Sentences with phrase «forgiving love»

Religion is concerned with the meaning of life and with faith expressing itself in bringing forgiving love in inter-personal relations and justice for the poor and the weaker sections of society in inter-people power - relations of public life.

In the following discussion I use the term agape to refer to the self - giving and forgiving love which God has decisively expressed in the world in his redemptive activity in Jesus.

The love which wills communion and shares it, becomes forgiving love in the light of the need of man.

Jesus in his ministry came to seek and to save, and in his teaching gave a picture of God, whose out - flowing and forgiving love seeks to draw all people to himself.

Thus, for example, what they learn to discern as the graciousness of God's presence is determined by stories about God's liberation of Israel from Egypt at the exodus, by Hosea's prophetic likening of God's relation to Israel to a lover's forgiving love for a faithless spouse, by Isaiah's prophetic celebration of God's return of Israel to its homeland from Babylonian exile, and most decisively by narratives about Jesus» crucifixion and resurrection.

mercy and forgivness and Love is the greatis gift of all.just as he died for our sin, he lifts us up and and gives us peace So that we can forgive one and other, and this is a wonderfull example how god frees our soul from burdens too hard to bare GOD BLESS YOU ALL

It points to that work of God in history which has brought the new community founded on the Spirit of forgiving love into being.

For truly to receive forgiveness is to recognize how extravagant God's gracious forgiving love is and, in response, to offer it to others.

Jesus is presented as forgiving love; God is presented as awful holiness; and Jesus is depicted as winning forgiveness for men from God.

Is it a tender forgiving love that beats with the compassion of God's heart for those being lead?

As Oden puts it: «God lets us know through historical events that we are, despite our sins, okay, affirmed, accepted, embraced with infinitely forgiving love.»

But agape is also forgiving love in emulation of God and a universal sense of obligation which transcends particular obligations.

I have stressed the disciple's personal trust in God's forgiving love which may come as an unforgettable experience, but the knowledge of this and the commitment that flows from it needs to be renewed each day.

Clearly if you don't share his angry values you are most likely an atheist in disguise, only atheists are the forgiving loving ones in UrLost's mind....

Jesus defended his actions against his critics by stressing that God's forgiving love was available to all and that the angels of heaven rejoiced whenever a sinner repented.

In all that Jesus said and did, in his death on the cross and in the living presence of Christ, a promise of victory over sin through the forgiving love of God is brought to us.

There is a good deal of the central message of the Gospel here; God's gracious and forgiving love is powerfully described.

But what they point to is truly present where there is caring and forgiving love.

What is given to us through God's revelation includes the ethic of outgoing and forgiving love.

There is an angry deity in this equation, and it is us, in whose midst God, quite without violence, manifests the depth of his forgiving love by plumbing the depths of, and thus defanging, our violence (Alison, We didn't invent sacrifice).

His sonship gives him no claim; it gives only the hope of the Father's forgiving love, and only forgiveness makes the son once more a son.

God of the Jews and Christian is a forgiving loving God not a beast or barbarian of death.

There are no members of any congregation who do not need to know the power of Christ's forgiving love in their lives.

But I will say I know of no divorced Christians or even remarried Christians who remain apart from Christ's Truths and God's forgiving Love!

Commenting on the good that is discerned in Christ, he says: «For the structures of moral and rational good, the virtues of law and the logic of cause and effect, though not wholly canceled, are subsumed and transcended, and thereupon transmuted by the spontaneity, the freedom, and grace of forgiving love» (FC 220).

Thus in man's relation with God, man's goodness is made determinative, rather than God's forgiving Love and empowering presence.

My past life is abundantly full of God's mercy and above all sin stands the forgiving love of the crucified.

The message of Hosea in restoring his erring wife, Gomer, to his home is a symbol of the forgiving love of God, which ought to be practiced in the human relation before there is any easy recourse to divorce.

The God of the gospel is outgoing and forgiving love.

For many years ministers had preached with the primary object of convicting people of their sin and of showing the forgiving love of God in Jesus Christ.

It is known mindfully... Self - sacrificial and forgiving love is truly the calling in the coined tough love world where mistrust, discord, anger, jealousy, and shame writhe as shadows unseen, how to tell what motivates our actions, to separate guilt, self, ignorance, need for acceptance, yikes, the list is so long.

When demonic egoism spends its strength in brutalizing the disciples of the Suffering Servant and in the end discovers that forgiving love is the eternal response from the disciples of Jesus, then the agents of demonic egoism will be open to the transforming power of neighbor - love.

Self - sacrificial and forgiving love must be at the center.

And no wonder: Cleansing, redeeming, forgiving love is always terrifying.

It is no Jewish moralist who tells us that, but the Apostle through whom God has most power - fully proclaimed the message of His forgiving love.

Unconditional and forgiving love became essential to human survival, but such attachment is not rigid and reflexive, as is the gosling's imprinting on the mother goose or a mother bluebird's stereotyped care of her young.

Agape is a love that no matter how hard we try, we as humans, will never be able to achieve because we are too imperfect and too selfish in nature to achieve that level of all - consuming, all - encompassing, all - forgiving love.

Of course we recommend getting hold of a Bible and receiving Christ and his forgiving love and salvation as your best option!

Forgiving I love being around positive minded people jogging and watching tv shopping and chilling on a good bottle.