Sentences with phrase «sense of the sacrifice»

Very rarely does it involve a disabling, crushing, total or terminal sacrifice — and mostly never even involves any sense of sacrifice.

A sense of sacrifice or of «shedding blood to change the world» can also motivate civilian deaths, a prominent theme within Christianity.

I think we all came away with a real sense of the sacrifice that was made by everyone who participated in the war.

But in their brightest spots, they all had some sense of sacrifice, or at least of potentially difficult choices for their characters.

Not exact matches

It took years for Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos to prove his sacrifice of near - term profits to invest for long - term gains made sense.

«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»

Makes a hell of a lot more sense than an all powerful all knowing god needing to give birth to himself, so that he could sacrifice himself to himself in order to save humanity from the punishment that he condemned us to.

It makes sense why an animal had to die in place of a person as a sacrifice, it makes sense as to why Our Lord have himself as a sacrifice for our sins and undeservedly took our punishment (which was a painful and humiliating death)(what a loving Lord we serve!)

If Scripture reveals the heart of man instead of the heart of God, then this helps us make sense of the conflicting statements in Scripture about sacrifice.

Taboos on eating fat and blood, (Leviticus 3:17) rules concerning clean and unclean foods, detailed directions concerning the dress of the officiating priests, insistence on ceremonial exactness in sacrifice these and similar legalisms have as part of their background and explanation the sense of sanctity and inviolability in things divine, demanding punctilious care to make human relationships with them safe and profitable.

Without sin, Christ would have been «the Sacrifice of Praise»: the Eucharist, thanksgiving in its fullest sense.

To make sense of God's role in this scheme, some theologians focus not on God's directive power but on God's self - sacrificing love in and for creation.

So far as this is so, Christ is crucified «for us», not in the sense of any theory of sacrifice or satisfaction.

It is characteristic of the worship of the post-Exilic temple, therefore, that the two forms of sacrifice added to the rubric were the trespass - and the guilt - offerings, both expiations of sin, and that, in general, the sense of public guilt in the later Old Testament is poignant and profound.

While, from a pagan perspective, the crucifixion itself could be viewed as a sacrifice in the most proper sense — destruction of the agent of social instability for the sake of peace, which is always a profitable exchange — Christ's life of charity, service, forgiveness, and righteous judgment could not; indeed, it would have to seem the very opposite of sacrifice, an economic and indiscriminate inversion of rank and order.

But a hyper - critical attitude can blind us to the positive goods that can be realized when a strong sense of national unity motivates people to make sacrifices for the common good.

But this «Therefore» doesn't make sense if you look a the end of chapter 11, where Paul has digressed in a lengthy doxology, which while it discusses intriguing mysteries of God and praises God, doesn't lead to the logical conclusion that we should present ourselves as living sacrifices to him, but if you read into that «οὖν» an «as I was saying earlier», you can see that before the doxology he issued an important warning in Romans 11:22 — if God is willing enough to be so severe as to cut of the natural branches (the Jews) he will certainly be willing to cut of the ones that have been grafted on (the Gentiles); Romans 12:1 - 2 is a very logical «therefore» to follow Romans 11:21 - 24.

It was certainly meant to be taken literally because if it is not the sacrifice of Jesus to forgive original sin doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

Christianity hinges on a literal Adam and Eve and Garden of Eden for the Jesus sacrifice to make any sense whatsoever, and we all know that Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden never existed.

With every hostile shock you bore, with every frantic move you made, with every lonely sacrifice, you wakened to the sense of what, long hidden in that ancient whole, you never knew you lacked.

July 4... somewhat «selfish» of us, but makes perfect sense (save JW's who don't observe birthdays) Memorial Day... no point in observing July 4 without reflecting on the sacrifice of the tens of thousands who paid for YOUR freedom and mine with their blood.

Consequently it made sense to explain a severe storm by casting lots to determine who had angered the gods, or by trying to figure out what the king had done wrong, or by consulting a prophet or perhaps an oracle who would read the entrails of a sacrificed goat.

In any case, the sacrifice is substitutionary and proceeds from a deep sense of guilt.

Given the steady growth of this movement, its deep grounding in prayer and sacrifice, its passionate devotion to Christ, and its sense of mission with and through the Church, we an expect good things over the next years.

We can see that this might make sense to someone brought up in the ancient Jewish tradition in which an unblemished animal was sacrificed to God to make atonement for the sins of the people, and in which the iniquities of Israel were all put on the head of a goat which was then driven out into the wilderness, taking the people's sins with it.

This may not make much sense to those of us who don't sacrifice other living things to atone for our sins.

However odd this sounds, that by movie's end it seems both plausible and fitting bespeaks the artistic triumph of In Bruges: its ability to convey the Christian sacramental sense of divine presence within the created order, and most especially in self - sacrificing acts of love by imperfect beings themselves being perfected by Christ.

How should one understand the seasons of a vocation, including especially the potential cost that sacrifice may be required at precisely the time one most needs to discover a sense of fulfillment?

And so it makes sense to sacrifice human persons today for the achievement of that future perfection.

We can imagine a sense growing inside him of identification with that sacrifice, and a need to explore more and more of its meaning for himself.

My common sense tells me that you had better repent of your heathen ways and offer a sacrifice to Zeus before he strikes you down with lightning.

Like the analogous problems of protecting the air and water, this approach would require both a certain sense of the long run and a certain willingness to sacrifice, neither of which is easy to marshal in modern society.

In spite of the fact that everyone now agrees that this was from the imagination of Joss Whedon, we all still view as heroic the person who sacrifices their own life for the sake of others, and this heroism is understood in the moral sense.

Who cares what you can «have» in the professional sense if it means sacrificing the fate of the next generation?

Sacrificed to this biographically based presentation, however, is a sense of critical distance, to say nothing of a fully articulated argument concerning the overall meaning and significance of Romanticism for us today.

The sense of «churchly appurtenance,» in von Hügel's phase, is something we must cultivate these days, to help our people recognize that in and through the parish of St. Vitus, Smithville, the very glory of the mystical Body of Christ shines forth, «the holy Church throughout all the world» is reflected, and Christ is present still as we offer ourselves, m union with His perfect Sacrifice, in the eucharistic memorial of the passion and death of our Head.

Good, in this sense, contains an extremely wide range of gradations, extending from the purely external observance of good order to the most intimate self - examination and character - formation and to personal self - sacrifice for the most sublime human values.

Others again love the Usus Antiquior because it is, quite rightly, perceived to express the nature of the Mass as the Sacrifice of Redemption with a highly developed sense of ordered reverence and humble adoration.

Those who in childhood were formed to sacrifice their autonomy in order to receive love carry a sense of conflict between dependence and independence into adult life.

In the Epistle to the Hebrews, where the author is attempting to define or characterize the profoundly religious ideas of priesthood and sacrifice and to show in what sense the work of Christ can be understood in terms of those ideas, he introduces a strangely vivid and moving reference to the narrative of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, which is familiar to us from the gospels (Hebrews 5:7 - 10).

ìWar, î as Hauerwas puts it, ìis America's altar.î Central to this American self - definition is the blood sacrifice of the Civil War, which became a form of total war once it acquired a divine purpose and had ìbecome for both sides a ritual they had come to need in order to make sense of their lives.î American moderns have no answer to death, no way of living well with death.

A sense of guilt and fear is found in most primitive peoples and that inevitably leads to rites of propitiation and sacrifice.

However, after the sacrifice from the crucifixion, these original 613 laws were in a sense altered because of Christ's blood.

Nor was escape possible by making them mere thoughts in mind, since this would sacrifice the reality of the objects thought, an objective reality not to be accounted for by the ever - changing sense world.

It would make more sense if Jesus, a compassionate human being, offered himself to the blood - thursty God as a self - sacrifice for the benefit of all mankind, but the Christian understanding of the mission God sent his son on, and its purpose, is just wonky.

But generally, our action must come not from a sense of self - sacrifice or guilt but from a sense that we are doing what we really want to do, what we are called to do.

Worship for the Catholic, however, in its fullest sense, must always mean Eucharist, the breaking of bread and sharing, by sacrament and sacrifice, in the inner life of God.

The Buddhist's sympathy with the pain of the world, the Hindu's sense of the unchanging stability of the Eternal, the Moslem's realization of international comradeship, the Confucian's appreciation of social morality, and... the sacrifices of scientific workers in the quest of truth and human welfare [and today, may we not add the Communist's concern for social justice, the humanist's insistence on the value of right self - realization of man's capacities, and the secularist's recognition of the non-religious goods in human experience?]

His viewpoint is exactly the opposite: it is in the Old Testament that priesthood and sacrifice were taken in the metaphorical sense, as they are there applied to an impotent and symbolic figuration, while in the mystery of Christ these words have at last obtained their real meaning, with an unsurpassable completeness.»

The Church's doctrine of sacrifice in its fullest sense is neglected in our preaching and catechesis at our peril.