Sentences with phrase «not selfishness»

Putting ourselves first for the sake of our wellbeing is not selfishness, because others will benefit too.

How nothing can keep them apart — not her selfishness, or his evil, or even death, in the end...»)

It's not selfishness; it's loving yourself.

As a result, he reports, he has freed up more family resources for his daughter, prevented the conversation at home from being dominated by kids, and generally found it easier to be a parent, all out of a spirit of generosity for the planet (and not the selfishness of the contraceptive mentality).

Perhaps you could and will say it's still selfish but it is not selfishness masquerading as self - righteousness in the name of some mythical being.

Not exact matches

Many of the things we do not like to see in people — duplicity, greed, malice, and selfishness — she was completely innocent of.

That is not the same as self - involvement or selfishness.

These folks aren't necessarily committing crimes, but this small but significant portion of the population does display some essential traits of psychopathy, like lack of empathy, selfishness, lack of guilt, and plenty of charm.

In that moment, it was not my life that flashed before my eyes but a tableau, revealing the ingrained patterns of my long practiced selfishness.

According to «Christians» this creature they call Satan is all about the values of the GOP - Greed, Selfishness, Materialism, Hording their riches in off shore bank accounts, denial of the Poor and Elderly and Exclusion of anyone who does not follow the same Creature they bow to in darkness.

Before I came to the Lord, I was full of sin and would have acted badly more then once, I would have felt just - i - fied in my selfishness, and would have not felt any remorse at all.

Second, if his nature if to sit back and let his creatures create themselves through natural selection, i.e. through selfishness and death, I don't think the pronoun requires a capital letter.

If you truly believe that you will have to stand before God one day and account for yourself you don't want to have a history of selfishness, greed and indifference for the least among them.

Contrast the «unselfish» selfishness of the Creative types who say they don't care about money: Don and, more stubbornly, Ted.

This is why the human race will not survive, not due to people not procreating, it will be that we will destroy ourselves with our own selfishness and hate toward our own people.

It is interesting to meet someone that believes not attending a church can only be due to selfishness... and that the only reason to attend is «someone needs you there».

Another thing, by stating that abortion is an option because rasing a baby is a dead end for your future possible career, or you might drop out of HS, or you might not have enough $ to care for IT properly... all these excuses scream out: selfishness.

Such omissions as not visiting the dying or attending funerals, and not sending thank - you letters in return for hospitality, favors, or presents, were once perceived as evidence of rudeness, presumably prompted by selfishness or sloth.

Certainly we can all, celibate or not, experience sexual attraction as the former urgent drive - this needs to be acknowledged as a temptation to selfishness.

That concept is not easy to teach or warm one's hands over without considerable effort, but it is not impossible to convey even to young children the sense that the real meaning of Christmas lies precisely in the combination of magical ceremonies and the grown - up message that in the very midst of our human selfishness, the waylaying love of God has broken through to us unconditionally.

Toss down your pride and your greed, your selfishness and your me - first, those things aren't for you.

It accepts selfishness as a fact of life; it doesn't require any illusions about the innate goodness of people.

Lest, however, we who do not share that anxiety become exultant in the afflatus of our superiority let us remind ourselves that we, too, have our own absurd beliefs and our own selfishnesses and childishnesses and meannesses.

The AA point of view, as set forth in the recognized literature of the movement, does not take full cognizance of the fact that personality factors such as selfishness, resentment, and hostility, which are controlled through the AA program, are actually symptoms of deeper problems of inadequacy, insecurity, and inner conflict.

I don't know if i'm more stunned by the shameless selfishness or the mind - boggling waste of time.

But even life in this generous sense of membership in creation does not protect us, as we know, from the dangers of avarice, of selfishness, of the wrong kind of abundance.

Children are not bad for the environment - it's our selfishness that is bad for this planet.

This is not just a matter of property rights; as Creator, God can be trusted much more than the creation that is marred and deformed by sin and selfishness.

This is in contrast to the AA position which does not seem to recognize the symptomatic nature of selfishness.

In my selfishness, I thought it was just between me and God.It took the situation with Alicia to wake me up to the fact that when we're not closely listening for the voice of God, we don't just miss out on the peace and joy we experience from a deeper relationship with the Lord; we don't just miss an opportunity to give honor and glory to the One who most deserves it; we don't just miss out on answered prayers God may have had in store for us — sometimes we miss the opportunity to answer someone else's prayer.»

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.

society, where sin is viewed as little more than psychological maladjustment, or behavior arising out of corrupt economic structures, or as a failure of the educational system, baptism reminds us that, in spite of Gestalt and I'm OK, You're OK, what we do naturally is not the best we could do, that our inborn selfishness and pride are life - and - death matters, that Christians are made, not born.

It goes on, however, to express its belief that one is driven to drink by selfishness — the word «sin» is not used — and its symptoms.

It may indeed be the approach of both spouses; but it is still the meeting of two selfishnesses, of two fundamentally inward - looking persons, who are simply not up to forging a happy marriage.

Additionally, donors may see the propriety, in our indulgent culture, of exhortations by R&D professionals against selfishness and materialism, but they understand that development «education» that consists of popularized versions of dependency theory is not likely to be helpful - either for rich Western Christians or for their impoverished Third World brethren.

Selfishness is not necessarily wrong or bad.

OK let me ask you this one thing this one thing.how much money and time and feeding the poor.in the country and place you live at right now???? In a three year time span @@@@@ jeeeezy I gave out of my personal money $ 20,000 Thousands us dallors that's more then 30 years worth of income in some of the most religious dirt poor countries that's a fact.you can't give or received with a closed tight hand of selfishness and bitterness now @@@@@@@@ jeeeez how much have you given too help feed clothed and shelter the poor?

This is Not of the selfishness, and the haughty, that is of this world today.

It's not a pretty sight and God had a purpose for every child that the mothers and doctors has destroyed for selfishness and money.

Call it selfishness if you want, but if individuals do not look out for themselves, then basically the species would have died off millenia ago.

For if each person is self - sufficient to himself and intrinsically independent of all others, have we not a prescription for selfishness and self - centeredness?

Peter, Merlin, I doubt if these are true names let along believe what any of you say, first off, if one is going along with the mainstream reports, this to me is just as the old saying goes, many will see, but only a few will actually «KNOW» I don't flow with what they «say» was proven just to fit in (be accepted), to receive rewards, or attention, this is all selfishness among the few elite.

Capitalistic selfishness of individuals and companies, raised to the level of a supreme principle of public policy, does not promote the true liberation of humans from selfishness, hatred and delusion, but rather worsens the human condition almost everywhere.

The persons we have hurt through our selfishness and lack of love may forgive us, but this does not make the situation as if it had never happened.

It is not the will of God that children suffer from hunger and malnutrition and grow up in unsanitary slums with lack of proper education, that persons because of the color of their skin are debarred from schools, hospitals, employment, or housing projects; that persons are denied other basic human rights; that personalities and homes are broken through drink and that great numbers die on highways through drunken driving; that marriage vows are often taken lightly and that easy divorces shatter home after home and leave children the pawns of the parents» selfishness.

But, I think it's very easy to see from the teachings of Jesus Christ that He wasn't espousing selfishness.

Desiring to be free of earthly entrapments like human creed, human doctrine, human group - think and human power is not always a sign of selfishness or depravity.

Selfishness must be transformed by enlarging the idea of what the self is, expanding the personality until it takes in our friends, our community, our nation, our world, so that one does not need to stamp upon his self, but can say,

If this comes to pass — if we lose our capitalism and our freedom because we could not (or would not) make it work for the benefit of all, because it collapsed under the strain of class division and materialism and unrestrained selfishness — then we will have no one to blame but ourselves.

However, let's not miss that God designed marriage not only to stretch us beyond our selfishness to become more like Jesus through trials, but also to bring great joy to our lives with the myriad of gifts marriage provides.