Sentences with phrase «of selfish men»

The young Natalie was killed through the actions of selfish men but she had the heart and lungs of a mountain lion and this thought stayed with me long after the film's ending.

It is a pity that the party's merger that produced the current leadership is largely composed of selfish men who became strange bedfellows.

Not exact matches

Your problems are a reflection of yourself and upbringing, not a reflection of your devotion to the bearded man in a cloud, who by my view of the world and its turmoil, is a selfish god.

We Americans are so selfish and we are NEVER satisfied with anything... on 9/11 we all came together and acted like we were all so in favor of getting this man... now he dies..

The will of Man is by nature sinful & selfish and easily vulnerable to the influence of Satan which is corrupt and evil.

A king rules His kingdom, not sharing the throne with any other, while multitudes of men rule the church, and any room women now enjoy is likely because men have some selfish reason to let them.

«Sometimes, thinking they are responding to your irresistible appeal, men will hurl themselves for love of you into the exterior abyss of selfish pleasure - seeking: they are deceived by a reflection or by an echo.

And just as that kingly grief of which we have spoken can be found only in a kingly soul, and is not even named in the language of the multitude of men, so the entire human language is so selfish that it refuses even to suspect the existence of such a grief.

Threatened by loss of life and happiness and tempted by the pleasures that calculated exploitation of selfish interests could bring, men are inevitably seduced into the pursuit of numerous goods and goals which exalt their own interests above those of their neighbors.

Unlike the conventional view of economic activity as selfish, the reconstructed view of economics is centred on nearly symmetrical gifts — from men to the given world and from the world to men.

So, worship of Satan can be as simple as being mindful of the things of man, being selfish, etc..

Female «pastors / bishops» wrecked the Mainline Protestant Churches with liberal theology and reduced the general population of men extremely selfish, lazy and indifferent or unchurched.

Repudiating the fear and dread inspired in men by Satan and his churches — an Angst deriving from an abject and selfish terror of death (38:38)-- Milton's purpose is to teach men to despise death and to move forward:

One of the happiest men and most pleasing companions I have ever known was intensely selfish.

Christians regard themselves as a Chosen People in the sense that to them has been entrusted the message of God's grace to sinful (selfish) man in Jesus, who was shown to be the Christ by his coming alive in the Christian community where, because the fear of death is gone, the rule of love replaces that grasping for security which is the cause of sin.

Most of the selfish trolls on here are turning this young man's sacrifice for his faith into a forum for their own petty grievances.

He is commending not the dishonesty but the prudence of the man; and verse 9 follows as Jesus interpretation: in your use of money, he says, be prudent and selfish («make friends for yourselves,» that is, by giving generously to others, verse 9); for you can not take it with you, and God is your final treasure in any case.

The love of the tree for the boy / man is a selfless love, while the love of the boy for the tree is a selfish love.

Men know how selfish they are when they are scrutinized from the perspective of the absolute, and this must come before society can be healed by grace.25 Such preaching involves a pitiless analysis of the motives and self - justification of man.

By the grace of God this human freedom is delivered from man's selfish isolation so that it can enter into the infinite, self - communicating mystery of existence which we call God.

But what profited such a God — remote, selfish, indifferent, jealously watching the presumptions of troublesome man, and at the most conceding certain meager favors that served to redeem human life from stark intolerability?

I think the only selfish person is one who takes the light out of a story for a man doing something for others and tries to focus it in a negative light with an insensitive comment such as yours.

Actually, godly boys know that as well, so the contrast here is between the immaturity of childish men acting like selfish boys, rather than godly men.

In that time, the word was associated with cultic practices of women priestesses using their sexuality to dominate men for selfish gain, which applied to specifically this church, in this location at this time.

Indeed, Hartshorne's catalogue of ills that afflict those who have lost faith in nature and God as friends is a frightful list: «men are likely to grow bitter, or depressed and fearful, or genially cynical and selfish, or mad with megalomaniac ambition, or slavishly worshipful of power or wealth — or just dull and apathetic and unimaginative, like a number of agnostics I have known.

Some well - respected evangelical scholars think this means Paul did not permit a woman of that particular community to teach and dominate a man for selfish gain resulting in licentiousness (see recommended reading).

That there may be some who need compulsion, some who, if they were free - footed, would riot in selfish pleasures like unruly beasts, is doubtless true; but a man must prove precisely that he is not of this number by the fact that he knows how to speak with dread and trembling; and out of reverence for the great one is bound to speak, lest it be forgotten for fear of the ill effect, which surely will fail to eventuate when a man talks in such a way that one knows it for the great, knows its terror — and apart from the terror one does not know the great at all.

Stop looking for selfish excuses of «salvation,» man up and live your life just like the other 6 billion + people in the world.

It places pleasure above love, health and well - being above the sacredness of life, the participation of special interests groups in governance above democratic representation, women's rights above motherhood, the empowerment of the selfish individual above any form of legitimate authority, ethics above morality, the right to choose above the eternal law written in the human heart, democracy and humanism above divine revelation — in a nutshell, immanence above transcendence, man above God, the «world» above «heaven».

It's not to do with human nature per se; it's to do with sin: envy, jealousy, possessiveness, quarrelling, a lack of willingness to forgive and forget, infidelity, manipulation, the desire to control and dominate, lack of consideration in matters to do with running a home as well as in the bedroom (sex can be one of the highest expressions of love between a man and a woman; it can also be incredibly selfish); hearts that are consistently closed to new life.

Newman counseled that the man earnestly seeking to hear the conscience «must vanquish that mean, ungenerous, selfish, vulgar spirit of his nature, which, at the very first rumour of a command, places itself in opposition to the Superior who gives it, asks itself whether he is not exceeding his right, and rejoices, in a moral and practical matter to commence with skepticism.

Men and women with this kind of heart do not seek selfish attention, flaunt wealth or diminish others.

People have been doing all kinds of religions, christianity, and islam for over 2000 years, praying to strange gods, not known to Abraham, Isaac, nor Jacob, all from the first generation of Adam, and of the covenant of the 10 commandments, and statues, ordinances, and judgments that are perpetual by YHWH, and the world has not gotten any better, since before the 8th century, this has happened, and at some point one must realize that this religion thing obviously is not working for us, the reality check is to «awaken'to the truth, and righteousness, of YHWH Our Righteousness, in Jeremiah 23:1 - 8, and not pagan religions, man - made, and all controlled for selfish gain.

the learning of the great man consists entirely in getting rid of the obscuration of selfish desires in order by his own efforts to make manifest his clear character, so as to restore the condition of forming one body with Heaven, Earth, and the myriad things, a condition that is originally so, that is all.

Many of then could become a great men, bring progress to humanity, but selfish of parents prevented this.

That the conduct of man should not proceed from selfish aspiration after benefits, but from the fear of God, «in the name of» God, is again and again emphasized as a protest against the morality motivated by desire of reward.

For to do good only to those who do good to us, to be kind only to those who are kind to us, means acting as the sinners and heathen also do, that is, it is the behavior of the natural, selfish man.

His sorrow, his concern, his despair, is selfish (like the dread of sin which at times almost frightens a man into sin) because it is self - love which would like to be proud of itself, like to be without sin — and consolation is what he is least in need of, wherefore also the prodigious quantity of consoling thoughts the physicians of the soul prescribe only make the sickness worse.

If we have to choose between believing in a selfish man and a selfish God, it is far better to keep faith in the ever - faithful God of creative concern.

I do this... as a duty of brotherly love, so that if any misfortune or disaster comes out of this matter, it may not be attributed to me, nor will I be blamed before God and men because of my silence... We have no one on earth to thank for this disastrous rebellion except you princes and lords, and especially you blind bishops and mad priests and monks whose hearts are hardened... The murder - prophets [a reference to Karlstadt, Muntzer and all the Schwarmerei] who hate me as they hate you, have come among these people... for more than three years, and no one has resisted and fought against them except me... I beseech you not to make light of this rebellion... The peasants have just published twelve articles some of which are so fair and just as to take away your reputation in the eyes of God... Because you made light of my To The German Nobility you must now listen to and put up with these selfish articles.

Incidentally, one truly good young man who spoke to me of his falls with a truly good girl, whom he eventually married said: «the first time we did it, we both knew we had been thoroughly selfish, and we always felt it was wrong, but it was the pleasure...» St. Paul spoke of the living experience of self - division and anguish this way: -

Certainly few stories are more calculated to hold the interest of boys and girls than those of this Hebrew strong man who, though singularly lacking in desirable moral and spiritual qualities, is a most excellent example of what not to be — selfish, wilful, lustful, proud, lacking in loyalty, weak in self - control.

Any man aware of those facts who climbs into bed with another man for either oral or anal sex can not possibly have the other man's best interest at heart, is thinking only of himself, and his own selfish, perverted, sexual desires.

a 10 year old who loves the raiders will start looking up to this man... i'm all for second chances, but if he beats a women while on the raiders then i have to explain to the kid his hero is a POS... i know it's selfish of me but i just don't need that, i want my nephew looking up to real men...

i do nt understand how the board of arsenal can not see the damage that arsene wenger has done and is doing to this club.even a blind man can see it.i guess they are blinded by greed and their own selfish interest because im sure they are quite intelligent people to have gotten to that position.

The selfish attitude of Alexis is becoming destructive — get rid of him for as much money as you can — it doesn't matter if its Man City or PSG — and then pay whatever it takes to get Ousmane Dembele.

Everyone on here was wanting a Ba, Benteke, Bony type if they couldn't get the biggest names (Cavani, Suarez etc etc)-- strikers that are selfish (and I mean that in a positive way) with reasonable pace playing on the shoulder of the last man.

Alvaro Morata is a fast striker with a nose for goal, but he'll want to get involved with build - up play too, and he might be a touch less selfish in front of goal than the man he's replacing.

There are plenty of women around who would love to have a great guy in their lives but men my age aren't great guys, they're selfish, hypercritical, pushy, bitter and needy.

Michael, you were one of those very lucky men that has a good old fashioned woman for a wife since today unfortunately most women are Nothing like that at all since the great majority of the women nowadays are so very greedy, selfish, spoiled as well.