Sentences with phrase «including sacrificing some of»

In his recent book, Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity, he offers «four benefits» of mortality: interest and engagement, suggesting that adding, say, twenty years to the human life span would not proportionately increase the pleasures of life; seriousness and aspiration, proposing that the knowledge that our life is limited is what leads us to take life seriously and passionately; beauty and love, presenting the idea that it is precisely their perishability that makes, for instance, flowers beautiful to us, just as the coming and going of spring makes that season all the more meaningful; and, finally, virtue and moral excellence, by which he means the virtuous and noble deeds that mortality makes possible, including the sacrifice of our own life for a worthy cause.

And yet, his performance as a young soldier driven to escape certain death by any means necessary (including sacrificing some of his humanity) is rich and affecting.

«This is a fascinating look at an ordinary man and the lengths he will go to in order to right the wrongs of the world, including the sacrifice of a personal life.

In the hopes of beckoning an early winter this past weekend, Camelback Resort's season pass holder pre-season celebration included a sacrifice of skis via bonfire to the Norse mythological winter God, Ullr (pronounced Ool - er).

Not exact matches

Attention has become so difficult to win that companies sacrifice anything — including the dignity of their brands — for crumbs of it.

Marking the end of Canada's mission in Afghanistan by honouring the service of our men and women in uniform, including those who made the ultimate sacrifice combating the spread of terrorism;

Such sacrifices include money spent on fulltime childcare and viewing it as an investment in the earning potential of her career over the long term, compared to leaving then returning to the workforce.

This was truly a sacrifice including the experience of death (that part where Jesus no longer felt the presence of God which has never happened to Christ in all eternity).

Though he reigned in a period of unrest, including the refusal of Christians to offer sacrifice to the official state gods, there is not a word in the Meditations about these current events.

These include a heart for Christ alone, a mind transformed by the word, arms of love, knees for prayer, a voice to speak the good news and a spirit of sacrifice.

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10 By valuing comprehensively is meant that religious valuation is boundary - spanning; it has a domain of relevance that includes no less than the entire life of the one who holds it.11 By intensive valuation is meant that religious valuation «must rank among the last that the valuer would be disposed to sacrifice.

Hence the principal Christian dogmas, which include such symbols as «Son of God», «satisfaction», «sacrifice», and the like, are, in so far as they are limited to the facts of the Christian story, untenable.

Unlike cities of the modern West, the Greco — Roman city was as much a religious as a political organization, and citizens were expected to participate in thoroughly religious civic festivals, which included sacrifices to the gods and goddesses who served as protectors of the city, whether Athena in Athens, or Artemis in Ephesus.

Not only is the mutable world separated from its divine principle — the One — by intervals of emanation that descend in ever greater alienation from their source, but because the highest truth is the secret identity between the human mind and the One, the labor of philosophy is one of escape: all multiplicity, change, particularity, every feature of the living world, is not only accidental to this formless identity, but a kind of falsehood, and to recover the truth that dwells within, one must detach oneself from what lies without, including the sundry incidentals of one's individual existence; truth is oblivion of the flesh, a pure nothingness, to attain which one must sacrifice the world.

Such accountability requires sacrifice and, frankly, that it just too much for 99 % of the people, of which I would include myself.

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.

Under this criterion, questions of proportionality are properly considered: Do the benefits outweigh the risks and harms attendant to warfare, including such potential costs as further geopolitical destabilization, increased insecurity, the sacrifice of other important values in the midst of war, the loss of life and resources?

So he included Christians on a fixed day and see to it that they would sacrifice to the national gods and to the genius of the emperor.

It presents first an analysis of man's communion with God («communion in God»), including a review of the main types of cultic activity (sacrifice, mystery, prayer) and of religious attitudes (mystery and revelation on the divine side, adoration and edification on the human side).

Thus the notion of eucharistic sacrifice is not confined to the specific point of actual death; it includes the whole of the event of which Jesus is the center.

At the same time, what the NCC statement romantically describes as the «spirituality» of the pre-European Americas included such unpleasant items as human sacrifice and the ritual slaughter of enemies.

If one has never journeyed into the deep — prayed (which includes Scripture / theological study, faith sharing, adoration, spiritual formation / retreats, pilgramages, Mass, reconciliation, fasting, listening for God's voice, and more) on an ongoing fashion or done God's will (been obedient, patient, humble, unconditionally sacrificing, unselfish) to the extent that they understand what it means to be Catholic and God being your number one priority — that His Ways and those of His Church are not the ways of the world (trade vices for virtues) and that we are being called into communion with Him via love for Him and one another in our faith community and broader community — then it is no wonder some are lost or disillusioned.

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world.

It is much too long and involved to include here — even a detailed description of the sacrifice, much less of the ritual associated with it.

How should one understand the seasons of a vocation, including especially the potential cost that sacrifice may be required at precisely the time one most needs to discover a sense of fulfillment?

No sacrifice is involved here, since the body and lower passions given up are less intense degrees of being, truth, and goodness; the absolute degree of these things includes the reality of the lower, and so nothing is truly lost.

It was a culmination of long - term planning and sacrifice, including the martyrdom / suicide of several individuals.

The apostles sent a letter to the Gentiles that included the following: «It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements: You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from se - xual immorality.

Sacrifice and perseverance consistently characterize biblical descriptions of love, including romantic love.

That's not even including the millions upon millions of individual victims of ethnic cleansing, religious intolerance and the centuries of human sacrifice practiced by cults around the planet.

The paradox of agape expressed in Jesus» words that «He who saves his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for my sake and the gospels will find it» is explored both in the critics of Christian self - sacrifice, including Fromm, Camus and others, and in the more traditional understandings of agape including the monastics, Luther, Kierkegaard and others.

But if the early church could survive — and in fact, thrive amidst persecution — when it included both Jews and Gentiles, zealots and tax collectors, slaves and owners, men and women, those in support of circumcision and those against it, those staunchly opposed to eating food that had been sacrificed to idols and those who felt it necessary, then I think modern American Christianity can survive when it includes democrats and republicans, biblical literalists and biblical non-literalists, Calvinists and Arminians... so long as we're not rooting for one another's demise.

Other rituals included are that to be followed by the priest when covering the temple kettle drum; Ritual for the Repair of the Temple; daily sacrifices to the gods of the city of Uruk, etc. 17

As Luther saw, and as Gustav Aulen has recently argued in a study of the eucharistic doctrine of Luther, the fact that by a memorial action Christ becomes present in the sacramental rite means that his sacrifice itself becomes present also, for we have to do with the «whole Christ» and the «whole Christ» includes all that he experienced in the days of his flesh.

While we all take some inspiration from ancient paganisms, there are some groups who are deeply dedicated to studying the primary texts and archaeological records of their chosen cultural framework to try to make their paths as close to their spiritual ancestors as reasonably possible in the modern world — this includes the use of bonfires and occasionally animal sacrifice.

The realization of the mutually enhancing community involved in the actualization of «the best possible» includes, normally, the greater good of the «sacrificing» individual.

Examples of these human marks include the fact that the Bible was written in Hebrew and Greek, that the Old Testament world was a world of temples, priests and sacrifice, that Israel as well as the surrounding nations has prophets that mediated divine will to them, that Israel was ruled by kings, that Israel's legal system shares striking similarities with those of surrounding nations, that the creation narrative and the story of Noah resemble other ancient stories of the time, that the writers of Scripture operated within the paradigm of ancient cosmology, etc..

This should include guaranteed child - support payments, tax breaks for custodial parents, and an expanded definition of marital property to include pensions, insurance, cost of education and reimbursement for economic sacrifices made by one or the other spouse during the marriage.

They point out that the Bible contains more commands for blood sacrifice and warfare against the enemies of God than any other religious book in history, including the Muslim Qur» an.

Stewardship of the mysteries equally includes the right to admit men to the Church by baptism and «the power of administering the other sacrament, the sacrifice of the eucharist.»

Being a family of farmers, several animals would be sacrificed for the occasion, as the meal was heavily meat - based: every year, the menu included roast duck or Guinea fowl, pan-braised rabbit, roast potatoes and vegetables.

The innovative new line of Birds Eye Veggie Made products, which launched in 2017, includes a wide variety of veggie - based options that allow consumers to eat more veggies and fewer starches without sacrificing the taste and texture they love.

Harmon says Woods's capacity for work exceeds that of any golfer he has ever known, including Norman who, Harmon says, «made tremendous personal sacrifices to be the best player in the world.»

In games like dis u make a lot of sacrifices (sometimes including ur style of play to win dem).

You and your family I know will have the total respect of everyone for the sacrifices you must all make and that is not including the financial costs you incur.You and thousands of others of course as not everyone lives in Drayton Park.

Many ex-players, including Ruud van Nistelrooy and Ronaldo, owe the Everton man a lot for the sacrifices he made in his own game in order for them amongst others to steal the limelight for the good of the team.

Being considerate includes letting your ex know about school functions, being flexible with your schedules, and recognizing that — regardless of the circumstances that led you to this point — learning to work together and put your kids first requires sacrifice, which isn't easy for either of you.

However, after years of sacrifice (which also includes giving up time with my family and my own personal income), I am learning to draw boundaries.

If your ideal of an «authentic life» doesn't include sacrificing fantasy in favor of reality, then don't get married and don't complain that you just can't find the right person!