Sentences with phrase «thinking of the sacrifices»

In this magnificent poem everything that is decisive for the existence of a master becomes clear to us: the knowledge about the suffering of the world, the recognition of the calling, the «Yes» to it, the «Yes» to destiny, the thought of sacrifice, the temptation, the anxiety and hesitation before the final decision.

He blessed their purely human nature; but in the pangs of his loneliness when thinking of the sacrifice, he felt their distance from him; he longed for their sympathy — which he could not have.

But the thought of sacrifice is so intimately merged with the very nature of the master's existence, it hardly seems possible that the decisive «Yes» could not emerge, sealing the master's sacrificial path.

«Think of the sacrifices they make,» says Brees.

I think of all they sacrificed, and I just want to make it mean something.

However, the GI Bill does not cover existing student loans, so veterans with pre-existing student loans can not benefit from education gratuities, which seems quite unfair if we come to think of their sacrifices.

Anyway, got emotional thinking of the sacrifices you and your family have gone through..

Not exact matches

You'd also expect people who believed the Or model would resist teaching their kids this model for the same reason — they'd fear their kids would think they could have both and, in trying for both, unwittingly sacrifice some of the one they valued.

Trump thinks highly of Cohn and has spoken often of the financial sacrifices he made to leave Goldman to join the administration.

I used to think of sleep as the first thing that could be sacrificed, now I think of sleep as something that I can't not do.

His achievements are unprecedented in the track world, and upon reading his book chronicling his journey of sacrifice — in which he overcomes obstacles while staying true to himself — you think, «This could be a winning formula for anyone who wants to be successful in business.»»

When we think about the sacrifices entrepreneurs make to be successful, many of us think about time, sleep, and health.

Calacanis reminds us that «Sometimes start - ups are hard, and I think that a portion of today's often - discussed Gen Y is simply too «smart» to want to put in the hours and sacrifice needed to get to success.

I thought everything had to be going towards my debt repayment and because of that I sacrificed several years of retirement planning.

But I'd like to think this way, the relative freedom in US comes from the sacrifice of its previous rebels.

It was once thought that impact investing was a «softer» kind of investing that meant sacrificing monetary returns for the sake of non-monetary ones.

For those that get offended by how much you are investing each month I think it is easy to judge someone after years of hard work, sacrifice, and consistent investing.

It does not mean settling for what's second best because a group of people, the majority of which are not willing to make the ultimate sacrifice of putting themselves in harm's way for others, are thinking about themselves as individuals and putting that ahead of the majority best interests.

It's all predicated on this sacrifice thing but think about it, a «god» recreates itself with the help of a woman.

Some were drawn to Nazism's exaltation of sacrifice for the fatherland, thinking it a useful antidote to modern individualism.

We have learned to think of continuing medical progress as sacred and are prepared to offer quite a few sacrifices on its altar.

Carrying an attitude of entitlement and focusing on what we think we «deserve» is an irrational response to Christ's sacrifice on the cross for us.

I think our new Pope is just what the Church needs at this point — humility, self - sacrifice, lack of interest in «material» things!

Trying to penetrate their selfish fog with thoughts of selflessness and sacrifice is an exercise in futility.

So what kind of «sacrifice» do you think Jesus would have been if it was written «Jesus told Judas, his most beloved friend to betray him on purpose so that he could be unlawfully torchered and killed»?

Paul is using the analogy of Christ and the church to illustrate that authority can be loving and self - sacrificing — and that submitting to it does not have to be humiliating and devaluing (I think we agree this is the crux of the message).

Conservatives can not push enough Democrats and wobbly moderates toward greater comfort with originalist - like its - the - only - Constitution - we've - got thinking, can not get them to sacrifice the judicial avenue to what they see as policy goodies, or get them to really censure the kinds of unconstitutional short - cuts Obama is modeling, if they think that folks like you and I believe that Real originalism would ban hours - laws, collective bargaining, etc..

The sacrifice of His own life that we may be free from sin; I think that was a really, really nice thing to do.»

We will be doomed as a society when we fail to distinguish between reality and fantasy, wide awake time and dream time, when we sacrifice collective engagement to (re) solve together difficult problems for facination with rumors of conspiricy and a propensity for magical and delusional thinking.

Suddenly, in light of God's glory we feel quite insecure, remembrances of Christ's sacrifices demand quite unpleasurable thoughts, and the overwhelming presence of the Spirit leaves us trembling and acutely aware of our powerlessness.

If Paul thinks all is settled with the sacrifice of the Christ — then why does he waste his time on behaviours of the communities (and the need for change) and the idea one could lose his salvation?

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.

that's a sacrifice of praise i think.

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.

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.

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.

I used o think as you do about Jesus being all those «things», about love, self sacrifice, compassion, etc.... But how is Jesus so loving and compassionate when according to the bible he and his Father will throw billions of people into HELL for all eternity for simply not believing in them?

Several cultures of the past have practiced sacrifice of babies, and they thought it to be perfectly normal.

To me the most ironic of all are the ones who think God wanted a human blood sacrifice, and the only possible way to get on God's good side is to acknowledge that.

The concept of sacrifice and death so completely alien to me I've been thinking about this quite a bit lately.

Considering sacrifice and death instead of bullying my way through strained realtionships or hard times is a complete shift of thinking.

Secondly, it's hard to think of my writing as a ministry when it involves so little sacrifice on my part.

I think you would be on shakey ground theologically to not assume some sort of animal sacrifice here, surely?!? And certainly if you though anything else but animal skins were used — shakey.

He thought that much of what counted as neo-orthodoxy sacrificed cognitive content to revelation in favor a personal, non-cognitive revelation (Barth was exempted to a certain extent).

On Sacrifice by Moshe Halbertal Princeton, 152 pages, $ 24.95 Moshe Halbertal, a professor of Jewish thought at both New York and Hebrew Universities, writes books with very large theses.

What good did sacrificing myself for others do, if in the end, I was thought of like THAT?!..

Even though our images of totally committed, self - sacrificing, lifelong love are invariably limited to our taste of that kind of love through our human parents, they are still the best images we have and about the best we can manage in thinking about God.

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

The language of «cost» and «price» and sacrifice would describe something very real, but we would not think that Love was therefore something cold and punitive in demanding such a high price to be true to itself.

«Think of all the sacrifices your mother and I made to make sure you received a decent education - and what a disappointment you've been to us.»