Sentences with phrase «meaning of the sacrifice»

As the full meaning of this sacrifice or self - negation dawns in consciousness, the factuality and historicity of Jesus» particular «self - existence» is negated as that existence now becomes universal self - consciousness: «The death of the mediator is death not merely of his natural aspect, of his particular self - existence: what dies is not merely the outer casement, which, being stripped of essential being, is eo ipso dead, but also the abstraction of the divine Being.»

For that reason, I wonder whether the intent or meaning of the sacrifice is the thing that we are to take notice of.

Christ sent the apostles to proclaim his death and resurrection to every creature so that, the document continues, «they might accomplish the work of salvation which they had proclaimed, by means of sacrifice and sacraments, around which the entire liturgical life revolves».

At the same time, he regards himself as one of the elite, who worships the true God by means of the sacrifices which God has appointed.

The same applies to the idea that man's life is forfeit in the sight of God, and that he accepts another life in place of our own — which in the last resort is the meaning of sacrifice in the Old Testament.

The conversations delve into survivor guilt, the meaning of sacrifice, and the central question of proper social construction.

For me, Lamb started out as a further exploration of the phenomenon of faith and the responsibility of a messiah that I touched on in Coyote Blue and Island of the Sequined Love Nun, but it ended up being an exploration of the true meaning of sacrifice, loyalty, and friendship.

Not exact matches

The grab - and - go convenience of a laptop - only worklife has worked for me for years — but that doesn't mean I'm willing to sacrifice screen space.

Family and our personal health frame our lives in meaning, without which none of the sacrifices of a startup matter.

Findings show that 97 percent of those surveyed believe that they will own a home and are willing to make sacrifices now if it means getting their ideal home in the future.

The act of Stepping Up means that you have the courage to be vulnerable and do what needs to be done... regardless of the personal sacrifices or political fallout.

But the concept of doing that at the sacrifice of the every day needs of the company - meaning, our team, that's false.

Being an entrepreneur means making sacrifices, and there are some elements of the job that are unavoidable if you truly want to run your own business.

In a DNC speech that Oliver called «the emotional highlight of the convention,» Khan criticized Trump's proposed plan to ban Muslim immigration to the U.S. while claiming that Trump «doesn't know what the word sacrifice means.»

This means a successful sales manager must be willing to take the sacrifice to their personal income in favor of team - oriented goals.

AMZN's stock is driven off of revenue growth and Bezos does not care if that means sacrificing profitability.

Along with social metrics, offsite SEO accounts for 47 percent of your total propensity to rank — meaning if you ignore offsite SEO, you'll be sacrificing 47 percent of your search visibility potential (more on that later).

It was once thought that impact investing was a «softer» kind of investing that meant sacrificing monetary returns for the sake of non-monetary ones.

«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.»

Work flexibility means being able to meet the needs of your family, as well as the needs of your job, and not having to sacrifice one for the other.

It does not mean settling for what's second best because a group of people, the majority of which are not willing to make the ultimate sacrifice of putting themselves in harm's way for others, are thinking about themselves as individuals and putting that ahead of the majority best interests.

But the emancipation of Jesus resonates through my whole being: «If you had known what these words mean, «I desire mercy, not sacrifice,» you would not have condemned the innocent.»

-- there is no «price» (again American Christian reference, not biblical); «his agents»: if you mean the Holy Spirit and / or Christ then since those are God then it's just the worship of God because you DESIRE to worship Him not as if there was anything any of us could offer that would be reciprocal for Christ's sacrifice.

When Jesus died on that cross, his sacrifice was sufficient to forgive ALL sins (with the exception to one of the above) and that means, all sins whether be past, present or future... Hint, it's called grace...

Paul reminded them — and Christians today — that being part of the Church means being part of a family, and that means sacrificing and compromising for the sake of unity (1 Corinthians 1:10).

The point of Lent is also to help one segue into a more long - term committment to sacrifice and personal growth, and is not just meant to be a tough 40 days of no cookies.

One temptation to which he succumbed now and then was the angry - politics song — always a mistake for a guy who was militantly atheist and woefully ill - informed — and it usually also meant a sacrifice of musical quality when this demon possessed him.

Jesus is painted as an atonement by Paul — however — what that atonement actually means is truly up for deeper discussion since in the Torah that sacrifice (of the once a year for the community) was for all people there — for their sins committed in ignorance (or by accident).

If by God is meant the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, who redeems his children by the atonement and sacrifice of his Son Jesus Christ according to the predestined plan of salvation revealed in the Bible and ascribed to by the Christian churches, then the answer obviously is No — Schweitzer does not believe in God.

What we meant to model was the sending of one of our number to be a foreign missionary — to learn a new language, to understand a local culture, to sacrifice the amenities of affluence and to live knowing that he or she is always being watched by seekers — while the rest of us stay here as lifetime local missionaries, learning to speak the language of the unchurched, understanding secular culture, sacrificing the amenities of affluence and living as a «watched» person in a society that is skeptical of Christian spirituality until it sees the real thing on display.

That those animal sacrifices were to learn of what was to happen when God would make that sacrifice and that that is why there is communion today as a means to remember the sacrifice God's beloved son had made.

Wondering in viewing these questions if the sacrifice that blood represents to God gives value to violence... that shedding blood even in violence doesn't just mean the end of something but points to something precious with God.

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.

The perfect adoration of God is when we give our body as a living sacrifice, that means when we overcome our selfish nature through Jesus» love which he can give us.

he meant that his part of completing the sacrifice for our sin was finished.

Divine kenosis, she insists, does not mean that divine power is sacrificed but rather that it is relocated in a «relational love» that brings about forgiveness and awakens an ethic of care and compassion for others.

Eid al - Adha, literally meaning The Feast of Sacrifice, is one of two major holidays in Islam.

Looking like Jesus may mean that we don't get our «rights,» but instead end up sacrificing our rights — and maybe our very lives — for the sake of others.

It means to see the suffering we go through (whether we want it or not) from the perspective of Christ, Paul, Peter, and countless people who suffered for the sake of their faith and offered their suffering to God as a sacrifice on behalf of others.

If some sacrifice of such sovereignty is needed for the promotion free trade, and if free trae is the means of meeting the genuine and critical needs of the poor, then we should certainly celebrate the WTO as its promoter and enforcer.

Again and again we are told that we must sacrifice what we have valued for the sake of progress, and usually «progress» means increase of gross product rather than improvement in the quality of life.

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.

It means leading a life of virtue and sacrifice, in charity and gratitude, for the glory of God.

I'm not going to be able to follow all the mitzvot (laws) in Judaism and there are many that I don't want to follow for reasons of their being misogynist or based heavily on temple sacrifices, but that doesn't mean I'm not taking my own commitment seriously.

This is the meaning and message of the Passover, and participation in it has the sacramental efficacy of producing rebirth; this is also the meaning of the commemoration of the sacrifice of Christ on Calvary, for by participating in the death of Christ who sums up all of the past, we also participate in his resurrection, which attains the eschatological future.

A more moving portrayal of the meaning of child sacrifice to a good father could hardly have been written than this story furnishes; the profound loyalty involved in child sacrifice, holding nothing back that religious obligation might require, is recognized; and the story's obvious objective is reached when «Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt - offering in the stead of his son.»

The parables of the treasure found in a field and the precious pearl go together and have the same meaning: the kingdom of heaven is worth the sacrifice of everything else a man may have.

He writes, for example: «The fact that our author can persistently talk about sacrifice as if it meant a joyless, unwilling and hesitant gift shows that not even the faintest spark of religious inspiration can have glowed in his heart» (p26).

With the new translation of the Mass bringing out the original emphasis on the concept of sacrifice more faithfully Fr Mark Vickers, using some ideas from Edward Holloway's New Synthesis, shows the meaning of the idea in the Judaeo - Christian tradition.

No one idea of the meaning of such sacrifice can adequately cover the varied factors that entered into its significance.