Sentences with phrase «human self sacrifice»

Consider Iceland for a nice combination vacation / human self sacrifice.

Not exact matches

Even though our images of totally committed, self - sacrificing, lifelong love are invariably limited to our taste of that kind of love through our human parents, they are still the best images we have and about the best we can manage in thinking about God.

And they have rejected the moralistic self - righteousness, the sacrifice of all human impulses to the single goal of success, the materialism and vulgarity of so much of American life.

If there is no God, humans are likely to live one way, at least in a few boundary territories, such as life, family, and daily, humble self - sacrifice.

Human beings are capable of self - sacrifice.

Both saw that some human pain and torment are punitive, that some trouble is disciplinary was taken for granted, that in one way or another the cosmic process should not in the end be ethically unsatisfactory, that the whole experience of suffering remained mysterious, but that the climactic element in the New Testament's contribution to the understanding of suffering is to be found in its treatment of vicarious self - sacrifice.

The unspeakable sacrifice, the self - emptying, involved in Christ's coming, had to be made because only within human life itself could man's enemy be found.

War intrigued her, she says, because «it is a field that put human beings in the severe form of testing of human courage and self - sacrifice and human depravity and the kindling of murderous rage.»

The Pink Monkeys continue to express interest in ancestor worship, human sacrifice, cannibalism, self - congratulation, (describe themselves as «modern», and «evolved»).

But God's own self - sacrifice is itself the criterion of human existence as well, ans in our imitation of God's own self - emptying, we would discover our own proper limits.

Good, in this sense, contains an extremely wide range of gradations, extending from the purely external observance of good order to the most intimate self - examination and character - formation and to personal self - sacrifice for the most sublime human values.

It must be said of his view what has been said of the monastic and the Reformers» solution, that it solves the relationship of self - sacrifice to human loves too easily.

As such, it has all the power of a human drama, where the weakness and vulnerability of Christ do not compromise his divinity, but serve rather to accentuate the staggering generosity of his self - sacrifice.

It would make more sense if Jesus, a compassionate human being, offered himself to the blood - thursty God as a self - sacrifice for the benefit of all mankind, but the Christian understanding of the mission God sent his son on, and its purpose, is just wonky.

They grow up believing in an Eternal Hell of fire and brimstone, talking snakes, the Doctrine of Original Sin, animals in an ark, a Young Earth paradigm, the notion that people lived to be hundreds of years old a few thousand years ago, patriarchs that practiced child sacrifice and committed genocides, books that are supposed words of gawd that contradict real world observations, deities that kill their own children (human manifestations of their own selves) for the sake of sins that they never committed, the symbolic cannibalism and vampirism of a deity... I could go on for days.

The Buddhist's sympathy with the pain of the world, the Hindu's sense of the unchanging stability of the Eternal, the Moslem's realization of international comradeship, the Confucian's appreciation of social morality, and... the sacrifices of scientific workers in the quest of truth and human welfare [and today, may we not add the Communist's concern for social justice, the humanist's insistence on the value of right self - realization of man's capacities, and the secularist's recognition of the non-religious goods in human experience?]

Two: Someone who considers that a woman who decides to «sacrifice» a career for the good of little ones who need her help to grow into self contained human beings is a terrific person, a stand up for what she believes in, a helper with the creation of the future world, sooooo stressed looking after baby and helping Junior with potty training, and a total martyr to the cause of saintly motherhood.

The second theory emphasises the capacity of human groups to «self - impose» the norms of fairness, with some individuals that act as «punishers,» who are prepared to sacrifice their own material gain in order to punish those who do not play by the rules.

With the assistance of this mission, we envision a world free of fear, bigotry, corruption, social injustice and war; where each human being lives, breathes and dies in brilliance, in accordance with their God - given destiny; where true wealth is measured not by how much one possesses, but rather by how much one gives; where true leadership is guided by sacrifice and selfless service, rather than by self - interest and hunger for control; where the highest ambition of every human is to know the Truth, speak the Truth and be the Truth.

destiny; where true wealth is measured not by how much one possesses, but rather by how much one gives; where true leadership is guided by sacrifice and selfless service, rather than by self - interest and hunger for control; where the highest ambition of every human is to know the Truth, speak the Truth and be the Truth.

A human being capable of feat, danger and self - sacrifice for the sake of the rest of people is a real brave man, regardless of the scope of the activity.

In Yanomami creation myth, fire — the beginning of civilization — is born from the mouth of an alligator, and in «The Laughing Alligator», Downey says he wants to be eaten by the Yanomami «not as an act of self sacrifice... but as a demonstration of the ultimate architecture: to inhabit, to dwell physically as well as psychically, inside the human beings who would eventually eat me.»

He devoted much of his painting and printmaking to the exploration of these concerns, focusing on themes of violence and pain, as well as eroticism, self - sacrifice and the precarious nature of human life.

For example, mothers in both the animal and human world are well known to engage in self - sacrificing behaviour to protect the viability of their offspring.

Developed by self - described «human interface revolution» igniter Synaptics, which you probably remember from last year's Galaxy S8 pre-release turmoil, the new screen - embedded biometric sensor «offers a more convenient operation without sacrificing the sleek and unified design» of a smartphone.