Sentences with phrase «in dying to self»

It is truly an adventure in dying to self.

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A woman in Arizona has died after being hit by a self - driving car operated by Uber in what is believed to be the first time a pedestrian has been killed by an autonomous vehicle.

A woman in Tempe, Ariz., died after being hit by a self - driving car operated by Uber, in what is believed to be the first fatality of a pedestrian from an autonomous vehicle on public roads.

«I think the self - driving car has the opportunity to not only improve productivity for the people in the car, which will be a huge economic boost for those people; Not only has the opportunity to save lives — over a million people die worldwide in road deaths today caused by human drivers, and I think we can take that very close to zero, which is very good for both human welfare and for economic productivity — it's a very serious dent in productivity when people get killed; And then all the ancillary industries that end up getting built out.»

Doing that in every flight trip I take make me at rest that if any thing happened on the way at least then if died will not go waste but would face the mercy of God on my soul... Because there only in the upper heavens or mid oceans you have nothing but the mercy of God and nothing in hand to relay upon trying to save self...!!!

can you prove that God does not exist... can you prove He exist... it is called faith to exist... called self to not exist... your decision... I have nothing to loose in befriending God... I am destined to die either way... what may you lose if you disbelieve???????

Reading the account of how this professor expressed himself about the author's experience with the dying begs the question in my mind, - How many religious scholars and clergymen are as truly enlightened about life, death and the nature of things as they self - satisfyingly claim to be doctored in religion?

People are too conceited to want to believe that when they die, they cease to exist, so viola, in their pea brains God exists to satisfy their own sense of self importance through an afterlife and continued existence beyond life.

It's hard to imagine that self righteous Christians feel the need to rob the dying of their last few minutes by telling them how they're going to burn in hell for eternity if they aren't like them.

To maintain its dependency scam, revenue flow, nd unearned privileges and tax dodges, religion tries to force itself into every aspect of life when dying is a time to bask in the glow of loving human, real relationships... and perhaps make a few apologies... like for wasting others; time with ignorant, self - servinge proselytizinTo maintain its dependency scam, revenue flow, nd unearned privileges and tax dodges, religion tries to force itself into every aspect of life when dying is a time to bask in the glow of loving human, real relationships... and perhaps make a few apologies... like for wasting others; time with ignorant, self - servinge proselytizinto force itself into every aspect of life when dying is a time to bask in the glow of loving human, real relationships... and perhaps make a few apologies... like for wasting others; time with ignorant, self - servinge proselytizinto bask in the glow of loving human, real relationships... and perhaps make a few apologies... like for wasting others; time with ignorant, self - servinge proselytizing.

From these diverse stories of «thinking Christians» a common theme emerges: the search for truth demands (to paraphrase contributor Kathryn Wiegand) a willingness to die to self» even to the hopes bequeathed by one's most cherished intellectual gifts» in order to be reborn in Christ.

God wants humanity to understand that nothing and nobody is beyond the scope of His redemptive purposes, and so by sending Jesus as the fulfillment of the most violent of religious texts, God not only revealed Himself by way of a stark contrast to that violence, but also showed how to reinterpret and understand those violent events in light of the self - sacrificial God dying on the cross for the sins of the whole world.

This statement, incidentally, is repeated in reference to Christ, the ultimate example of what it means to die to self (remember Philippians 2; Acts 5:30; 10:39; Gal 3:13).

The goal is to begin die to self and rise to a new rhythm in discipleship.

Only the Christian can speak the liberating word of the death of God because only the Christian has died in Christ to the transcendent realm of the sacred and can realize in his own participation in the forward - moving body of Christ the victory of the self - negation of Spirit.

For to know that God is dead is to know the God who died in Jesus Christ, the God who passed through what Blake symbolically named as «Self - Annihilation» or Hegel dialectically conceived as the negation of negation.

During a given week, he may be called to the home where a child has died, asked to appear in court to help a teen - ager in trouble with the law, consulted by a woman suffering from menopausal emotional problems, called on by a man who has just learned he has cancer, and another whose self - esteem is shaken by mandatory retirement.

As they seek to communicate the Gospel to their Muslim neighbours and friends, they will have a common linguistic and cultural background in which, and from which, to engage but they will also wish to transmit the uniqueness of God's self revelation in the living, dying, rising again and teaching of Jesus the Messiah.

We are forever putting conditions and qualifications on the love of God: «If you rid yourself of your racism, if you vote Democratic, if you accept Jesus as your savior, if...» Such conditional, achievement - oriented, self - made - men religion certainly doesn't need Jesus dying on the cross and rising from the dead to make itself plausible and reasonable in an achievement - oriented, you - get - what - you - deserve capitalistic culture.

Isn't the «I» that has to die the self - same «I» that chooses to believe in the first place?

The most powerful, self - sacrificing love is revealed in the Bible as God Himself became a man to die for the sins off the world.The Bible alone reveals the plan of salvation and the conditions that must be met by all to have immortality aand a life that measures with that of Gods.

The Van Dusens saw this considered, self - determined act as morally preferable to the customary American way of death, in which disease forces finally overwhelm technical medical management, leaving the dying person and those around him exhausted and resentful — the grace of dying with one's boots on long since gone.

Because the story is an allegory; Jesus speaks in parables, because he is a parable, for his alter ego, Judas, who for the last 2,000 years has been in the hands of self - confessed sinners (Christians), who have indeed entreated him spitefully, and have done every thing in their power to have you believe that he is dead, (although it's never written that he has died, or that he was ever buried, either).

If you have received this grace through repentance of sin, you have an eternal faith relationship with The Lord Christ Jesus, He dwells in you, you die to self, and it is Christ that lives in you, therefore your works are of Christ, and this is an ongoing, daily process.

Precisely in the dying of the old self and its values, they found a freedom for ethical activities, and a resigned acceptance of whatever the future might hold for them — a freedom and acceptance not possible for a person clinging tightly (and perhaps desperately) to his or her past.

Part of the purpose of the Good News message is to provide the freedom to put behind me and away from me, my old self — to have my old self die and in its place, a new and transformed self is resurrected.

But a «pro-life» person would also regard as objectionable a situation in which the person being killed makes the decision to die, either at the hands of another or by a self - inflicted act.

As each self dies, it awakes to new life in God, but its successors can not experience this until they undertake that great journey for themselves.

To change the image, the «old Adam» (Our wrong self - will and our wrong self - seeking) takes a long time to die, even though the «new Adam» (the self that we see in Christ and would fain be) is at work in us and grows ever stronger as we look to God and commit ourselves to God and the divine healing worTo change the image, the «old Adam» (Our wrong self - will and our wrong self - seeking) takes a long time to die, even though the «new Adam» (the self that we see in Christ and would fain be) is at work in us and grows ever stronger as we look to God and commit ourselves to God and the divine healing worto die, even though the «new Adam» (the self that we see in Christ and would fain be) is at work in us and grows ever stronger as we look to God and commit ourselves to God and the divine healing worto God and commit ourselves to God and the divine healing worto God and the divine healing work.

He who is ready to surrender his hopes, ambitions, and life itself, for the love of God and his fellowmen, no longer fears death and the end of human existence, for that self - centered concern which wants to cling on to life beyond its appointed span, and seeks to bring it back again in some supernatural realm, has already died.

i wonder whih god will be more pleased with its slave — the one who murdered a man for his beliefs or the one who allowed his follower to die for his faith either way — god is a man made belief system that is only a few thousand years old — and in that time, no one single thing has killed more humans, than a man claiming to know the will of some kind of god Faith is good thing, faith in one's self.

In Christendom he too is a Christian, goes to church every Sunday, hears and understands the parson, yea, they understand one another; he dies; the parson introduces him into eternity for the price of $ 10 — but a self he was not, and a self he did not become.

So the secret is to continually be in love with Jesus, be empowered by the Holy Spirit, it is all about passion, i am so hungry for more of Him, but then do I want to let Him have more of me, a continual dying to self............ being stripped I like to share one amazing thing that happened.

Here's where it gets tricky for those of us who did not become Christians until late in life: we have a lot of dying to our old selves to do before the «ideal» self, the one that God created for His glory, can be seen.

Jesus wants a self - confessed criminal guilty of a capital crime, who is dying on the cross next to him, to be in no doubt that he will shortly be receiving the ultimate VIP welcome.

The true Resurrection is based not on the mythical lie of the guilty victim who deserves to die but on the rectification of that lie, which comes from the true God and which reopens channels of communication mankind itself had closed through self - imprisonment in its own violent cultures.

Faith is something you must have for an instance such as Jesus showing up and dying for sins, because everyone there at the time, is dead, and only words describing what happened are left, words that match hidden prophecy given to those that don't believe the one dying (the Jews don't believe Jesus)... which is self proving in a hidden manner... like finding gold where someone says it will be, near another person that says it's absolutely not there.

They may need to discover and to re-tell a unifying story of the country Of course, this runs against the academic grain, which nurtures what it believes to be a healthy contempt for the nation (let alone its historic spiritual culture) and a self - protecting indifference to the local community In America, where unbalanced individuality and unbalanced diversity seem sacred, the wildness of history is blowing at cyclone force, and the ability to cope with it seems to be a dying art.

Since death and resurrection have long been central Christian themes, Christianity is well prepared for the task of letting its old conventional self die, in order to rise again as a facet of a new global religion.7

Just like proponents of Just War or even Christian Realism, it may require that someone die for your convictions (as any convictions worth having may demand — pacifism, just war, and even basic recourse to self - defense are alike in this regard).

but i didn't state anything example — i stated that the theory of evolution is yet to be proved and so with that i agree that due to that lacking it is equal to the theory of god... the only thing i said which is cemented truth for anything is that we don't know what the real answer is... and by stating ideas as facts serves no real purpose but a selfish one... lets call it an ease - ment on the inner self, the mind can now be at peace with the hope that when i die i get to live yet again... full belief in this is insane without evidence.

So it's not a matter of simple «belief,» because the disciple of Christ is called to die to himself, take up his cross, and follow Christ in the transformation of his new self.

Anyone who sins to self sustain is cursed and anyone who causes a child of GOD to sin is worst off than if he was to die in agony.

(And yet Hans Urs von Balthasar, who in many respects appears more cautious in his theology than either Rahner or Schillebeeckx, has endorsed, through his reflections on Trinitarian theology, the notion of a suffering and dying God much more strongly than most other Catholic theologians: «the death, and the dying away into silence, of the Logos so become the centre of what he has to say of himself that we have to understand precisely his non-speaking as his final revelation, his utmost word: and this because in the humility of his obedient self - lowering to the death of the Cross he is identical with the exalted Lord.»

That God's love, manifest in diverse ways throughout the duration of the universe, might come to a full and unsurpassable self - expression in an individual human being who lived and died in the Middle East almost two thousand years ago does not seem incongruous with what we now understand about the nature of an evolving universe, especially if we regard religion as a phenomenon emergent from the universe rather than just something done on the earth by cosmically homeless human subjects.

Having spent some time in a Buddhist monastery, I feel qualified to say that any self - respecting Buddhist monk would die laughing over the use of Karma in this book.

We die to self when we at last realise that in us is no good thing and we are totally incapable of living the resurrected life by self effort then and only then will we give up and surrender as a failure to Christ then in us the hope of glory in our hearts rises and we find we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us when we rely totally on Him putting no confidence in our flesh.

Moses was represented as identifying himself sacrificially with his people's lot until he desired no good fortune of his own apart from theirs — «Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin — ; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written» (Exodus 32:32)-- and from such beginnings an illustrious record of vicarious suffering had brought the national history to Jeremiah, who, only a few years before Isaiah of Babylon wrote, had lived and died in voluntary self - giving for the salvation of his people.

There is a self - righteousness in me that does not want to die.

From this wider context it is clear that the imitation Paul is calling for in 3:17 is rooted in a profound commitment; to the point of letting go of, or dying to, the self - seeking self and coming alive to a Christ - like life.