Sentences with phrase «disinterested love»

60 God's love of anything and anyone not God can only be a wholly disinterested love, 61 which renders the meaning of such love problematic.

Those who love readily understand the human value and attraction of pure, chaste and disinterested love.

Thus the ethic of the New Testament is properly described as «disinterested love,» that is, love that is not calculating.

«19 He can symbolize disinterested love only by refusing to become involved in historical rivalries.

Not exact matches

Instead of finding caring and loving, they found disinterest at best, meanness, hatred, anger, and judgment at worst.

The distinction corresponds to some degree to that between soul and body Agape is disinterested and impartial, without regard to persons, while eros is interested love, concerned with this person rather than that and desirous of the body of the other.

We are not to suppose that we are capable in this world of loving our enemies (or even our neighbours), to the full measure in which God has loved us; or of being as completely disinterested and single - minded, as pure of worldly desire and anxiety, and as unreserved in self - sacrifice, as the words of Jesus demand; and yet these are the standards by which all our actions are judged.

If God loved me while I was dead in my sin, ignorance and unbelief, then this is the only basis of community for God: God's choice with a divine disinterest in the object of the love.

Brock identified agape love with the wrong direction of classical (patriarchal) theism in championing «disinterested» love, «dispassionate» love that includes no dynamic interrelationship between Lover and beloved and leaves God utterly unaffected by the creaturely response to God's love.21 Erotic love, by contrast, «connotes intimacy through the subjective engagement of the whole self in a relationship.»

He forthrightly describes Intelligent Design thought as depicting God as «closer to a super-engineer... than the personal and loving Creator that stands at the centre of Christian orthodoxy... a disinterested deity whose main function seems to be to leave enigmatic calling cards.»

Hence, education to prepare leadership for the church's task of increasing love for God and neighbor must consist in disinterested theoretical activity.

On the other hand, for Niebuhr, disinterested theoretical inquiry to understand God and neighbors in their God - relatedness requires guidance by love for God in order to remain disinterested.

-- to gratuitousness and to the disinterested character of love: The contractual mentality and its multifarious products, such as the notion of «interest», have deeply perverted Western cultures, which now find it hard to rediscover the selfless, gratuitous nature of love.

Now, if you're Wenger, as much as you would love the work rate and creativity your players render, Ozil's «disinterest» should not put off the other 10 men on the pitch.

I know he was a fan of Thierry but I disinterested know about his undying love for Arsenal football club.

I just don't think loving the club and being disinterested about the players is a viable attitude, however necessary we may feel it right now as a personal protection mechanism from the hurt we all feel when players we love, yes, I'd call it love — someone may as well say it!

We all «know» that women aren't good at casual sex, «only» have affairs for love, are biologically disinterested in sex, and that, more so than men, «need» and thrive in a monogamous relationship.

If you see that your child has a disinterest in seeking your love and attention, you may want to check this developmental delay with your pediatrician.

Don't get me wrong, I love talking about clothes, that's why I actually started my blog, I had no one to talk to and my husband is most disinterested in why I can't find the perfect over the knee boots for petites.

In those diurnal moments, the mundane, unexceptional motions that make up a relationship, Denis disinters the pleasures (however brief) and pain of love.

(«Goodbye First Love» had the same disinterest in «aging» the actors).

Her pain often comes from her undervaluing herself or her disinterest in playing romantic games, such as when she straight - up asks Hugh Grant's character Daniel Cleaver if he loves her.

You don't have to be a Beach Boys fan to appreciate Love & Mercy, so don't let potential surface disinterest put you off one of the more original and interesting biopics in recent memory.

The third aspect of this publisher lobbyist propaganda worth mentioning is the standard «we're just disinterested, non-partisan, democracy - loving onlookers» dodge.

If we are going to argue that a person having love for their culture or for their church is an expression of self - interest, then please tell me what would be self - disinterest.

There's an entire subreddit devoted to whinging about games journalism's never - ending love affair with writing about The Witcher 3, but without that constant praise I wouldn't have pushed past my disinterest to give it the chance it deserved.

Pollione becomes disinterested in Norma who, realising how she betrayed her own people by falling in love with the oppressor, ends up throwing herself into the flames, followed by Pollione.

«Through a process of misattunement (anger, guilt induction, display of disinterest or disappointment or withdrawal of love or attention) enmeshed / intrusive parents wind up behaviourally controlling the child and the child's thoughts and feelings so that behaviour, thoughts and feelings will conform to the parent's need to feel needed.