Sentences with phrase «seeking wealth and power»

Living in the present moment, they prefer to enjoy the simple pleasures of life instead of seeking wealth and power.

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Regulate and tax them because they and all religions are really nothing special, just the SOS of men seeking power and wealth.

What made St. Francis so influential was his extraordinary originality: the son of a rich businessman who renounced his wealth and slept in pigstys while retaining the courtliness and gentility that were noble attributes of his era; the anti-establishment figure who founded a great religious institution; the man of radical poverty whose followers were not permitted (even if they had wanted) to imitate his utter rejection of worldly goods; the man of the Bible who never owned a complete one; the author of the first great literary work in Italian dialect, the «Canticle of the Sun,» who was steeped in the jongleur tradition of French poetry and song; the naïf who moved the heart and enriched the religious imagination of that great realist and exponent of papal power, Innocent III; the child of the age of Crusades who sought not the conquest of the Muslims but their conversion.

If the church is the representative of Jesus to the world, then to the degree that the church seeks to meet our own needs before the needs of others, desires to control the beliefs and behaviors of others (both inside and outside the church), and chases after glory, fame, power, wealth, and recognition before men, is the same degree to which the church presents Jesus as a Satanic Messiah to the watching world.

They lust for materialistic power and wealth in this life, seek to lay up treasures in this life, and don't really believe in the next.

They know the U.S. for what it is; a violence loving, war mongering, power hungry Imerpialist nation seeking world domination and wealth by the blood of other peoples.

In seeking to make their office a means of elevating the character of the entire Church, the great reforming Popes had stimulated the growth of a bureaucracy at headquarters which under less able successors, some of them far from single - minded, attracted men who desired prestige, wealth, and power.

While many people try to meet this need with the idols of wealth, power, success, sex and other such things, many Christians try to meet it with the idol of certainty - seeking faith.

Paul Pettinger and Chris Bowers make the case that the Lib Dems should embrace and advance radical social liberal values, such as seeking the devolution of power as well as wealth, and empowering people as...

Less a movie about the inner workings of politics than a biography, Citizen Kane is a portrait of the kind of American icon who seeks power in all the arenas of American life — through wealth, fame, the voice of the media and the votes of the public.

Community banks usually seek to — and benefit from — using their lending power to add wealth to the communities they live in, and tend to be lighter on fees and APRs as a result.

These monsters, seeking «variety» in a life already full of wealth and power, have been siphoning a man's blood for a risky high, a chance to peer into the Void, the realm of the Outsider.

King Allanti XII, in seeking power and wealth for his kingdom, accidentally awoke «The Old One» from his slumber and a great fog has spread across the land of Boletaria.

Just as white European figures are understood as representations of religious devotion, motherhood, power, wealth, and love, rather than as «white,» the artist presents figures whose beautiful and precisely rendered attributes, emotional bearing, inter-relationships, and geographically specific contexts seek to transcend generalizing categories and marginalizing reactions.

The central, endlessly repeated lie upon which the wind industry seeks to «justify» the colossal and endless subsidies upon which it critically depends; the destruction of wind farm neighbours» health, wealth and happiness; and the slaughter of millions of birds and bats, is that wind power causes substantial reductions of CO2 emissions in the electricity sector.