Sentences with phrase «selfishness does»

«Our selfishness does, however, have some limits,» emphasized DeScioli.

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Many of the things we do not like to see in people — duplicity, greed, malice, and selfishness — she was completely innocent of.

These folks aren't necessarily committing crimes, but this small but significant portion of the population does display some essential traits of psychopathy, like lack of empathy, selfishness, lack of guilt, and plenty of charm.

He said, «Real leaders are individuals who help us overcome the limitations of our own weakness, and selfishness, and laziness, and fears, and get us to do harder, better things than we can get ourselves to do on our own.»

What your bible does condemn is male prostitution, idolatry and selfishness.

According to «Christians» this creature they call Satan is all about the values of the GOP - Greed, Selfishness, Materialism, Hording their riches in off shore bank accounts, denial of the Poor and Elderly and Exclusion of anyone who does not follow the same Creature they bow to in darkness.

Second, if his nature if to sit back and let his creatures create themselves through natural selection, i.e. through selfishness and death, I don't think the pronoun requires a capital letter.

Nor does she mean by «selfishness» caring for oneself at the expense of others but merely a concern for oneself that, far from precluding helping others, could necessitate dying for a high - enough value, such as one's country or spouse.

If you truly believe that you will have to stand before God one day and account for yourself you don't want to have a history of selfishness, greed and indifference for the least among them.

Contrast the «unselfish» selfishness of the Creative types who say they don't care about money: Don and, more stubbornly, Ted.

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.

midwest, yeahright, jwt, and others, you all are a perfect example of the prophecy in Malachi 3v13 - 15, being so proud, hiding from truth, and bathing in selfishness of desire, doing whatever one wants, and thinking that they are in charge.

Philippians 2: 3 - 11 Do nothing from selfishness or conceit, but in humility count others better than yourselves.

It accepts selfishness as a fact of life; it doesn't require any illusions about the innate goodness of people.

Lest, however, we who do not share that anxiety become exultant in the afflatus of our superiority let us remind ourselves that we, too, have our own absurd beliefs and our own selfishnesses and childishnesses and meannesses.

The AA point of view, as set forth in the recognized literature of the movement, does not take full cognizance of the fact that personality factors such as selfishness, resentment, and hostility, which are controlled through the AA program, are actually symptoms of deeper problems of inadequacy, insecurity, and inner conflict.

I don't know if i'm more stunned by the shameless selfishness or the mind - boggling waste of time.

As we have said, many individual AA's do recognize the symptomatic nature of selfishness and negative feelings.

But even life in this generous sense of membership in creation does not protect us, as we know, from the dangers of avarice, of selfishness, of the wrong kind of abundance.

Do we do self checks to make sure we are keeping selfishness, and pride in checDo we do self checks to make sure we are keeping selfishness, and pride in checdo self checks to make sure we are keeping selfishness, and pride in check?

This is in contrast to the AA position which does not seem to recognize the symptomatic nature of selfishness.

In my selfishness, I thought it was just between me and God.It took the situation with Alicia to wake me up to the fact that when we're not closely listening for the voice of God, we don't just miss out on the peace and joy we experience from a deeper relationship with the Lord; we don't just miss an opportunity to give honor and glory to the One who most deserves it; we don't just miss out on answered prayers God may have had in store for us — sometimes we miss the opportunity to answer someone else's prayer.»

When you have a world filled with liars and adulterers and murderers and greed and selfishness (even though we know what's right and what's wrong but we do it anyway) and the God that created you loves you so much that he needs to sacrifice his Son for all of us who have not kept his Law, in order to wipe out those terrible sins, then you should be praying that you're counted as one who kept his Laws.

society, where sin is viewed as little more than psychological maladjustment, or behavior arising out of corrupt economic structures, or as a failure of the educational system, baptism reminds us that, in spite of Gestalt and I'm OK, You're OK, what we do naturally is not the best we could do, that our inborn selfishness and pride are life - and - death matters, that Christians are made, not born.

What does selfishness even have to do with my original post?

Call it selfishness if you want, but if individuals do not look out for themselves, then basically the species would have died off millenia ago.

every reason i ever did good in the first place were corrupted with selfishness and false attempts to be my own savior — all of which is giving God the finger.

Selfishness is a disease I see killing a lot of folks but what can we do?

Peter, Merlin, I doubt if these are true names let along believe what any of you say, first off, if one is going along with the mainstream reports, this to me is just as the old saying goes, many will see, but only a few will actually «KNOW» I don't flow with what they «say» was proven just to fit in (be accepted), to receive rewards, or attention, this is all selfishness among the few elite.

Capitalistic selfishness of individuals and companies, raised to the level of a supreme principle of public policy, does not promote the true liberation of humans from selfishness, hatred and delusion, but rather worsens the human condition almost everywhere.

The persons we have hurt through our selfishness and lack of love may forgive us, but this does not make the situation as if it had never happened.

The trick is fooling the world into thinking there is some invisible evil spirit that made you do bad things so you can shift the blame for the greed, the selfishness and the hubris with which most religious zealots conduct themselves.

Social theory can explain selfishness and other motivators that promote people to do bad things.

«Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves» (Philippians 2:3).

Yet, in the less spectacular cases that take place under more normal circumstances, the equivalent selfishness, acting in one's own interest, no matter what damage is done in the process to the other, is considered somehow acceptable in our so very «civilized» culture.

Selfishness must be transformed by enlarging the idea of what the self is, expanding the personality until it takes in our friends, our community, our nation, our world, so that one does not need to stamp upon his self, but can say,

Capitalism does allow more freedom for selfishness and more opportunity for the acquisitive, but some capitalistic systems also allow more freedom and opportunity for everything else as well.

Therefore, if a capitalist economic system meets these goals — and I will argue that some do and some don't — then it meets our goals for an economic system, in which case it makes no sense to complain because it is based on selfishness.

Capitalistic selfishness of individuals and companies, raised to the level of a supreme principle of public policy, does not promote true liberation of humans from selfishness, hatred and delusion, but rather worsens the human condition almost everywhere.

When it comes to sharing of our own good fortune with others who are in great need, this selfishness continues to try to sound like individualism: «I take care of myself; others ought to do the same.»

The Party of GREED, HATE, SELFISHNESS and service only to the Wealthy are not «Christian Acts», you cant do the things they do to Humanity and say they are followers of Jesus Christ, Satan Maybe.

The selfishness of paganism, therefore, in spite of all that can be said about it, is not nearly so «qualified» as that of Christendom, in so far as here also there is selfishness; for the pagan did not possess his self directly in the face of God.

And the role of selfishness needs also to be clearly addressed as well as the notion that choosing the morally right thing to do may not only be challenging but also may require heroism on the part of the woman.

Most people do not understand this, which is why they have unhealthy love for themselves which comes out as egotism, selfishness, and pride.

While I didn't disagree with the general sentiments — of course jealously and selfishness are wrong!

The book and programs appeal to modern American individualism and selfishness and do little or nothing to conduct serious spiritual growth or contextual understanding of Christianity.

I believe in many cases, Jesus is in the right place in one person's heart but the other has for some reason walked away and gotten caught up in the selfishness that pervades so much of what we all do... and really Jesus has absolutely NOTHING to do with that.

But as I said, to no surprise, this being gay is now a reality, from over many generations of wrong doings of sins, and should be expected, it's all good» along with other pleasurable things as greed, selfishness, etc. that we do today, and calling it good, but it is wrong as said, or prophesied it would be in Malachi 3 vs. 14,, 15.

Yet, God does will this creation, with all its selfishness and all of its tragedy, because «the Lord Jesus came to save all sinners».

Even if we don't include the (past and present) injustice and oppression that deepens the chasm of brokenness, every person has varying ways that selfishness and arrogance taint their experience and create a gravitational pull, dragging us away from people who are different and towards our own comfort, safety, and sense of familiarity.