Sentences with phrase «not as a sacrifice»

If you're thinking that of uptake healthy not as a sacrifice, however a lot of as a chance for self - reformation, you are nearly at the line.

From the teenager who build a tiny house for a mortgage - free future through ewok villages in Oregon to a home built from salvaged car parts, one of the things I love most about Fair Companies» videos is that they celebrate natural building and the tiny house movement not as sacrifices, but as life enhancing choices that fit many peoples» lifestyles.

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As the engine that makes all Dyson's vacuums effective, it couldn't be shrunk down any further without sacrificing suction power.

«As we strive for leanness, we shouldn't sacrifice the inclusion of data or links to our sources,» says Glen Gilmore, the noted social media expert and principal of the Gilmore Business Network.

Before my experiment of a year without flying, I would have seen not flying as deprivation and sacrifice, but my experience taught me that my happiness, joy, adventure, cultural exploration, and so on didn't depend on flying.

I used to think of sleep as the first thing that could be sacrificed, now I think of sleep as something that I can't not do.

A recent Vancouver Sun story quotes Fred Green, CEO of Canadian Pacific Railway, as saying that he won't sacrifice safety in pursuit of profits.

«As a consumer I wasn't making any sacrifice,» he says.

If you don't feel as if you're investing for the future, it's hard to get fired up about sacrificing in the present.

Though people liked to portray themselves as making sacrifices for their business, they weren't, in fact, helping anybody by not taking vacations.

But the beauty of PR, as opposed to advertising, is that you don't have to sacrifice a large chunk of your budget to it.

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.

Because only so many 4s and 5s could be allotted, talented people no longer wanted to work together; strategic goals were sacrificed, as employees did not want to change projects and leave themselves open to a lower score.

As a single mom, this time isn't easy to find even when you sacrifice all your time, I'm also trying to finish school and if possible would be able to start my own business from home or will have more qualification to work from home for another company when I'm finished.

By leveraging some advantages that our college provides in terms of housing and healthcare as well as making some sacrifices (to live in the student housing which not have great location and accommodations), we are able to stay debt free and build our net worth.

(We coffee fiends have found that it's less of a sacrifice to swap the second or third cup of the day — as long we're not expected to give up that first cup of joe, we're fine.)

It's important to target keywords that are relevant to your business, but don't sacrifice relevance for search popularity — I mean don't forget about your most targeted keywords just because they aren't as heavily searched.

«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.

The Althing's proposal spells this out in clear legal terms as an alternative to the neoliberal idea that economies must pay willy - nilly (as Keynes would say), sacrificing their future and driving their population to emigrate in what turns out to be a vain attempt to pay debts that, in the end, can't be paid but merely leave debtor economies hopelessly dependent on their creditors.

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.

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?»)

Will you attract others that will make as big of a sacrifice as you, if not bigger?

Altruism for her is not «the practice of unselfish concern for or devotion to the welfare of others,» as given in most dictionaries, but the sacrifice of a higher value for a lower (for instance, helping a stranger instead of a family member).

Talking snakes, talking donkeys, a boat at sea for half a year with a couple million animals, a temple less than 5000sq feet taking 150,000 workers and 7 years to complete, and then sacrificing 14 animals a minute for 7 days straight, a virgin birth story (like there weren't already a few of them before), a zombie invasion that no third party seemed to witness, a dude living in the belly of a fish for a couple days, a guys last words (before become back as a zombie) being «My god, my god, why hast thou forsaken me.»

I agree with your post, Mr. Stephens — insofar as I believe that a cobbled - together patchwork of Bronze Age myths that sanction slavery, genocide, human sacrifice, and child murder should not be arbitrarily invoked as the sole determinate for notions of morality in the modern world.

You would not recognize them either, just as they didn't recognize your son's sacrifice.

Self - important simpletons commonly hate anyone that isn't bound to the «moral» standards of verses such as Leviticus 20:13 which commands putting people to death that are not within the primitive social norms of living in caves and sacrificing goats and children and owning slaves.

And even you can be forgiven, as Jesus said: Matt 9:13 But go and learn what this means: «I desire mercy, not sacrifice.»

-- 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.

After all, as the rather grisly specifics of the practice of animal sacrifice suggest, it would require a rather unnatural detachment for the members of the Court not to disapprove of any of the variety of religious beliefs or practices that they encounter in the cases they must decide.

So in the (not so distant) future look for him to do animal sacrifices in his yard, beat / kill his kids when they mouth off, torch his neighborhood when he realizes he lives next to people that don't believe as he does, own and beat his slaves, and we won't even discuss how he'll treat his wives.

Conservatives can not push enough Democrats and wobbly moderates toward greater comfort with originalist - like its - the - only - Constitution - we've - got thinking, can not get them to sacrifice the judicial avenue to what they see as policy goodies, or get them to really censure the kinds of unconstitutional short - cuts Obama is modeling, if they think that folks like you and I believe that Real originalism would ban hours - laws, collective bargaining, etc..

Furthermore, there is certainly enough evidence in the discrepant personalities of the OT v. NT deity to indicate a «changing nature,» i.e., one who sees no other option but to destroy humanity and then later destroy entire civilizations as opposed to one who prefers the option of alleged self - sacrifice coupled to a merciful «grace» for those who are willing to just believe in the sacrifice.

If what the Bible says about Jesus» sacrifice and resurrection were unclear, there wouldn't have been billions upon billions of people who read it as such.

She says that churches should BEND towards what people today want in order to allow their sin, to allow their desire to live as we ought not, and to make our selfish hearts even harder, to not realize sacrificing self is not about the church sacrificing the Message, but for people to turn to their own hearts and how hard they have become.

Doesn't the God of the Old Testament (who is exactly the same as the God of the New Testament) demand animal sacrifices and commits mass murder (the Flood)?

How is it moral to look to a child sacrifice as redemption of the sins of people not even yet born?

It does not require self - sacrifice, discipline, humility, an otherworldly outlook, a zeal for souls, a fear as well as love of God.

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.

Actually, other religions like to lob this at Catholicism e.g. «good works» will save you as if we are saying Christ's sacrifice did not happen.

I used o think as you do about Jesus being all those «things», about love, self sacrifice, compassion, etc.... But how is Jesus so loving and compassionate when according to the bible he and his Father will throw billions of people into HELL for all eternity for simply not believing in them?

It is amazing what lengths we will go to so as to make sure we do not miss our favourite soap opera, or what sacrifices we will make to be able to have our annual holiday.

And I see no reason why the self - sacrificing love of Jesus can not be modeled in a committed same - sex relationship as well as it can be modeled in a committed heterosexual relationship.

This is the kind of love we are talking about — not that we once upon a time loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to clear away our sins and the damage they've done to our relationship with God.

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.

«[The lay person does] not participate intrinsically in the Liturgy of the Eucharist as Sacrifice and Sacrament and ministryfrom the persons of the sacred ministers to the People of God».

Not to preempt, I take the Cain and Abel story as a struggle to please God through sacrifice (a religious act) where the differences led to conflict, though later it is written that obedience is better than sacrifice, as it ever was.

In your virtual time as a Minister u did not know the price of a sacrifice did u?

Then, because God had already shown them the «right» way, He pulled Cain up on his «non-blood» vegetable offering as not doing what is «right», as it wasn't shedding the blood of an animal (which was essentially a type and shadow of Christ's sacrifice, as well as being the pattern already set by God in front of Adam and Eve in the Garden).