Sentences with phrase «sacrifice for long»

Short term sacrifice for long term gains.

I figure I am making a short term sacrifice for my long term happiness.

I must say, it is okay if we don't feel that now, it doesn't mean we have been let down... it just means we have to accept we made a sacrifice for the long term with a new stadium.

They are about working together as a team to build a better life together and sacrificing for long - term goals while finding ways to celebrate the here and now.

As the Heath Brothers write: most of the change we want to see requires «short - term sacrifices for long - term payoffs».

Not exact matches

If you can make ends meet while interning for little to no money, the financial sacrifices up front can lead to invaluable long - term opportunities, Rovell, Coppolella and Torres say.

Wise businesspeople have the humility to seek out long - term, positive - sum collaborations with others, and are willing to sacrifice some of their immediate self - interest for long - term gains.

Someone in a precarious financial situation might be more liable to sacrifice long - term success of the business for quick gains.

But the much heralded sacrifices made by Chrysler executives did not last long - just about long enough to secure federal support for the company.

«For far too long, the Gulf has been treated as a sacrifice zone by polluters,» Athan Manuel, director of the lands protection program of the Sierra Club, a national advocacy group.

And when disgruntled shareholders can't oust top managers, it's often argued, they are better able to deflect the pressure to sacrifice long - term performance for short - term return.

He's calling for something similar to another «New Deal» and he's talking about how the US will no longer sacrifice its middle class and its workers in order to «build a middle class in Asia».

But for many investors (including younger investors with relatively long time horizons), sacrificing some liquidity in exchange for mitigated risk and higher potential returns is a trade - off well worth making.

The longer Europe refuses to debate honestly about debt and the euro, and the the longer it suffers from stagnation and unemployment, the more credible the Front National becomes in denouncing centrist parties for sacrificing workers and the middle class to protect the interest of bankers.

Back - date your posts so it looks like you've been at this for a long time, and do shoot for an impressive volume (at least 30 posts), but never sacrifice quality for quantity here.

«For too long, companies have sacrificed long - term value creation to generate short - term results, which erodes the sustainability strategic investors seek.

Lee's announcement acquired a combined response, with some neighborhood members praising him for his «sacrifice» and others questioning whether or not his lack of «skin in the game» will truly make him less - invested in Litecoin's long - term success.

It took years for Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos to prove his sacrifice of near - term profits to invest for long - term gains made sense.

Anyway, all you Christians here who want to bash on Mormons, why don't you take a good long look at your own religion, which worships a man who was sacrificed on a cross for BILLIONS of dead people.

We do not have to give animal sacrifices any longer for the mistakes and sins that we make and commit.

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.

So long as Christianity knows the Crucifixion as a vicarious sacrifice for a totally guilty humanity, as the innocent sacrifice of the eternal Son of God to a just but merciful Father, it can never celebrate the definitive victory of the Crucifixion; for such a redeemed humanity remains in bondage to the transcendent Judge, and must continue to be submissive to his distant and alien authority, ever pleading for mercy when it falls away from his absolute command.

[36] Temple sacrifice is no longer needed because it has been fulfilled by Christ, Who «offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins».

Christ's life and sacrifice with which the Church started, its long history marred by failures but still contributing immeasurably to mankind's welfare, its prophets, saints, and martyrs — for all of this I am unpayably in debt.

She affirmed that we all long for peace, but we rarely reflect on how hard peacemaking is, the sacrifice required, and the burdens we still have to carry.

Hebrews 10:26 26 For if we practice sin willfully after having received the accurate knowledge of the truth, there is no longer any sacrifice for sins leFor if we practice sin willfully after having received the accurate knowledge of the truth, there is no longer any sacrifice for sins lefor sins left,

The firstborn animals were to be sacrificed to the Lord, and the firstborn males were to be set apart for life - long service of the Lord (Ex.

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)

But the secular welfare states of today, it turns out, discourage large family size, and offer little motivation for the sacrifice entailed in nurturing large families during many long years of married life.

There are the essential core doctrines of the faith, (that we are saved by faith, that we are no longer under the law, for example) and then there are the details (eating meat sacrificed to idols, for example).

Those symbols engendered in the founding are only vaguely and imperfectly understood today and readily exchangeable for «security» and «rights» among a people who, in the end, may no longer be worthy heirs of the great sacrifice.

Hebrews 10:26 For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversariFor if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversarifor sins, 27 but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.

And it is to be noted that this new covenant knows nothing of an externally imposed law written in a book: its law is written on the heart; nor does it know anything of sacrifice; the need for sacrifice no longer exists.

We who sacrifice fabulous resources to fatten the most inhuman form of violence so that it will continue to protect us, and who pass our time in transmitting futile messages from a planet that is risking destruction to planets that are already dead» how can we have the extraordinary hypo crisy to pretend that we do not understand all those people who did such things long before us: those, for example, who made it their practice to throw a single child, or two at the most, into the furnace of a certain Moloch in order to ensure the safety of the others?

There was a slump in agricultural markets, because people were no longer buying beasts for sacrifice as they should.

It is a policy for determining which hypotheses are to be considered essential to the programme, to be retained as long as possible, and which hypotheses are non-essential, to be sacrificed when difficulties occur.

For if we willfully persist in sin after having received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful prospect of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversariFor if we willfully persist in sin after having received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful prospect of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversarifor sins, but a fearful prospect of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.

Heb 10 26 For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversariFor if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversarifor sins, 27 but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.

You really need to look back and take a long hard look at if you were really «all in» as a follower of Christ... thats all a Christian really is, just to believe in what he did for you and that his sacrifice and grace was sufficient not to be condemned by God.

Now we have this wonderful choice (or free will): We can either believe that these desires we were created with had everything to do with a terribly gruesome human sacrifice a couple thousand years ago and plead for forgiveness through that murdered innocent individual in order that we might be chosen to be forgiven for being born this way; or we can be tortured for a ridiculously longer period of time than we were actually alive in this sinful state (that we were unwillingly, unknowingly, forcefully thrust into).

For example, Christ became the ultimate sacrifice thus it is no longer necessary for people to go into the temple and sacrifice their best laFor example, Christ became the ultimate sacrifice thus it is no longer necessary for people to go into the temple and sacrifice their best lafor people to go into the temple and sacrifice their best lamb.

In Jesus» case it was a combination of factors — such as the fervent longing of oppressed people, their religious preparation and ethical sensitivity, the remarkable personal power of Jesus, and the particular circumstances of his death — which produced among his followers a mental and emotional situation favorable to the attainment of a remarkable new intensity of life, marked by love, loyalty, courage and joy, all for the sake of the Master, who had sacrificed his life for them and for the larger good he saw through them.

Hebrews10.26 - 31 «For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversariFor if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversarifor sins, but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries.

In this world, no one is called to a life of sacrifice; they either choose the life they want and claim it, or long for it and never find it.

None of your descendants, from generation to generation, who has a defect, may draw near to offer his God's food; for no one who has a defect may come near, no one who is blind, or lame, or has any perforations, or has a limb too long; no one who has a fractured foot, or a fractured hand, or is a hunchback, or has a cataract, or a defect of eye sight, or scurvy, or scabs, or crushed testicles — no one of the descendants of Aaron the priest, who has a defect, may come near to offer the Lord's sacrifices; since he has a defect, he may not come near to offer his God's food.

But if the early church could survive — and in fact, thrive amidst persecution — when it included both Jews and Gentiles, zealots and tax collectors, slaves and owners, men and women, those in support of circumcision and those against it, those staunchly opposed to eating food that had been sacrificed to idols and those who felt it necessary, then I think modern American Christianity can survive when it includes democrats and republicans, biblical literalists and biblical non-literalists, Calvinists and Arminians... so long as we're not rooting for one another's demise.

Heb 10:26 For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, Heb 10:27 but a terrifying expectation of judgment and THE FURY OF A FIRE WHICH WILL CONSUME THE ADVERSARIFor if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, Heb 10:27 but a terrifying expectation of judgment and THE FURY OF A FIRE WHICH WILL CONSUME THE ADVERSARIfor sins, Heb 10:27 but a terrifying expectation of judgment and THE FURY OF A FIRE WHICH WILL CONSUME THE ADVERSARIES.

In the temple at Jerusalem, too, sacrifices and prayers were offered regularly for the Caesar, and Jewish leaders were satisfied so long as the Romans showed a certain consideration for the holiness of Jerusalem.

No doubt he was but more importantly he was making a statement that animal sacrifices would no longer be necessary because he was about to become the sacrificial lamb for everyone's atonement of sins.

There is no longer a temple to go to and sacrifice animals for their blood and receive the atonement.