Sentences with phrase «selfish desires»

It promotes selfish desires of parents who do not want responsibility for parenting, but wish to be treated as parents.

But even works can give false evidence, and be motivated by selfish desires, and thus be false works!

When each person satisfies that the basic human need — to feel a part of something bigger — he or she is less likely to be focused on selfish desires.

Prayer is a cop out that serves no purpose but ones selfish desire to feel he's done something, when in fact he's done NOTHING.

Lets try to consider the big picture and not just consider our own small selfish desires.

In part, that's my own selfish desire because it gives me more room to craft difficult stories for the smartest readers I know, many of whom are reading YA.

Regardless, it is supposed to be a religious - like devotion to a way of life that doesn't focus on selfish desires.

Sometimes it's our own selfish desires that are driving our way in life.

Judy is cheating on her husband, also indulging selfish desire for «more passion», but won't leave the «security» of her marriage.

Brilliantly voiced by Zach Galifianakis, Humpty's expressive egg face subtly conveys his internal conflict between selfish desires and doing the right thing.

When you pursue a relationship with Jesus and put Him first, you are laying down your own flesh and selfish desires before you ever run into temptation.

the learning of the great man consists entirely in getting rid of the obscuration of selfish desires in order by his own efforts to make manifest his clear character, so as to restore the condition of forming one body with Heaven, Earth, and the myriad things, a condition that is originally so, that is all.

At the risk of completely misinterpreting what Pu implies, let's say that Taoism teaches the way to find truth is to first cast off unnecessary encumbrances like selfish desires for profit.

But I do believe that we, perhaps with careful education as children, are capable of rising above our immediate selfish desires and doing things that are altruistic, and I DO N'T believe that such actions require the intervention of supernatural entities.

People who try and hijack religions or politics for their own evil selfish desires, that's the problem.

Based on true events, director Richard Brooks patiently and disturbingly paints a picture of two characters who act stupidly and carelessly, concentrating on fulfilling their own shortsighted, selfish desires while senselessly taking away four lives.

We are dominated by selfish desires and unfortunately not many ppl will have the determination to keep there relationship with Jehovah clean from things that would otherwise taint it.

God is universally present as the pressure that drives people to do justice even when they are not just, to earn a living for their family even when they are lazy, to give to others their due even though they are filled with selfish desires.

A similar view is found in the concept of «transformation of motivation,» which comes from Interdependence Theory.2 Early in a relationship, couple members» motivation for being in the relationship are based on selfish desires.

I am so sorry that the name of Jesus has been used by some Christians to further there own selfish desires.

My sports fascination, long dormant from my youth and from those early years cheering for the Wolves, had dissolved into a selfish desire to win at all costs, even if it meant abandonment and disloyalty.

In all honesty, she wanted the two of us to create a single profile on the Switch, but since I wanted to have my own «Zelda» adventure, she was nice enough to accommodate my selfish desires.

That is important to me — if one side foists their view on the rest then we just have endless arguments, but if we can move past our selfish desires to not be challenged — then who knows what God might do.

Or atleast influenced by some sort of evil force, bad intention, or selfish desire?

And if you are a Muslim, don't use Islam as an excuse to fulfil your selfish desires.

The people of Jesus» day had leaders, but they were worthless, like many of our leaders today, who use their position to gratify their own selfish desires.

Star Wars characterizes evil as the pursuit of selfish desire.

We each act in a selfish manner, while sometimes controlling that selfish desire to the betterment of others.

They were driven by their own selfish desires and motives.

Every institution of education — the home, the school, the church or temple, the industrial shop or laboratory, the museum or library, the mass media — can be and ought to be an agency of religious instruction, engaged in the one saving work of emancipating persons from bondage to selfish desires and idolatrous attachments and of directing them toward the life of devotion to that in which their being and well - being are grounded.

I don't think something as natural as sex to be a «selfish desire».

What «selfish desire»?

What does it benefit a person to sleep with others who just want to satisfy a selfish desire?

They only wanted their selfish desires met.

I'd say you're all nothing more than self - important, egotistical trash so full of yourselves that you will completely ignore all logic in order to realize your own selfish desires.

By the same token, we must not use that freedom to indulge our selfish desires — our «flesh» — so the hedonists are wrong.

Freedom is nullified by our selfish desire for our own way.

Stifling the true progress of mankind, through our selfish desires to preserve the self created and cherished beliefs of our ancestors.

I have always enjoyed the idea of having a large family, of filling the world with little «images of Ian» or «images of Hannah,» and, contrary to the naysayers, this is not a selfish desire.

I posit that the world would be a harsh unforgiving and very dangerous place with little influence of good to soften the selfish desires of mankind to gratify their own lusts, at any cost to others.