Sentences with phrase «much sacrifice as»

There's terrific warmth in an early scene in which she celebrates a son's birthday, and Stone and his production team are scrupulous at establishing socioeconomic specifics: This family can afford video games and a secondhand laptop, but those are as much sacrifice as luxury.

Using cloth diapers, as so many parents share with us, is not so much a sacrifice as it is a gift to their baby.

Not exact matches

-- of the same problems as working mothers do, in particular worrying that they're sacrificing too much family time for work:

As a leader, how does Obama confront so much controversy without sacrificing results?

Researchers at Pew argue that the recent decrease in birthrate has as much to do with the Great Recession in 2008 as it does with the increase of women who are not willing to sacrifice their careers for family.

This might be too much of a sacrifice for the true - blue coffee lover, but if you could go either way, keep in mind that a cup of tea brewed at home can cost as little as four cents per cup, compared to 12 - 43 cents for less - than - fancy home - brewed coffee, according to Living Stingy.

CCA directed me to a 2013 report — funded in part by the company and GEO — that claimed private prisons could save states as much as 59 percent over public prisons without sacrificing quality.

Presidential oratory provides much of the supporting evidence for McDougall's ideas about civil religion, from President William McKinley's implication that the United States had not so much conquered Cubans as it had ministered to them («Are we not made better for the effort and sacrifice, and are not those we serve lifted up and blessed?»)

actually - it works, but self discipline and self sacrifice are factors as much as sincerity.

After all, it is argued, the Romans themselves did not appear to take it seriously (Vespasian's famous deathbed joke, «I think I am becoming a god» seems to indicate as much): it could only be believed by those who were either insane, such as Caligula, who went so far as to sacrifice to himself daily and made his beloved horse a high priest of his cult, or irredeemably barbarian and by implication, stupid, such as the Britons of Colchester who built an enormous temple to the Divine Claudius.

Too much — as parents seek to reproduce themselves in their children, feverishly seek children «of their own,» and try as much as possible to protect those children from all experience of suffering and sacrifice.

How much effort and self - sacrifice am I willing to give so as to live my life for God?

He thought that much of what counted as neo-orthodoxy sacrificed cognitive content to revelation in favor a personal, non-cognitive revelation (Barth was exempted to a certain extent).

When you have a world filled with liars and adulterers and murderers and greed and selfishness (even though we know what's right and what's wrong but we do it anyway) and the God that created you loves you so much that he needs to sacrifice his Son for all of us who have not kept his Law, in order to wipe out those terrible sins, then you should be praying that you're counted as one who kept his Laws.

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.

Now regardless of how much truth is found in other faiths, if the sacrifice of the God - man Jesus is absent from their tenets, I can't accept that they are AS valid as ChristianitAS valid as Christianitas Christianity.

Surely we Catholics do not yet collaborate with all other Christians as much as we might to bear witness to the gospel by sacrifice and love.

1 Samuel 15:22 Samuel said, «Has the LORD as much delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices As in obeying the voice of the LORas much delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices As in obeying the voice of the LORAs in obeying the voice of the LORD?

1Sa 15:22 Samuel then said: «Does Jehovah take as much pleasure in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of Jehovah?

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.

Come on get real samson old testement its in there wilful sin my definition is walking away from the Lord and doing opur own thing knowing what you should do but still do what you want to do.In the life of Samson WE SEE Gods forgiveness and the sacrifice is the same as today repentence we are saved by the grace of God if we turn from our own way.He was disobedient to his parents and to the Lord his heart was no different from ours wilfully disobedient he chose sin over the Lord all the time sleeping with prostites and lying with foreign woman going his own way and yet God saves him not only that he was Gods chosen instrument to deliver his people.The sad part is his term was only 20 years if he had walking in the ways of the Lord he should have had that ministry for 40 years that is the term of completion.We cut ourselves short when we choose sin over the Lord which is an idol by the way.We all have those areas in our lives that we keep to ourselves thats wilful they are our demons and our comforters.Until we surrender all to the Lord we can not be overcomers and will be influenced by satan like samson it is clear warning to us wilful sin or making sin an idol in our lives has consequences better to serve the Lord with all our hearts even though samson did nt for much of his life God still showed him his grace and faithfullness.You can also see wilful sin in the Life of David yet God saves him but not all were saved in the life of saul as he wouldnt listen to the Lord and kept walking according to his flesh.

I know many productive intelligent people that have sacrificed much for their employers only to be laid off for the sake of corporate profits as the jobs go overseas were labour is cheaper.

1 Samuel 15:22 «But Samuel replied: «Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the voice of the Lord?

Meat sacrificed to idols was a live issue in the church for decades and was very much on the mind of John as he wrote his Revelation to the seven churches.

The feeling is that the gods deserve as much beauty as one can gather, and it is appropriate to spare no expense, so there is an element of sacrifice too.

The theology of the Eucharist as a sacrifice has been a much - disputed and much - discussed matter.

The mountain is the tangible setting, not so much of the sacrifice as of the vision.

I DO know how much is burnt as a true sacrifice to god, as taught in the bible.

What Jesus said about the inevitability of such sacrifice was not so much a demand as a warning of what they must expect.

As believers in Christ, however, we have much that we can agree upon: love, sacrifice, compassion, hope, joy, grace, redemption, reconciliation, and renewal are values that bind us together.

One gathers from the Philippians passage, as well as from such sentences as that quoted from II Corinthians, that far from being embarrassed by the normality of the earthly life, Paul saw in it a sign of how much Christ had been willing to sacrifice on our behalf.

As for your so - called «clear distinction between personal belief and social norms» I pretty much think that you are talking about Luther and his crew: even the Romans (for all their tolerance) tried to get the Christians to sacrifice to the old gods or the Emperor.

I'm pretty sure all of the different religions represent good will to mankind and all around being the best person you can be while sacrificing as much of your life as possible to the worship of God.

God loves us in spite of our sin, so much he sent his Son as a sacrifice for us.

I often wonder as they came to offer sacrifices, how much in their heart did they believe that doing that performing this action actually forgave them or was it just a ritual for them.

The laws about sacred seasons, Sabbath observance, details of sacrifice, clean and unclean foods, bulk much larger than legislation on ethics, and this lack of perspective and proportion, this inveterate idea that Yahweh was appeased by ceremonial behavior, obtained so firm a grip that even the prophets who contended against it never broke its hold, as orthodox Judaism today bears witness.

If, for instance, you were to condemn a religion of human or animal sacrifices by virtue of your subjective sentiments, and if all the while a deity were really there demanding such sacrifices, you would be making a theoretical mistake by tacitly assuming that the deity must be non-existent; you would be setting up a theology of your own as much as if you were a scholastic philosopher.

He loves us so much that He gave His son, Jesus, as a living sacrifice.

The Trinitarian view of sacrifice is totally lost when the Christological Mysteries are separated from the Trinitarian Mystery, as they have been in much of the contemporary theological thinking in the Latin / Western Church.

Just as the belittling of fasting has contributed to a distorted and flabby spirituality, so also the neglect of sacrifice produces a much emasculated Christianity.

much less the reaction as the person bursts into tears because God came through... I think tithing puts giving into a legalistic box and castrates the potential for people to experience cheerful giving... because they tithe and their Christian duty is done, and then anything after that is a struggle / major sacrifice.

Another way I like to control what goes into my baked goods to make them as healthy as I can without sacrificing taste is to eliminate the use of all - purpose flours as much as possible since they don't contain whole grains and are, therefore, less healthy since they're stripped of nutrients.

If we already sacrificed so much (UCL) for the invincibles, we might as well finish it off and get the tag at this point.

protest, raise banner, boycott matches as well as shops and see if they (the board) will not beg the fans n do their wish but Too much of everything is bad... We so love our club that we can do a small sacrifice for the betterment of our club.....

Sacrificing attack as well as a completely different playing style is so much more of a change than a downgrade in quality in one position...

My suggestion is that if Sanchez can learn that, he has the potential to do it much better than giroud does because he is faster off the mark and can dribble.he's too honest in his running so I disagree with those that think it's the set up of the team that failed him.his movement is still a little naive for the premier league Secondly on the left wide argument.Wenger is jamming attacking midfielder out there so as to provide cover for the defensive midfielder using two box to box battlers.it only makes sense because we have lots of them and it can be effective if well mastered.the catch is sacrificing a winger for the the attacking midfielder.if your memory serves you well you'll remember that artetas downward spiral began when teams noticed he was the hub for our possession and started deploying their number 10 to press him.it's been working for ages and can be used on any defensive midfielder regardless of the size so You'll end up with your much cried for cavarlho, kedihra, bender, schneiderline, and every other one passing sideways and backward because of the pressure so I personally appreciate the innovative move but Again appeal to Ramsey and Wilshire to take their job more serious.

As much as we respect our manager's sacrifice and all the good memories he's brought to the club even he can't escape this yeaAs much as we respect our manager's sacrifice and all the good memories he's brought to the club even he can't escape this yeaas we respect our manager's sacrifice and all the good memories he's brought to the club even he can't escape this year.

Well, that's because the Supreme Court doesn't much like it, determining more than 100 years ago that polygamy was «an offence against society» (Reynolds v. U.S.) and compared it to «murders sanctified by religious belief, such as human sacrifice or the burning of women on their husbands» funeral pyres,» or so writes lawyer and social critic Wendy Kaminer.

I don't mind Alex being awake so much in the day as he seems happy and if it means he will sleep through the night then I am happy to sacrifice the peace of a long nap time.

I would love to increase my supply a bit but also dot want to sacrifice trying to get him to the breast as much as possible, which means I need to be semi-full in order to do that.