Sentences with phrase «against selfishness»

Austere as well as paternal, authoritative and kingly as well as merciful and gracious, terrific in judgment against selfishness, cruelty, and sham as well as forgiving to outcasts and prodigals, Jesus» God was revealed not so much in the words he used about him as in the life he lived with him.

Human affliction, especially the monstrous inhumanity of man to man, was to them a practical, rather than a theoretical, problem; it represented not only a conflict of ideas but a conflict of individual and class interests, a struggle for justice in personal character or social organization against selfishness, ill will, and inequity.

Additionally, donors may see the propriety, in our indulgent culture, of exhortations by R&D professionals against selfishness and materialism, but they understand that development «education» that consists of popularized versions of dependency theory is not likely to be helpful - either for rich Western Christians or for their impoverished Third World brethren.

The life which Christ asks us to lead is one which goes against the selfishness we find within us and one which goes against the values of this world.

Not exact matches

In great areas of human action man's refusal to accept his finiteness makes him proud, self - righteous, and in rebellion against God; man's selfishness makes him refuse to use his freedom with love toward his fellow men.

Andy Flannagan, director of both Christians in Politics and Christians on the Left is a strong proponent of political engagement but warns against allowing healthy patriotism to slide into what he calls «an uglier form of nationalism», which he sees as thinly disguised selfishness.

How someone can claim to be a Christian... while essentially being a practicing Satanist, and worshiping all of the things that Christianity is allegedly against (Greed, Pride, Covetousness, Selfishness, etc.), is beyond me.

Everything was kept under the strictest regulations of the entire community in order to guard against the abuse of freedom as well as the threat of selfishness.

Christian life means continual assimilation of the mystery of the cross in the light against individual and social selfishness.

The sins that most beset the path of cultured, respectable people are not the more overt transgressions against society but the subtler sins of worry, selfishness, pride, and prejudice.

Now with Iwobi with same attributes as Alexis bar his selfishness defenders are confused against our front three.

Compare this to the Tory agenda of profiteering and wealth protection for those at the top; creating an army of unemployed people to force down pay whilst demonising the vulnerable, setting people against one another and underpinning the whole twisted ideology with a culture of fear, hatred and selfishness.

They insist that Mario Cuomo got more done than he is often remembered for: holding firm against the death penalty, protecting the safety net in the era of selfishness, and, yes, even passing mundane reforms like a seat - belt law.

We stand for the Monarchy; traditional marriage; family and community duties; proper pride in our nation's distinctive qualities; quality of life over soulless utility; social responsibility over personal selfishness; social justice as civic duty, not state dependency; compassion for those in need; reducing government waste; lower taxation and deregulation; our ancient liberties against politically correct censorship and a commitment to our democratically elected parliament.»

Even in the most collegial settings, he says, that reality tends to foster selfishness, pitting one investigator against another in a competition for finite resources — lab space, equipment, and funding.

Penalizing others for their selfishness might not be fun, but it wins out against the alternative, suggesting how social sanctions and the cooperation they entail might have emerged over time.

What did make this movie work was the sense of «being there,» of watching these characters go through what they think are grand plans for themselves (Wikus proud of getting promoted; Christopher thinking he's finally going to fix the mothership and escape) only for random chance, selfishness, and the raw immediacy of simple survival kick in and having them struggle from moment to moment against hostile forces (MNU, the human slumlords, there is no difference between those two groups exploiting the aliens).

The ways the right wing has used media technology in recent years reveals a selfishness and myopia that younger people can actively work against, using those same systems, since they understand them so well.