Sentences with phrase «result of a sacrifice»

In a poem by C. Day Lewis, an aged priest of an ancient cult tells a young priest not to worry about the results of his sacrifice.

Hearing testimony to the blessings received as a result of sacrifices made to walk the way of Christ is essential for others to be able to embrace the Gospel truth.

It is the result of sacrifice that the priesthood of Christ is established.

«I don't think that science should be done as the result of a sacrifice,» she says.

It's about the men and women who lost their life as a result of their sacrifice and their service for this country and its freedom.

This occasions a set - piece in another city centre where refugees are used as pawns in the escalation of a conflict; the sudden de-escalation is a result of their sacrifice.

However, the nimble handling of the Jaguar comes as a result of the sacrifice of some comfort: even in the long wheelbase models rear headroom is not as good as that found in the Mercedes or Audi.

Not exact matches

The challenge resulted in sacrifices that few of his classmates could ever endure.

While aiming for a high credit score is a worthy goal, sometimes a lower credit score in the short term as a result of consolidating debt may be worth the sacrifice to save money on interest payments and pay off your debt faster.

Through these results, a clear picture is emerging of a company willing to sacrifice its growth and profits to focus on the future through acquisitions and research projects.

How about the roughly 3 billion people who have died as a direct result of religious wars, sacrifices and persecutions over the last 10,000 years?

Other important principles are the Golden Rule, which forbids selfishness, and what Grisez - Finnis call the Pauline Principle, which forbids deliberately sacrificing any one of the basic goods to another — i.e., doing evil that good may result.

Since god was not a big fan of unclean animals, i guess that was a sacrifice that resulted in an extinction.

Our problem, he says, is not that we have become urbanized but that we have built our cities in such a way as to sacrifice our relation to nature for the sake of urban values; and the ironic result is that for most of their inhabitants our cities no longer provide even urban values.

As a result, the literal and tangible sacrificial apparatus of the Jews became to the Christians symbolic of another kind of religious system altogether, whose temple is heavenly, not earthly, whose high priest once for all has entered the holy place of divine communion, where believing souls may follow him, (Hebrews 10:19) whose sacrifice is voluntary self - giving, and whose consequence is an open way for all to «draw nigh unto God.»

Modern persons will never find rest for their restless hearts without Christ, for modern culture is nothing but the wasteland from which the gods have departed, and so this restlessness has become its own deity; and, deprived of the shelter of the sacred and the consoling myths of sacrifice, the modern person must wander or drift, vainly attempting one or another accommodation with death, never escaping anxiety or ennui, and driven as a result to a ceaseless labor of distraction, or acquisition, or willful idiocy.

As a result of the teaching of the prophets there did take place a religious reformation, in which all the village altars were abolished and their sacrifices suspended.

We readers who are gratified by this result should not underestimate the difficulty Abraham probably had in, as it were, «sacrificing» Ishmael his first - born, the first bearer of his great hope for posterity.

Study of Scripture through the filter of man's biases results in the type of man - centered ideas proferred by Baden, like «God learns to accept their inherently evil nature», and humans «are the only species that can give him what he wants — which, in the view of Genesis, is bloody, burned animal sacrifices», and «it is, rather, our job to make ourselves uncomfortable that he might be appeased.»

The thorny issue of eucharistic sacrifice is integrated by Jenson into the anamnetic theory of the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist, which agrees with the best results in ecumenical dialogue.

Progressive, practical transformation now, resulting in lives of self - sacrificing love and service; the fullness of life in the kingdom of heaven forever, in the presence of the triune God, ages without end!

He concludes that more attention to the Bible did not necessarily mean more virtuous action; that personal engagement with the Bible did result in self - sacrificing service, but also in divisive hubris, mistaken interpretations (such as the identification of America with ancient Israel), and blindness to social evils; and that Protestant spiritual individualism undercut corrupt hierarchies and supported democracy, but also promoted political excesses and violent anti-Catholicism.

Indeed, already in 1913 the missionary scholar J N Farquhar noted that «the life of India is dominated by the future, by the vision of the brilliant happy India that is to rise as a result of the united toil and self - sacrifice of her sons.»

I know there have been great sacrifices, and many people have been helped as a result of your church.

In the process, however, the very transcendence inherent in Christian thought has been sacrificed.4 The result is not really surprising if one remembers that the secularizers are heirs of hellenic thought in which the transcendent is necessarily metaphysical and the immanent empirical.

It would involve a sacrifice of the intellect which could have only one result - a curious form of schizophrenia and insincerity.

The Scriptures, against their own will, intention, and warning, became the «paper pope» with the result that the present was sacrificed, immediacy in preaching was lost, and congregations became accustomed to being sacrificed weekly on the altar of «sacred history»

Such refusal and such incapacity are the measure of the sinfulness of man — and the Hebrew prophets, who taught the truth about sacrifice, at the same time saw the radical sin in men which prevented their doing that which alone would «please God» and result in right relationships with Him.

To love means to make sacrifice in life — to truly give of ourselves to another, but even broken bones can rejoice when the result is a deeper walk in his mercies and faithfulness together.

And the politics that results from the dialogue is ghastly indeed, because the integration of a single soul calls for much more sacrifice of the parts to the whole than can ever be expected of individual human persons in a city.

As a result of this perfect sacrifice, «Christ has entered into heaven itself, in order to appear now on our behalf before the face of God.»

Oh, but in the joyfulness of love (as love always is joyful, especially when it sacrifices all) there was nevertheless a deep sorrow — for this sad result indeed was possible!

He may wring from them the least toxic results possible; nevertheless, the complaint is made, the premises themselves will continually lend support to abusive notions of self - sacrifice and surrogate suffering.

I'm also a little lazy, so if there's a way to cut a couple of corners without sacrificing the end result, I'm all about it!

Van Gaal may feel it is worth sacrificing results for the time being as he looks to build this philosophy into the club; it may be a case of short - term loss for long - term gain, but will he get that time?

It's like on the one hand, you have to respect Arsene for sticking by his players and wanting to protect them, but on the other hand, he sacrifices the overall performance of the team as a result.

As a result of the financial sacrifice, Arsenal now have a superb new stadium, which generates enormous matchday revenue and should ensure the club can compete, financially, with the top European superpowers for decades to come.

Now all of a sudden we sacrifice Ozil, and as a result Cazorla to accommodate him.

He didn't want to sacrifice energy to other facets of the game consistently enough to be more of a team player which may have resulted in more playoff success.

Arsene is hellbent on playing Jack into a world class player and is sacrificing players and the results of the team as a result.

Clemson's had offensive line issues the Noles might be able to take advantage of, and the Tigers» willingness to sacrifice the occasional big play for defensive efficiency could result in Cook roaming free.

If we signed both it would mean we have to sacrifice purchasing an ST resulting in creating loads of chances and still fall short.

Reality, people seem to accept an under - performing Ramsey and want to say give him time to get a rhythm (sacrificing the overall good of the team and the results of the team — see the beginning of the season) but for some reason no one wants to acknowledge that Santi and Mesut could do a wonderful job for us in there, and no one wants to give Mesut the opportunity to play his way into form in the middle.

So... yeah, this episode is a little interesting and this is all either the result of Brian Kelly's halftime blood sacrifice to win the Citrus Bowl, an attempt to divide by zero, or the end result of having two SEC teams in the title game.

Our job is a real sacrifice of your life, so when a guy makes that at a club for 10 years and gets the results that Moyes has made, he deserves a huge credit.

I'm distressed that any woman would consider sacrificing the life of her child for bragging rights, but I'm appalled that someone whose baby is actually dead as the result of her selfishness and self - absorption would go on being self - absorbed.

So many slices of myself get deli - sliced - thin and result in a big ole» hoagie of letting go, sacrifice, doubt, and insecurity.

«The results of today's Siena College poll is further evidence that New Yorkers do not think millionaires and multi-millionaires should be getting a tax cut while working people are sacrificing and vital services are being cut.

A common passion or interest will, in almost every case, be felt by a majority of the whole; a communication and concert result from the form of government itself; and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual.

Nevertheless, ``... attempts by public bodies to reconcile competing obligations in the face of finite resources» results in either trade - offs, or sacrifices.