Sentences with phrase «selfishness on»

Whatever your reasons for doing it, it comes down to selfishness on the part of BOTH parties.

The oft - repeated idea that the job crisis was a result of selfishness on the part of elected officials and an infringement of their obligations to the citizenry highlights the need to take seriously «contemporary needs for care, moral connection and responsible obligations in ways that emancipatory liberal rights talk often does not» (Ferguson 2013: 237).

With all due respect, I must say that the experience of the last violent century, with its widespread faith in human reason and evolutionary progress, hardly warrants optimism about transcending selfishness on those grounds.

Let's be honest though, at the core of living through our children is pride and selfishness on our part.

And stop trying to foist your own selfishness on your god.

Not exact matches

Usually, drama comes into the workplace on the back of pride, personal ambition, and selfishness.

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.»

For those who need to believe in an after - life because the thought of your life ending on Earth without a second act is either due to selfishness or fear.

The wolf in sheep's clothing on this path takes the form of selfishness in the skin of responsibility; ten dollars to the food bank once a month makes us automatically virtuous.

On the cross he makes up for the selfishness of others with his selfless sacrifice of obedient love and he also apologizes to his Father for the infinite offence which sin gives to Divine Goodness.

Pro-Life Lefties «Abortion», writes the political director of the Huffington Post UK, «is one of those rare political issues on which left and right seem to have swapped ideologies: right - wingers talk of equality, human rights and «defending the innocent», while left - wingers fetishise «choice», selfishness and unbridled individualism.»

No, I believe that tough love means going down deep, to battle our own selfishness, our own anger, our own frustrations, our fears, our temptations to choose being right over being gracious, to give up on having he last word, to stop convincing by arguing and harsh invectives, pinches and pricks, to win at all costs.

With the ferocity of an Old Testament prophet, Powers indicts our blindness and selfishness, a grotesque narrowing of vision; one of his principal characters learns early on that «human wisdom counts less than the shimmer of birches in a breeze.»

(This presumption is in fact being challenged by many people who are placing more emphasis on job satisfaction and lifestyle, but this is all too often merely a reorientation of our selfishness from one kind of satisfaction to another.)

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.»

It goes on, however, to express its belief that one is driven to drink by selfishness — the word «sin» is not used — and its symptoms.

The clown insists on putting side by side many of those things that we spend considerable time in keeping in separate drawers of the mind — altruism and selfishness, reason and impulse, religion and sex, Rolls Royces and cigar butts.

The problem with blaming all this on faith or religion is that it hides the true culprits: fear, hatred, and selfishness — which culprits are leveraged by evil leaders of groups like ISIS.

It is not the will of God that children suffer from hunger and malnutrition and grow up in unsanitary slums with lack of proper education, that persons because of the color of their skin are debarred from schools, hospitals, employment, or housing projects; that persons are denied other basic human rights; that personalities and homes are broken through drink and that great numbers die on highways through drunken driving; that marriage vows are often taken lightly and that easy divorces shatter home after home and leave children the pawns of the parents» selfishness.

To proclaim the gospel is to declare in words and deeds that in Jesus Christ God has declared himself to be forever on the side of the destitute of the earth, setting women and men free from selfishness and greed and calling them to the obedience of faith.

This kind of selfishness and narcissism is unsightly, dangerous, and, as many of you have pointed out, contradictory to the words printed on the base of the Statue of Liberty: «Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.»

Only if it is a practical or moral weakness for a human economic system to be based on selfishness.

On the other hand there is that selfishness which masquerades as individualism.

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.

Not that I agree with AA on fighting this battle, but it's not about selfishness.

Life on earth becomes worse than unfair if selfishness and self love abounds more than godlyright living

Tragic natural disasters, the consequences of human preditory selfishness and injustice will be experienced by both believers and unbelievers; but whether those experiences make us bitter and cynical or empathetic and compassionate will depend a lot on whether the inevitable suffering that comes to all will depend a lot on whether we believe our flawed existence to be essentially good, though disordered or essentially evil in spite of its few «good» moments.

Directly opposed to this selfishness is the Kingdom of God based on the love of God made known in Jesus - a love which exposes and then transforms poverty of heart.

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.

Andy Flannagan, director of both Christians in Politics and Christians on the Left is a strong proponent of political engagement but warns against allowing healthy patriotism to slide into what he calls «an uglier form of nationalism», which he sees as thinly disguised selfishness.

He has an interesting take on original sin, which, from an evolutionary perspective, he suggests, can be seen as a trigger for certain genetic mechanisms predisposing us to selfishness and aggression.

This book reveals what is going on today since the days of old, for people have not changed from their selfishness, and puffed up pride until this day.

Selfishness, greed, judgementalism, hate, etc. are not the sort of qualities I would suggest you can defend on that day by explaining that those poor, needy people were deemed unworthy by you & yours for breaking the man - made idea that crossing an imaginary line on his Earth to seek a better life makes one of God's children unworthy of compassion and help vis - a-vis the lesson of the Gospels.

If one believes all the right things, and can sign on the dotted line of the best doctrinal statements that the church has ever written, but their life is full of hatred, greed, and selfishness, I would argue that while they may have eternal life, and while they may believe some good truths from the gospel, they really have not understood the most essential parts of the gospel.

I have difficulty with either approving or negating a belief based on the people who believe it — knowing that we people are generally full of problems, criticism, hate, anger, greed, and selfishness.

At the same time it acts in the belief that testifying to the principles of freedom and justice is a mandate that can not be avoided, and that — potentially — action based on these liberating principles can indeed transform structures built upon human selfishness.

She didn't teach selfishness, but capitalism based on serving others.

On Calvary he not only makes up for the selfishness of others with his selfless love, he also apologises to his Father for the infinite offence which sin gives to Divine Goodness.

... God put selfishness in its place when He lived as a man, was sentanced to death as a man, was beated ruthlessly by horror loving men as a man, all to make sure that they put Him on the cross, as a man, by which He died there as a man.

On the other hand, America does have the spirits of Lust, Guilt, Greed, Aldultry, Jezebel, Suicide, Gluttony, Religion, Selfishness, Idolatry, Slothfulness, etc in the masses so....

Materialism... is a problem that connotes selfishness, an individualistic emphasis on self - interest that devalues the community and the need to care for others.

But he is himself inclined to reject personal immortality on the ground that to wish for it is to indulge in a kind of selfishness which refuses to accept and rejoice in any accomplishment of goodness or truth or beauty unless «I» can have a personal share in its triumph.

When men and women turned their backs on Love and decided to grasp what seemed good, seemed true, and seemed beautiful over what was good, true, and beautiful, they fell from love into selfishness and back into loneliness.

On the other side, the resurrection is the glorious revelation of the mystery and power of the cross; victory over selfishness and death.

«In this prayer, we here on earth pray that God lift us all into His gracious and heavenly will and plan and overcome our resistance, our fears, our selfishness: Be it on earth as in heaven».6 Emilio Castro, the Director of the CWME in his address said:

Since one of the most famous exponents of process thought has called the western notion of substance a chief cause of moral evil and selfishness in the western world (WVR 6), it is astonishing that another famous process philosopher should have tried a reconciliation between process thought, with its emphasis on relations and actions, and Aristotelian substantialism, with its emphasis on things and states of being.3

True holiness was just the opposite of selfishness: it was selfless love, which poured itself out on all beings in general because they were the creatures of God.

It is longing for the Angels of God, demanding something violently that is based on selfishness that is the sin.

It may not be a one and done, but it's a slow death that we can inflict on those around us through our words, actions, selfishness and my way or the highway mentalities.

The manner in which a man utilizes his religion — whether it be to enrich and ennoble his life or to excuse his selfishness and cruelty, or to rationalize his delusions and hallucinations, or to clothe himself in a comforting illusion of omnipotence — is a commentary on the state of his mental health.