Sentences with phrase «as expressions of love»

Giving and receiving positive emotions such as expressions of love is something they have very little experience with.

She views them as expressions of your love.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

In a world like ours, open to new possibilities and genuine novelty, prayer as the expression of love between God and man can accomplish great things.

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.

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.

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

The connection between love and sex may show how women are socialized to see sex as an expression of love, Montemurro said.

According to the survey, women are slightly more likely than men to see acts of service as an expression of love.

According to the survey, women are more likely than men to see acts of service as an expression of love.

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.

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.

It has to do with painting as an expression of love, and the way in which painting has the capacity to reveal the spiritual — a sense of the unseen or the transcendent might be another way to say it.

But, later in life, you began a relationship and perhaps got married, and eventually the message you are trying to express to your partner is not received or acknowledged as an expression of love, even if that is your intent.

If your love languages vary significantly, eventually the message you are trying to express to your partner is not received or acknowledged as an expression of love, even if that is your intent and vice versa.

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?

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.

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.

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.

The Gospel presents the figure of the Christ as the expression of a non-coercive love which draws the world in its freedom toward a finer community of being.49 As Whitehead envisions the Christian message, Christ taught, lived, and died with the authority of a supreme ideaas the expression of a non-coercive love which draws the world in its freedom toward a finer community of being.49 As Whitehead envisions the Christian message, Christ taught, lived, and died with the authority of a supreme ideaAs Whitehead envisions the Christian message, Christ taught, lived, and died with the authority of a supreme ideal.

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.

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.