Sentences with phrase «through selfishness»

The persons we have hurt through our selfishness and lack of love may forgive us, but this does not make the situation as if it had never happened.

Second, if his nature if to sit back and let his creatures create themselves through natural selection, i.e. through selfishness and death, I don't think the pronoun requires a capital letter.

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Let's be honest though, at the core of living through our children is pride and selfishness on our part.

That concept is not easy to teach or warm one's hands over without considerable effort, but it is not impossible to convey even to young children the sense that the real meaning of Christmas lies precisely in the combination of magical ceremonies and the grown - up message that in the very midst of our human selfishness, the waylaying love of God has broken through to us unconditionally.

The AA point of view, as set forth in the recognized literature of the movement, does not take full cognizance of the fact that personality factors such as selfishness, resentment, and hostility, which are controlled through the AA program, are actually symptoms of deeper problems of inadequacy, insecurity, and inner conflict.

It is not the will of God that children suffer from hunger and malnutrition and grow up in unsanitary slums with lack of proper education, that persons because of the color of their skin are debarred from schools, hospitals, employment, or housing projects; that persons are denied other basic human rights; that personalities and homes are broken through drink and that great numbers die on highways through drunken driving; that marriage vows are often taken lightly and that easy divorces shatter home after home and leave children the pawns of the parents» selfishness.

However, let's not miss that God designed marriage not only to stretch us beyond our selfishness to become more like Jesus through trials, but also to bring great joy to our lives with the myriad of gifts marriage provides.

We become able to love, and to deny our intrinsic selfishness only through the redemption which is in Jesus Christ.

It may not be a one and done, but it's a slow death that we can inflict on those around us through our words, actions, selfishness and my way or the highway mentalities.

To know this banishes not only godlessness but also selfishness; and one is bound through God to his neighbor.

Though he is steadily destroying, through his own selfishness, what he created in his first decade, the fact remains that it (his long stay) has bonded countless fans with our club.

It's a pure, unconditional love that has nothing to do with selfishness and everything to do with compassion through a mother's eyes.

On the largest scale, the solution is to change a culture that glorifies getting ahead through violence and aggression, selfishness, and outrageous exhibitionistic behavior.

Through indifference, selfishness or ignorance we failed to forge a consensus on how to resolve the collective problem.

[7] The theses have variously included postulations of selfishness (both through arguments of relative unwillingness to self - sacrifice for a political cause as well as selfishness along rural / urban and class divides, most notably the disinterest of middle class Africans to engage in political demonstration), nationalism (manifested through the fear of being called an imperialist), illiteracy and lack of access to technology, and forgetfulness of «Black Africa.»

What did make this movie work was the sense of «being there,» of watching these characters go through what they think are grand plans for themselves (Wikus proud of getting promoted; Christopher thinking he's finally going to fix the mothership and escape) only for random chance, selfishness, and the raw immediacy of simple survival kick in and having them struggle from moment to moment against hostile forces (MNU, the human slumlords, there is no difference between those two groups exploiting the aliens).

It shows a friend pushing his other to the breaking point through deceit and selfishness.

Aronofsky's dark vision that the selfishness of male artistic genius will lead to the destruction of the beloved family was told through a circular narrative structure.

She's a straight - shooter who sees through J.B. selfishness; she makes it clear that she doesn't care one way or the other if he changes his ways.

Picabia outmaneuvered much of Surrealism in works like Untitled (Spanish Woman and Lamb of the Apocalypse)(1927), from his Transparenices series of paintings that takes him through the 1930s, then into the unapologetic kitsch «realism» of Spring (c. 1942 - 43), and, finally, to the anything - but - pure «abstraction» of what would become his last works, paintings like Selfishness (1950) and the aptly - titled Salary Is the Reason for Work (1949).