Sentences with phrase «ultimate sacrifices of»

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.

With the ultimate sacrifice of the Christ there was no further need for animal sacrifice

Geoff - you have earned the right to state your disgust at this Manager.You have made THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE of a Football SUPPORTER by giving up your seats.I can't believe you had taken this decision lightly and it's not something I would even contemplate ever doing.But you have mine, and I'm sure everyone's, TOTAL RESPECT for what you have done.

Today, we still take time to honor those who serve and have served, especially those who gave the ultimate sacrifice of their lives.

Once upon a time, being a greenie was about «us» against «them,» about standing on the outside throwing rotten fruits, marching behind banners demanding a better world, or even making the ultimate sacrifice of life or liberty to take action.

Through the ultimate sacrifice of His son, and my belief and acceptance of Him, God will GIVE me a place in Heaven with Him forever.

Not exact matches

The preparation I put into it, the mental and physical sacrifice that goes into what I do as a basketball player allows me to be ready for those moments and to meet the storm with the ultimate calm, cool and collectivism that I like to have about taking advantage of those opportunities.

But both groups share the same ultimate vision: to create the post-animal economy — a world free of consumer sacrifice, guilt, and compromise.

Marking the end of Canada's mission in Afghanistan by honouring the service of our men and women in uniform, including those who made the ultimate sacrifice combating the spread of terrorism;

The Bishop of Huddersfield has paid tribute to MP Jo Cox, saying she made the ultimate sacrifice for... More

From the inception of the enterprise in the decree of Darius, «Concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, let the house be builded, the place where they offer sacrifices,» (Ezra 6:3) to the festal celebration of ultimate success — «They offered great sacrifices that day, and rejoiced» (Nehemiah 12:43) the religious life of the restorers of Zion centered in the altar.

(Jeremiah 7:31; 19:5; 32:35) In the next generation Ezekiel tried another apologetic: granting both that the command to sacrifice children was in the Law, as it obviously was, and that Yahweh was responsible for its presence there, he asserted none the less that; Yahweh had given «statutes that were not good, and ordinances wherein they should not live,» for the ultimate purpose of punishing them with such desolation that they might recognize the divine hand in their tragedy.

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.

When a Council sets itself a task of that kind, it is inevitable that there will be surprises, that what is dear and well - tried will be sacrificed, that experiments will be risked and innovations introduced, the ultimate consequence of which no one can foresee with certainty.

Dispensations, ultimate sacrifices, fulfillment of laws, all seem to just be rationalizations for nearly complete 180 on part of the God character.

Its availability has been somewhat limited by the natural reticence of society to make the ultimate sacrifice for the afflicted.

* - someone with the claim to have sacrificed all for the good of mankind, the ultimate good anyone can do.

That the ultimate mark of a Christ - like follower is the ability to love that which is disgusting and to sacrifice self in order to share truth with those that are ungrateful and disgusting.

The blood sacrifices God instructed Moses to institute as part of Israel's worship of Him were meant to pave the way for the only and ultimate blood sacrifice that could save humanity from our sin.

For the Christian community, the cross is the supreme symbol, for in his self - sacrifice Christ pointed beyond himself and surrendered the particular to the ultimate; the cross was the manifestation of God's participation in man's existence, universally present but not universally recognized.31 Tillich's own background in the Lutheran Church and his sensitivity to Luther's experience of guilt, forgiveness, personal faith and divine grace, are reflected at many points in his writings, especially in his sermons.32

Animal sacrifice was indeed performed as a matter of obedience and a ritualistic obligation representing Christ's ultimate fulfilling sacrifice and every animal, for the most part, was eaten as food.

Millions of people consider it to be an honor to die for a country in a war, every year people celebrate the Remembrance Day as a day thousands made what they call the «ultimate sacrifice».

Only the mass media can turn the cross into a symbol of hate when it was meant as a symbol of hope and ultimate sacrifice.

With God reduced to a shadow of the human other, and no longer seen as the source of compensating heavenly rewards, the ultimate religious and ethical imperative of pure sacrifice is therefore fulfilled within a secular and symbolically drained sphere, harboring no illusions.

Obama also urged citizens to remember those among «the 9/11 generation» of service members who have «come of age bearing the burden of war,» with some paying the ultimate sacrifice.

We need to let go of that emphasis on sacrifice and martyrdom as the ultimate test of discipleship.

You may be correct Jeremy but I have always known that God is good and just as Jesus suffered and took the whole of the workds sin on Himself so did His Father take on all the rebellion before His Son paid the ultimate sacrifice.

Yet, it is in the very image of Christ's sacrifice at the fumi - e that I am reminded of His ultimate sacrifice at the Cross.

From this vantage point we get a new perspective on self - sacrifice as the ultimate expression of agape.

Is self - sacrifice an ultimate limit toward which the self may move, but which it can never quite reach, or is there a union of sacrificial love with the self's growth into its full stature which can be realized, though certainly only through grace?

I'll always remember the sight of four novices washing the floor only to stop and curl up amid the dust for a minute or two, giving thanks for that ultimate sacrifice.

In the Old Testament's treatment of the problem of suffering are some of the most notable expressions in literature of ethical insight into the meaning of retribution, profound faith in the ultimate justice of God, personal courage in accepting trouble as self - discipline, spiritual understanding of vicarious sacrifice, and religious experience of a trustworthy God; and, accompanying all these, the refrain of the disillusioned also, «Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.»

Christians believe that this ultimate sacrifice redeemed us all from sin in the same way that lambs and other animals were once sacrificed as a symbolic way of cleansing people from sin.

In terms of the «ultimate sacrifice», if I knew that I would be tortured for a few days, dead for a few more, then resurrected with divine powers for eternity, then that's no sacrifice.

When Jesus died on the cross, he became the ultimate sacrifice making the killing of animals and sheep and whatever unnecessary.

The supposed ultimate sacrifice was a few days of suffering, and then ressurection into divinity.

Against such a background, the Christian message of the ultimate supremacy of God, the importance of personal discipline, the postponement of gratification through sacrifice and service, and the limiting of one's demands for moral reasons sounds jarring, unreal, and irrelevant.

Through the extraordinary actions of ordinary individuals, the film acknowledges self - sacrifice as a kind of supernatural event, one that points to the ultimate salvation in Christ.

The ultimate emotional and spiritual motives for a sacrifice, the estimated value of a sacrifice, the enormous variety of sacrifices (sacrifices of flowers, incense, drink, animals, all with manifold liturgical and ritual variations) are extremely hard to fathom.

There are no holes in the head with Him just His hands feet and side, which bear the marks of His ultimate suffering and sacrifice.

Sin is not in the presence of God the last time the devil tried to put sin in his presence it was blown to oblivion and proof to that was christ's ultimate sacrifice on the cross so thats what happens when God and sin intervene.

Those stories strongly suggest that those who made the ultimate sacrifice in the war in Iraq, and those who will carry the wounds of this war for the rest of their lives, served in a morally worthy cause.

A story which requires hardship and sacrifice — and even the ultimate pouring out of self which appears at first glance to be a catastrophe — feeds the soul's need for deeper meaning.

«Our new partnership with Folds of Honor is the latest demonstration of that support, and we are committed to doing everything we can to fund scholarships for the families of service - members who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedoms.»

For many parents, the outcome of this process is the ultimate assessment of how they have performed as caregivers and how their children have repaid them for the sacrifices, efforts, and investments they have made over the years.

So tired of the superior mother complex of some mothers who think Breastfeeding is the ultimate act of sacrifice.

As you can imagine this kind of self sacrifice probably wasn't in anyone's best interest, despite my thinking that I was the ultimate mother to my son.

Unlike those women parking their kids in day care while they went to work, I was a mother virtuously willing to sacrifice her own happiness for the sake of her children, and being rewarded with the ultimate prize: I wasn't missing a moment of their fleeting, precious, and unrecoverable childhoods.

I believe that it is my responsibility as a farmer to harvest as many pounds of beef as possible when my animals make the ultimate sacrifice to become protein to feed to my family and yours.

She has carried life inside her, done her best to protect and nourish it, and made the ultimate sacrifice by giving all of herself to her child.