Sentences with phrase «selfishness only»

We become able to love, and to deny our intrinsic selfishness only through the redemption which is in Jesus Christ.

We deny a being which can cure us of our selfishness only because we fear some suffering in this godless world.

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When this bully ethics get in the hand of wrong people, they use this for their own selfishness (power & money to achieve & to maintain) So just we all must realise that, we all are living together among BIG BULLIES only.

By your standard, everyone might as well live in hedonism and selfishness, since no one can be good anyway and people are only saved by God's grace / mercy.

It is interesting to meet someone that believes not attending a church can only be due to selfishness... and that the only reason to attend is «someone needs you there».

Given the freedom to sin, human beings have of course taken abundant advantage of the opportunity, and the only way to create a productive and free society is to cater to selfishness.

But he must accept this redemption with the turning of his whole being, for only thus can he extricate himself from the maze of selfishness where he has always set himself as his goal and find a way to God and to the fulfillment of the particular task for which he is intended.

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.

Our current society in America has become non-religious and it has only brought a huge amount of selfishness, materialism and lack of charity.

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

The isolationism of the first policy can only enhance conflict by its collective selfishness and head toward future wars in a world meant by nature to be one.

However, let's not miss that God designed marriage not only to stretch us beyond our selfishness to become more like Jesus through trials, but also to bring great joy to our lives with the myriad of gifts marriage provides.

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.

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.

The only thing that prevents powerful Godly community from breaking down the barriers between culture, economic class, race and age is our own selfishness.

Power and authority which determine the sphere of freedom without the free assent of the individual are indeed dangerous and only too often become depraved by the guilty selfishness of those in command, but they are not by their very nature immoral opponents of freedom.

That believers would dress up their selfishness in grand and high - minded objects only worsened their dissembling.

Jesus: my «charity» is the only way I save you from your selfishness Ayn Rand: we were meant to be selfish.

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.

Human affliction, especially the monstrous inhumanity of man to man, was to them a practical, rather than a theoretical, problem; it represented not only a conflict of ideas but a conflict of individual and class interests, a struggle for justice in personal character or social organization against selfishness, ill will, and inequity.

And there is nothing old about it, people are doing just what they did then, the same wrongs, never doing what is righteous, but only what's convenient for them of their selfishness.

We have to look at the root of the problem: ourselves, our selfishness, our pride and our lack of love for ourselves, for each other and for God When it comes to these issues only God could really change us.

Self - giving love is possible only where there is freedom for selfishness and self - righteousness.

Americanized with bigotry, selfishness, no compassion (only for their own..

Personal attacks become the norm because they conclude that it must be arrogance, or pride, or selfishness in my life as these are the only reasons one has for rejecting scripture.

The only sin you've committed is the sin of... s - s - selfishness.

To know this banishes not only godlessness but also selfishness; and one is bound through God to his neighbor.

If a man can be this arrogant and ignorant of the situation and would rather stay for his selfishness rather leave for the clubs own good and to save some face, then in this situation only the board or owner can do what every respecting fan would rather not wish, which is to sack the manager.

True selfishness would be always and only putting yourself first.

and most today only think it's «normal» when a baby isn't getting what it needs first... SO THAT IT HAS NO OTHER CHOICE BUT TO CRY... and you should read «it takes a village» by clinton... yes parents are people too and yes if you don't take care of yourself first then you can't take care of your baby... just like when you get on an airplane you're instructed to in an emergency put on your oxygen mask first THEN help the child sitting next to you... BUT the only reason it's impossible for most people to keep their baby from crying is because they are trying to raise their babies alone without the help of the «village»... so come down off your high horse and just ask for help... it will not only help you (listed you first because of your obvious selfishness from your post... «we don't stop having needs to sleep and eat and have relations with our peers either») but it will mostly benefit the baby.

Parents who buck that trend to raise only children face the stigma of selfishness.

Many wonder how, if selection rewards the individual only for behavior that enhances his own survival and reproductive success, such pure selfishness can lead to any sound ethics.

What did make this movie work was the sense of «being there,» of watching these characters go through what they think are grand plans for themselves (Wikus proud of getting promoted; Christopher thinking he's finally going to fix the mothership and escape) only for random chance, selfishness, and the raw immediacy of simple survival kick in and having them struggle from moment to moment against hostile forces (MNU, the human slumlords, there is no difference between those two groups exploiting the aliens).

What was — and is — most impactful about Shadow of the Colossus is its sense of scale: the immensity not only of its dramatic ruins and the sad, beautiful colossi, but of the task at hand, and its themes of death, faith, longing and the destructive selfishness of grief.

However, just as we have suggested with previous installments of this franchise, without some discussion of characters» intentions, selfishness and prideful behavior, this will only be yet another love story of a strong - willed female protagonist who also happens to be a lethal killer.

It is strikes me as the height of arrogance to assume that while we fight for the interests of everyone, only a tiny but powerful minority stands opposed in the name of selfishness.

There's a lot of selfishness around nowadays and the tendency for people to think only of themselves is on the rise... and I really don't want to contribute to that.

What was — and is — most impactful about Shadow of the Colossus is its sense of scale: the immensity not only of its dramatic ruins and the sad, beautiful colossi, but of the task at hand, and its themes of death, faith, longing and the destructive selfishness of grief.

For such men, the «real» work of women is only that which directly or indirectly serves the family; any other commitment falls under the rubric of diversion, selfishness, egomania or, at the unspoken extreme, castration.

The only way Hickman can conceive of selfishness in moral terms is to tell a story about planetary danger.

It involved not only anthropogenic warming, but also the laws of physics and the persistence of human selfishness as an important force in society.

Moreover, they're doing if from a point of a much lower carbon footprint than the U.S. and a much greater sense of RESPONSIBILITY while the average American is still whining about his rights but never thinks about responsibility, when the average American talks about God and morality but doesn't have any sense of social responsibility, only selfishness (when will the world end?