Sentences with phrase «with selfish desires»

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But I do believe that we, perhaps with careful education as children, are capable of rising above our immediate selfish desires and doing things that are altruistic, and I DO N'T believe that such actions require the intervention of supernatural entities.

When you pursue a relationship with Jesus and put Him first, you are laying down your own flesh and selfish desires before you ever run into temptation.

I think the context here is if you are consumed with the desire to obtain pleasure for yourself then that is clearly selfish.

If we are able to be honest with ourselves — a very helpful if not exceedingly popular habit — then we should be able to discern which of our desires are selfish, which are contrary to our own principles.

Secular human societies need laws because, apart from cooperation with Grace, our survivalist instincts predispose us to choose immediate selfish interests and desires over our greater common good.

I posit that the world would be a harsh unforgiving and very dangerous place with little influence of good to soften the selfish desires of mankind to gratify their own lusts, at any cost to others.

It's not to do with human nature per se; it's to do with sin: envy, jealousy, possessiveness, quarrelling, a lack of willingness to forgive and forget, infidelity, manipulation, the desire to control and dominate, lack of consideration in matters to do with running a home as well as in the bedroom (sex can be one of the highest expressions of love between a man and a woman; it can also be incredibly selfish); hearts that are consistently closed to new life.

the learning of the great man consists entirely in getting rid of the obscuration of selfish desires in order by his own efforts to make manifest his clear character, so as to restore the condition of forming one body with Heaven, Earth, and the myriad things, a condition that is originally so, that is all.

For them the world at base is indeed really ideal, one body, as it were; evil is the superimposition by selfish desires of feelings and actions that pervert the ideal harmony.15 The bulk of the moral program then is the elimination of selfish desires so that the original clear character will shine through, or so that love of the people will be fulfilled, with all that means for the ordering of the family, economy, and state.

I often have trouble knowing the difference between my selfish desires and the Spirit, but think that we learn with practice to discern between the two.

Any man aware of those facts who climbs into bed with another man for either oral or anal sex can not possibly have the other man's best interest at heart, is thinking only of himself, and his own selfish, perverted, sexual desires.

In fact, at least three assumptions seem to be at work when the need for self - control is stressed: first, that we are all at war not only with others but with ourselves, torn between our desires and our reason (or social norms); second, that these desires are fundamentally selfish, aggressive, or otherwise unpleasant; and third, that these desires are very strong, constantly threatening to overpower us if we don't rein them in.

However, by waving my magic wand I will be interfering with the laws of physics not with people — they will be as selfish, they will be as desiring of status.