Sentences with phrase «great sacrifices for»

The beetles made great sacrifices for the cause of the local ecosystem.

Nevertheless, they owe a big debt of gratitude to the mostly unsung Suffragettes who made great sacrifices for decades before securing that hard - fought right.

Whether they were part of a formal Pagan, Buddhist, or Christian religion (or any other organized faith with certain tenets and «rules»), these souls had dedicated a past life to this particular spiritual path, and usually made great sacrifices for it.

The fact is that we sometimes seize opportunities for present gratification without counting the cost, and sometimes make great sacrifices for the future.

It is one of the puzzles of history that a group of people who believed in Au and had made great sacrifices for his sake, who knew him to be right and his enemy wrong, and who had even risked their lives by going into battle for him should desert him and even take up their swords against him.

I'm giving up caffeine and beer, these will both be great sacrifices for me and that is the idea behind chosing something to give up during Lent.

When someone works for less pay than she can live on — when, for example, she goes hungry so that you can eat more cheaply and conveniently — then she has made a great sacrifice for you, she has made you a gift of some part of her abilities, her health and her life.

She knows they love her and she knows they made a great sacrifice for her benefit.

However, if you feel like it would be too great a sacrifice for you to avoid all meat and dairy products, please don't give up on all ideas presented in the pages to follow because you will still be able to reduce weight even if your diet will include moderate amounts of wisely chosen animal foods.

They made this great sacrifice for me, they walked through the desert, they wanted a better life for their children and I don't even know their names.

Their heroism helped desegregate the navy but not without great sacrifice for the 50 men.

Not exact matches

When you outsource your social media outreach efforts, you often sacrifice quality for quantity, and in the past year we discovered that if we take our social media efforts in house and spend less time on posting but more time on developing great content and promoting that, we have much better results and feedback.

«He is a man who will sacrifice his own well - being for the greater purpose,» Dalio said.

The president said in a statement that Jackson, a Navy rear admiral, «has seen firsthand the tremendous sacrifice our veterans make and has a deep appreciation for the debt our great country owes them.»

You might also find that great CMOs want their payment up front and aren't willing to sacrifice for future rewards.

«There's a greater urgency among women investors to use their growing financial clout in support of other women and to invest in the future they want — rejecting outdated views about sacrificing the potential for investment returns or forgoing their own goals in order to do so,» Krawcheck said in a statement.

It is the great payoff for all the stress and sacrifice.

«To provide a greater reward for those who make the sacrifices needed to move ahead, the President's tax cut plan will substantially lower the marginal tax rate for low - income parents,» Bush's team explained at the time.

Researchers at Pew argue that the recent decrease in birthrate has as much to do with the Great Recession in 2008 as it does with the increase of women who are not willing to sacrifice their careers for family.

I sort of equate it to thinning of the herd, you make people fat dumb and happy if they don't have to work for it... why sacrifice that 3 week trip to Europe so your great grandchild can sit around the house at 27 smoking pot and going to the club.

Should online brokers focus on negotiating for more PFOF, sacrificing price improvement for their clients in the process, or should they focus on negotiating for greater price improvement and sacrifice generating extra revenue on their clients» order flow?

«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.»

«Oh, look how good you are, you are sacrificing yourself for the greater good (aka, my wallet)... you will get a special reward... AFTER you die.»

But the key is to respond positively for this great unconditional sacrifice and demonstration of such a great love by God himself — the author of love and forgiveness — through his Son Jesus Christ.

Now Jesus is greater than that sacrifice — I comprehend that — however according to God's Torah Jesus would of opened the way to the «Holy One» — forever branching that divide (once and for all)-- for the Jew and Gentile.

I applaud what he is doing and hope that he brings others to God throught the torture and bloody human sacrifice of his son (himself, actually) where he died (well, for a few hours anyway) for us all (at least so the story goes) so that we may live with him in heaven (a great place for which no evidence or photographs exist) until the end of time.

when God sacrifices some interests in favor of others, it is always for the sake of promoting the greatest liberty for all.

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.

Welcome good fortune... God is Most Great When the baby is one week old it is suggested that the parents sacrifice a sheep — one sheep for a girl and two for a boy — and distribute the meat among the poor.

In that way, I never have a true sacrifice for the greater good — it is just a temporary suspension.

Yes in that there are some situations where my needs and wants and affirmation of my true self are sacrificed for greater good.

Not only in the glory of creation» these mountains, this lake, this great night sky of the Alps» and not only in his misericordia did God share with us insight into the special characteristics of his love, but also in sending us a human model of it in sending us his Son, who called us his friends, and sacrificed his life for us.

That's how the world understands «sacrifice» - giving up something of value for a greater good.

The Hijaz is called the Holy Land, for there stands the Ka «ba, which is the goal of thousands of pilgrims every year, and nearby is Arafat where pilgrims slaughter their sacrifices at the great Feast of the Sacrifice (Id al - Qurban) which terminates the pilgrimage.

But again, many of the greatest sacrifices I have seen are from men who gave their last years caring for their wives, the greatest act of love.

We readers who are gratified by this result should not underestimate the difficulty Abraham probably had in, as it were, «sacrificing» Ishmael his first - born, the first bearer of his great hope for posterity.

So Isaiah was LYING and JUST MADE UP THIS STUFF about God when he said «The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the Lord hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.

Unlike the propagators of the Maria Goretti model, who enjoined girls to embrace virginity for its own sake out of deference to ecclesiastical authority, Dohen affirmed that the consecrated virgin freely chooses to sacrifice marriage, which she called «the greatest natural means to holiness and the source of the greatest human love» for the sake of «something else» (Vocation to Love [Sheed & Ward, 1950], p. 56) In her writings, that «something else» appears to include the spiritual status of a «bride of Christ,» lonely confrontations with God and, above all, the freedom and detachment necessary to serve God in the world.

The other is the love that leads to loyalty and sacrifice: «greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.»

So Isaiah was LYING when he said «The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the Lord hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.

Mithra Was born of a virgin on December 25th, in a cave, attended by shepherds Was considered a great traveling teacher and master Had 12 companions or disciples Promised his followers immortality Performed miracles Sacrificed himself for world peace Was buried in a tomb and after three days rose again Was celebrated each year at the time of His resurrection (later to become Easter) Was called «the Good Shepherd» Was identified with both the Lamb and the Lion Was considered to be the «Way, the Truth and the Light,» and the «Logos,» «Redeemer,» «Savior» and «Messiah.»

It is no accident that the greatest stories of courageous heroism involve personal sacrifice for the good of someone else.

Those symbols engendered in the founding are only vaguely and imperfectly understood today and readily exchangeable for «security» and «rights» among a people who, in the end, may no longer be worthy heirs of the great sacrifice.

But on this foundation it sets a temporary superstructure of cultic apparatus for mediating covenant communion with God; and this apparatus the New Testament replaces with the new and better covenant (that is, the better version of God's one gracious covenant) which is founded on better promises and maintained by the sacrifice and intercession of Jesus Christ, the better and greater high priest.

As we make our way through the Book of Hebrews with its glittering and sometimes confusing images of sacrifices and great high priests and its extended metaphor of Jesus as that priest who makes all other priests unnecessary, the following verses come to us with a remarkable clarity and freshness: «Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful; and let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.»

It's seems that Tony (if that's your real name) seems to only focus on the negative aspects of the Sikh's, but fails to mention all the great things Sikhs have done, for example sacrifice 80,000 lives in ww1 and ww2 fighting along side the British.

It relies upon blind faith and it promises great things in the future for sacrifices today.

It builds a team spirit, a willingness to sacrifice oneself for a greater good: the welfare of the team.

He claimed things that were considered to be Blasphemy according to Jewish law when he said the Father and I are One and before Abraham was «I Am» He was claiming that He was the «Great I AM» of the Old testament, now come in the flesh and came to pay the price of sin for man, the only acceptable perfect sacrifice, the lamb wihtout blemish, that God would accept because he was indeed God in flesh.

Serving as a Bishop is a big sacrifice of free time for 4 - 5 years but comes with great rewards knowing you are doing a good work that helps others succeed.