Sentences with phrase «by sacrificing other»

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Other companies are making financial sacrifices to help those affected by the attacks.

The AHCA sacrifices $ 900 billion in future revenues by eliminating all other Obamacare taxes, including special levies on high - earners and annual fees on insurers.

And he said Comcast wouldn't sacrifice the profitability of its other businesses to build the wireless unit, promising wireless would be profitable on its own by some measures after reaching only «limited scale.»

Good communicators don't sacrifice their authenticity to score cheap points by trying (and, more often than not, failing) to impress others.

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.

Rather than be defeated by Perez» death, his sacrifice to serve others inspired and rallied the officers, said Hayes.

«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.»

Jeremiah even rails against child sacrifices to other gods by the Jews as a reason for the Babylonian Captivity.

Not quite tallulah, all the other gods are man invented or possibly demonic.Every other idol god either mimics God and or requires a series of works to gain their favor.They are created by men to appease the inner knowledge of God, but all fall short of the creator God.You can not work your way into Gods good graces, you can only be saved by faith through grace.God alone has resolved the sin problem we all suffer from, in the selfless sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross.It is by accepting Jesus» redemption for us that allows us to be reconciled with God.God bless

We should do whatever we can to alleviate the sufferings of others, but Jesus also invites us to «take up our cross» each day and follow him by making our lives a sacrifice of love to God's glory and in the service of others.For more information see our video on Suffering.

We should do whatever we can to alleviate the sufferings of others, but Jesus also invites us to «take up our cross» each day and follow him by making our lives a sacrifice of love to God's glory and in the service of others.

I have been flabbergasted by white colleagues within InterVarsity Christian Fellowship who have time and again sacrificed in little and gigantic ways to bring others to the table.

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.

In fact Father Maillard, the director of Frères du Monde, actually declared: «If I noticed that my faith [true, he did not add «Christian»] separated me by however little from other men and diminished my revolutionary violence, I would not hesitate to sacrifice my faith,» A clear statement of the conviction latent in Shaull's writings; namely, that revolution is more fundamental than the faith.

Surely we Catholics do not yet collaborate with all other Christians as much as we might to bear witness to the gospel by sacrifice and love.

Non-Christian nations tend to have a rough time establishing democracy, because they have no foundation of teaching self sacrifice and unselfish service and other moral values and a public servant in a democracy must not be motivated by greed.

Common good means that it is good for more than just one group of people — by definition that means that sometimes you need to sacrifice things that are good for you so others can have some of that «good», and vice versa.

They are also dictated to by the IMF and other powerful international agencies which impose them structural adjustment programme (SAP) at the sacrifice of people.

The other extreme is represented by students who like to start with a given, «intuited,» or deduced concept of, for example, the nature of prayer and sacrifice or of sin and grace.

Unlike the Christian god that wouldn't ever change his mind or doctrine... except for cursing the world for eating an apple... except for telling Abraham to sacrifice his son, but then stopping him... and except for killing nearly all life on Earth and then because of the guilt says I'll never to do that ever again - in exactly that way... and except for deciding that 2 of himself (Father and Spirit) weren't enough any more, and creating / fathering / spiriting as Son... and except for forgiving all sin, when «In the beginning» he had cursed the universe for the eating of an apple, by having his creation torture and kill his only begotten Son... and except for having to repeat himself about the unchanging eternal rules, to Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Saul / Paul, Mohammed, Joseph Smith, Bahá «u «lláh, David Koresh, and a whole host of others... and except for... and except for...

In fact, we might see Eid Al Ahda and Rosh Hashanah as far more advanced than the rest of the world precisely because these holidays call to consciousness this repressed but real tendency to pass on the pain that was done to us onto our children, and to remind us that the great spiritual leader Abraham was able to NOT DO IT, thereby giving us the message that we too need not sacrifice our children either actually by supporting the war machine or symbolically by passing onto them various other forms of hurt, oppression and cruelty.

The glory of the totally other world of God as a transforming power in this world is present in the Christ who was forsaken by God and sacrificed by him.

By loving God, he wrote, human beings find themselves turning toward their brothers and sisters and sacrificing themselves for others.

By looking around them, however, Darwinists belatedly noticed that humans happily cooperate and, in cases such as celibate clergy, even sacrifice their own «genetic good» for others.

The third component of the notion of pure sacrifice is the idea that subjectivity itself is constituted through the «persecution» of my consciousness by the demands of the vulnerable other.

He held that the primary meaning of love is to be found in self - sacrifice (and was accused by his brother Richard, among others, of defining love too narrowly).

Two identical males, one the scapegoat and the other a sacrifice for sin and uncleanness, go to their respective fates as determined by the priests.

By the time of Exodus in the Bible narrative God was clearly considering the Hebrews his chosen people, but was not above sacrificing other nations to them, or using other nations to teach them a lesson.

But it is not willing to sacrifice this teaching, expressed as early as Acts 4:12: «There is salvation in no one else [except Jesus Christ], for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.»

An even weightier argument for interpreting love and justice as diverse though related orders has been stated by Reinhold Niebuhr.2 Niebuhr holds that the highest love is self - sacrificing whereas justice is always an accommodation of the interest of each in relation to the other.

If on the other hand Agamemnon were to say to her, «In spite of the fact that the deity demands thee as a sacrifice, it might yet be possible that he did not demand it — by virtue viz. of the absurd,» he would that very instant become unintelligible to Iphigenia.

And now I lay me down to sleep, uh, Shema Israel, uh, om om...» The heart of the show's religiosity is Buffy herself, whose compassionate willingness to sacrifice herself for others causes a friend to gush that he can find guidance in any difficult situation by asking himself «what would Buffy do.»

How much more could young people participate fully in the sacrifice of the Mass by being with Christ at Calvary, by being united with all souls in Heaven and Purgatory, and by receiving Christ's Body and Blood, therefore being closer to Him than at any other point of their earthly existence?

Other rituals included are that to be followed by the priest when covering the temple kettle drum; Ritual for the Repair of the Temple; daily sacrifices to the gods of the city of Uruk, etc. 17

Jeremy good message and quite relevant for today God is still looking at our hearts and motives for serving him or are we serving our own agenda as Jonah was.He did nt feel compassionate towards his enemies and who could blame him they had cruelly killed many Jews it was a question of life or death to his own people.The Jewish nation was no more deserving of Gods grace than the other nations that is revealed by sending Jonah to preach a message of hope and life.Ultimately God calls all by faith in him and is willing to be merciful to all nations and peoples that do not not deserve it just like us it is by grace that we all are forgiven.I am pleased that God is sovereign and knows whats best he is merciful to us.Our human nature is that it is better to kill our enemies before they can kill us and that is essentially Jonahs message that is why he struggled to be obedient to Gods will.Gods message is to forgive those that trespass against us and show mercy.Its complicated and it is natural to protect ourselves and our families from those who would seek to destroy them but ultimately its about trusting God with everything easier said than done.If it comes to a choice we will have to trust God and ask for his strength because we cant do it in ours.As Christ laid down his life for us are we ready to lay our lives and the lives of our families as a sacrifice for him.To me that is where the story of Jonah is leading to we have the choice to fight our enemies or to love them as God loves them.brentnz

These detestable practices the other nations partook of (and child sacrifice was only one), Israel was influenced by, and at times, Israel unfortunately did similar things.

Though Anullinus tried in various ways to force her to renounce her faith and offer sacrifice to their gods, Crispina was firm in her stand of faith in Jesus Christ and that she has never offered sacrifice to any other gods other than the one true God who has made the heaven and earth, the sea and all things that are in them and who alone is to be feared which is also said by Appollonius.

A sinner refuses to live by God's love, refuses to be in a relationship of obedient love to God and self - sacrificing love to others.

thought by scholars to be the earliest, are such commands as these: «Thou shalt worship no other god»; «Thou shalt make thee no molten gods»; «The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep»; «All that openeth the womb is mine»; «Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest»; «Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread»; «Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother's milk.»

Examples of these human marks include the fact that the Bible was written in Hebrew and Greek, that the Old Testament world was a world of temples, priests and sacrifice, that Israel as well as the surrounding nations has prophets that mediated divine will to them, that Israel was ruled by kings, that Israel's legal system shares striking similarities with those of surrounding nations, that the creation narrative and the story of Noah resemble other ancient stories of the time, that the writers of Scripture operated within the paradigm of ancient cosmology, etc..

some that with out self thought knowledge who called themselves athiest are really confused and truelly believe what they are saying even when wrong they believe to be telling the truth now that is not all atheist some are really cruel and mean to deceived others - those who are not stading in solid ground are those worth reaching out to - cause they need to know truth from false testimony... those who trully know God can not depart from him but there are those who blindly fight their way away from him... evil is blind and can't see the presence of god — that was God's course for rebelion... only a pure soul can be reach by the creator now that is not that easy to keep so its only through faith and the acceptance of jesus sacrifice for the human race that is posible to find the way and acceptance required by God in his second agreement to menkind... jesus was the lamb who took all our sin so even with a blind soul one can find the way to the creator and at one time if any find themselves in the presence fo the lord our God the reason we are here...

In this very old prescription only two simple sacrifices are called for: the burnt offering (the complete consumption by fire of an animal victim), signifying the worshiper's homage to the god - ness of God; and the peace offering, a joyous, religious, communion meal celebrating the full three - member relationship of the Covenant by enacting the oneness at the common board of the Lord with his people, and his people with each other.

some that with out self thought knowledge who called themselves athiest are really confused and truelly believe what they are saying even when wrong they believe to be telling the truth now that is not all atheist some are really cruel and mean to deceived others — those who are not stading in solid ground are those worth reaching out to - cause they need to know truth from false testimony... those who trully know God can not depart from him but there are those who blindly fight their way away from him... evil is blind and can't see the presence of god — that was God's course for rebelion... only a pure soul can be reach by the creator now that is not that easy to keep so its only through faith and the acceptance of jesus sacrifice for the human race that is posible to find the way and acceptance required by God in his second agreement to menkind... jesus was the lamb who took all our sin so even with a blind soul one can find the way to the creator and at one time if any find themselves in the presence of the lord our God the reason we are here...

This should include guaranteed child - support payments, tax breaks for custodial parents, and an expanded definition of marital property to include pensions, insurance, cost of education and reimbursement for economic sacrifices made by one or the other spouse during the marriage.

These cultures tend to be ones that, on the one hand, will sacrifice other things to maintain a unified view of the world, and that, on the other hand, maintain important rites of passage by which human life is tied in with the recurring cycles that make the world one.

If churches and temples pass by on the other side of the Jericho Road of mental illness and health, they do so at the cost of sacrificing their mission to help the troubled and heal the broken.

If, on the other hand, while a favorable wind bore the fleet on with swelling sails to its goal, Agamemnon had sent that messenger who fetched Iphigenia in order to be sacrificed; if Jephtha, without being bound by any vow which decided the fate of the nation, had said to his daughter, «Bewail now thy virginity for the space of two months, for I will sacrifice thee»; if Brutus had had a righteous son and yet would have ordered the lictors to execute him — who would have understood them?

The others will be judged by the Old Testament laws, because they have no sacrifice nor covering for their sins.

On the other hand, at first sight, the quotations may serve to strengthen that view of sacrifice as an appeasement by blood.

In other words, by looking to the state to affirm our right to practice religion, we have sacrificed our ability to be the voice of conscience to the state.