Sentences with phrase «from egoism»

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.

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Deriving from the Latin alter, «other» — it refers to an orientation to the good of others rather than principally or exclusively to one's own good, as in 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 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.»

Even in the Catholic, and not only in the Protestant view of the relation between God and man the freedom of the latter as derived only from himself is guilty and imprisoned egoism; hence as far as he is concerned, this freedom refuses to accept God's self - communication and to let God be God.

Secondly, genuine freedom is the will to truth, because this frees every man from those interior dangers which threaten freedom more than all external restrictions, the dangers of one's own shortsightedness, of pride and a blinding egoism.

Trancend your egoism and free yourself from this dominion of satan.

1) If I had to choose which of the above commenters was suffering from «carnality & egoism,» hands down, it would be Martus...

Luther was correct when he challenged the Medieval Catholic Scholastics over their teaching that * sin * was man turned down toward the things of earth rather than up towards the things of heaven by teaching that * sin * was actually man turned in upon himself or, as modern mental health professions state «narcissistic egoism, a disorder that closes us off from others rather than opening us up to them.

«The only escape from the polarity of egoism and altruism,» he says, «lies in the selflessness experienced by those who lose themselves in their work, in the effort to master a craft or a body of knowledge, or in the acceptance of a formidable challenge that calls on all their resources.»

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.

My theory of human nature, «emotional amoral egoism», is closely derived from an understanding of human nature based on findings from neuroscience.

The «Ego» driver - customisable mode here isn't derived from the «ego» as in «egoism» but from the Greek «Ego / Εγώ» which means «I» or «me».