Sentences with phrase «better in a loving relationship»

I'm okay with being single, and am altogether a happy person, but am much better in a loving relationship.

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Even if a man succeeded in work, amassed piles of money, and experienced good health, without loving relationships he wouldn't be happy, Vaillant found.

We are better with more, not less people living in committed loving relationships.

And isn't the relationship with God, and each spiritual journey going to lead us in different directions — why do we need to judge others who profess Love of God, who profess love of their fellow man, yet seem to us to act unkindly to others, how can we judge them unless we talk to them and understand them as well as God dLove of God, who profess love of their fellow man, yet seem to us to act unkindly to others, how can we judge them unless we talk to them and understand them as well as God dlove of their fellow man, yet seem to us to act unkindly to others, how can we judge them unless we talk to them and understand them as well as God does.

One of the best ways of strengthening your love for your friends and your mutual commitment to your relationship is to be in prayer.

If you are two consenting adult human beings and you desire to have a loving, committed relationship in which to raise a family, and you wish to have all of the benefits and responsibilities that comes with it, marriage is a good choice.

(CNN)- Americans love kitsch, and the holidays bring out the best in our love / hate relationship with products that are so bad they just might be great.

The Love & Money Podcast — we work on building better relationships with money and with each other, taking on these topics, together so we can thrive in both love and moLove & Money Podcast — we work on building better relationships with money and with each other, taking on these topics, together so we can thrive in both love and molove and money.

And I see no reason why the self - sacrificing love of Jesus can not be modeled in a committed same - sex relationship as well as it can be modeled in a committed heterosexual relationship.

In this relationship of trust, the priest may speak the words and the love of Christ, the Good Shepherd, and leave the person in question free to respond to Christ as they wilIn this relationship of trust, the priest may speak the words and the love of Christ, the Good Shepherd, and leave the person in question free to respond to Christ as they wilin question free to respond to Christ as they will.

Thus, instead of emphasizing aseity, or self - containedness as well as sheer self - existence, as God's essential nature, such theologians give the central place to love - in - action, which presupposes and entails relationships.

* worship God, whose will is and who has always yearned for us to...... be free and independent;... think;... be curious;... be intelligent and wise;... value knowledge over ignorance and compassion over knowledge;... be creative;... grow and mature;... live long healthy satisfying lives;... live non-violently without vengeance;... be generous;... be hospitable;... be compassionate;... do no harm;... heal and rehabilitate and restore;... forgive and reconcile and include all and have all participate;... be good stewards of all resources;... live here and now as one family;... live in a loving intimate relationship with God;... be transformed through resurrection; and... be the kingdom of God.

* be guided and instructed by the Good News message, which is: ---- God is unconditional boundless grace and unlimited unrestrained love and always has been; ---- God wants to have a loving intimate relationship with each of us without exception and without qualification; ---- seek justice as healing and rehabilitation and restoration; ---- seek universal reconciliation and inclusion and participation; ---- in healthy partnership, compassionately serve all who are hurt or lost or oppressed; ---- be generous and hospitable to all; ---- live non-violently without vengeance and with a cheerful fearlessness of death and worldly powers; and ---- be — here and now — the Kingdom of God.

The all - determining notion of power which Barth in fact develops demonstrates divine freedom well enough but sometimes makes divine love and even the possibility of genuine divine relationship with a real «other» more difficult to conceive.

Reconciliation: We are once again in a loving relationship with God, who asks us to be reconciled and loving to each other as well.

If Jesus is what the gospel proclaims him to be — that One in whom the love and light and life of God possessed completely a genuine human life, possessed it so fully that we may say of him, as Mr. Basil Willey has well phrased it, that «the life of God is seen in him in human life» — then we can preach Jesus Christ as decisive, as definitive, as the norm for the God - man relationship and the clue to whatever else God may be purposing and accomplishing in this vast and mysterious creation.

But from where I'm standing, it looks like the Church in America is actually doing pretty well when it comes to individual relationships of love and care.

As Christians, we don't have to fear changes in our relationships, because the God who never changes sent his Son to walk among us and show us how to love one another better.

However, to have a stable, healthy relationship, one needs to have a healthy self - love and self - acceptance, which is psychologically possible only when one can accept one's sexuality as morally good and, in a Christian context, compatible with God's love.

The exceptional fidelity, self - sacrifice and affection, as well as the pain, grief and sorrow and the deep spiritual response to the suffering and bereavement that is being expressed, is a sign to the churches of the presence of the Spirit of love in these relationships.

In fact, I would argue that a big issue in the mental health of many people is the lack of well bounded, supportive, loving, same seex relationshipIn fact, I would argue that a big issue in the mental health of many people is the lack of well bounded, supportive, loving, same seex relationshipin the mental health of many people is the lack of well bounded, supportive, loving, same seex relationships.

This is because the stress in the pictures is on the divine all - sufficiency, total control, demand for moral rectitude, and active self - assertion, none of which fits in very well with the focus on Love — for love is always a matter of receiving as well as of giving, and it requires that both lover and beloved are involved in a kind of relationship which matters to and has its results for each of tLove — for love is always a matter of receiving as well as of giving, and it requires that both lover and beloved are involved in a kind of relationship which matters to and has its results for each of tlove is always a matter of receiving as well as of giving, and it requires that both lover and beloved are involved in a kind of relationship which matters to and has its results for each of them.

Jesus prayed that the church «may be one» just as He is in the Father (John 17: 21), and this goes for a relationship as well — it is essential a couple be united by their love for God.

Coming out, I come into the realization of myself as best able to relate most intimately — to touch and be touched most deeply, to give and receive most naturally, to empower and be empowered most remarkably — best able to express everything I most value — God in human life, God in justice, God in passion, God as love — in sexual relationship to a lover who is female.

Sex without companionship in marriage is better than no sex at all; but its pleasure falls far short of sex within a relationship of loving and trusting.

A strong marriage relationship is constructed by two people who are willing to work at it, year - in and year - out, «for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part.»

In Psalm 63, David immediately exclaims that God's «faithful love is better than life» (Psalm 63:3), clearly showing that he already has a relationship with this God he «faints» and thirsts for.

In summary: both in order to foster the relationships that nourish our own growth and in order to create in ourselves the broadest and best character, we do the best for ourselves when we act in that way which is also best for others — in lovIn summary: both in order to foster the relationships that nourish our own growth and in order to create in ourselves the broadest and best character, we do the best for ourselves when we act in that way which is also best for others — in lovin order to foster the relationships that nourish our own growth and in order to create in ourselves the broadest and best character, we do the best for ourselves when we act in that way which is also best for others — in lovin order to create in ourselves the broadest and best character, we do the best for ourselves when we act in that way which is also best for others — in lovin ourselves the broadest and best character, we do the best for ourselves when we act in that way which is also best for others — in lovin that way which is also best for others — in lovin love.

It's pretty clear: God calls us to care for one another in all aspects of being a good neighbor, and God calls us to love each other in our relationships.

To find a better path requires that you experience love, the love you do not have to earn because it is simply there, already there, in the relationship itself.

We in turn can better nurture these needed relationships through love.

The love which is revealed in Christ is a love which seeks the fulfillment of all things in such a relationship to one another that what flows from the life of each enriches the life of all, and each participant in the whole life finds his own good realized through the giving of self to the life of the whole.

This means that trinitarian theology is best described as par excellence a theology of relationship, which explores the mysteries of love, relationship, personhood and communion within the framework of God's self - revelation in the person of Christ and the activity of the Spirit.»

When Rollo May writes in his book Paulus (p. 113) about his friend and teacher Paul Tillich, he speaks about Tillich's relationships with others by saying, «His love for us was relentless in his... insistence on our best.

In no area is this adventure so promising as in the one - to - one, person - to - person, relationships where two human lives are glad to share and work together, for the best good of each and with love as the motivation and resource as well as the result of that sharinIn no area is this adventure so promising as in the one - to - one, person - to - person, relationships where two human lives are glad to share and work together, for the best good of each and with love as the motivation and resource as well as the result of that sharinin the one - to - one, person - to - person, relationships where two human lives are glad to share and work together, for the best good of each and with love as the motivation and resource as well as the result of that sharing.

In it, Justin makes the case for a hermeneutic of love as well as anyone I've read, and his Christocentric approach to Scripture is one that can benefit all Christians, regardless of how they interpret the passages discussed above and regardless of where they stand on same - sex relationships.

It is of the nature of love to pour itself out for others; to take into itself all that is made available to it; to absorb the evil which is there and out of it to distil something good; and to do all this not for self - aggrandizement but for the benefit of the entire relationship in its widest and richest sense.

At night, I picture God, in his love without condition, standing over us while we sleep, clutching his heart over how beautiful we are, longing for more and better for us, knowing us better than we know ourselves, seeing a bigger picture, longing for a deeper relationship and loving us so much that it takes over the entire story.

But if that's so, he notes, then it should govern the way Christians think about same - sex sexual activity as well, and thus he concludes: «When those with homosexual orientation act on their desires in a loving, committed relationship, [they] are not, as far as I can see, violating the love command.»

Religion makes people feel good to think they have a personal relationship with THE all powerful creator of the universe who takes a personal interest in them, loves them, and will protect them.

One important aspect of a good love relationship, is what may be called need identification, or the pooling of the hierarchies of basic needs in two persons into a single hierarchy.

Just because Wars had been waged in the name of religion doesn't make the point of it Wrong,,, otherwise why does it say (He who loves me, keeps my commandments) almost at the same time as it says (I give you a new commandment, love...) in short, Yes, Jesus is what matters, but to know Jesus I need His word, the Bible, I need a relationship with Him, I need to understand What He wants me to be Like (Be Holy as your Father in Heaven) which is not just an old testament quote, but a new Testament as well,,, at the end, if Religion was so pointless and to be hated, why Would God ask us to test the spirits, why does he tell us (by their fruits you would know them.)

The «good news» is that love is supreme and is available in relationships, including our relationship with God.

«Remenber all scpritures are inspired words from God, my point is, Jesus wants us to be more than religious, but obedient.Jefferson is just stating that American Churches have become more corrupted with its religious practices that they have forgotten about jesus along the way.The church has taken scriptures and have use them according to what is pleasing to themselves.Jesus wants us to forget about what is pleasing to ourselves and follow him, be like him, love him (means be obedient to him) and ignore what we have known as religion.I define religion as jefferson is using in the video as an act of man pretending or decieving himself into believing that he know God and that he is better than others.He shows that by what he know / pratice not really whats in his heart and by serving how we choose which is pleasing to us, so we use God as a vessel praticing holy rituals teaching what we have made tradition and we have a eternal life with God.God created religion in order for us to remenber him and have a personal relationship with him through his son regardless of the many mistakes we have made in the past.We need to remenber God Forgets our past «he sperate our sins from us as far as the east is from the west».

In death, the body separates from the soul, and experiences disintegration and decay; the soul, as we saw earlier, is no longer fit to be with God forever, and all those loving relationships we have enjoyed in this life, and all the good that has come from them — these too collapse into nothingnesIn death, the body separates from the soul, and experiences disintegration and decay; the soul, as we saw earlier, is no longer fit to be with God forever, and all those loving relationships we have enjoyed in this life, and all the good that has come from them — these too collapse into nothingnesin this life, and all the good that has come from them — these too collapse into nothingness.

God as desire, or as the great Desire - for - good, is the yearning God, seeking to fulfil others in relationship with them, and by that very token seeking their returning love, which because it is given to God freely is also God's own fulfillment, God's own enrichment.

When we speak of the double efficacy of the risen Christ as ideal and as objective datum for present becoming, we might do better to speak of a «triple efficacy» of the love of Christ, for that faith, love, and communion with God which are Christ's find innumerable, if only partial, echoes in the lives of individual believers and in that system of relationships which they comprise within the world.

God clearly condems sameS relationships, but if these people really love God they can change, like many today and in the first century changed as well.

Who are we to judge what God does or allows he has his reasons who can fathom his ways he sees the end from the beginning and is not limited to time or space like we are.Does God want anything the answer is Yes he wants a relationship with us that is why he sent his son because he had a purpose in creating us.However the wages of sin is death in this scripture alone regardless of what happens here we all deserve to die God could have wiped us all out with another flood for who of us is worthy.It is by grace that we live and yes bad things do happen to good people just as it does for the wicked is it to test our faith i do not know but i do know that God gives us the grace to endure through trials and difficulty and that all things do work for Good if we love hgood people just as it does for the wicked is it to test our faith i do not know but i do know that God gives us the grace to endure through trials and difficulty and that all things do work for Good if we love hGood if we love him..

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