Sentences with phrase «such as sacrificing»
But reject study tactics which may effect a students health or wellbeing such as sacrificing sleep or adopting poor eating habits.
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According to the study, millennial parents are most likely to report having made sacrifices to increase their savings, including cutting back in big spending areas such as dining out, vacations, and entertainment.
Budget six to eight months to earn more and make lifestyle sacrifices such as taking on a roommate, cutting down meals out and extraneous expenses to help you save.
But individuals who are willing or able to sacrifice some basic aspects of normal life, such as sleep or friends and family time, to pursue these extreme sports are the ones who have the mettle to succeed when faced with entrepreneurial challenges.
Without mentioning specific trade arrangements such as NAFTA or the Trans - Pacific Partnership (TPP), Trump used the moment to boast that «America has finally turned the page on decades of unfair trade deals that sacrificed our prosperity and shipped away our companies.»
Such sacrifices include money spent on fulltime childcare and viewing it as an investment in the earning potential of her career over the long term, compared to leaving then returning to the workforce.
But that sacrifice is worth it, says Egan, in case of economic shocks, such as market volatility spikes, or a U.S. dollar plunge.
Besides saving students thousands off of their cumulative student debt burden, this payment strategy sets the stage for future personal finance skills — such as budgeting, and making small sacrifices in the present that will bring big rewards in the future.
A more balanced policy mix might also avoid some of the costs of very low interest rates, such as potential risks to financial stability, without sacrificing jobs and growth.
Virtues such as tolerance, love, non-violence, self - sacrifice and humility are held in high esteem and considered to be characteristics of «holy men» known as Sadhu.
Self - important simpletons commonly hate anyone that isn't bound to the «moral» standards of verses such as Leviticus 20:13 which commands putting people to death that are not within the primitive social norms of living in caves and sacrificing goats and children and owning slaves.
If some god - like beings were crazy enough to set up such a system you might as well let them sort out the errors with their own sacrifices.
Instead, we have abstract gestures toward it in phrases such as «That Sacrifice!
For others who sacrificed their lives such as our brave soldiers, it was FOREVER.
If what the Bible says about Jesus» sacrifice and resurrection were unclear, there wouldn't have been billions upon billions of people who read it as such.
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.
Only in productive work and learning processes can their individualism be broken down in such a way that it is transformed from morally based (that is to say as individual as ever) self - sacrifice to a new kind of political self understanding and behavior.
In most belief systems sacrifices are required, such as foregoing carnal pleasures, donating money, leading an appropriate lifestyle, and so on.
This rules out the prayers of the churches of Christendom who have prayed in behalf of their particular nation during wartime, such as when German Catholic bishops issued a pastoral letter in September 1939 at the outbreak of WWII that said: «In this decisive hour we admonish our Catholic soldiers to do their duty in obedience to the Fuehrer (Hitler) and to be ready to sacrifice their whole individuality.
There were animal sacrifices and things such as burnt offerings, grain offerings.
If some sacrifice of such sovereignty is needed for the promotion free trade, and if free trae is the means of meeting the genuine and critical needs of the poor, then we should certainly celebrate the WTO as its promoter and enforcer.
So long as animal sacrifice, interpreted in such terms, was the major method of approaching deity, it is clear that worshipers could not conceive an approach so simple and spiritual as solitary praying to the «Father who seeth in secret.»
Our problem, he says, is not that we have become urbanized but that we have built our cities in such a way as to sacrifice our relation to nature for the sake of urban values; and the ironic result is that for most of their inhabitants our cities no longer provide even urban values.
(Jeremiah 7:31; 19:5; 32:35) In the next generation Ezekiel tried another apologetic: granting both that the command to sacrifice children was in the Law, as it obviously was, and that Yahweh was responsible for its presence there, he asserted none the less that; Yahweh had given «statutes that were not good, and ordinances wherein they should not live,» for the ultimate purpose of punishing them with such desolation that they might recognize the divine hand in their tragedy.
Literal human sacrifice comes to mind as one such spiritual practice.
Hence the principal Christian dogmas, which include such symbols as «Son of God», «satisfaction», «sacrifice», and the like, are, in so far as they are limited to the facts of the Christian story, untenable.
(Leviticus 19:2; cf. 20:26; 21:18) Along with moral commands against such evils as child sacrifice, adultery, and sexual perversion are detailed injunctions concerning ceremonial observances, reminiscent of the old taboos.
Even in the early days, Hannah, the mother of Samuel, came to the shrine of Yahweh to pray concerning a personal and family matter, (I Samuel 1:9 ff) and in the second temple, as the Psalter reveals, the individual, as such, had part in the sacrifices, not simply as a member of the nation but in the light and right of his own private needs.
So long as Christianity knows the Crucifixion as a vicarious sacrifice for a totally guilty humanity, as the innocent sacrifice of the eternal Son of God to a just but merciful Father, it can never celebrate the definitive victory of the Crucifixion; for such a redeemed humanity remains in bondage to the transcendent Judge, and must continue to be submissive to his distant and alien authority, ever pleading for mercy when it falls away from his absolute command.
«Jesus Christ, our Lord and God, when he was about to offer himself once on the altar of the Cross to God the Father, making intercession by means of his death, so that he might gain there an eternal redemption, since his priesthood was not to be extinguished by death, at the last Supper, «on the night that he was handed over», left to his beloved Spouse the Church a visible sacrifice, such as the nature of man requires, by which the bloody sacrifice achieved once upon the Cross might be represented and its memory endure until the end of the age, and its saving power be applied to the remission of those sins which are daily committed by us.»
While such intense commitment and self - sacrifice as this may be admirable and in many ways appealing, it also smacks of asceticism and supererogation.
All they had to do was refrain from things that Jewish people found incredibly offensive, such as sexual immorality and from eating food sacrificed to idols.
Such sacrificial willingness is supremely Christlike, which only goes to show that if Paul were indeed to die for Christ as he desires, this would not separate Him from Jesus but would instead be the perfect representation of Jesus in His sacrifice for us.
Under this criterion, questions of proportionality are properly considered: Do the benefits outweigh the risks and harms attendant to warfare, including such potential costs as further geopolitical destabilization, increased insecurity, the sacrifice of other important values in the midst of war, the loss of life and resources?
It can encourage such protection inasmuch as the animal is seen as having perhaps been a close and dear relative, and yet it can also discourage such protection inasmuch as the animal can be seen as sacrificing itself for the sake of a better birth in the future, leading ultimately to an escape from rebirth altogether (Bowker, 6).
its a shame to see such a cool guy fall for something as silly as Theism and blood sacrifice religion... he needs to replace the point guard in his brain
Consequently, it doesn't require a sacrifice (such as a purchase or special time devoted to its unique meaning).
But these people who were doing it all wrong were not qualified priests to be performing such sacrifices that allows the killing of an animal so Krishna, the original preceptor of the Vedas, came as Buddha and told them to forget the Vedas and live a life of non-violence (ahimsa) and to just follow his precepts.
The rules of sacrifice can certainly be read to indicate how we move things (such as sheep) from the one realm to the other.
He concludes that more attention to the Bible did not necessarily mean more virtuous action; that personal engagement with the Bible did result in self - sacrificing service, but also in divisive hubris, mistaken interpretations (such as the identification of America with ancient Israel), and blindness to social evils; and that Protestant spiritual individualism undercut corrupt hierarchies and supported democracy, but also promoted political excesses and violent anti-Catholicism.
A person might be concerned only for himself and interested in the other only as means to his own ends, or he might actually be concerned about the other to such a point as to be willing to sacrifice his own ends.
We also understood, as children, that if such an act created two or three Christians then it was noble and worthy as well as the greatest sacrifice.
Such language is employed in the prophetic description of the Servant of the Lord who died for others; and similarly the Jewish martyrs who suffered in the time of the Maccabees were said to have offered themselves as a sacrifice for the nation.
Maybe we are at a time now where considering embracing traditional male roles of self — sacrifice, protection, and provision an honouring men that have the courage and humility to be as such might benefit the self esteem of men and provide the potential to be of better service to women than what is currently being afforded.
«Festivals and pilgrimages,» I have said in another context, «are outstanding occasions, for here we find a close interrelation between different cultic activities such as purifications, lustrations, prayer, vows, offerings, sacrifices, and processions all of which are of particular interest both to the historian and the sociologist of religion» (Sociology of Religion, p. 42).
At the same time, what the NCC statement romantically describes as the «spirituality» of the pre-European Americas included such unpleasant items as human sacrifice and the ritual slaughter of enemies.
However, it is clear that parts of the bible condone and even advise behaviors that modern people have mostly left far behind and would consider unacceptable, such as slavery, subjugation of women, and even animal sacrifice.
If there is no God, humans are likely to live one way, at least in a few boundary territories, such as life, family, and daily, humble self - sacrifice.
Therefore, to those caught in the kitsch and abstractions of communist ideology, the Church provides a refuge where words such as «love» and «sacrifice» still retain their true form.
In course of time, unusual events were studied as of special significance; and from this into portents of one sort or another the way was easy: earthquakes, ec1ipses, abnormal births, abnormal weather, celestial phenomena, and then ritualistic phenomena, such as the structure of a sacrificed animal, the spread of oil on water, and so on in manifold ramifications.