Sentences with phrase «than the pleasure in»

As any sleep - deprived new mother knows, cooking can become more of a dangerous chore than a pleasure in the months following the birth of a child.

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They only think about it not working because humans, in general, prefer to avoiddiscomfort more than they want to seek more pleasure.

Dissident feminist Camille Paglia finds more pleasure in the shoe department than a contemporary art gallery.

The main presuppositions about sentiment which behavioural finance are starting to confirm are mainly that 1) investors overemphasise the significance of fundamental data to the detriment of other equally important but more overlooked data that still can have an effect on a share's price 2) investors take losses a lot worse than the pleasure of making a winning trade and 3) investors continue in the mistakes they make with regard to bad methodology and repeating mistakes based upon emotion.

As humans, we're wired in a way that avoiding pain is much more important to our survival than gaining pleasure is (most of the time, anyways!).

«But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self - control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God....

Have you ever 2Timothy3: 1 - 5 It speak about in the last day critical time hard to deal with will be here.2 men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money,self - assuming, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, disloyal, 3 having no natural affection, not open to any agreement, slanderers, without self control, fierce, without love of goodness, 4 betrayers, headstrong, puffed up with pride, lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of god, 5 having a form of godly devotion but proving false to its power, and from these turn away.God speak of these thing occurring in our day.

As carnal, embodied creatures, our desire to eat meat works in us at a more elemental level than desires for cognitive pleasures.

We settle for the comfort and pleasure of the lesser goods in life rather than pursue the Greatest Good, which is a transformational relationship with God.

And to be real in this life, should we really pursue the pleasure more than the pain?

Suppose, in a kind of contented abstinence, we were to refrain from trying to understand more of the landscape before us than the landscape cared to display for us, that we were willing to follow the bend of bough and straggle of gravel and tilt of pole wherever the bend and the straggle and the tilt chanced to take us, that we concerned ourselves not with pattern or profit or even pleasure but merely with watching like a token sentinel in safe country, that we gave our eyes a quiet carte blanche and permitted our minds to play at liberty over the face of an untouched terrain?

Thus the God takes pleasure in arraying the lily in a garb more glorious than that of Solomon; but if there could be any thought of an understanding here, would it not be a sorry delusion of the lily's, if when it looked upon its fine raiment it thought that it was on account of the raiment that the God loved it?

Similarly, there was no compelling reason for God to become man in Jesus other than that it was according to his good pleasure.

I guess that C.S. Lewis — here at least — spoke of pleasure rather than of Christian happiness which, of course, can not be found in any outwardly oriented religion if we are not indwelt by the Holy Spirit who gives us love, joy, peace, and much more (Gal 5:22 - 23).

It is a distinct pleasure to respond to the critique of Father Eric C. Meyer, who was the first Catholic theologian to respond seriously to my work, and who in many ways knows my own position, or, at least my route to it, better than I do myself.

But just about every militant or staunch anti-theist just seems to only take pleasure in demeaning those they feel or think are less than themselves.

But it is through the mutual self - giving in love that our humanity is established (whether in sex or beyond), rather than the abstract experience of pleasure or the fulfillment of a craving or felt need.

I feel that the religious excitement that is supposed to come to people who meditate on the flame of a single dark candle in an otherwise dark room was no greater than the pleasure I felt when I looked down a gun - sight and become very close to my own mind and consciousness.

So is the common phenomenon of spouses finding much greater pleasure emotionally in the company of other persons of their gender, than in their relationship with their spouses.

I would tell every single person out there that there is nothing more precious than the promise of God, and nothing more important to strive for, nothing too hard to give up whether it is sin, or pleasure, or gold, or a job... nothing matters but loving God and loving that person in the way that God says.

The child Lewis — an Ulster Protestant with the usual hostility towards papists — would have been amazed at the adult Lewis» thoroughly Catholic theology of pleasure: «There is no good in trying to be more spiritual than God.

In the end, he suspects, «we are likely to find the One for whom we long less in the clouds of spiritual heights than far down the mountain in the soulful depths — in the mundane particularities, the fierce complexities, the simple pleasures of everyday life.&raquIn the end, he suspects, «we are likely to find the One for whom we long less in the clouds of spiritual heights than far down the mountain in the soulful depths — in the mundane particularities, the fierce complexities, the simple pleasures of everyday life.&raquin the clouds of spiritual heights than far down the mountain in the soulful depths — in the mundane particularities, the fierce complexities, the simple pleasures of everyday life.&raquin the soulful depths — in the mundane particularities, the fierce complexities, the simple pleasures of everyday life.&raquin the mundane particularities, the fierce complexities, the simple pleasures of everyday life.»

By this person's statement it makes me think of them choosing the oppisite of what Moses chose as we see in Hebrews 11:24 - 26 By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; 25Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; 26Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.

What we want to know is whether untrained communal singing is in itself any more edifying than other popular pleasures.

(21) Most couples achieve something less than heaven in bed and yet value and cherish the pleasure they do enjoy together.

I know that there is nothing better for them [mankind] than to be happy and enjoy themselves as long as they live; also that it is God's gift to man that every one should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil.

Sex without companionship in marriage is better than no sex at all; but its pleasure falls far short of sex within a relationship of loving and trusting.

But is it not likely that our male - dominated society «represses,» in Freud's sense, the realization that women guided by instinct and pleasure alone could cause far more havoc than men motivated by the same factors?

Such surrender might afford a certain kind of pleasure, but in this case the pleasure came from being possessed rather than from possessing.

Two of these — «Flower of Purity» and «Gentle Guide of Youth» — are especially relevant to our current theme In the Novena he composed in preparation for the Feast of St Philip, Cardinal Newman wrote: «Philip, well knowing the pleasure God takes in cleanness of heart, had no sooner come to years of discretion, and to the power of distinguishing between good and evil, than he set himself to wage war against the evils and suggestions of his enemy, and never rested till he had gained the victorIn the Novena he composed in preparation for the Feast of St Philip, Cardinal Newman wrote: «Philip, well knowing the pleasure God takes in cleanness of heart, had no sooner come to years of discretion, and to the power of distinguishing between good and evil, than he set himself to wage war against the evils and suggestions of his enemy, and never rested till he had gained the victorin preparation for the Feast of St Philip, Cardinal Newman wrote: «Philip, well knowing the pleasure God takes in cleanness of heart, had no sooner come to years of discretion, and to the power of distinguishing between good and evil, than he set himself to wage war against the evils and suggestions of his enemy, and never rested till he had gained the victorin cleanness of heart, had no sooner come to years of discretion, and to the power of distinguishing between good and evil, than he set himself to wage war against the evils and suggestions of his enemy, and never rested till he had gained the victory.

Some people never do evolve much further than that even though they become more cunning in the ways of experiencing pleasure and avoiding pain.

As for your «temporal pleasures» comment... enjoy your faith in what you have waiting for you be it 72 virgins, valhalla, heaven, whatever... no one knows and you are not any different than anyone else in that aspect.

atheism is a cop - out for lazy persons who are in need of experiencing happiness and truth rather than temporal pleasures.

What he plainly sought quite a lot of was pleasure and fame, and in that regard he may have had something in common with Sartre that was more important than what divided them.

The See of Peter fell into the hands of men who were more interested in using it as a power in Italian politics, in aggrandizing the members of their families, or in promoting art and their own personal pleasures than they were in making it effective in furthering the spiritual and moral life of Europe.

I know that there is nothing better for them than to be happy and enjoy themselves as long as they live; also that it is God's gift to man that every one should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil.

I've heard preachers talk about how anything can be an idol - things, activities, people - basically anything that brings you pleasure is in competition with God and you should feel guilt and worry that you might secretly like that thing or that activity or that person MORE than God.

When I met sometimes with merry companions, and my heart was ready to sink, I would labor to put on as cheerful a countenance as possible, that they might not distrust anything, and sometimes would begin some discourse with young men or young women on purpose, or propose a merry song, lest the distress of my soul would be discovered, or mistrusted, when at the same time I would then rather have been in a wilderness in exile, than with them or any of their pleasures or enjoyments.

The hookup culture also inhibits ethical development through a focus on private indulgence in which other people are used for pleasure, rather than on loving, committed relationships.

Many scientists do give up personal convenience and worldly pleasures, but less from any deliberate unselfishness than from interest in their work.

As long as mankind is what they are, there will NEVER be peace among us, certainly not global peace in any meaningful sense, and anyone who thinks otherwise is either dangerously naïve or pathetically stupid, frankly.Knock the dust off your Bible, Benedict!The great Apostle Paul predicted today's situatio perfectly over 2,000 years ago, and I quote: «But know this: difficult times will come in the last days.For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self - control, brutal, without love for what is good, traitors, reckless, conceited, loversof pleasures rather than lovers of God, holding to the form of religion but denying its power»... (2nd Timothy 3:1 - 5)- Hello!

In which I take some perhaps less than Christian pleasure.

This school of thought aimed to maximize «pleasure over a whole life, rather than in the present moment.»

and sees it as more basic in man than Freud's will - to - pleasure or Adler's will to - power.

I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live; also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil — this is God's gift to man (Ecclesiastes 3:12 - 13).

That is, the ascetic holds that something other than pleasure and pain should be considered in determining whether some act is acceptable.

turns out to be the means by which virtuous societies no less than virtuous ladies are led in pleasure down the path of self - destruction.

I think that what I felt each minute was worth more than all the outward comfort and pleasure which I had enjoyed in my whole life put together.

In Romans 1:21 - 28, Paul talks about people who refused to acknowledge and glorify God (v. 21), the worshipping of idols (v23), people who were more interested in earthly pursuits than spiritual pursuits (v. 25), people who gave up their natural, innate passion for the opposite s e x in search of pleasure (v. 26 - 27), and people who live lives full of covetousness, malice, envy, and hatred of God (v. 29 - 31In Romans 1:21 - 28, Paul talks about people who refused to acknowledge and glorify God (v. 21), the worshipping of idols (v23), people who were more interested in earthly pursuits than spiritual pursuits (v. 25), people who gave up their natural, innate passion for the opposite s e x in search of pleasure (v. 26 - 27), and people who live lives full of covetousness, malice, envy, and hatred of God (v. 29 - 31in earthly pursuits than spiritual pursuits (v. 25), people who gave up their natural, innate passion for the opposite s e x in search of pleasure (v. 26 - 27), and people who live lives full of covetousness, malice, envy, and hatred of God (v. 29 - 31in search of pleasure (v. 26 - 27), and people who live lives full of covetousness, malice, envy, and hatred of God (v. 29 - 31).

It asserts that sexual pleasure comes from demeaning, exploiting, objectifying and degrading our partners in the most intimate ways, rather than from an eager and passionate cherishing of the wholeness of that partner.