Sentences with phrase «sacrificial quality»

Theologians refer to the Christian ethic of love of God and neighbor as a law of love that signifies the sacrificial quality required of those who, in the name of Jesus Christ, seek the good of their neighbors.

Second, the eucharist has a sacrificial quality.

As Shawcross puts it, «she found, like her mother before her... an almost sacrificial quality at the heart of the service».

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They were the most notable series of ethical teachers in the ancient world and the fountainhead of the noblest moral qualities in the Hebrew faith, but the great prophetic writers were comprehended within four centuries, and not only the legal but the sacrificial system preceded, underlay, and outlived them all.

Secondly, as an action the Eucharist is sacrificial in quality, since it has to do with an oblation, offering, or self - giving which was the characteristic mark of the life of Jesus in obedience to what he took to be the vocation given him by his heavenly Father.

This explains what seem to us the strange and horrible sacrificial rites of primitive peoples; they are seeking to find something that they may present to their god — their best gift, even if it meant the offering of the bravest man, or of a treasured possession, or of some animal of flawless quality.

The priestly quality of God's people; liturgy as communal, hierarchical, sacrificial, sacramental.

The disclosure of God in Jesus Christ revealed most fully that the qualities of mercy and sacrificial love are necessary if the living of life is to have its justification.

Beauty and integrity of character, Dr. Schweitzer's self - sacrificial dedication, Helen Keller's indomitable courage, supremely the life and quality and influence of Jesus — that is not simple.

The revelatory quality of the New Testament on this point is thoroughly continuous with Hebrew scripture, in which an awareness and rejection of the sacrificial mechanism is already set forth.

Animals serve for the production of different forms of high quality food, animals have served in rites for sacrificial purposes, they can help to upgrade food waste from kitchens and / or agro-industry, they are a form of informal saving and provide cash income, and they provide manure that can be used as fertilizer in urban crop production.