Sentences with phrase «selfishness there»

P.S. To explain what I mean by «surprisingly pleasant» — I play an MMO that caters to the same age demographic, and I find a lot more negativity and selfishness there than I do on Wattpad.

In place of self - seeking and selfishness there was instituted the «community of equality.»

Where there is sin and selfishness there must also be a struggle for justice; and this justice is always partially an achievement of our love for the other and partially a result of our yielding to his demands and pressures.

Not exact matches

Then there was Ayn Rand, the putative economist, who pushed selfishness as a mantra.

There's miscommunication and selfishness and bad days.

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».

Wilde's children's story The Selfish Giant tells of a garden where children used to play, but because of the selfishness of the giant who lives there, it is always winter and never spring.

There is no question that capitalism builds upon and in fact encourages selfishness; a capitalist environment naturally inclines us to believe that people must be addicted to a greedy, competitive individualism.

Confession has stripped away the sins of greed, of selfishness, of laziness, of lust, envy and pride — but has left behind a great catalog of pain for which there is no one to blame.

Much as we may dislike the doctrine of original sin — and indeed it has often been formulated in a way that must antagonize any man of sense and good will — there would appear to be in human beings the seeds of selfishness, arrogance, brutality, callousness, the lust for power, jealousy, hatred and all the rest of the miserable host of evil.

There was an aunt who, alone among the many relatives, had a reputation for selfishness, and who had kept a grown - up son as handy - man around the house but was finally persuaded by another aunt to let the son go to Labrador to take part in a philanthropic project tThere was an aunt who, alone among the many relatives, had a reputation for selfishness, and who had kept a grown - up son as handy - man around the house but was finally persuaded by another aunt to let the son go to Labrador to take part in a philanthropic project therethere.

In today's consumer - oriented, capitalistic culture, where people are used, abused and disposed of like nonreturnable soft - drink cans, where «liberation» has been invoked to justify selfishness, it may be that the time has come for the church to say again what it has always believed — that there is no way for individuals to «flourish» without the kind of communion and community and the permanent, deep, risky commitment that true Christian love demands — qualities that are perhaps best experienced in the yoking of a man and a woman in marriage.

there are so many closed hand tight fisted selfishness of people's world wide

There is nothing happy about «800,000 like minded people,» like - minded in their selfishness.

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.

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

There can be no such thing as pure «selfishness since no self originates or exists in isolation from others and even the most subjective interest is still of a social nature.

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.

For some who came into religion from a life of selfishness and greed, and who managed to use these beliefs to control these impulses, I would say there has been a benefit, but not all believers will automatically become serial killers once they stop having faith as the pastors love to preach.

There is so much suffering in our world, and human selfishness continues in many ways to harm creation.

... 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.

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.

It's not as strong as the sense of selfishness that can attach itself to abortion, but it's there nonetheless, and particularly strong, I think, in people of faith.

I love the idea that God says: Look, you cretins, there are certain results to the way we are, to selfishness, and there's a mortality as part of your very sinful nature, and, let's face it, you're not living a very good life, are you?

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

Then there is the Judgement Seat of Christ, where Jesus will evaluate our lives post salvation, it is at this event rewards for repentance will be issued or lost, the main sin repented of in believers being selfishness and selfish living.

He says, «There is no limit to this getting out of selfishness.

Seems to lack vision of has the selfishness of a striker which he can't afford as a midfield player, in other words he shoots when there are players better positioned than him.

There's a lot of judgment towards weaning and breastfeeding, including accusations of selfishness no matter which is chosen.

There's a level of selfishness I would suppose to breastfeeding because it can be a very soothing and intimate experience.

There would be disastrous consequences arising from the blatant disregard of God's word and the acceptance of greed, selfishness, deceit, lies and corruption in high and low places, Justice Abban said as she continued crying.

There's plenty of selfishness all around it's just that rich people get their selfish impulses rewarded more frequently because they write big checks.

There's no way of knowing for sure whether these particular cues just happen to relate to selfishness in this context.

There is such a thing as good selfishness — the selfish person who takes full responsibility for their moods and circumstances.

You don't have to come to have good sex, however, at least trying to get her halfway there is a plus — in other words, spread the love boys, selfishness in bed is a no - go.

Singles are too independent to answer to anyone: There isn't much room for selfishness in a relationship.

There are somethings that turns me off»; A woman that can't control her mouth and her temper, selfishness, selfcenter

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).

It's not all sad though, because like anything Ephron, there's always a lesson in loving yourself and learning to accept that the selfishness of others is something you will never change.

There's so much to track between both of them; his selfishness, her frustration, her dependence on him and vice versa and they conjure this believably and with aching realism.

«In a lot of eras there was more character education, but the forces that used to counteract selfishness are diminishing,» Weissbourd points out.

On the contrary, evolutionary psychology reintroduces in its own way the classical idea that there are inherent conflicts in human nature — both selfishness and altruism, both a desire to possess one's neighbor's spouse and a desire to get along with one's neighbor.

There was just no way that any amount of love and money could overcome the amount of selfishness and evil that poor Summer had been subjected to.

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.

There may be a limit when selfishness comes full circle and leads you right back to suffering.

«There are quite a few intellectuals in Germany, most of all Günter Grass, who I hate because they're defending something [East Germany] out of pure selfishness, and that's why I don't like them, and especially as they have retouched their past, or rather concealed it.

If we took the lead, setting an example for outstanding moral behavior rather than setting an example of outstanding selfishness, there'd be more pressure on nations like China and India to step up to the plate and do the right thing.

There is also a streak of blindness, selfishness, and downright cruelty, particularly in the ownership classes (that word «class» is difficult).

There were / are enough clues and my ignorance and selfishness as a citizen have engendered apathy and blindness in me that is now disgusting to me.

I think that there's a lot of ground between calling cooperation «rape» and calling a lack of cooperation «selfishness», and this problem usually rests between those extremes