Sentences with phrase «god first loved»

«We love because God first loved us.»

I love you all whom reads and comments on my blog even if you don't love me back, because God first loved me.

As Christians the struggle for the integrity of creation, for justice and peace in the human community, for compassion towards the neighbor and concrete expressions of our love of God, all flow out of our affirmation that God first loved us and gave us Jesus Christ.

How can Christians affirm with I John 4:119 that we love because God first loved us and think it religiously unimportant that the world's evolution is grounded in creative, responsive love?

I pray that we can love everyone like God first loved us.

If the Augustinian lens through which sin is interpreted is that sin is too much love for self and not enough love for God or neighbor, then perhaps we need a more subtle analysis of the young men in the X chromosome study If scripture is light — that we love because God first loved us (1 John 4:19)-- then all of us, these young men included, need first to experience love before the capacity to love either self or neighbor can develop.

We love because God first loved us.

«I say therefore that God first loves himself», Scotus says in the Paris commentary.

Not exact matches

The last article of his that I read, moments before learning of his death, was his piece in the February issue of First Things called «On Loving the Law of God,» an engaging essay (responding to one by Gilbert Meilaender) on the law - and - gospel dialectic of Lutheranism.

Would you care to explain how it is that «primitive sheep herders» as most of you love to derogatorily call them were able to in and of themselves write scripture such that the first two books Genesis & Exodus spell TORAH = LAW for every equidistant letter sequence of the 50th letter... and does the same backwards HAROT for Numbers & Deuteronomy, and the 3rd book that they're pointing towards Leviticus, every 7th letter (7 is God's number for perfection) spells YHWH = The name of God.

The Christian faith and the other faiths that believe in a loving, peaceful God (including much of the Islamic world) have reached out into our communities to help people — helping first and preaching God's love by example.

Keeping God first... not loving money.

Yes, God must be number one in your life and the love of God must be first priority.

Jesus said to love god as the first commandment.

God is Love and we are commanded first and foremost to «Love God with all your Heart and Soul, and mind... this is the first and greatest commandment of all... and the second is to love your neighbor as thyself.&raLove and we are commanded first and foremost to «Love God with all your Heart and Soul, and mind... this is the first and greatest commandment of all... and the second is to love your neighbor as thyself.&raLove God with all your Heart and Soul, and mind... this is the first and greatest commandment of all... and the second is to love your neighbor as thyself.&ralove your neighbor as thyself.»

All I'm saying is that you can not talk about love without first talking about God... in spite of what we humans do with that word / concept, God is at the core of it.

The first commandment is to love the Lord thy God with all of your heart, all of your mind, all of your soul and all of your strength.

God loves us so much, and anything we suffer in life God has suffered first, and far worse.

It matters not so much HOW the universe was created (although the first version creation in Genesis is interestingly similar in some ways to the modern scientific view, going from light — the big bang — to simple then more increasingly complex life, but I digress) what matter is that it was created by a loving God.

We love God because he first loved us — I John 4:19.

The aspects of the Pentecostal worldview that Smith notes» especially the radical openness to God and the dynamic presence and activity of the Spirit» were part of our group's worldview, and I will ever be thankful to have taken my first Christian steps within a body that placed the knowledge and love of Jesus Christ above all else.

I long ago lost any belief in God, but if she exists and cares about us humnas I would think she would want us to think of our loved ones first.

For God so loved this world He saw fit to send His first born of the «elementals», (Being God's Sons) to give hope where little hopefulness was found.

Justina OK, the «Love the Lord your God with all your heart...» part covers the first few Commandments and the Golden Rule covers everything from respecting your parents on down, right?

The first and greatest commandment is to love God with all your heart, soul and mind.

From Christian Scripture Matthew 22:34 — «Jesus answered, «the first is, «Hear O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one; you shall love the Love your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.&ralove the Love your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.&raLove your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.»

It suggests that God is, or ought to be, our first order of business, the primary focus of our energy, love, and work.

I guess it's not an all loving God = > You missed the first part many are called.

And God loved them first.

The love of God, he said, is the first commandment.

But Darlene, as much as you you want to help other people find the love of your god, you can't do it by condemning them first.

But though I love some of the ancient ponderings, we should first check off some other possibilities that have been tried and tested when God is not speaking in my own God - Conversations journey.

NL, you missed the first part, «Love the Lord your God with all your heart...» part.

And, you will find they are all working hard to live up to God's standards, free of false teachings, having true love for their brothers around the world, living in peace even today, not willing to join anybody's army, nor join political parties but respectful of national governments and authorities, law abiding but God's kingdom interests come first, carrying out the world wide assignment God has given them.

As Christians, we need to offer the love of God that we have experienced first and foremost.

The second, which is like the first, but not the first, is to love our neighbor, not as God but as ourselves.

At first this moved me to anger but over time that has moved to sympathy and love... atheists are a people lost within themselves and this anger seems to be the desperate flailings of a people trying to find something to fill the hole in their soul where God should be.

Benedict's first encyclical was Deus Caritas Est — God is love.

That is, God must be the first love of our lives, and in the context of our love for God, Jesus is teaching, we love our families, friends (and enemies) and our neighbors.

It's not what you say so much that matters as how you think, speak, and act, and if you forgive me for quoting the Bible basically I think it comes down to this: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all they strength: this is the first commandment.

I would surely have to love my god first to willingly stone my own daughter to death for losing her virtue.

In John's first epistle he has a great deal to say about love, suggesting that if you don't have any love for your brethren you don't know God.

The first thing that must be said, however — a point only faintly adumbrated in the WCC statement's suggestion that Jesus had redefined the family — is that the fellowship of the kingdom of God, though it may be spoken of as a family, is neither generated nor sustained through biological transmission of life nor by the love given and received in the history of our families.

First off, the only thing we know for sure about God's Will is to love one another, everything else is a best guest.

I would also say that I agree God didn't pour out his wrath on Jesus so that we could be loved, we were loved first which is why Jesus took the wrath of God on our behalf so that we could go free.

The all knowing God has to invent earth and humans and love and war and every aspect of each etc. etc. and It already knows how the game will be played and end before starting because It is the Inventor so no reason to run through the idle act of playing the game in the first place.

For the first half of Jack Deere's Christian life, he thought loving God meant obeying God.

To seek God and fully reconcile with the truth first, and those you have hurt second... and submit to living loving, truthful and faithful life in Christ.

I'd fill the walls of our conversation with Coast Salish artwork and your heartbeat would match the drums of singing First Nations prayers and you'd learn to love the name Creator for God along with so many others.

The biblical answer to this problem is to first of all recognize that we have the gracious and loving forgiveness of God, but then to admit to God that we have actually messed up our lives by failing to live according to His instructions, and then seeking to take steps and make changes which allow us to live according to God's will.