Sentences with phrase «so much a sacrifice»

@Jojo, u better be careful not to disrespect Haywill, he makes so much sacrifice to feed us these conspiracy theories and I can tell you his theories make my life better.

Using cloth diapers, as so many parents share with us, is not so much a sacrifice as it is a gift to their baby.

The outraged NPP national executive said after displaying so much sacrifices at the All Africa Games, it is unfair for the government to allow the national women's football team to undergo such humiliation.

Not exact matches

As a leader, how does Obama confront so much controversy without sacrificing results?

But when her every duty is laid out in front of her and she realizes it isn't feasible for her to manage the workload without sacrificing her sanity is so much worse.

So what I pose to you is this: How much are you willing to sacrifice?

It's probably a hard strategy because it might involve, of course, sacrificing some income, because so much of his income has been derived from his public persona.

She wrote that she «knew that my birth mother loved me so much that she wanted to give me a better life,» going on to write that «If anything, I would thank my birth mother for loving me enough to make such a huge sacrifice.»

Presidential oratory provides much of the supporting evidence for McDougall's ideas about civil religion, from President William McKinley's implication that the United States had not so much conquered Cubans as it had ministered to them («Are we not made better for the effort and sacrifice, and are not those we serve lifted up and blessed?»)

But if Jesus loves you so much he's willing to sacrifice himself for you, I'll accept some of you back.»?

Because we have shared so much... because I believe Him to be a big, teddy bear under the sometimes rough exterior... because He protects me and is there for me... because I have seen Him sacrifice for others... I can not even conceive of Him being evil.

jesus died for your sins so there is no need for animal sacrifice, eating kosher, avoiding a woman when she has her period, etc etc. god suddenly became much more of a sweet and loving god, where before he was jealous and prone to killing people that defied him.

After all, it is argued, the Romans themselves did not appear to take it seriously (Vespasian's famous deathbed joke, «I think I am becoming a god» seems to indicate as much): it could only be believed by those who were either insane, such as Caligula, who went so far as to sacrifice to himself daily and made his beloved horse a high priest of his cult, or irredeemably barbarian and by implication, stupid, such as the Britons of Colchester who built an enormous temple to the Divine Claudius.

How much effort and self - sacrifice am I willing to give so as to live my life for God?

Don't you just feel so much more holy when you're sacrificing everything on the altar of doing more for God?

The political theory assumed that people benefit so much from that order that it is rational for them to enter into contractual agreements that sacrifice considerable personal freedom.

Our interpreter asked Mala why education was so important that she would work so hard and sacrifice so much.

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.

If losing an only son is so much of a sacrifice, why wouldn't God just impregnate another human woman or two?

He can be very disillusioned if he has observed such a law (that of burial of the dead in the earth, for example), perhaps at the cost of considerable moral efforts and personal sacrifices, and now suddenly has to see that things — if we may so express it — are all at once much easier.

But not everyone agrees with us on this issue and the families of those who want nature to take it's course sacrifice so much and love while they do it.

God sacrificed Himself, so man would know just how much we're loved by the Father.

In Christianity, and Christianity alone, all these negative elements of pagan mythology are stripped away, and we are told that God loves us so much, that He does not want us to sacrifice our own children, but instead, He will sacrifice His own Son for us.

It tells many of you who want to offer sacrifices for the good of the church — countless hours of volunteer service as elders and deacons or a lifetime in demanding and low - paid pastoral ministries — that your life choices are so much more sinful than the rest of ours that we've had to erect special barriers to keep you from laying your gifts at the altar.

It's why Christians down the centuries have sacrificed so much to travel to Jerusalem and why all the major Christian communions have striven, often against long odds, to maintain a foothold there.

And they have rejected the moralistic self - righteousness, the sacrifice of all human impulses to the single goal of success, the materialism and vulgarity of so much of American life.

It is infinitely comic that a man, moved unto tears, so much moved that not only tears but sweat trickle from him, can sit and read, or hear, representations of self - denial, of the nobility of sacrificing one's life for the truth — and then the next instant — one, two, three, slap - dash, almost with the tears still in his eyes — is in full swing, in the sweat of his brow, with all his might and main, helping falsehood to conquer.

The feeling is that the gods deserve as much beauty as one can gather, and it is appropriate to spare no expense, so there is an element of sacrifice too.

To all appearances the balance [of the Crusades] was disastrous: So much suffering, so many sacrifices for so littlSo much suffering, so many sacrifices for so littlso many sacrifices for so littlso little.

The mountain is the tangible setting, not so much of the sacrifice as of the vision.

An old culture, like an old bear, can suddenly whiff the dank odor of its own mortality; and then it is tempted, and tempted deeply, to sacrifice its ideals for the preservation of its life — and thus to hasten the very demise in history that it fears so much.

And they got upset and were trying to figure things out and finally became so frustrated that the Law was so hard to follow and God kept sending them into captivity and there was so much death and eventually the prophets started prophesying about a day that would come where the hearts of the fathers would return to their children and a sacrifice that would be the final sacrifice so that they could all stop killing so many animals (which God also admitted He never wanted in the first place because that was not the point), and also that God would eventually wipe out the old system and write his law on their hearts and minds so that they could finally follow him without making so many mistakes and messing up everything.

What Jesus said about the inevitability of such sacrifice was not so much a demand as a warning of what they must expect.

But again the point of Jesus dying isn't that God requires a sacrifice but rather the point is that God loves us so much that he was willing to send His son to die for us

They express the whole thing in perfectly general terms: «The great thing was that he loved God so much that he was willing to sacrifice to Him the best.»

«After so many folks sacrificed so much so that we could make our voices heard, so many of us just can't be bothered,» she said.

As for your so - called «clear distinction between personal belief and social norms» I pretty much think that you are talking about Luther and his crew: even the Romans (for all their tolerance) tried to get the Christians to sacrifice to the old gods or the Emperor.

I think she would not object then to the cross... she does not even realize that obviously the man on the cross has been very good to her and her family if she has so much time on her hands to spend on this cause instead of sacrificing every minute trying to find a way to bring food and shelter to her family.

God loves us in spite of our sin, so much he sent his Son as a sacrifice for us.

The laws about sacred seasons, Sabbath observance, details of sacrifice, clean and unclean foods, bulk much larger than legislation on ethics, and this lack of perspective and proportion, this inveterate idea that Yahweh was appeased by ceremonial behavior, obtained so firm a grip that even the prophets who contended against it never broke its hold, as orthodox Judaism today bears witness.

The gay man seems to belie the importance of «super-masculinity,» and his very presence calls into question so much that «straight» males have sacrificed in order to be manly.

He loves us so much that He gave His son, Jesus, as a living sacrifice.

Corporate America has shown how much they care about the American workers, they have downsized them to the point where they now do the work of two people, multi tasking out of their minds, while the CEO's continue to get Bonus money and raises, not making any sacrifices what so ever, and some how its the working classes fault the economy is the way it is?

The sacrifices they made to be a part of our church family meant so much to me.

Just as the belittling of fasting has contributed to a distorted and flabby spirituality, so also the neglect of sacrifice produces a much emasculated Christianity.

this universal love crap, is all nice and good to our ears, but his love is the kind that demands perfection but he loves us so much he paid the price himself, that if we accept his sacrifice and make room for him to burrow into our hearts, minds, and souls, we are ushered into his forgiveness and perpetual grace for if God were to deny us, it would be an injustice for that is the power of the cross.

to really live, one has to put something to death.Have you noticed that same principle in any relationship that seeks a higher good; that is, one must practice self - denial, if not self - sacrifice when seeking better health, raising a pet, being a friend, loving a spouse, parenting a child... how much more so when we seek the Divine life in a community?

I sacrificed so much for it.

He had lived a life of self - sacrifice in the continent which was so dear to him and now he had laid his life for the people whom he loved so much.

God loves us so much that He sacrificed His Son to be sin for us — if we trust Him, we will be okay.