Sentences with phrase «as an expression of the love of»

However, we should not understand this as an expression of a love of paradox and mystery on his part.

When he got an extra paycheck from extra work it was actually superfluous to him, so he gave the money away (actually handed it out) as an expression of the love of God.

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?

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

This is the central point of man that is different than animal as we were gifted with capacity to worship God (worship is closely connected with the emotive expressions of love).

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.

It is a convincing testimony to the power of Grace when someone is able to take criticism as you have; but fear of such criticism can also have the affect of making those just learning of the depth of Divine Love after years of being taught to worship a Cosmic Bully fearful of sharing their own experiences and expressions of faith.

This approach is not too far from the understanding of so many young people today, who see sex as «the highest and fullest expression of loving».

The Bible can be read as coming to its climax in an understanding of a God whose work in the world is always an expression of love rather than of force.

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

But we all know that it can also be a very bad expression of love, as with rape or abuse, which has nothing to do with love and everything to do with power, domination etc..

And as much as I love atheism and many of its spokespersons, I somehow still suggest that it can be dogmatic in its attitude and expressions.

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.

It can be precious as an expression of love between them regardless of its issue.

Violence is inevitable, but so far as concerns society it has the same character as the universally prevailing law of gravitation, which is not in any way an expression of God's love in Christ or of Christian vocation.

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.

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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.

I assume that the word «character» (also a problematic term) might also point to what is intended by the expression «inner being,» and that such words as unselfish and selfish, helpful and unhelpful, friendly and hostile, open and bigoted, would be more particularized variations of the more basic notions of loving and hating.

However we take the doctrine of the Trinity, as ontological affirmation or as symbolic expression, it is essential to the way in which the New Testament sees the relation of God's love to his redemptive action in Jesus Christ.

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 just war tradition makes theological sense as an expression of the character of communities concerned daily with justice and with loving our near and distant neighbors.

... While the Principle of Redemptive Withdrawal is focused on the abandonment Jesus experienced as he experienced the Father's judgment on the sin of the world, it is nevertheless grounded in the truth that the cross is the definitive expression of the self - giving, mutual indwelling agape - love that defines the triune God throughout eternity (p. 778).

Bono's genius is in what he refers to as a «religious instinct» that he trusts will lead him toward a greater experience of truth, love and artistic expression.

As Carl Dudley writes, «When church size is measured by human relationships, the small church is the largest expression of the Christian faith,» And David Ray reminds us that «small churches are the norm, primarily because many, many people still find them to be the right size In which to love God and neighbor.

What he meant was that our entire doctrinal endeavor must be understood in the context of knowing God, as an exercise in spirituality, as an expression of our love and worship of God.

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.

Here passionate love became sacralised as an expression of bhakti: the loving - woman's longing became devotion and love - making became worship..

At that moment, if the church had been logical and free of homophobia, it would have re-examined the value of homosexual activity as an expression of human love and companionship.

I thoroughly enjoy all of these artistic expressions, these slices of life as seen by hurting and healing people who are made in the image of love.

Being dismissive of one's experiences and feelings by using God's love as a kind of muzzle to the expression of deep hurt, cheapens what real hope offers — which is believing someone's story, but encouraging them that there are more chapters to go.

This too, as an expression of love, is involved in seeking the righteousness of God.

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.

In a democracy of worth, then, since law is viewed as an expression of the good, it is not only respected but it is also loved.

you realize he's been holding back as an expression of love.

If we accept the love of Christ as the basis of reconciliation, then the expression of it through charitable and service programmes are important form of reconciling mission.

This kind of internal contradiction seems to run through much traditional theology; it finds explicit expression in Luther's dichotomy between the terrible God, who put him not only in awe but in utter terror, and the tender and loving God whom he knew in Jesus Christ as the savior, the loving friend, and the gracious Father of men.

«This pinnacle of faith in New Testament religion is the final expression of certainty about the power of God to complete our fragmentary life as well as the power of His love to purge it of the false completions in which all history is involved.»

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

Marriage is, therefore, not understood by Catholics as merely an expression of love between two people.

But loving the other as other is the true test of love because we've come to know that the expression of unity is the dynamic union of diversity.

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).

The religious understanding of the conflict between good and evil, the fact of the stubborn resistance of the human heart to the love of God and its demands, the vision of the divine strategy of sacrificial love in the life and death of Jesus as the climax of history, all this is foreign to most of the philosophies of progress, but it was the heart of the great expressions of Christian liberalism.

Whatever can be done about absentee - landlordism to serve those ends can be done as an expression of Christian love.

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But what we have established so far is that the exercise of power in history, the expression of the interests, vitalities, and wills which belong to us as human beings, and even the participation in the inevitable conflict of these interests and vitalities, are not in contradiction to the real human good which is the earthly content of our life in the love of God.