Sentences with phrase «understanding of the sacrifices»

Everyone was saved from the beginning, it just took a true act of love and a then understanding of sacrifice for us to finally realise it.

I am tempted to say, then, that the cross of Christ is not simply a sacrifice, but the place where two opposed understandings of sacrifice clashed.

Off post, people went about their lives without a real understanding of the sacrifices made by American service members.

This deeper understanding of sacrifice has further ramifications in other areas of our lives.

Without a retrieval and a renewal of the Catholic understanding of sacrifice we can not hope, in the modern world, to foster our people's spiritual life in an integral manner.

Not exact matches

Though Oracle's critics have complained over the years about Ellison's tendency to promise a product prematurely, or sacrifice quality for early delivery, he clearly understands the benefit of first - mover advantage.

Uncovering and understanding those deeper motives is the first step toward becoming a successful entrepreneur or discovering that you are not cut out for its punishing demands — the personal sacrifices, inevitable setbacks, relentless work, crushing time pressure, financial uncertainty and sleepless nights faced by 99 percent of entrepreneurs.

According to a 2016 Blue Star Family survey, only 12 percent of veterans feel the public understands the sacrifices they and their families have made.

He is simply incapable of understanding the contributions, the sacrifices and the commitment to democratic values that Puerto Ricans have shown over decades.

Offering them a discount is not where the strategy lies; the main strategy here is to make sure your customer understands the amount of sacrifice you are undertaking for his / her sake.

If you truly knew or understood the significance of Christ's sacrifice (death and resurrection)... you would realize how truly God LOVES the world (people)... You... & Me.

Trust that your spouse understands the concept of self - sacrifice and delayed gratification.

Many people just do not have the ability to understand the idea of sacrifice, service, and selflessness.

Only in productive work and learning processes can their individualism be broken down in such a way that it is transformed from morally based (that is to say as individual as ever) self - sacrifice to a new kind of political self understanding and behavior.

What we meant to model was the sending of one of our number to be a foreign missionary — to learn a new language, to understand a local culture, to sacrifice the amenities of affluence and to live knowing that he or she is always being watched by seekers — while the rest of us stay here as lifetime local missionaries, learning to speak the language of the unchurched, understanding secular culture, sacrificing the amenities of affluence and living as a «watched» person in a society that is skeptical of Christian spirituality until it sees the real thing on display.

By pressing the ancient moral criterion of equity while refusing to discuss the economic criterion of growth, the clergy in effect revived a medieval understanding of faith as intellectual sacrifice.

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 this thesis can be maintained, what we have is a secularized version of the Protestant ethic --- one that glorifies success, preaches sacrifice in order to get ahead, understands work as a «calling,» and emphasizes individualism.

[53] The early Church understood Malachi as prophesying the sacrifice of the Mass, which would supersede the Temple sacrifice and would be offered for all time across the whole world.

I can understand the admiration for someone willing to make that sacrifice, as with our fallen veterns, but if given a choice I would not have them do it for me, and since I am a veteran, I made the very same offer of sacrifice.

Understanding better the nature of sacrifice, we realise it doesn't necessarily involve the destruction of a victim.

Hegel is all too Blakean in understanding the Crucifixion as the sacrifice of the abstract and alien God.

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.»

To understand the sacrifice of the Cross, the sacrifice of the Mass, we need to go to the Old Testament.

The great Indo - European mythos, from which Western culture sprang, was chiefly one of sacrifice: it understood the cosmos as a closed system, a finite totality, within which gods and mortals alike occupied places determined by fate.

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?

If you attached meaning to something the reward is knowledge that you sacrifice will go unrewarded for yourself but carry meaning for those able to understand that what you did was without expectation of reward.

That's how the world understands «sacrifice» - giving up something of value for a greater good.

because your understand of science eclipses that of the god of the bible, gone would be the stone age morality — slavery, animal sacrifice, destroying whole segments of populations for absolutely insane reasons - at least I hope it would be better:)

Israel understands the story of the near - sacrifice of Isaac to say: Except we be willing to lose our life for Yahweh's sake, we shall neither find nor save our life.

Christian values of sacrifice, charity and commitment to others are all intertwined in this profound understanding of solidarity.

From Genesis to Revelation the genre is related to what the people knew and could understand at the time, from deities, to sacrifice, to prayer, to answer of prayers.

Some understand it as a self - sacrificial love — a mandate to love the other at the cost of sacrificing the self.

Yet Jesus, commended the woman's sacrifice and openness to ridicule by those who were too shallow to understand that we are the bride of Christ.

Those symbols engendered in the founding are only vaguely and imperfectly understood today and readily exchangeable for «security» and «rights» among a people who, in the end, may no longer be worthy heirs of the great sacrifice.

The first generation of Americans, the ones who sacrificed everything of an immanent nature in the effort to capture the true meaning of existential order, intimately understood the realty of that order they established, and the symbols they created, specifically «freedom» and «liberty».

I also didn't understand the full meaning of Jesus» sacrifice until much later.

My understanding is that Jewish sacrifices are tied to the Temple and may actually return when / if it is restored, i.e. with the return of the «mashiach», or messiah.

This interpretation of the scriptures and understanding of Christian anthropology gave Christian spirituality a view of God as a harsh judge who wanted the sacrifice of the life of Jesus as expiation and atonement for the sins of humanity.

We who sacrifice fabulous resources to fatten the most inhuman form of violence so that it will continue to protect us, and who pass our time in transmitting futile messages from a planet that is risking destruction to planets that are already dead» how can we have the extraordinary hypo crisy to pretend that we do not understand all those people who did such things long before us: those, for example, who made it their practice to throw a single child, or two at the most, into the furnace of a certain Moloch in order to ensure the safety of the others?

Raising Abel: The Recovery of the Eschatological Imagination By James Alison Crossroad, 203 pages, $ 19.95 Drawing on the now familiar Girardian themes of the necessity of sacrifice and Jesus as the end of sacrifice, Alison makes clear the «eschatological difference» these themes can make in our understanding of creation.

Until God became the center of our family, we didn't really even understand what it meant to love, sacrifice or walk in faith.

In other words, the sacrifice that saves the world is first of all a kind of commerce between the human and the divine, something the Hindu understands as well as the Christian.

As I mentioned earlier (and you clearly deliberately skipped or just had a hard time understanding big words) is that the religion of the israelites and the current incarnation of judaism is similar but still separate, in that they had different rituals (sacrifices), different holidays (no simchat torah, etc...)

In so doing, some sacrifice of completeness has been made, but by this means the reader will be able to understand that both these writers have a single purpose: to declare the meaning and content of the ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Yet even he can scarcely understand that his rite of public penance and purification will also be the rite of ordination of the great High Priest who is to come, and thereafter of all of us who are to have access to the Holy of Holies because of his sacrifice.

If we can really understand the magnificence of this sacrifice done on our behalf, then the reality of that gift transforms us and makes want to serve and please him.

In Part Two we will take an in - depth look at the biblical concepts of the temple, sacrifice and the law in order to understand them in their biblical context.

When the Pentateuch is understood in its entirety, it appears that the message of the Pentateuch is that God was never angry at people and never wanted sacrifices and offerings, but wanted instead a people for Himself who lived by faith in God and with justice and mercy before a watching world.