Sentences with phrase «distorted experience of love»

Can we get light on the nature of the divine love from man's distorted experience of love?

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If we disconnect the experience of sexual pleasure from the moment of giving ourselves for another, to another in love, we fundamentally distort the meaning of the human body in its sexual dimension.

The expectation of conversionistic and instantaneous healing at every turn distorts the ways in which we strive to love and serve so many of our neighbors: people experiencing financial instability or going through divorce, those struggling with mental illnesses or who are simply sad, and most people whose journey of faith didn't entail a moment of single, dramatic conversion.

Concerning the overall pattern of the pre alcoholic homes, the McCords state: «The typical alcoholic, as a child, under went a variety of experiences that heightened inner stress, intensified his desire for love, and produced a distorted self - image.»

Every experience of love participates in the goodness of the creation, but also in the distorted life which results from sin.