Sentences with phrase «as an act of love»

But if the thing is done as a symbol, then it loses its nature as an act of love.

And we still cook as an act of love and time and care to do so.

You have committed to your own healing and self - care as an act of Love.

It was created as an act of love, to honor someone who lived a full life and gave as much or more than she got.

The article also reminded parents to always make a child feel that everything they do is done as an act of love.

In view of this violent trajectory of objectivism, Palmer argues, «we must recover from our spiritual tradition the models and methods of knowing as an act of love.»

On genetically enhancing a child's IQ or physical strength, he comments: «Enhancement could be seen as an act of love and concern, rather than a narcissistic effort to make the child a product or commodity.»

I'm sure they're all meant as acts of love towards Nintendo, but they tend to come across as «hey guys, look at what Nintendo games could look like if they actually made games that belong in this generation».

Interesting that you see the practice of human sacrifice to appease a god as an act of love.

They seem to argue that, ultraviolence is justified as an act of love in behalf of an oppressed neighbor.

Writer - director Greta Gerwig made the film as an act of love, not just toward her hometown of Sacramento but also toward girlhood, and toward the feeling of always being on the outside of wherever real life is happening.

They later defended their participation in his death as an act of love, telling the media that their son «was not prepared to live what he felt was a second - class existence.»

Holloway considers this point quite directly and says that before the Fall, a couple would have had sexual intercourse as «an act of religion [by its reference to God] as well as an act of love [by its desire to share in God's creative work]».

«Please explain the parting of the red sea and the slaughter of 200,000 plus innocents in the last two tsunamis as the acts of a loving god.»

Kaiser understands God's wrath as an act of love against sin which hurts those He loves.

Her (very petty) redemptive moment is at the movie's end, when she loosens up enough to buy her self - esteem challenged daughter some very expensive and flattering jeans as an act of love.

We are called to preach the law with love, to risk telling people how to live as an act of love, even as our Lord looked with love at the man who asked, «What must I do to inherit eternal life?»

Otherwise Jesus» call to repentance could not be understood as an act of love.

This is in contrast with the Christian view which famously «hates the sin but loves the sinner», for we believe that God created all humans as an act of love and that we are born «good», ready for a loving relationship with God and therefore with each other.

A new paradigm is here — one in which women are choosing to birth from a place of autonomy, recognizing it as a normal healthy experience in their lives, so as to embrace birth as an act of loving surrender.

While Reform and Reconstructionist Jews are more liberal and have embraced marriage as an act of love, and not with the requirement of procreation, all forms of Judaism are united in their very sacred view of the marriage between man and wife.

A benevolent unicorn from Middle Earth paid the bills as an act of love for the universe.

To say, with Parker Palmer, that we must «recover from our spiritual tradition the models and methods of knowing as an act of love» is to direct us to the roots of that tradition in ancient Israel for whom knowledge and intimacy were one and the same thing.

While efforts to reduce someone s grieving may seem justified as acts of love, and motivated only by a wish to minimize another's pain (and thus are difficult, especially for the bereaved, to challenge), they fail the first test of love: they do not show respect.

Gerwig made the film as an act of love, not just toward her hometown of Sacramento but also toward girlhood, and toward the feeling of always being on the outside of wherever real life is happening.

God allows us to unite our suffering to his as an act of love.

Imagine that Jewish children, as an act of love and respect, offered some Jewish rites for deceased Mormons, perhaps reciting: «May she come to her place in peace,» to help beloved Mormons on their way to further happiness in the Jewish afterlife.

They show that while the Church is expressing a deepened appreciation of the dignity of sexual intercourse in marriage - as an act of love - union and mutual self - giving - it has not weakened its teaching that our whole nature, and sexual desire in particular, were seriously affected by the Fall.

But I read Genesis a bit differently from him, and I am therefore less sanguine than he is about the penultimate prospects of our knowledge under any description, even the description of knowing as an act of love.

The importance of this presentation is that God creates the world out of love and keeps it in being as an act of love, and that this creative act is, as it were, focussed through Christ as the very mind of God, the Logos, as described in the Gospel of John and as foreshadowed in Wisdom literature in the Old Testament.

However, some women (especially those with a new baby) view it as an act of love towards themselves, as a treat to have 5 minutes to care for themselves.

«If someone found they had to have an abortion and gave me permission to use eggs from their fetus, I would see it as an act of love.

If you see trash on the ground, pick it up as an act of love.

See it as an act of love that strengthens bonds, teaches important life - extending skills to your children, and nourishes your bodies and souls.

Humans recognize feeding time, whether we are feeding our animals or our people, as an act of love and nourishment.

As an act of love, they don't share.