Sentences with phrase «even love of enemies»

13:8 - 10 that love means the fulfillment of the Law), but also in pagan literature love — love of man and even love of enemies — is regarded as one of the highest virtues.

Not exact matches

i.e. Love, Forgive those you may be close to or even enemies (of which I'm still working on) forgive yourself.

God tortures his enemies forever in a pit of fire even though he tells us to love our enemies.

It also reveals a nonviolent ethic: love even your enemies; become fishers of them.

This is the redirection of life which comes from a sense of being forgiven by God and empowered by him to love even one's enemies.

As Christians, our most «deeply held religious belief» is that Jesus Christ died on the cross for sinful people, and that in imitation of that, we are called to love God, to love our neighbors, and to love even our enemies to the point of death.

The command to love our enemies is where the meaning of the word «love» becomes even more important.

A loving father and faithful husband, patron of the arts and friend of the poor, Cromwell not only defends the indefensible, and even legitimates it, by drafting new laws, he also, in his sweet time, takes definitive revenge on his enemies: those who stood in judgment on his patrons, Cardinal Wolsey and the king, and those who underestimated himself, the lowborn blacksmith's son.

It would then be an attempt to convey in a vivid pictorial form the truth, or the belief, that self - sacrificing love is so supremely valuable that in comparison with it even death is of small significance; that although the enemies of Jesus won their victory over him, yet in retrospect his life has become a more potent influence than theirs, for his memory has survived as an inspiration and example for all men.

It was part of the Old Testament Law that people were to be loving, even to their enemies.

Christians have debated the topics of divinity and trinity for two thousand years, but all agree that the most important thing Jesus taught was love — love God with all your heart, love your neighbor as yourself, and love even your enemies.

The words of Christ in Matthew make it plain that Christ knew that God loves His enemies, and even blesses them by sending them rain and sun even though they do not «deserve» His love and blessings.

It is the conjoining of power and hesed once again, but now in the form of an invitation to participate in God's reign of love by saying «yes» to it and being empowered to live «as if» that [30] reign were all - in - all even though it is not.10 Love is what is expected of the recipients of God's offer: loving one another as a new covenantal commandment (Jn 13:34), love that is so embracing that it even includes one's enemies (Mt 5:43 — 44love by saying «yes» to it and being empowered to live «as if» that [30] reign were all - in - all even though it is not.10 Love is what is expected of the recipients of God's offer: loving one another as a new covenantal commandment (Jn 13:34), love that is so embracing that it even includes one's enemies (Mt 5:43 — 44Love is what is expected of the recipients of God's offer: loving one another as a new covenantal commandment (Jn 13:34), love that is so embracing that it even includes one's enemies (Mt 5:43 — 44love that is so embracing that it even includes one's enemies (Mt 5:43 — 44).11

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.

Only 25 per cent claimed to love the enemies of their country and members of dangerous political parties, though in view of prevalent behavior even this seems a startling proportion!

They're the ones on Facebook who are constantly writing updates on Facebook about the negative tone of politics but ignoring any real issues — even when those issues center around the Christian's call to care for the poor, love their enemies and care for strangers.

And @Ashrakay, I do not which Bible you are talking about, Every single thing Bible state is valid and no - nonsence «For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God» It promotes unconditional love even towards the enemies.

Your neighbor is anyone who has a claim on you; he is everyone, and there are no enemies for the disciple (except, perhaps, in the unimportant sense of those who are hostile to you - but even this is no excuse for the disciple to refuse to serve them, for who needs love more than the loveless and hostile?).

Initially, this was really hard, but I soon found that this exercise freed me from the cancer of bitterness and even empowered me to genuinely love my «enemy.»

Loving your enemies does not mean that you let them take advantage of other people and even kill them.

In his teaching and example of unbroken fellowship with God, of love and service to men, of humility and sincerity, of forgiveness toward even his most malicious enemies, of sensitive understanding of the spoken or unspoken needs of the humblest of persons whose lives touched his, we see the kind of living to which we are called.

Baptized Christians are thus «able to forgive, to love — even those who offend and hurt us»; and to recognize the face of Christ in everyone, including our enemies.

Even when our enemies are so corrupt and evil that there is no discernible sign of good in any of them, we can at least recognize that they are fellow human beings and children of God — however much they have violated His commands — and love and pray for them on that basis alone.

Here he lets everyone know that he is not an enemy of the Torah, even if the conclusions he draws from the Jewish conviction that love is both core and apex of Torah observance place him in tension with many Jews, including those who follow Jesus.

Love your neighbor, love your enemies, be kind even to those who despise you... it's kind of amazing really, how freeing that is... and how it can change someone else as wLove your neighbor, love your enemies, be kind even to those who despise you... it's kind of amazing really, how freeing that is... and how it can change someone else as wlove your enemies, be kind even to those who despise you... it's kind of amazing really, how freeing that is... and how it can change someone else as well.

If you have not seen that the entire Scripture is about loving God and loving others, becoming their servants and slaves, even to those whom you consider the «enemies of Christ» (who is that, by the way?

Fraternity, open communication with everyone, solidarity with all people, with the little ones, the least of the earth, sinners and even enemies, goodness, undiscriminating love, unlimited forgiveness are the great ideals put forth by Jesus....

If we are going to follow the example of Jesus (and of God), we must extend grace to the point that people accuse us being friends to tax - collectors and sinners, to the point that they complain of how we allow people to get away with anything, of how we liberally shower blessings upon friends and enemies alike, and how we even show love and mercy upon those who wish to do us harm.

Instead of a richly ironic story in which even Jesus» enemies are caught up in the symphony of grace, we get a Manichean morality play, in which evil is not so much transformed by God's love as merely beaten by it.

The dilemma of the nonpacifist Christian is how to continue to love one's enemies and those of his nation even while he seeks to destroy their lives, property, and power.

Even loving my abstract notion of «enemies» (the Taliban, Osoma Bin Laden, etc.) is easy.

We were told to love even our enemies and THIS IS WHAT WE DO and you SHOULD BE VERY PROUD OF IT.

Despite what the prince in Dostoevsky's Idiot says about the crucified Christ constituting a sight that could cause one to lose faith, it is precisely upon the Pierced One that the believer must gaze — for in contemplating the length and breadth and depth of a God whose love recoils not from his enemies (nor even from death), even the least faithful believer is offered the greatest proof of the reliability of the Word into which they entrusted their destiny.

It is about God's love being so big he died, even for his enemies, and now we are to join this revolution that is big enough to set both the oppressed and the oppressors free of hatred and discrimination.

Sex is a beautiful part of your relationship with your spouse, but love goes beyond this to our children, friends, and we're even called to love our enemies.

Forget showing love to our enemies for the moment, most of the time, we don't even show love to our own brothers and sisters in Christ!

With the arrival of Jesus, we are provided clarification on who should be considered loved by God and how we should treat our neighbor, those in need, the displaced, the suffering, the poor and even our enemies (Matthew 25:25 - 36).

Fervency in devotion; frequency in prayer; aspiring after the love of God continually, striving to get above the world and the body; loving silence and solitude, as far as one's condition will permit; humble and affable to all; patient in suffering affronts and contradictions; glad of occasions of doing good even to enemies; doing the will of God and promoting His honour to the utmost of one's power; resolving never to offend him willingly, for any temporal pleasure, profit, or loss.30

When adversaries stick it to you from outside the club, always trying to cause a stir within and among us and we have so called fans agreeing with these failed pundits who prolly do nt even have a voice in their own households, we like illegitimate children back up their unsincere arguments, hell Piers Morgan does it from a place of genuine concern, the AKBs and AOBs too, Fatboy gooner and NY gunner on here even and we are happy to have them but when we thoughtlessly indulge and endorse those who would rather see us fail by always coming up with.unsolicited advise especially without any reasonable bases, we are as much enemies of the club we claim to love, cutting of our nose to spite our face... shame again.

One scene drones on as Kessler explains his love of flying: «In the sky, I've found — even among my enemies — courage, honor and chivalry.

Anyways the problem i have become convinced is the true enemy, is how many women can not get happy with their appearance, not even to the point of when i am very adamant about how much i love their breasts (i happen to prefer breasts that are saggy, because to me, those are real breasts, perky just makes me feel like a pedophile), and i use that as an example, it could just as easily be their bottom or legs or whatever.

As opposed to painting its non-U.S. characters as subhuman «enemies,» Unbroken treads very carefully with the concept, even putting the first utterance of the word into the mouth of a priest, who, in Louie's flashback to childhood mass, recites, «love thine enemy.»

For Harry, his journey requires an immense leap of faith and power to even approach Voldemort's wrath, requiring guidance from loved ones as he steps up to confront his mortal enemy.

Unlike the Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm series which is more and more a mess of technical, balance and gameplay issues these days, Brave Soldiers delivers what is a nice, franchise - based fighting game, at first, i was expecting a simple fighting game with some button mashing, however, the game proved me wrong and i fell in love, the combo system, while easy, is a lot more deep than the one in the Naruto games, with all of the characters having two special attacks, two «burst attacks», a knock - away and a launcher respectively, a throw and an ultimate attack (called a «Big Bang Attack»), every character also has an universal dodge - action that sends them behind their enemies while spending one cosmo bar, making bar management that much precious and shielding you from a half - a-hour combo, unlike in the NUNS series, the fighting and the characters are nicely balanced, with every character being fun to play and viable at the same time, the game runs smoothly without frame - rate issues and the cell - shaded graphics, character models, arenas and effects alike are nice to the eye, battles are divided into rounds, with all the tiny nice stuff like character introductions and outros being intact (fun fact: the characters will even comment on their score after the battle), the game also features an awakening system, called the «Seventh Sense» awakening, unlike the NUNS awakening system which became severely unbalanced in the later game, every character simply gains a damage / defense boost, with the conditions being the same for all characters, eliminating situations when one character can use awakening at almost any point in the battle, or one awakening being drastically stronger than the other, the game has a story mode with three story arcs used to unlock characters, a collection mode, tournament modes, a survival mode, a series of special versus modes and online battle modes.

Because even though up until now in the review I have been nothing but positive, and the fact that I said that I love to hate the game but I also hate to love the game is still true, and the hate comes in the form of the mission structures, the missions are incredible repetitive and you can easily sum up 80 % of the mission by saying this, you enter a planet that you have already visited numerous times before, you head out to find some data that your ghost buddy can encrypt, while your ghost encrypts the data enemies respawn, sometimes with a larger enemy, and you need to clear them out, once that is done and your ghost got the data you are sent back to the tower to sell, buy, upgrade your character and then rinse and repeat.

I love taking my time in planning even the easiest kills, knowing how to escape after a shot, and setting up traps to take out any snooping enemies that might have delusions of grandeur.

Paintball - Marine grenades and grunt mines splatter the environment with color and deadly shrapnel Wuv Woo - Scarab and Locust beam weapons shoot rainbows made of pure love and hearts Scoring: Pain Train - All player units train 50 % faster, final score decreases Bountiful Harvest - Supplies from supply buildings arrive 25 % faster, final score decreases Emperor - All player powers recharge in half the time, final score decreases Pestilence - All player units slowly lose health from the moment they're built, final score increases Total Annihiliation - Spartan special ability slams create an even more powerful explosion upon land, final score decreases Sickness - All player units have 50 % fewer hit points, final score increases Firestarter - Grunts and Marines explode on death inflicting damage on enemy units, final score decreases Things That Go Boom - Hero units unleash a nuclear explosion on death, final score decreases Sugar Cookies - All player units have 50 % more hitpoints, final score decreases After Party - Any time a Firebase is destroyed the player who owned it gets a tank and infantry unit, final score decreases Nightmare - No checkpoints or saves on any difficulty with Campaign only, final score increases Shadow - Player core infantry units start cloaked, final score decreases Our Halo Hub Read our Halo Wars 2 Review

Whether using his scythe to eliminate enemies the easy way, or employing his suit of armor to produce a mega hard attack to triumph over even the toughest adversaries, kids are sure to love this undead Lightcore character.

Instead of seeing your husband as someone you love and want to build a loving relationship with, you perceive him as an enemy or even someone you are in competition with.