his own heart has accepted responsibility for (what he thought was) the «death» of Lot; he has beheld the wondrous birth of Isaac and endured the banishment of Ishmael.

But again, many of the greatest sacrifices I have seen are from men who gave their last years caring for their wives, the greatest act of love.

We have witnessed acts throughout history of Non-Christians doing incredible acts of self - sacrifice, ie: dying for complete strangers.

And thinking and acting more justly will come as we follow in the Way of Jesus, sacrificing ourselves on behalf of a world in need.

This is true whether a Christian soldier is sacrificing his life for the sake of Country, or taking the life of another human in an act of war.

The Incarnation is thus an act of genuine self - sacrifice, a complete emptying out of God's being.

In this activity of procreation and care for children the self - regarding and self - serving ways of the parents are to a large degree transformed into acts of self - giving and self - sacrifice.

In my book Jewish Renewal: A Path to Healing and Transformation, I point out that in the original Hebrew version the word for «the Lord» that calls Abraham to sacrifice his son is very different than the word for the angel of God (YHVH) who tells Abraham to NOT GO THROUGH WITH IT, and that the reason we Jews celebrate Abraham as the father of our people is NOT because of his faith in being willing to carry out this violent and bloody act, but rather because he was able to hear the voice of God as a voice that allowed him (and through him all subsequent Jewish and Muslim believers) to NOT FOLLOW THE VOICE OF CRUETLY AS SOMEHOW THE VOICE OF GOof God (YHVH) who tells Abraham to NOT GO THROUGH WITH IT, and that the reason we Jews celebrate Abraham as the father of our people is NOT because of his faith in being willing to carry out this violent and bloody act, but rather because he was able to hear the voice of God as a voice that allowed him (and through him all subsequent Jewish and Muslim believers) to NOT FOLLOW THE VOICE OF CRUETLY AS SOMEHOW THE VOICE OF GOof our people is NOT because of his faith in being willing to carry out this violent and bloody act, but rather because he was able to hear the voice of God as a voice that allowed him (and through him all subsequent Jewish and Muslim believers) to NOT FOLLOW THE VOICE OF CRUETLY AS SOMEHOW THE VOICE OF GOof his faith in being willing to carry out this violent and bloody act, but rather because he was able to hear the voice of God as a voice that allowed him (and through him all subsequent Jewish and Muslim believers) to NOT FOLLOW THE VOICE OF CRUETLY AS SOMEHOW THE VOICE OF GOof God as a voice that allowed him (and through him all subsequent Jewish and Muslim believers) to NOT FOLLOW THE VOICE OF CRUETLY AS SOMEHOW THE VOICE OF GOOF CRUETLY AS SOMEHOW THE VOICE OF GOOF GOD.

For the all - important work of molding our most important possession, our own self — which is in fact the only thing that is truly our own — for molding this into something that has depth and breadth and substance, for nurturing it beyond the shallow and brittle and empty, acts of love and courage and self - sacrifice are needed.

Finally, this profession implies a total engagement not only of words but of acts and, in the extreme, in the sacrifice of a life.

However odd this sounds, that by movie's end it seems both plausible and fitting bespeaks the artistic triumph of In Bruges: its ability to convey the Christian sacramental sense of divine presence within the created order, and most especially in self - sacrificing acts of love by imperfect beings themselves being perfected by Christ.

Samuel said obedience is better than sacrifice so just obey the word, Remember James said faith without works is dead being alone, so act on faith and obey Jesus the name of the Word of God.

The death of the martyrs, in other words, was believed already to contain, in their act of self - denial and sacrifice, the certainty of divine vindication.

A final act of love for those who loved and accepted His love and sacrifice for them.

«Up hearts,» or «Lift up your hearts,» is the moment when we put away every other thought so as to focus all our energy on the one and most important act of any given day: the worship of God through our participation in the one sacrifice of Jesus Christ renewed on our altars.

Luke reads there, «take up his cross daily,» which, like his «bear his own cross here,» suggests a continuous life of sacrifice and endurance rather than a single act of dedication.

The Irrevocable Sacrifice But it is also the greatest act of love from a second perspective.

Newman's sermon to the assembled prelates in the hot summer of 1852 was certainly complimentary: «And so that high company moves on into the holy place [Newman was picturing the procession of dignitaries with Cardinal Wiseman the last to enter the chapel of St Mary's Oscott]; and there, with august rite and awful sacrifice, inaugurates the great act which brings it hither.»

To put it another way, if all God had to do was forgive, then the birth, teachings, the ministry, the betrayel, the trial, the beatings, humiliation, and crucifiction, the sacrifice of His Son, Himself, was a pointless act, a token gesture at best.

Even Harry Potter dies and comes back from the dead in the final book, after an act of self - sacrifice.

Self - sacrifice may be an aggressive act against others or a form of self - destruction.

But Las Casas, citing the binding of Isaac and the killing of the firstborn, did not flinch from defending human sacrifice as a justified religious act.

We have no idea if this financial development in our community is because of any value we possess, any good we've done, or whether it is just an act of mercy, a gracious move of deliverance from years of stress, struggle and sacrifice.