She did what she needed to support herself but never stopped feeding
her abiding love of nature and animals.
Not exact matches
The
nature of God is thus the basis
of ethics: «God is
love, and he who
abides in
love abides in God» (vs. 16).
These four factors — the law -
abiding order
of the world, the progressive, evolutionary
nature of the world, the human power to choose and to decide, and the human
loves and loyalties that create homes and friendships — account for all the tragedy and suffering on earth.
To be sure, Paul had a Spirit - touched sympathy, but so did the dualistic arch - «heretic» Marcion — and so too do those materialistically oriented, secular non-Christians who stand up for
nature's rights simply out
of their
abiding love for living things.
The New Testament is in itself all that is necessary as a basis for Christian faith, but much light is thrown upon God's dealings with man in the story
of Israel's halting and gradual discovery
of the true
nature of God as universal, not national; as law -
abiding, not capricious; as a God
of peace, not war; as a God
of justice,
love and mercy rather than
of wrath, and vengeance.
Bourgeois's
abiding love of all
of nature stemmed from a childhood spent surrounded by it.