Sentences with phrase «as sacrifices on»

In order to acquire real glory and power, present the hearts of your enemies as sacrifices on the altar of your god.

It means to see the suffering we go through (whether we want it or not) from the perspective of Christ, Paul, Peter, and countless people who suffered for the sake of their faith and offered their suffering to God as a sacrifice on behalf of others.

Thirdly, the idea that there could be no forgiveness until Jesus saved us by dying as a sacrifice on our behalf is contradicted by the simple fact that Jesus himself proclaimed forgiveness during his own lifetime.

But then something happened,... God asked Abraham to take his one and only son, the son that Abraham had waited 100 years for, the only son of his inheritance, God asked Abraham to take that son, and go offer him up as a sacrifice on an altar.

The whole point was for Jesus to act as a sacrifice on my behalf.

For months now we've speculated that Adem Ljajic would be the sacrificial lamb, his blood offered as a sacrifice on the altar of Gervinho, Garcia's favorite player / demigod.

As a sacrifice on behalf of you all, I follow them on their social media accounts and see photos of them daily.

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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.

Before my experiment of a year without flying, I would have seen not flying as deprivation and sacrifice, but my experience taught me that my happiness, joy, adventure, cultural exploration, and so on didn't depend on flying.

As irony will have it, good communication is often the sacrifice when we leap from tab to tab, juggling the work we're meant to complete on our monitors along with the many, needy little windows imploring for our attention.

Training full time, sacrificing studies and jobs, can have huge opportunity costs as well, as missing out on necessary education and prime years of work experience take tolls on later earnings.

Budget six to eight months to earn more and make lifestyle sacrifices such as taking on a roommate, cutting down meals out and extraneous expenses to help you save.

The top sacrifice is dining out, as 43 percent of millennials saving for retirement say they've cut back on restaurants.

And, after two years of extreme sacrifice and taking on as many freelance projects as he could to increase his revenue to six figures, Kapetaneas was completely debt - free.

Without mentioning specific trade arrangements such as NAFTA or the Trans - Pacific Partnership (TPP), Trump used the moment to boast that «America has finally turned the page on decades of unfair trade deals that sacrificed our prosperity and shipped away our companies.»

On Veterans Day, Starbucks stores across the U.S. will invite active duty service members as well as reservists, veterans and military spouses to enjoy a free tall - brewed coffee on Veterans Day as a gesture of appreciation for the military community's sacrifice and contributionOn Veterans Day, Starbucks stores across the U.S. will invite active duty service members as well as reservists, veterans and military spouses to enjoy a free tall - brewed coffee on Veterans Day as a gesture of appreciation for the military community's sacrifice and contributionon Veterans Day as a gesture of appreciation for the military community's sacrifice and contributions.

While aiming for a high credit score is a worthy goal, sometimes a lower credit score in the short term as a result of consolidating debt may be worth the sacrifice to save money on interest payments and pay off your debt faster.

But, as an Austrian economist I am going to be fascinated to watch how a digital version of the new economy evolves in an environment where property rights and consumer sovereignty are maintained versus sacrificed on the altar of liquidity.

II § 5, Mill described rent - yielding properties as enabling their holders to demand payment from society «without any exertion or sacrifice on the part of the owners... Landlords... grow richer, as it were in their sleep, without working, risking, or economizing.

Such sacrifices include money spent on fulltime childcare and viewing it as an investment in the earning potential of her career over the long term, compared to leaving then returning to the workforce.

«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»

As taxes and costs rise, promised green jobs fail to materialize, and few others in the world make these sacrifices, Canadians may soon start demanding a new approach that puts affordability on par with sustainability — and political accountability.

The Althing's proposal spells this out in clear legal terms as an alternative to the neoliberal idea that economies must pay willy - nilly (as Keynes would say), sacrificing their future and driving their population to emigrate in what turns out to be a vain attempt to pay debts that, in the end, can't be paid but merely leave debtor economies hopelessly dependent on their creditors.

With unprecedented access to Buffett, Schroeder crafted a sensitive, personal and insightful profile, focusing even more on him as a person than as an investor — and detailing the remarkable sacrifices he made along the way.

We have learned to think of continuing medical progress as sacred and are prepared to offer quite a few sacrifices on its altar.

$ 17.95 Originally published in 1950, this classic work reviews and analyzes a wealth of Jewish sources, as the book's subtitle indicates, «On the Legends and Lore of the Command to Abraham to Offer Isaac as a Sacrifice: The Akedah.»

Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.»

12 On the day you wave the sheaf, you must sacrifice as a burnt offering to the Lord a lamb a year old without defect, 13 together with its grain offering of two - tenths of an ephah [a] of the finest flour mixed with olive oil — a food offering presented to the Lord, a pleasing aroma — and its drink offering of a quarter of a hin [b] of wine.

The elegiac tone of Flags of Our Fathers and Letters From Iwo Jima speak to the scars created on the battlefield in service to one's country, while Gran Torino promotes self - sacrifice over vengeance as Walt Kowalski, the film's hero, chooses to sacrifice himself to save a troubled youth.

Hajj is very busy event where about 3 million people in remembrance of prophet Ibrahim (a.k.a. Abraham) and his wife as ordered by God running between 2 mountains, sacrificing animals on 10th day, stoning symbolic satan who tried to deceive Ibrahim.

One could have an abortion and happy they denied life to an innocent in favor of their own lifestyle, one could have a baby with the intent on sacrificing it to Satan in some way, shape, or form, it could go lots of different ways for lots of different reasons but contradicting itself is of absolutely no concern as a lot of Satanists also label themselves «nonreligious».

People burned as witches, blacks lynched by Christians in this county, people killed in human sacrifices, servants killed to accompany pharaohs on their journeys to the afterlife, untold numbers of people killed in various cultures because they were deemed to have offended God in some way, and so on.

The Old Testiment prophets even predicted Jesus death on the cross, and Jesus died intentionally so as to be the final and last sacrifice needed.

What we meant to model was the sending of one of our number to be a foreign missionary — to learn a new language, to understand a local culture, to sacrifice the amenities of affluence and to live knowing that he or she is always being watched by seekers — while the rest of us stay here as lifetime local missionaries, learning to speak the language of the unchurched, understanding secular culture, sacrificing the amenities of affluence and living as a «watched» person in a society that is skeptical of Christian spirituality until it sees the real thing on display.

In most belief systems sacrifices are required, such as foregoing carnal pleasures, donating money, leading an appropriate lifestyle, and so on.

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.

When you turn the light of reason on the basic of idea of god needing a sacrifice of his own son to allow himself to forgive, it becomes just as ridiculous as condemning homosexuality.

The About.com - Christianity web page goes on to explain that the way this works out is that husbands «illustrate» Christ's leadership authority, as well as His self - sacrifice, while wives «illustrate» the church's submission to Christ's leadership authority.

When the Magi offer him gold, which indicates a king, we are invited to lessen the tribute we offer to the power structures to which we belong and on which we depend; when they offer him frankincense, which indicates a priest, we are invited to tiptoe out from under the delusions of our sacred canopies, to be drawn into the jagged - edged sacrifice of presence that this Priest will carry out; and when they offer him myrrh, which indicates a prophet's death, the Magi invite our hearts to lighten as death loses its hold over our drives and desires.

The «rules» for both personal responsibility and sacrifice on behalf of the collective good conflate as marriage and motherhood come into play.

Even as the formalized creed of a society, the ideology is the basis of praxis — it serves as a principle which calls on individual sacrifice on behalf of something other and greater than oneself.

Give yourself the freedom, the grace, the wisdom, the love and gentleness that you crave from others, and then turn around and pour it out, lavishly, on the mothers around you, as a sacrifice of grace.

Secondly, it's hard to think of my writing as a ministry when it involves so little sacrifice on my part.

As our subst.itute, «He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness» (1 Peter 2:24); «He, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, sat down at the right hand of God» (Hebrews 10:12; cf. Ephesians 1:7; 4:32; 1 John 2:1 — 2).

Then, because God had already shown them the «right» way, He pulled Cain up on his «non-blood» vegetable offering as not doing what is «right», as it wasn't shedding the blood of an animal (which was essentially a type and shadow of Christ's sacrifice, as well as being the pattern already set by God in front of Adam and Eve in the Garden).

Even though Christ didn't come yet, through trusting in God, they were redeemed «on borrowed time» by the sacrifice He did for them also, as well as for us.

We who believe in Jesus» sacrifice are forgiven our sins and can pray to our Heavenly Father, who is in Heaven, whose name is hallowed, whose Kingdom has come, and whose will is done on earth as it is in Heaven.

Taboos on eating fat and blood, (Leviticus 3:17) rules concerning clean and unclean foods, detailed directions concerning the dress of the officiating priests, insistence on ceremonial exactness in sacrifice these and similar legalisms have as part of their background and explanation the sense of sanctity and inviolability in things divine, demanding punctilious care to make human relationships with them safe and profitable.

«It is love to the end that confers on Christ's sacrifice its value as redemption and reparation, as atonement and satisfaction».

As the Council of Trent explained: «In this divine sacrifice which is celebrated in the Mass, the same Christ Who offered Himself once in a bloody manner on the altar of the Cross is contained and offered in an unbloody manner.»