Sentences with phrase «more than the sacrifice»

Jesus was nothing more than the sacrifices the Jews did with their unblemished sheep when they wished to speak with God.

In fact, God declares, «I desire obedience more than sacrifice» - clearly, sacrifice is not the first nor the main desire of God.

The sacrifice of the rich should just be more than the sacrifice of poor, but all should give back to God.

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.»

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 withMore 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 withmore 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.