Sentences with phrase «point of sacrificing»

«I work too hard, sometimes to the point of sacrificing rest and weekends to make sure every deadline is met.»

An increasing body of research on bacterial colonies has found that members often cooperate — even to the point of sacrificing their lives — for the survival of their colony.

However it notes that, there are examples of good gay relationships «in which mutual aid to the point of sacrifice constitutes a precious support in the life of partners.»

Fishon... I agree... but, the point of their sacrifice is that they didn't have a gun in their hand, if they did, wd they not be hypocrites?

Not exact matches

We could all hustle 18 hours a day if we wanted to, but none of us would be able to keep it up without sacrificing our sanity, family or health, at some point.

One expects that at some point, these «buy in May» folks would get sick of lagging the market, and would start demanding a higher price for their sacrifice (until the effect disappears).

The main point of difference is that donation crowdfunding doesn't require the entrepreneur to sacrifice equity in their business, whereas investment crowdfunding does involve exchanging money for securities.

I think our new Pope is just what the Church needs at this point — humility, self - sacrifice, lack of interest in «material» things!

It is the spiritual reality of our sin, created by it as a natural consequence of our free will — and something God never intended for us to go to, to the point of total self - sacrifice to us to help save us from our own self - made doom.

The point of Lent is also to help one segue into a more long - term committment to sacrifice and personal growth, and is not just meant to be a tough 40 days of no cookies.

In such circumstances — our circumstances — what's needed are consolidating motifs, to rally people to causes that are worthy of their loyalty, even to the point of self - sacrifice.

Wondering in viewing these questions if the sacrifice that blood represents to God gives value to violence... that shedding blood even in violence doesn't just mean the end of something but points to something precious with God.

, avoids discussion of many moral sticking points of the next few millennia (even though he knew in advance they'd be sticking points and could have provided clearer guidance), and then makes one of the central points of the entire story — and his entire reason for being here really — a personal sacrifice that is so va.gue that no one can even explain how or what was, in fact, sacrificed.

Vic, your starting point, your «lord» Jesus - sacrifice - salvation story, is nonsense out of the gate.

After all to participate in the celebration of the sacrifice of the mass has to be the central point of every Catholic person's life.

The priesthood became hereditary, a separate, professional class, and the sacrifices so increased in number and in the complexity of their attendant rites that one scholar points to the change as «perhaps the most striking and convincing proof of development the Old Testament affords.»

Approaching the end of his earthly journey, St. Paul wrote: «I am already on the point of being sacrificed; the time of my departure has come.

For one thing, God does not exactly command Abraham to sacrifice Isaac, He requests it of him; as Robert Sacks points out, God says «please.»

The concepts of ransom, of vicarious suffering for the guilt of men, of propitiation and sacrifice all too easily turn into descriptions of how God is appeased through suffering, and thus the point that the atonement stems from his love is lost.

All of it pointed to Jesus that was the perfect lamb sacrificed for mans sin.

The moment of dominance, prayed for, worked for, sacrificed for, by generations of the noblest spirits, marks the turning point where the blessing passes into the curse.

Another thing you should point out is the tithe was done away with in the actual pure sacrifice of Jesus Christ.

This moral responsibility might be tested to the point of great sacrifice.

MAY have been a sacrifice in some way... but that's beside the point of Jesus dying..

By stating that no sacrifice for sin is left in Hebrews 10:26, the author of Hebrews is making a very similar point to that made in Hebrews 6, namely, that the Hebrew Christians came to recognize that the Levitical sacrificial system did not grant them eternal life or forgiveness of sins.

In addition, many are so busy making a point, for personal glory, they fail to make a difference, which is the sacrifice for the good of the body.

God's choice of Israel, therefore, is not complete in itself but it is a movement in history, pointing to fulfillment; and this is true of all institutions — circumcision, covenant, passover, priesthood and its sacrifice, kingship, assembly or synagogue.

6) I have already given several verses showing the sin - bearing nature of Jesus» cross, I just want to point out again Romans 3:25 & 26: God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his blood — to be received by faith.

July 4... somewhat «selfish» of us, but makes perfect sense (save JW's who don't observe birthdays) Memorial Day... no point in observing July 4 without reflecting on the sacrifice of the tens of thousands who paid for YOUR freedom and mine with their blood.

Furthermore, during the procession of the yearly festival she is taken to the borders in every direction (North, South, East and West) and a sacrifice is performed for her in order to energize her powers to guard and protect the colony and its inhabitants at all the strategic points of the geographic boundaries.

For the Christian community, the cross is the supreme symbol, for in his self - sacrifice Christ pointed beyond himself and surrendered the particular to the ultimate; the cross was the manifestation of God's participation in man's existence, universally present but not universally recognized.31 Tillich's own background in the Lutheran Church and his sensitivity to Luther's experience of guilt, forgiveness, personal faith and divine grace, are reflected at many points in his writings, especially in his sermons.32

Thus the notion of eucharistic sacrifice is not confined to the specific point of actual death; it includes the whole of the event of which Jesus is the center.

From the viewpoint of those who make violent sacrifices, the point is to appease the gods for whom the sacrifices are made.

In my book Jewish Renewal: A Path to Healing and Transformation, I point out that in the original Hebrew version the word for «the Lord» that calls Abraham to sacrifice his son is very different than the word for the angel of God (YHVH) who tells Abraham to NOT GO THROUGH WITH IT, and that the reason we Jews celebrate Abraham as the father of our people is NOT because of his faith in being willing to carry out this violent and bloody act, but rather because he was able to hear the voice of God as a voice that allowed him (and through him all subsequent Jewish and Muslim believers) to NOT FOLLOW THE VOICE OF CRUETLY AS SOMEHOW THE VOICE OF GOof God (YHVH) who tells Abraham to NOT GO THROUGH WITH IT, and that the reason we Jews celebrate Abraham as the father of our people is NOT because of his faith in being willing to carry out this violent and bloody act, but rather because he was able to hear the voice of God as a voice that allowed him (and through him all subsequent Jewish and Muslim believers) to NOT FOLLOW THE VOICE OF CRUETLY AS SOMEHOW THE VOICE OF GOof our people is NOT because of his faith in being willing to carry out this violent and bloody act, but rather because he was able to hear the voice of God as a voice that allowed him (and through him all subsequent Jewish and Muslim believers) to NOT FOLLOW THE VOICE OF CRUETLY AS SOMEHOW THE VOICE OF GOof his faith in being willing to carry out this violent and bloody act, but rather because he was able to hear the voice of God as a voice that allowed him (and through him all subsequent Jewish and Muslim believers) to NOT FOLLOW THE VOICE OF CRUETLY AS SOMEHOW THE VOICE OF GOof God as a voice that allowed him (and through him all subsequent Jewish and Muslim believers) to NOT FOLLOW THE VOICE OF CRUETLY AS SOMEHOW THE VOICE OF GOOF CRUETLY AS SOMEHOW THE VOICE OF GOOF GOD.

Jesus Christ sacrifice represented 4 very important points: (A) channel for us when praying in forgiving our sins (B) The opportunity to learn the truth about Jehovah God's Universal Soverign Government and the role Jesus would play as King of the government along side his Father Jehovah God.

But, the point is, all 3 Persons of the Trinity, The Father, The Son, and the Holy Spirit, all agreed that the Sacrifice of Jesus's blood was the only way for sin to be forgiven, and for the debt to be paid for, so we didn't have to face the judgment that our sins deserve, an eternity in a lake of fire.

Somehow the superiority of the way of artistic sacrifice seems to be the point of the story, except that it is the clear - eyed, stable brother who is able to give an account of it.

This congress has gotten to the point where sacrifices are going to need to be made by people on both sides of the spectrum if we are going to see any real improvement in this deficit.

Seriously, isn't that the point of war... to gain a tactical advantage and win regardless of the sacrifice of human life?

On the other hand, if we too readily draw the boundaries and allow for no sacrifice or inconvenience, then it may be as clear from the friend's point of view that no investment in friendship is forthcoming from us.

And they got upset and were trying to figure things out and finally became so frustrated that the Law was so hard to follow and God kept sending them into captivity and there was so much death and eventually the prophets started prophesying about a day that would come where the hearts of the fathers would return to their children and a sacrifice that would be the final sacrifice so that they could all stop killing so many animals (which God also admitted He never wanted in the first place because that was not the point), and also that God would eventually wipe out the old system and write his law on their hearts and minds so that they could finally follow him without making so many mistakes and messing up everything.

The point of the three goods of marriage is that the spouses become living images of Christ's complete self - sacrificing love.

The Greek idea of the impassability of God at certain crucial points won out in his theology, which ironically found its soteriological focus in the sacrifice of the God / Man.

In «Adoption, Abortion and a Message of Hope,» J.D. Flynn makes an important point: the choice to place a child for adoption is a heroic sacrifice, borne in suffering, which we must always acknowledge and honor.

But more to the present point, it is by sacrifice — by the voluntary loss of some good out of devotion to a greater good, that the highest possibilities in human life are realized.

But again the point of Jesus dying isn't that God requires a sacrifice but rather the point is that God loves us so much that he was willing to send His son to die for us

Your final point, that Christians should still make sacrifices is also quiet false, the whole reason Jesus came was to pay for the sins of the world.

The great achievements of the Hebrew prophets, from one point of view, were their insistence that God is not to be approached in this external fashion and their success in securing a general consent by the Jewish people to the proposition that «the sacrifices of God are a troubled spirit» — that God wishes the offering to Him of the whole life of His people, both as individuals and as a group, not for His own glorification but rather so that He might effectively use them for the accomplishment of great ends: the redemption of the world and the opening of rich life for His children.

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?

From this vantage point we get a new perspective on self - sacrifice as the ultimate expression of agape.