Sentences with phrase «with selfishness»

If they aren't ready to deal with a problem — a struggle with selfishness, deception in an intimate relationship, addiction — they can simply minimize it, or never bring it up at all.

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Valentine's Day forgives us for a yearlong bout with selfishness.

A single shot of her face, as she goes from a doting smile over Tomasz to sudden, deep disgust with his selfishness, puts Konieczna in a major league of screen actresses.

Empathy is born out of contrasting her will to do good and desire to please with the selfishness exhibited by so many around her.

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

I could have used some Budweiser and Coors Light for these cupcakes if I wanted to be truly Super Bowl-esque, but Corona Light and Blue Moon are my favorite so I went with selfishness instead.

And then I look in the mirror and am reminded how sometimes I am nothing but a loud gong and how sometimes I run people over with my selfishness or even my good intentions.

Wouldn't it make sense that a church made up of flawed and broken people humbly seeking Christ would still struggle at times with the selfishness that lies in every heart?

every reason i ever did good in the first place were corrupted with selfishness and false attempts to be my own savior — all of which is giving God the finger.

Maybe especially in our parenting — a crucible for most of us to deal with our selfishness, our pride, our pet sins, our bad habits, our carefully hidden real selves.

Not exact matches

The former empties itself without seeking to refill, the latter simply replaces one form of selfishness with another.

The director may have intended to draw the audience into complicity with the lovers» selfishness — and in fact, I was surprised at how long it took for the audience to stop laughing at Ernest, to lose their edgy sympathy for the lovers — but the ultimate effect was simply to make the lovers» erotic demands seem further from our own.

This is why the human race will not survive, not due to people not procreating, it will be that we will destroy ourselves with our own selfishness and hate toward our own people.

On the cross he makes up for the selfishness of others with his selfless sacrifice of obedient love and he also apologizes to his Father for the infinite offence which sin gives to Divine Goodness.

They know that selfishness is a given, but they also know that its force and consequences vary enormously with the context.

I deal with pride, judgmentalism, and selfishness.

I think we struggle more with the perceived «selfishness» of living out our calling or vocation with abandon.

With the ferocity of an Old Testament prophet, Powers indicts our blindness and selfishness, a grotesque narrowing of vision; one of his principal characters learns early on that «human wisdom counts less than the shimmer of birches in a breeze.»

In great areas of human action man's refusal to accept his finiteness makes him proud, self - righteous, and in rebellion against God; man's selfishness makes him refuse to use his freedom with love toward his fellow men.

Yes, addictive behaviors often begin with a moral failing like selfishness or overindulgence.

But he must accept this redemption with the turning of his whole being, for only thus can he extricate himself from the maze of selfishness where he has always set himself as his goal and find a way to God and to the fulfillment of the particular task for which he is intended.

In my selfishness, I thought it was just between me and God.It took the situation with Alicia to wake me up to the fact that when we're not closely listening for the voice of God, we don't just miss out on the peace and joy we experience from a deeper relationship with the Lord; we don't just miss an opportunity to give honor and glory to the One who most deserves it; we don't just miss out on answered prayers God may have had in store for us — sometimes we miss the opportunity to answer someone else's prayer.»

When you have a world filled with liars and adulterers and murderers and greed and selfishness (even though we know what's right and what's wrong but we do it anyway) and the God that created you loves you so much that he needs to sacrifice his Son for all of us who have not kept his Law, in order to wipe out those terrible sins, then you should be praying that you're counted as one who kept his Laws.

What does selfishness even have to do with my original post?

OK let me ask you this one thing this one thing.how much money and time and feeding the poor.in the country and place you live at right now???? In a three year time span @@@@@ jeeeezy I gave out of my personal money $ 20,000 Thousands us dallors that's more then 30 years worth of income in some of the most religious dirt poor countries that's a fact.you can't give or received with a closed tight hand of selfishness and bitterness now @@@@@@@@ jeeeez how much have you given too help feed clothed and shelter the poor?

Peter, Merlin, I doubt if these are true names let along believe what any of you say, first off, if one is going along with the mainstream reports, this to me is just as the old saying goes, many will see, but only a few will actually «KNOW» I don't flow with what they «say» was proven just to fit in (be accepted), to receive rewards, or attention, this is all selfishness among the few elite.

The problem with blaming all this on faith or religion is that it hides the true culprits: fear, hatred, and selfishness — which culprits are leveraged by evil leaders of groups like ISIS.

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.

The trick is fooling the world into thinking there is some invisible evil spirit that made you do bad things so you can shift the blame for the greed, the selfishness and the hubris with which most religious zealots conduct themselves.

For us to blame capitalism while we live for ourselves alone is to compound our sin of selfishness with the hypocrisy of denying responsibility.

«Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves» (Philippians 2:3).

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.

But friends with benefits encourages you to give for free and creates an atmosphere that fuels selfishness, disrespect and zero responsibility.

To begin with, it must be stated again that so far as I can determine, selfishness is indeed a predisposition of the species.

When it comes to sharing of our own good fortune with others who are in great need, this selfishness continues to try to sound like individualism: «I take care of myself; others ought to do the same.»

Not that I agree with AA on fighting this battle, but it's not about selfishness.

I was always craving to connect with and to be close to god especially when I would see evil and selfishness in the world.

While I didn't disagree with the general sentiments — of course jealously and selfishness are wrong!

...) Somehow, it seems to me that unity will not be achieved with those terms, seeing how many interpretations are available now and the bottom line of our selfishness not addressed in any way, shape or form, other than to try to be «nicer».

«Somehow, it seems to me that unity will not be achieved with those terms, seeing how many interpretations are available now and the bottom line of our selfishness not addressed in any way, shape or form, other than to try to be «nicer».

With all due respect, I must say that the experience of the last violent century, with its widespread faith in human reason and evolutionary progress, hardly warrants optimism about transcending selfishness on those grouWith all due respect, I must say that the experience of the last violent century, with its widespread faith in human reason and evolutionary progress, hardly warrants optimism about transcending selfishness on those grouwith its widespread faith in human reason and evolutionary progress, hardly warrants optimism about transcending selfishness on those grounds.

The heroes of Hebrew story walk before us not as painted figures of imagined perfection; their biographers reveal with ruthless candor their foibles aud selfishness.

I believe in many cases, Jesus is in the right place in one person's heart but the other has for some reason walked away and gotten caught up in the selfishness that pervades so much of what we all do... and really Jesus has absolutely NOTHING to do with that.

«Character defects» were what Bill called his version of moral shortcomings members were instructed to remove (with God's help); and these were dishonesty, selfishness, anger, fear, inconsiderate sex conduct, and harmful behavior.

Though Hosea was not less concerned with the ruin that social selfishness was bringing upon the nation, yet his mood is emotional rather than judicial.

Niebuhr thus seems to have brought together the perfect love of God which transcends all selfishness with the human yearning for mutuality and the struggle of man for justice.

a psychological compulsion joined with the physical addiction to alcohol... one is driven to drink by selfishness and its symptoms»].

But as I said, to no surprise, this being gay is now a reality, from over many generations of wrong doings of sins, and should be expected, it's all good» along with other pleasurable things as greed, selfishness, etc. that we do today, and calling it good, but it is wrong as said, or prophesied it would be in Malachi 3 vs. 14,, 15.

Yet, God does will this creation, with all its selfishness and all of its tragedy, because «the Lord Jesus came to save all sinners».