Sentences with phrase «than the pleasure of»

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.

I receive no compensation other than the pleasure of seeing more children gain access to this excellent curriculum.

Ebook sites are still mostly focused on the issues related to technology rather than pleasures of reading.

Whether they major in the field or take a course or two, students have found that informed visual thinking, no less than the pleasure of aesthetic experience, continues to enrich their lives and their work.

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More than one - third of business trips are made for combined business and pleasure purposes, says the Travel Industry Association of America.

But for many, the pleasures of positive earnings will bring with it a larger - than - predicted tax bill.

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While there, I had the pleasure of speaking with a gentleman that started a SaaS company a little more than two years ago.

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....

No, I think he meant the belief that suffering is a «kiss from Jesus», that women can't make decisions about their own bodies, that the RCC's wealth, power and reputation are more important than doing what is right, and that children are there for the pleasure of the clergy.

Then wake up and do something more, than dream of your mansions on high, doing good is a pleasure, a joy beyond measure a service of duty and love.»

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.

Indeed, they do not, any more than religious folks, experience emptiness, lack of purpose, lack of pleasure or such negativity generally stereotyped to religion - free people.

The discipline of place teaches that it is more than enough to care skillfully and lovingly for oneâ $ ™ s own little circle, and this is the model for the good life, not the limitless jurisdiction of the ego, granted by a doctrine of choice, that is ever seeking its own fulfillment, pleasure, and satiation.

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.

Is the issue of slavery any different than the fact that many of you take pleasure and entertainment from people like Junior Seau who dazzled you on the field?

What is left out is not the pleasure, not the togetherness, but an openness to something beyond the couple that places them on the trajectory of self - gift, rather than on the trajectory of self - indulgence.

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?

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 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.»

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.

2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4 traitors, heady, high - minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 5 having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

Touch, furthermore, as the sense of bodily pleasure and pain, involves to a high degree the effective response that, according to Whitehead, is more primitive than the clear perception of a distinct and definite object.

2For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self - control, brutal, haters of good, 4treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.

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.

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

2For people will be (B) lovers of self, (C) lovers of money, (D) proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 (E) heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self - control, brutal, (F) not loving good, 4treacherous, reckless, (G) swollen with conceit, (H) lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God -2 Timothy 3

2) For 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.

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 victory.

He knows more of the Bible than me, yet says he chooses hell for the pleasures of this temporary world.

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

2 For 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.

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

But surely the first move toward that code is to teach children that it is care for another person, rather than the pursuit of pleasure, that is the source of sexual feeling.

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.

But for your reading pleasure, here are some of the possible sources of the «power - greater - than - ourselves» language.

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.

(25) He chose to be mistreated along with the people of God rather than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a short time.

Thank you for this encouragement — I feel much more misguided than wise most of the time though God encourages me on — this time via your work — so keep it up and I pray He leads you on to continue to challenge and inspire others and that you feel His pleasure as you do so..