Sentences with phrase «than the sacrifice of»

The sacrifice of the rich should just be more than the sacrifice of poor, but all should give back to God.

For me, any religious system that gives or promises to give peace of mind is idolatrous; the price we pay for «peace of mind» will be nothing less than the sacrifice of something basic to our own humanity.

Not exact matches

On November 11, Americans will recognize the service and sacrifice of the more than 21 million veterans across the U.S. Throughout the year, Starbucks honors the men and women who have served in the Armed Forces.

We spend less than a third of what we did in California without sacrificing on lifestyle.

«To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift» - Steve PrefontaineThis week's episode of LCL is insane motivation.

It seems to me that you are invoking concepts of noblesse oblige, chivalry and grace from us in an attempt to get us to sacrifice yet more of our assets for the common good, without giving us any compelling reasons other than «it would be more fair».

Surely at least one of them is willing to sacrifice reputation, sanity and perhaps a paycheck to defend the man who was elected to lead the country less than a year and a half ago.

This might be too much of a sacrifice for the true - blue coffee lover, but if you could go either way, keep in mind that a cup of tea brewed at home can cost as little as four cents per cup, compared to 12 - 43 cents for less - than - fancy home - brewed coffee, according to Living Stingy.

Thanks to a lower cost of living, this has been a lot easier to accomplish in Grande Prairie than it would be in Vancouver, but it does require some sacrifices.

Like many who have served, I have seen more than my share of sacrifice and valor, and I am here today as a proud veteran.

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.

If children and infants were killed it was quick and better than a life of live sacrifice in red hot arms or growing up blood thirsty and wicked.

As Samuel would later say to Saul who saw it fit to disobey the command of God — «to obey is better than sacrifice»

Talking snakes, talking donkeys, a boat at sea for half a year with a couple million animals, a temple less than 5000sq feet taking 150,000 workers and 7 years to complete, and then sacrificing 14 animals a minute for 7 days straight, a virgin birth story (like there weren't already a few of them before), a zombie invasion that no third party seemed to witness, a dude living in the belly of a fish for a couple days, a guys last words (before become back as a zombie) being «My god, my god, why hast thou forsaken me.»

We can assume that all the Justices sitting on the Court today, like other humans, have their own preferences and biases about religion, but the judicial opinions of one of them, Justice John Paul Stevens, raise more than a slight suspicion that some of his actions on the bench stem from animosity, if not to animal sacrifice, at least to certain less exotic religious beliefs and practices.

Now Jesus is greater than that sacrifice — I comprehend that — however according to God's Torah Jesus would of opened the way to the «Holy One» — forever branching that divide (once and for all)-- for the Jew and Gentile.

7) This god is the Judeo - Christian god 8) It made the entire Universe less than 10,000 years ago, complete with Adam and Eve and later there was a Worldwide flood and Noah and his ark is actual factual history 9) about 2,000 years ago, it impregnated a Greco - Roman Jewish virgin with itself gave birth to a human being and then had it sacrificed to itself to forgive the original sin of Adam and Eve.

It's true also that poverty, oppression, disease, and hunger have always been far from me, and that I often choose to live in blissful disregard of them rather than think upon and sacrifice significantly to aid those in need.

Far from condoning every destruction of nature that is executed in the name of human purposes, the maximal happiness principle prescribes such sacrifice only when the human possibilities are thereby greater than they would otherwise be.

I think the «sin» is not in being different than the norm, but in trying to force something that isn't right for you — sacrificing, not in a noble way but a harmful way, who you are, remaining in a relationship or trying to be something you simply can not be, because that's what's expected regardless of the consequences to your wellbeing.

The reason I ask your opinion initially is because I think there is a better way, today, for the creator of the universe to make him / her / it's self known to humankind, rather than to rely on a 2,000 year old story of sacrifice.

In my experience all the focus on obedience and sacrifice tends to make our walk with Christ one of prideful personal accomplishment rather than humble gratefulness for the grace of the cross.

They have been more than willing to sacrifice men from each generation on the alter of war, praising the lord and passing the bloody ammunition for their 2nd amendment guns.

What of earth do I need to let go of, fast from, sacrifice completely, to reach for what is unseen, to reach for the One more life - giving than air?

Even as the formalized creed of a society, the ideology is the basis of praxis — it serves as a principle which calls on individual sacrifice on behalf of something other and greater than oneself.

Cain becomes angry when God accepts Abel's sacrifice rather than his own (Gen 4:5), and after he kills Abel, claims that it is not he who is supposed to take care of Abel, that he is not his brother's keeper (Gen 4:9).

Standing in front of his congregation at Ecclesia Church, a congregation he admits is different - more diverse, more urban - than many evangelical churches - Chris Seay encouraged them to do so something he said combines the ideas of sacrifice and devotion that mark the Lenten season, the 40 - day lead up to Easter.

The challenge facing the church is to discard the unproven scientific theories of the 1980's and 1990's; to understand the scientific evidence that shows non-reverable sexual orientations; and to give the gay believer in Christ mercy to be married for life to the same sex spouse (rather than to continue to insist on the sacrifice of celibacy).

But we don't need to understand philosophical similarities between Christianity, Judaism and communism to understand that what is now evaporating from the European landscape is a kind of faith — a faith in something larger than the individual, something one might give oneself to in devotion and sacrifice.

If you feel you are guilty and deserve punishment, why don't you stand up and take it rather than hiding like a snivelling weasel behind the supposed sacrifice of jeebus?

The role of the divine is much pondered» the furiously indignant Cain gets no more explanation for why his sacrifice was rejected here than he did in Genesis» but the actions are all committed by humans.

Again and again we are told that we must sacrifice what we have valued for the sake of progress, and usually «progress» means increase of gross product rather than improvement in the quality of life.

More people died at their hands than the aztecs sacrificed over a 50 year period 7) The fall of the soviet union was more an economic fall than anything, and this is the first time I have ever heard the election of a pope had anything to do with it.

10 By valuing comprehensively is meant that religious valuation is boundary - spanning; it has a domain of relevance that includes no less than the entire life of the one who holds it.11 By intensive valuation is meant that religious valuation «must rank among the last that the valuer would be disposed to sacrifice.

According to the Qur» an, Muslims are forbidden to eat a corpse, blood, pork, a pagan sacrifice, suffocated animals, animals killed other than by slaughtering, animals which died from a fall, animals killed by other animals, remnants of food eaten by a beast, food offered as a sacrifice to idols.

Paul said that without love, no amount of eloquence, wisdom, knowledge, prophecy, faith, charity, or sacrifice can compensate for the fact that we are little more than noisy, clanging symbols.

When someone works for less pay than she can live on — when, for example, she goes hungry so that you can eat more cheaply and conveniently — then she has made a great sacrifice for you, she has made you a gift of some part of her abilities, her health and her life.

In fact Father Maillard, the director of Frères du Monde, actually declared: «If I noticed that my faith [true, he did not add «Christian»] separated me by however little from other men and diminished my revolutionary violence, I would not hesitate to sacrifice my faith,» A clear statement of the conviction latent in Shaull's writings; namely, that revolution is more fundamental than the faith.

A more moving portrayal of the meaning of child sacrifice to a good father could hardly have been written than this story furnishes; the profound loyalty involved in child sacrifice, holding nothing back that religious obligation might require, is recognized; and the story's obvious objective is reached when «Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt - offering in the stead of his son.»

When these characters consider living like common people they think of that as freedom rather than a duty of shared sacrifice.

«There is one thing amongst all others, the loss of which is more deplorable than words can express; We allude to the most holy Sacrifice in which Jesus Christ, both Priest and Victim, daily offers Himself to His Father, through the ministry of His priests on earth.

The sacrifice which concerned Israel more than any other was that of the Passover lamb the night they were freed from slavery in Egypt.

(Hosea 6:6) As for Isaiah of JerusaIem, words can hardly carry a heavier weight of indignant aversion than the passage that begins — «What unto me is the multitude of your sacrifices?

At the Easter Vigil after the first reading from Genesis chapter 1, describing the creation of the universe by God, the prayer that follows says: «Almighty ever - living God, who are wonderful in the ordering of all your works, may those you have redeemed understand that there exists nothing more marvellous than the world's creation in the beginning except that, at the end of the ages, Christ our Passover has been sacrificed.»

However, the mystery of the Cross tells us that in God's Wisdom, which is the ultimate wisdom, evil and suffering are conquered in a way that goes against our natural instincts and expectations - not by miraculous intervention, but by humble acceptance; or at least, that the miraculous triumph follows on from sacrifice rather than preceding it.

[28] And the prophet Hosea says: «For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God, rather than burnt offerings.»

In comparison with the breadth and depth of the intellectual, economic, cultural, social changes of today and tomorrow in the secular sphere, however, which also contribute to determine the task of the Church, it must even be said that the Church in its aggiornamento proceeds very slowly and cautiously, so that there is more reason to ask whether it is reacting sufficiently quickly, courageously and confidently to the future which has already begun, than to fear that it is sacrificing too quickly and in too «modernistic» a way what is old and well - tried and has stood the test.

But even more attractive, in my view, than these plausible reasons for Abraham's silent acquiescence in the horrible request are the following: (1) Abraham had learned, in the episode over Sodom, that the pursuit of righteousness may require sacrificing your own; (2) he felt and feared both the awesome power of God and also His righteousness; and, especially, (3) he had understood immediately the meaning of the test, namely, that he was being asked to show what was first in his soul: Was it the love of his own (and of the promise and the covenant) or was it the fear - awe - reverence for God?

I have hoped that, by driving six separate roadways through Scripture, clarity might be gained without serious sacrifice of balance and proportion, and that the very fact of repetition, as each roadway inevitably brings the traveler within sight of familiar scenes common to all six, would help rather than hinder comprehension.

The only possible textual basis for this reading makes much of the fact that it is an angel rather than God Himself who calls a halt to the sacrifice.