Sentences with phrase «for egoism»

With the dollars which we waste for our egoism we could fund schools for poor children or hospitals for the poor or we could fund mission here and abroad.

To a large extent sin is simply another word for egoism.

Not exact matches

... It's the pastors Egoism, it's their insatiable hunger for power / authority mingled with greed.

The sources of corporate estrangement are the same as those that produce the estrangement of the individual; egoism, pride and the desire for power and domination by a group or groups of people.

At Judgement Day we will only come through when we have overcome our bad old nature through the power of Jesus death and resurrection — Jesus didn't die only for our forgiveness but also in order to set us free from egoism.

And under your influence and yours alone, the sheath of organic isolation and of wilful egoism which separates the monads from one another is cleft asunder and dissolves, and the multitude of souls rush on towards that union which is necessary for the maturity of the world.

He is that mightier life which inexorably brings death to our base egoism so as to draw into itself all our capacities for loving.

He said the pessimist in him mocked his receipt of a degree in law when «law is ever more a hollow word, resonant but empty, in a world increasingly dominated by force, by violence, by fraud, by injustice, by avarice — in a word, by egoism»; when civil law permits «the progressive and rapid increase of oppressed people who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without God»; when under so - called international law «more than two - thirds of humanity (exist) in situations of misery, of hunger, of subhuman life»; and when agrarian law or spatial law permits «today's powerful landowners to continue to live at the cost of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number of rural workers (while) those not needed in the fields live sublives in depressing slums on the outskirts of nearly all the large cities.»

The problem common to most of our reasons for going to church (even the ones that seem good) is egoism: a selfish obsession with our own well - being and interests.

Where a given individual displays foolish altruism or egoism, it is because self - love and love for others are not given a proper balance; but it can not be the case that one or the other of these two fundamental aspects is altogether absent.

On Tuesday, the governor of Tokyo apologized for saying the earthquake and tsunami that killed thousands of Japanese were divine retribution for national egoism.

The governor of Tokyo apologized on Tuesday for saying the earthquake and resulting tsunami that left thousands dead were divine punishment for Japanese egoism, a leading Japanese news service reported.

Since the struggle between the major powers will be with us for decades to come, he felt that a wise statecraft must take into account the collective egoisms of nations and the ideal of a tolerable mutuality.

Shortly after the Japanese quake and tsunami, the governor of Tokyo said publicly that the disaster was divine punishment for Japanese egoism, though he apologized for the remarks a day later.

Since Christ lived, died and rose again for all mankind, catholicity is the opposite of all kinds of egoism and particularism.

All achievements are limited by egoism, he said, but this is no excuse for fatalistic complacency.

On the one side it has the expression for the extremest egoism (doing the dreadful thing it does for one's own sake); on the other side the expression for the most absolute self - sacrifice (doing it for God's sake).

JK: When I read what you said about personal immortality, while I'm inclined to agree with a lot of it — for example, your rejection of egoism — I still have some difficulties with it.

Even erotic egoism can not forbear swearing «eternal fidelity» and, for a fleeting moment, finding pleasure in actually believing in this eternity.

The love imperative for Niebuhr is a religious symbol confronting egoism, promoting humility.

Threats to this freedom of the gift ofself are found in the dominance of selfishness (egoism), concupiscence and undue appropriation of the other for one's own purposes.

If the husband has entered into marriage with a lack of self - mastery over his egoism, concupiscence or domineering attitudes, he can be helped to develop greater respect for the dignity and free personhood of his wife.

Yet he also insisted that Christ's kenosis — the divine self — emptying hymned in Philippians 2 — can accomplish what is humanly impossible: the emptying of human egoism for the sake of true charity.

Personal and group egoism, lack of concern for the poor, failure to struggle for justice and for the freedom and dignity of all — these are manifestations of spiritual poverty.

Seek the spirit but do not seek it out of spiritual egoism, from spiritual greed, but look for it because you want to apply -LSB-...]

With insights from neuroscience, this theory argues that human nature is characterized by emotionality, amorality, and egoism, and that working for social cohesion and sustainable history requires careful consideration of the dignity needs of human beings.

To bind [karma] for the next life, Egoism is required.