As Bartolini writes, a condition «that seems a contradiction
more than sacrifice; a voluntary gesture of incompleteness, a lack which is «necessary» to establish a distance from total — and therefore mute — participation.»
The sacrifice of the rich should just be
more than the sacrifice of poor, but all should give back to God.
In fact, God declares, «I desire obedience
more than sacrifice» - clearly, sacrifice is not the first nor the main desire of God.
Jesus was nothing
more than the sacrifices the Jews did with their unblemished sheep when they wished to speak with God.
Not exact matches
«Pretty sure the amount we
sacrifice per year is a lot
more than you'd be willing to
sacrifice if the choice was yours,» she wrote.
Good communicators don't
sacrifice their authenticity to score cheap points by trying (and,
more often
than not, failing) to impress others.
You may be
sacrificing sleep in an effort to accomplish
more, but it will do
more harm in the long run
than good.
On November 11, Americans will recognize the service and
sacrifice of the
more than 21 million veterans across the U.S. Throughout the year, Starbucks honors the men and women who have served in the Armed Forces.
It seems to me that you are invoking concepts of noblesse oblige, chivalry and grace from us in an attempt to get us to
sacrifice yet
more of our assets for the common good, without giving us any compelling reasons other
than «it would be
more fair».
Yet, Millennials are also prepared to make personal
sacrifices to make an impact on issues they care about — whether that's paying
more for a product (70 % vs. 66 % U.S. average), sharing products rather
than buying (66 % vs. 56 % U.S. average) or taking a pay cut to work for a responsible company (62 % vs. 56 % U.S. average).
Like many who have served, I have seen
more than my share of
sacrifice and valor, and I am here today as a proud veteran.
With unprecedented access to Buffett, Schroeder crafted a sensitive, personal and insightful profile, focusing even
more on him as a person
than as an investor — and detailing the remarkable
sacrifices he made along the way.
Makes a hell of a lot
more sense
than an all powerful all knowing god needing to give birth to himself, so that he could
sacrifice himself to himself in order to save humanity from the punishment that he condemned us to.
It's
more like «If you believe in me and accept my
sacrifice to erase your wrongdoings,
than I will provide you with everlasting peace and joy available only to those who trust in me»
We can assume that all the Justices sitting on the Court today, like other humans, have their own preferences and biases about religion, but the judicial opinions of one of them, Justice John Paul Stevens, raise
more than a slight suspicion that some of his actions on the bench stem from animosity, if not to animal
sacrifice, at least to certain less exotic religious beliefs and practices.
I found that it is nothing
more than a man - made, blood
sacrifice, death cult which stole its ideas from cults which came before it..
And that he was
more interested in mercy,
than sacrifice.
Happier, OR, maybe one was markedly
more evil
than just an enemy -
sacrificing young children to their gods - and God decided there was no saving them.
They have been
more than willing to
sacrifice men from each generation on the alter of war, praising the lord and passing the bloody ammunition for their 2nd amendment guns.
What of earth do I need to let go of, fast from,
sacrifice completely, to reach for what is unseen, to reach for the One
more life - giving
than air?
Standing in front of his congregation at Ecclesia Church, a congregation he admits is different -
more diverse,
more urban -
than many evangelical churches - Chris Seay encouraged them to do so something he said combines the ideas of
sacrifice and devotion that mark the Lenten season, the 40 - day lead up to Easter.
The role of the divine is much pondered» the furiously indignant Cain gets no
more explanation for why his
sacrifice was rejected here
than he did in Genesis» but the actions are all committed by humans.
More people died at their hands than the aztecs sacrificed over a 50 year period 7) The fall of the soviet union was more an economic fall than anything, and this is the first time I have ever heard the election of a pope had anything to do with
More people died at their hands
than the aztecs
sacrificed over a 50 year period 7) The fall of the soviet union was
more an economic fall than anything, and this is the first time I have ever heard the election of a pope had anything to do with
more an economic fall
than anything, and this is the first time I have ever heard the election of a pope had anything to do with it.
Paul said that without love, no amount of eloquence, wisdom, knowledge, prophecy, faith, charity, or
sacrifice can compensate for the fact that we are little
more than noisy, clanging symbols.
Tattoos are fancy and they are for
more style
than sacrifice.
It seemed much
more like a supper
than a
sacrifice.
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.
In fact Father Maillard, the director of Frères du Monde, actually declared: «If I noticed that my faith [true, he did not add «Christian»] separated me by however little from other men and diminished my revolutionary violence, I would not hesitate to
sacrifice my faith,» A clear statement of the conviction latent in Shaull's writings; namely, that revolution is
more fundamental
than the faith.
They were
more willing to make personal
sacrifices for Christian goals and purposes
than for any others.
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.»
«There is one thing amongst all others, the loss of which is
more deplorable
than words can express; We allude to the most holy
Sacrifice in which Jesus Christ, both Priest and Victim, daily offers Himself to His Father, through the ministry of His priests on earth.
The
sacrifice which concerned Israel
more than any other was that of the Passover lamb the night they were freed from slavery in Egypt.
At the Easter Vigil after the first reading from Genesis chapter 1, describing the creation of the universe by God, the prayer that follows says: «Almighty ever - living God, who are wonderful in the ordering of all your works, may those you have redeemed understand that there exists nothing
more marvellous
than the world's creation in the beginning except that, at the end of the ages, Christ our Passover has been
sacrificed.»
In comparison with the breadth and depth of the intellectual, economic, cultural, social changes of today and tomorrow in the secular sphere, however, which also contribute to determine the task of the Church, it must even be said that the Church in its aggiornamento proceeds very slowly and cautiously, so that there is
more reason to ask whether it is reacting sufficiently quickly, courageously and confidently to the future which has already begun,
than to fear that it is
sacrificing too quickly and in too «modernistic» a way what is old and well - tried and has stood the test.
But even
more attractive, in my view,
than these plausible reasons for Abraham's silent acquiescence in the horrible request are the following: (1) Abraham had learned, in the episode over Sodom, that the pursuit of righteousness may require
sacrificing your own; (2) he felt and feared both the awesome power of God and also His righteousness; and, especially, (3) he had understood immediately the meaning of the test, namely, that he was being asked to show what was first in his soul: Was it the love of his own (and of the promise and the covenant) or was it the fear - awe - reverence for God?
It would then be an attempt to convey in a vivid pictorial form the truth, or the belief, that self -
sacrificing love is so supremely valuable that in comparison with it even death is of small significance; that although the enemies of Jesus won their victory over him, yet in retrospect his life has become a
more potent influence
than theirs, for his memory has survived as an inspiration and example for all men.
Politics takes money — and that kind of money only comes from the elites of the system currently in place — and they won't
sacrifice their lucrative positions to placate what they see as nothing
more than an angry mob that they hope will soon disperse.
1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal
sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family
more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)
So Cain, as you mentioned, wasn't in the right place to offer his
sacrifice, but perhaps Abel also knew a little
more than simply following his brother's example.
Common good means that it is good for
more than just one group of people — by definition that means that sometimes you need to
sacrifice things that are good for you so others can have some of that «good», and vice versa.
It tells many of you who want to offer
sacrifices for the good of the church — countless hours of volunteer service as elders and deacons or a lifetime in demanding and low - paid pastoral ministries — that your life choices are so much
more sinful
than the rest of ours that we've had to erect special barriers to keep you from laying your gifts at the altar.
We can counter by asking why political transactions, or forms of religious
sacrifice, or ransom payments are
more able to bear the freight of the divine meaning
than are the personal relationships of love, betrayal and forgiveness.
Some examples: that «every single organic being around us may be said to be striving to the utmost to increase its numbers»; that «of the many individuals of any species which are periodically born, but a small number can survive»; that it is to a mother's «advantage» that her child should be adopted by another woman; that «no one is prepared to
sacrifice his life for any single person, but... everyone will
sacrifice it for
more than two brothers, or four half - brothers or eight first cousins»; that «any variation in the least degree injurious [to a species] would be rigidly destroyed.»
There is no
more living expression for the intensity with which this thought was thought
than the godhead of Mahayana — incessantly multiplying, always clothing itself in new manifestations, always descending anew into the world of men, always prepared for new
sacrifices.
The word «offering» appears
more often (in KJV)
than «
sacrifice» and seems to be intended as a gift or tribute, not an appeasement.
In fact, we might see Eid Al Ahda and Rosh Hashanah as far
more advanced
than the rest of the world precisely because these holidays call to consciousness this repressed but real tendency to pass on the pain that was done to us onto our children, and to remind us that the great spiritual leader Abraham was able to NOT DO IT, thereby giving us the message that we too need not
sacrifice our children either actually by supporting the war machine or symbolically by passing onto them various other forms of hurt, oppression and cruelty.
And ever since this shift was made under Augustine and Anselm, Christianity has been little
more than another world religion which seeks to appease God through good behavior and personal
sacrifice.
Common sense, if Jesus suffered what no one will never suffer then He has proven to humanity that it can be done and that He was willing to
sacrifice himself in flesh, He did it to prove that he loves us
more than anything and love is the only reason to exist.
That message, as billions around the world have heard for
more than six decades, is salvation and the need to live a new life because of Christ's
sacrifice on the cross.
Seems Obama has
more loyalty to Islamic traditions
than to the right of the American people to receive satisfactory visual evidence of the fruits of their
sacrifices.