Sentences with phrase «other than sacrifice»

The supposedly almighty god can't think of a way to forgive a couple people for disobeying him other than sacrificing himself to himself.

Not exact matches

Good communicators don't sacrifice their authenticity to score cheap points by trying (and, more often than not, failing) to impress others.

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».

Rather than be defeated by Perez» death, his sacrifice to serve others inspired and rallied the officers, said Hayes.

Exodus 22:20 Whoever sacrifices to any other god than the Lord must be destroyed.

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'm just thinking the guy should have been imaginitive enough to show his love some other way than sending a sacrifice.

Even as the formalized creed of a society, the ideology is the basis of praxis — it serves as a principle which calls on individual sacrifice on behalf of something other and greater than oneself.

According to the Qur» an, Muslims are forbidden to eat a corpse, blood, pork, a pagan sacrifice, suffocated animals, animals killed other than by slaughtering, animals which died from a fall, animals killed by other animals, remnants of food eaten by a beast, food offered as a sacrifice to idols.

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.

«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.

Jesus talked about those who were killed when Pilate «mixed their blood with their sacrifices», and others who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them, and asked his hearers if they thought that these people were greater sinners than all others because these things happened to them.

The other is the love that leads to loyalty and sacrifice: «greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.»

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)

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 is based on willingness to sacrifice for the sake of others rather than only on satisfaction of one's personal desires.

[1] however some religions were persecuted for political reasons rather than dogmatic zeal, [2] and other rites banned which involved human sacrifice.

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.

But one overlooked emphasis in the Bible is that while we are putting others above ourselves, and being self - sacrificing rather than self - serving, there is still one area of our lives where we must first and foremost look out for number one.

For as soon as the life and interest of others than the agent are involved in an action or policy, the sacrifice of those interests ceases to be «self - sacrifice.»

Berlin fears the ancient faith in and search for a perfect and harmonious society, «an ideal for which more human beings have, in our time, sacrificed themselves and others than, perhaps, any other cause in human history.»

But Faust is a sympathetic nature, he loves existence, his soul is acquainted with no envy, he perceives that he is unable to check the raging he is well able to arouse, he desires no Herostratic honor — he keeps silent, he hides the doubt in his soul more carefully than the girl who hides under her heart the fruit of a sinful love, he endeavors as well as he can to walk in step with other men, but what goes on within him he consumes within himself, and thus he offers himself a sacrifice for the universal.

Immediately after attaining liberty, the revolutionaries invoked «public virtue» more often than any other term, a virtue which they defined as the readiness to sacrifice self - interest to the common good.

How much more could young people participate fully in the sacrifice of the Mass by being with Christ at Calvary, by being united with all souls in Heaven and Purgatory, and by receiving Christ's Body and Blood, therefore being closer to Him than at any other point of their earthly existence?

Jeremy good message and quite relevant for today God is still looking at our hearts and motives for serving him or are we serving our own agenda as Jonah was.He did nt feel compassionate towards his enemies and who could blame him they had cruelly killed many Jews it was a question of life or death to his own people.The Jewish nation was no more deserving of Gods grace than the other nations that is revealed by sending Jonah to preach a message of hope and life.Ultimately God calls all by faith in him and is willing to be merciful to all nations and peoples that do not not deserve it just like us it is by grace that we all are forgiven.I am pleased that God is sovereign and knows whats best he is merciful to us.Our human nature is that it is better to kill our enemies before they can kill us and that is essentially Jonahs message that is why he struggled to be obedient to Gods will.Gods message is to forgive those that trespass against us and show mercy.Its complicated and it is natural to protect ourselves and our families from those who would seek to destroy them but ultimately its about trusting God with everything easier said than done.If it comes to a choice we will have to trust God and ask for his strength because we cant do it in ours.As Christ laid down his life for us are we ready to lay our lives and the lives of our families as a sacrifice for him.To me that is where the story of Jonah is leading to we have the choice to fight our enemies or to love them as God loves them.brentnz

Is it really so complicated to understand that the cross as a symbol has come to represent More than just the God who sacrifices himself for humanity and wants us to love and respect each other?

Though Anullinus tried in various ways to force her to renounce her faith and offer sacrifice to their gods, Crispina was firm in her stand of faith in Jesus Christ and that she has never offered sacrifice to any other gods other than the one true God who has made the heaven and earth, the sea and all things that are in them and who alone is to be feared which is also said by Appollonius.

When families exist for no reason other than their own existence, they become quasi-churches, which ask sacrifices far too great and for insufficient reasons.

For example, is the good of the United States something other than the good of its inhabitants, so that all of its inhabitants may be called on to sacrifice for the common good?

Second, Banerjea posits that «the meaning of Prajapati... coincides with the meaning of the historical reality Jesus Christ; and that no other person than Jesus of Nazareth has ever appeared in the world claiming the character and position of the self - sacrificing Prajapati, half mortal and half immortal» (Ibid.).

However what are we all here for if there is not something greater or other than our individual selves worth sacrificing for?

They point out that the Bible contains more commands for blood sacrifice and warfare against the enemies of God than any other religious book in history, including the Muslim Qur» an.

But assuming they are wrong, it only proves there is a large group of people out in the world still that want desperately to believe in something greater than themselves and, most importantly, care enough about others to sacrifice of their own comforts to make sure others at least know about it and can decide for themselves.

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.

Next week to Chelsea game Arsenal need to put Danny welbeck in the side against Chelsea which is where they fail to have exceptional pace that arsenal possess to fight the threat of hazard and Willian, other than that Fabregas will do whatever he can in his power to muster up a goal so therefore cazorla maybe sacrifices for Ramsey and Ozil which will bring a quick team to boot.

«It certainly tests her level of organisation and discipline and forces her make more sacrifices than others, but she always finds a way to get everything done and I think it's really admirable.»

Most self - injurers will say that they rather hurt themselves than anyone else, but it's a form of self - sacrifice, and so these folks are generally not a danger to other people.

My family and I were led to believe we were members of a «special» group — that we had a «different» calling than other churches, which was why we had to work harder and sacrifice more than the average Christian.

Why are some people able to sacrifice better than others?

That doesn't seem harder than the sacrifices Marco and thousands of other people make every day.

But devoted dads realize that it isn't sacrifice, but an intentional investment in something more important than those other things.

While a good mattress will have some heft to it, some are lighter than others without sacrificing any quality.

The unfortunate aspect is that if one side of the equation has to be sacrificed, the disappointment is far greater or of more political significance than the pleasure felt at the achievement of the other side.

@MichaelSeifert It would be beneficial to Labour / Lib Dems if they sacrificed one constituency to the Greens (say Bristol West), if it meant that they gained more than one other constituency from the Conservatives.

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We sacrificed strength for endurance after our split from other apes, but it turns out our muscles are only a third weaker than those of our ape cousins

We're more likely to sacrifice a man than a woman when it comes to both saving the lives of others and in pursuing our self - interests, a team of psychology researchers has found.

In other parts of the mound, skeletons of more than 100 young women clearly indicate human sacrifice, and another grouping of four men with no hands or heads denotes the same.