Sentences with phrase «as an expression of love for»

We battle and fight against Satan only as an expression of love for our Redeemer.

Apparently, Cage is a huge fan of the «Ghost Rider» comics and even has a tattoo on his arm as an expression of love for the flaming skull anti-hero.

Not exact matches

«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»

To say that a person speaking about their family is an expression of their love for god is so far fetched to make god exist as I've seen so far.

You're not saying that it's OK to disrespect your parents, commit adultery, lie, steal and murder as long as it's an expression of your love for God, are you?

To exclude violence completely, especially from God's expressions of love, would be to make his care for us less passionate than our own parents, who disapline us for our own good, and protect us as needs be.

With Joseph, for instance, he craves physical affection, while I don't naturally require (let alone give) that as an expression of love.

The world is a body that must be carefully tended, that must be nurtured, protected, guided, loved, and befriended both as valuable in itself — for like us, it is an expression of God — and as necessary to the continuation of life.

Ranade agreed that «the Christian civilization which came to India from the West was the main instrument of renewal» of India which finds expression in the new love of municipal freedom and civil virtues, aptitude for mechanical skill and love of science and research, chivalrous respect of womanhood etc.; and it is interesting that his lecture on his new concept of «Indian Theism» (a redefinition of Visishtadvaita in the light of Protestant Christian thought) as the basis of national renewal of India was delivered in the chapel of the Wilson College Bombay.

Take, for example, Jürgen Moltmann's (b. 1926) view of creation as the expression of «God's self - communicative love» or Wolfhart Pannenberg's (b. 1928) rich treatment of the Paschal events confirming for us the eternal truth that Jesus is the obedient Son, the Father is the Ruler of all, and the Spirit is active always and everywhere, including in death.

Indeed, homosexual persons are called to live out the inclination which is natural for them, namely, in fidelity to another person of the same sex, and enjoying sexual acts not primarily for pleasure but as expressions of love.

For example, he rightly points out that Jesus says, «You have heard that it was said, «You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy»» (Matthew 5:38), but what he doesn't say is that there is a reason Jesus uses the expression, «that it was said» instead of his usual expression, «have you not read» or «as it is written» when he references scriptural passages.

The Father, in an expression of His love for His Son, determined that He would create a world, and that He would allow that world to fall into sin, and that He would recover from it a redeemed humanity that He would then give to His Son as a bride to Him so that this redeemed humanity could forever and ever, for all eternity glorify His Son.

He is doing as Jesus did and expressing love at the same time which is as Jesus intended... doing these things in love is in the Bible but Jesus did not explicitly state who to express that love... It seems God left some room for free expression of love.

The expression of love involves a concern for their bodily and mental welfare as well as their spiritual wellbeing.

By claiming the male experience to be normative for faith, and by naming the deity as male, we have overemphasized strength and aggressiveness and denied — indeed, repressed — many expressions of faith that focus on God's self - giving, self - emptying love.

But aside from that this potential can be used for good (such as orienting us as a community to bring practical expressions of God's love to the world, such as pursuing social justice) or for evil (such as when we turn our worship services into corporate naval gazing that never moves beyond the intention to touch the world — there is far too much of this kinda BS pretending to be worship of God, the Bible would call this idolatry).

«God has a plan for you»... «God loves you»... «Jesus Loves you»... «accept christ as a personal saviour»... these are more of those expressions christians use and love to throw at peloves you»... «Jesus Loves you»... «accept christ as a personal saviour»... these are more of those expressions christians use and love to throw at peLoves you»... «accept christ as a personal saviour»... these are more of those expressions christians use and love to throw at people.

And third, the way of love is to put the emphasis on a positive respect for one's body as the temple of God's spirit, on one's money as held in stewardship from God for constructive uses, on one's mind as needing to be kept clear and vigorous for God's service, on one's spirit and all one's social contacts as best finding active expression with «relaxation and warm fellowship» through channels that require no artificial stimulation.

But for the process - thinker if God is in fact creator, with creative activity in love as his very heart, then he can not be the God he is, and hence not really God, unless there is a world in which his creativity is expressed and which itself is an expression of that creativity, and unless he is «affected» by that world and what happens in it.

In Pastor Benke's actual prayer (as opposed to the written text from which he departed), he made no mention of Jesus (except in the closing phrase), nor of the significance of Christ's life, death, and resurrection as the unique expression of God's love, nor of the need for repentance and faith in Christ as means of grace.

Agape takes many forms in history, and although we can not infallibly judge any human action or intention as the expression of agape, the Gospel love of neighbour and concern for the neighbour is surely present here.

I can't stand Sarah Palin as a politician and would never, ever, ever vote for her, but I thought this letter was lovely and a pure expression of joy and love for her new child.

The historian of non-violence, William Robert Miller, says that the first explicit reference to non-violence in the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott came from a white librarian, Juliette Morgan, who compared the boycott to Gandhi's salt march in a letter to the Montgomery Advertiser on December 12, 1955.35 The development of non-violent strategies in the civil rights movement of the 1950's and 60's arose partly from belief in pacifism as an expression of love in the Fellowship of Reconciliation and Society of Friends from whom many leaders of the movement for racial justice came.

But Abraham believed precisely for this life, that he was to grow old in the land, honored by the people, blessed in his generation, remembered forever in Isaac, his dearest thing in life, whom he embraced with a love for which it would be a poor expression to say that he loyally fulfilled the father's duty of loving the son, as indeed is evinced in the words of the summons, «the son whom thou lovest.»

The Kingdom of God is a reality here and now, but can be perfect only in the eternal order... The primary principle of Christian Ethics and Christian Politics must be respect for every person simply as a person... The person is primary, not the society; the State exists for the citizen, not the citizen for the State... freedom is the goal of politics... Freedom, Fellowship, Service — these are the three principles of a Christian social order, derived from the more fundamental Christian postulates that Man is a child of God and is destined for a life of eternal fellowship with Him... Love... finds its primary expression through Justice — which in the field of industrial disputes means in practice that each side should state its own case as strongly as possibly it can before the most impartial tribunal available...

He emphasizes the importance and necessity of love as a prerequisite for any expression of church.

The world is a body that must be carefully tended, guided, loved and befriended both as valuable in itself — for like us, it is an expression of God — and as necessary to the continuation of life.

This is so in spite of the fact that all man's knowing and loving, so far as it is an expression of his being, is a search for God.

It points to Him as love faithfully and everlastingly at work, as it recognizes that He will use whatever good He receives, along with His own urgent desire for good, in furthering the expression of love in the creative advance which is the world.

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.

On that final Passover, Jesus told his disciples how much he had longed to eat this supper with them before he suffered, and he would use it as an expression of the love which God has for us.

This function of an idealistic ethical symbol, this affirmation that the moral act is an expression of the love and the will of the universal Spirit, is characteristic of the religious and Christian Ethic, the Ethic of love and of the anxious search for the divine presence, which, as a result of narrow partisanship or lack of insight, is spurned and vilified today by vulgar rationalists and intellectualists, by so - called free - thinkers and similar riff - raff who frequent Masonic lodges.

Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi; we know the Church at prayer does meditate on Christ's love as the ultimate expression of God's most wise plan for us all, the plan for which human beings came into existence - to be swept up to the life of God.

Some of his words were obviously expressions of the commandments of God — for example, «Honour thy father and thy mother» (Mark 7:10) and other commandments of the decalogue (Mark 10:19), as well as the Shema and the command to love one's neighbour (Mark 12:29 - 31).

The inscription on the base reads: «By the loyalists of Ulster as an expression of their love and admiration for its subject».

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When your partner realizes the thought and effort you've put into planning the perfect date for the two of you, chances are they'll understand it as an expression of your love and affection.

Krasinski and Blunt pull off fiercely expressive performances as young parents desperate to keep their family safe at all costs, and Blunt in particular has a deft way of combining horror, grief, and love into one masterful expression as Evelyn watches helplessly while her family fights for their lives.

His swan song, Parade, sorely underrated by the small number of critics who've actually seen it, was a clean break from Hulot, and as such, feels more free than anything else Tati ever made — it's a difficult film for people who may be expecting another lighthearted, whimsical comedy, instead of an experimental film that uses a circus performance as its foundation, but in its own way, it's the ultimate Tati, an undiluted expression of what he loved to do and to see, and what hats to put on.

And so what seems conspicuously «indistinct» about In the Mood for Love — the pervasive sense of simplicity that governs the drama, from the convenience of its setup to the vagueness of what proceeds from it — becomes, in retrospect, a sophisticated expression of the fundamentally abstract quality of memory and reflection, not so much a paean to past love as to past love remembered in the presLove — the pervasive sense of simplicity that governs the drama, from the convenience of its setup to the vagueness of what proceeds from it — becomes, in retrospect, a sophisticated expression of the fundamentally abstract quality of memory and reflection, not so much a paean to past love as to past love remembered in the preslove as to past love remembered in the preslove remembered in the present.

With the possible exception of Murray, whose dialogue exchanges come off as a bit flat in a few scenes, every actor seems to have wrapped their arms around their role in a jealous expression of loving affection for that part.

In an extended love scene notable for both its hot - blooded sensuality and its intricate, bittersweet play with memory, «120 Beats Per Minute» embraces sex as not just an expression of love or lust, but something more — an act of life - sustaining defiance.

How can expressions of love and concern for someone be misinterpreted as interfering with their lives?

For me, and I suspect for many others, this activity acts as a deep self - healing process, taking on and working with the reverential driving all those human expressions of love, joy, awe, respect, passion, compassion, honouring, devotion, wonder, gratitude, thankfulness, celebration, courage, commitment — the full range of positive emotioFor me, and I suspect for many others, this activity acts as a deep self - healing process, taking on and working with the reverential driving all those human expressions of love, joy, awe, respect, passion, compassion, honouring, devotion, wonder, gratitude, thankfulness, celebration, courage, commitment — the full range of positive emotiofor many others, this activity acts as a deep self - healing process, taking on and working with the reverential driving all those human expressions of love, joy, awe, respect, passion, compassion, honouring, devotion, wonder, gratitude, thankfulness, celebration, courage, commitment — the full range of positive emotions.

But as the pages turn, the revelation comes, and the fearful odyssey of a midget in a full - sized world rings increasingly true as the perfect expression of what every human being — regardless of size — feels throughout life, as both child and adult: that the world does not fit, that we were not meant for it, that every act of love we tender towards the world is met with misunderstanding and rebuff.

My motivation for these past 40 years as the editor - in - chief of this enterprise derives from my life - long love of books, the personal importance libraries have played in my life, and the continued expressions of appreciation and support I receive from librarians, booksellers, authors, publishers, and the general reading public.

Through animal communication we can translate for you, acting as the conduit for this expression of unconditional joy and love between everyone in your family and for all of your pets.

For Rose, as she stated in the catalogue of «The Eighties,» the decades of the»60s and the»70s were periods in which «the self - hatred of the artist expressed [itself] in eliminating the hand...» Such a powerful wish to annihilate personal expression implies that the artist does not love his creation: The art of the»60s and»70s, she argued, was «practiced not out of love, but out

Richard Hamilton, who has been the subject of a major retrospective at Tate Modern this year and is best known for his work as a pop artist in the 1960s, spent fifty years giving visual expression to his love of James Joyce's great modernist masterpiece, Ulysses, which recounts Leopold Bloom wandering around Dublin on 16 June 1904.