Set a percentage budget and as you go along, stay within your means
by sacrificing as required.
Not exact matches
This kind of «hustle porn,»
as Ohanian put it, often establishes an unhealthy standard for entrepreneurs to live
by, reinforcing the idea that they need to
sacrifice their health to be successful.
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.
Critics of PropOrNot, like Fortune's Mathew Ingram and Katrina van den Heuvel of The Nation, say the group
sacrifices credibility
by remaining anonymous and has flagged a number of well - regarded news sites
as propaganda.
Though people liked to portray themselves
as making
sacrifices for their business, they weren't, in fact, helping anybody
by not taking vacations.
When the expectation from the top down is that people's personal or family lives have to be
sacrificed for the job
as evidenced
by 50 - hour - plus workweeks, little or no vacation time, and 24/7 availability for work communication, you've reached the height of a toxic workplace.
We are also driving capital efficiency without
sacrificing the future
as evidenced
by our significant reduction in CapEx ahead of the Model 3 push.
«For far too long, the Gulf has been treated
as a
sacrifice zone
by polluters,» Athan Manuel, director of the lands protection program of the Sierra Club, a national advocacy group.
By leveraging some advantages that our college provides in terms of housing and healthcare
as well
as making some
sacrifices (to live in the student housing which not have great location and accommodations), we are able to stay debt free and build our net worth.
You often tend to
sacrifice these wants because of this but there is no need to do so
as there is always multiple numbers of financial aids provided
by various financial institutions provided across the word.
CCA directed me to a 2013 report — funded in part
by the company and GEO — that claimed private prisons could save states
as much
as 59 percent over public prisons without
sacrificing quality.
As Barry Ickes observes, playing by the gold standards rules could be «very unpopular, potentially, as it involves sacrificing internal balance for external balance.&raqu
As Barry Ickes observes, playing
by the gold standards rules could be «very unpopular, potentially,
as it involves sacrificing internal balance for external balance.&raqu
as it involves
sacrificing internal balance for external balance.»
«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.»
For comparison, «
sacrifice» of a «son»
by an «omnipotent» «god»
as a requirement to «save» anyone is complete nonsense,
as is the entire Christian religion.
This can be verified in Jerimiah 7:21,
as well
as by noting that G - d reduced access to
sacrifices all through the entire Tanach; originally each man was a priest in his own home, offering
sacrifices whenever and wherever (Cain, Abel, Abraham), but at Mt. Sinai it was reduced to a single place (the tabernacle / temple) and to assigned priests; this was fine for 40 years of wandering, but
as soon
as they entered «the promised land», the tabernacle traveled with the army, and those left behind
as settlers in the new land had no more access to it.
Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish zombie can make you live forever if you accept a blood
sacrifice and symbolically eat his flesh and drink his blood, and telepathically tell him you accept him
as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a woman made from a rib was convinced
by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree: makes perfect sense
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.
«
By celebrating his own penetration, the male offers himself
as both an actual and a symbolic
sacrifice and places his social identity at risk.»
It is the spiritual reality of our sin, created
by it
as a natural consequence of our free will — and something God never intended for us to go to, to the point of total self -
sacrifice to us to help save us from our own self - made doom.
Jeremiah even rails against child
sacrifices to other gods
by the Jews
as a reason for the Babylonian Captivity.
The New Testament values of faithfulness, love,
sacrifice and promise - based commitment can be practiced
by heterosexual couples without children — and
by same - sex couples
as well.
Jesus is painted
as an atonement
by Paul — however — what that atonement actually means is truly up for deeper discussion since in the Torah that
sacrifice (of the once a year for the community) was for all people there — for their sins committed in ignorance (or
by accident).
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.
After all, it is argued, the Romans themselves did not appear to take it seriously (Vespasian's famous deathbed joke, «I think I am becoming a god» seems to indicate
as much): it could only be believed
by those who were either insane, such
as Caligula, who went so far
as to
sacrifice to himself daily and made his beloved horse a high priest of his cult, or irredeemably barbarian and
by implication, stupid, such
as the Britons of Colchester who built an enormous temple to the Divine Claudius.
By the facial reactions around the room, you'd have thought Sara might
as well have asked them if they
sacrificed animals.
At the time there were no safety bars, nothing to confirm I was doing the right thing, and I was looked at
as a backslider
by many I grew up with... but respected
by the world because they saw I was after God himself and willing to
sacrifice everything for it.
Professionally Bonhoeffer was forced
by the government ban to
sacrifice his public vocation
as a preacher and theologian, and he had to become extremely cautious in contacting his former students.
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.
The virtue of self - discipline features heavily in the New Testament; it's one of the fruits of the Spirit in Galatians 5, a key element of Paul's famous athletics metaphor in 1 Corinthians 9, and implicit in the idea of Christians
as living
sacrifices (Romans 12:1 - 2), «transformed
by the renewal of your mind [s]» (ESV).
By pressing the ancient moral criterion of equity while refusing to discuss the economic criterion of growth, the clergy in effect revived a medieval understanding of faith
as intellectual
sacrifice.
According to the Qur» an, Muslims are forbidden to eat a corpse, blood, pork, a pagan
sacrifice, suffocated animals, animals killed other than
by slaughtering, animals which died from a fall, animals killed
by other animals, remnants of food eaten
by a beast, food offered
as a
sacrifice to idols.
the law refers mostly to the torah (the first five books of the old testament), which serve no purpose in purifying christians,
as evidenced
by the fact that we christians no longer
sacrifice rams.
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).
4) I can not address this
as I do not know the specifics 5) The russian people were given their freedom to believe openly again giving them a morale boost, doesn't justify the existence of religion, just that people are happier when free 6) The Chusrch and spain stopped the
sacrifices by destroying another religion, murdering the aztecs
by the thousands «in the name of God».
By being both genetically and behaviorally flawless, the Last Adam's life would be a sufficient
sacrifice for the sin nature inherent in all men,
as well
as for all their sinful behavior in the future.
The basis of Biblical ideas of substitution — one bearing the sin and penalty of all — was corporate personality, where in deepest earnest the sin of one was regarded
as being the sin of all, the punishment due to one
as being due to all, and the
sacrifice of one,
as in the case of Jephthah's daughter,
as being offered
by all.
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.
The
sacrifices were confided in
by good men
as the outward symbols of forgiven sin and reestablished fellowship with God, but they were also confided in
by evil men
as an efficacious technique for placating God regardless of one's ethical life.
The more definitely the written law became established
as canonical and regarded
as infallibly inspired, the more surely could the explanation of the
sacrifices be transferred from the realm of animistic superstition, where they really started, to the realm of sacred observance ordained
by God and for that reason faithfully to be maintained.
We were especially struck
by his powerful invitation to us
as laity to participate in Christ's reconciling
sacrifice which He wishes us to bring to the world.
(I John 4:7 - 8)
As for the sacrificial system, that had been displaced
by a moral and universally applicable substitute — «Present your bodies a living
sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.»
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By tradition, something happened to this bread
as it was offered in
sacrifice.
The
sacrifices stood in the Law
as the command of Yahweh, ordained
by his grace
as a means of approach to his favor.
(Exodus 34:19, 20; cf. Numbers 18:15) In one place, however, the original demand for the
sacrifice of first - born sons,
as of firstborn beasts, stands not only unmistakable in meaning but unrelieved
by any exception: «The first - born of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.
But he is no zealot, eager to practice child -
sacrifice or insensitive to the horror involved; this we learn from the austere, steady, and dignified way he proceeds,
as indicated
by the simplicity, compactness, and austerity of the verbs used to recount his actions: He arose, saddled (his ass), took (two youths with him and Isaac his son), cleaved (wood for the burnt - offering), rose up and went.
The great Indo - European mythos, from which Western culture sprang, was chiefly one of
sacrifice: it understood the cosmos
as a closed system, a finite totality, within which gods and mortals alike occupied places determined
by fate.
«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.»
God was represented
by one of the ancient rabbis
as saying, «When they read before me the laws about
sacrifices, I will impute it to them
as if they offered the
sacrifices before me, and will have mercy upon them for all their misdeeds.»
Although you may see it
as just some sort of rough weekend and not a big deal, or that the whole
sacrifice thing may have happened on the fly to fix some faux pas
by God the Father, I see it
as something that was specifically planed right from before this world was created and that it was not some sort of ad hoc contingency, but something that was part of the Father's plan all along.
I have hoped that,
by driving six separate roadways through Scripture, clarity might be gained without serious
sacrifice of balance and proportion, and that the very fact of repetition,
as each roadway inevitably brings the traveler within sight of familiar scenes common to all six, would help rather than hinder comprehension.