Sentences with phrase «forms of love for»

Growing up in South Africa, it was natural for Elizabeth to bring some of her roots with her to the US in the form of her love for this majestic breed.

Not exact matches

I am doing this because I have a passion for doing it and I love being of service to other people in whatever form I can be.»

If you love to write and have a message about life you want to share for others, then blogging might be a great form of eventually - passive income for you.

Do you know the mathematical impossibility that even one of these could randomly come into existance?Let alone all of the building blocks required for just a single simple cell to come together to form any type of living thing?There sure should be some blobs of fossilized transitions if evolution could happen.You people are real smart why don't you quit bashing Christians and quit believing the garbage you have been fed, and look up the evidence put forth by the Creation Research people.They have in fact proven creation down to a cellular level.Unlike evolution scientists who have no answers, but cleverly devised fables.Evolution is not even a very good fairy tale.Even if I didn't believe in God, Evolution is such a fools explanation of the origin of man that it takes just that to even consider it true.I understand though that you athiests will believe anything that allows you to love your sin and hatred of the one true God.

Why should a loving god punish anyone for not believing in the existence of an invisible being that never bothers to show itself in any way, shape, or form?

If her companion is already married, perhaps the confessor will invite her to face the problem with him, explaining to him that she loves him, but believes that God is calling them to a particularly difficult form of love in which there is no room for sexual relations.

For a relationship formed with a non-believer, our ultimate desire should be to display the love of Christ.

Christians in this country need to totally abandon the two corrupt parties we have, because those who are seated in the seats of making decisions will NEVER abandon their practices, for their love of power and the love of BRIBE that comes abundantly to them from those who have means to give it, in order to receive favors in form of making our country's laws and policies to further allow them to do their self serving practice, disregarding those which they hurt by them.

So for me, I am going to consider the driving force of one's decisions, and if it is a faith, then so be it because I love our country and I am proud of the individuals (forefathers) who had the insight to form «one nation under God with liberty and justice for all.»

Marriage is a form of acramentum — a symbolic expression of Christ's love for his Church, even a channel of God's grace to sanctify the couple, their children, and the broader community.

For example, in the aftermath of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, hundreds of churches quickly formed the China Christian Action Love volunteer association to provide relief, which many disaster victims praised as besting government efforts in both speed and constancy.

Even within the churches, there truly a lack of love, for the Bible also says that many would be «having a form of godly devotion but proving false to its power.»

Yes, it is true that looking at the trees, we don't see God, but when we look to our fellow human beings and doing things for them, we acknowledge God's existence in the universe in the form of love.

While I would personally love to see mutual edification in the form of Bible Study and encouraging one another dominate all gatherings, this is a personal preference and not something I find commands for in Scripture.

Let yourself be loved by the Lover of your soul, by the Maker of all of you, let yourself be loved by those who get you, by those who don't get you, those who get all of you, those who get some of you, those who get to be themselves too, and let Love be enough for all our much and not enough, because Cruciform Love is the form of everything that abundantly fulfills us.

I attended First Baptist Reidsville for ten years before I was ordained; I was loved and formed by this community in ways I could have never imagined (see Chapter Four of Saffron Cross).

Every other form of revelation would be a deception in the eyes of love; for either the learner would first have to be changed, and the fact concealed from him that this was necessary (but love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself); or there would be permitted to prevail a frivolous ignorance of the fact that the entire relationship was a delusion.

Our souls must be anchored in a love analogous to the Platonist's love of the Form before we have an interior basis for action.

The authenticity of the Sunnah is proved by the Qur» an, for it orders that the Prophet should be obeyed and it made obedience to him a form of obedience to God and a recognition of His love, «But nay, by thy Lord, they will not believe (in truth) until they make thee judge of what is in dispute between them and find within themselves no dislike of that which thou decidest, and submit with full submission» (Surah IV, 65).

The only cure for this form of evil is the fuller development of love and reason, autonomy and creativity.

He answers with exact fidelity to these inward drawings, either by an elevation of his heart toward God, or by a meek and loving regard to Him; or by such words as love forms upon these occasions, as for instance, My God, behold me, wholly Thine: Lord, make me according to Thy heart.

They found that they were able to care for others without the self - reference that is involved in most forms of love.

That opinion would be based on a gnostic misinterpretation for which the highest form of the love is the painful renouncing and suffering love; cf. against this misinterpretation: Faber (1995) 405 - 420.

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.

So before God had created the universe, let alone humanity and thus His own fleshly incarnation in the form of Jesus, He wanted to show His love for Himself by giving Himself a gift.

Through a series of brief questions at the end of his book, Sigmund invites liberation theologians to seek ways of fusing capitalist market «efficiency» with the «preferential love for the poor,» to consider how private property is not always oppression but may in fact free people from it, to develop liberalism's ideal of «equal treatment under the law,» to nurture the «fragile new democracies» in Latin America, and, finally, to develop «a spirituality of socially concerned democracy, whether capitalist or socialist in its economic form,» rather than «denouncing dependency, imperialism, and capitalist exploitation.»

Certainly, some of these transplanted Christians may find deeper intimacy and fellowship with God and with other believers in their new circle of friends, but unless they are also finding ways to love, serve, and become friends with people who are not Christians, all they have done is substituted one form of Christian consumerism for another.

The basic point to be made about all forms of sexual relation is that they are supposed to be a means for the «expression of love» and so also for the establishment and maintenance of «communion.»

There is no special line of reasoning needed for any of these forms of relationship because each is but another form of expressing love with a view to the establishment and maintenance of communion and for the promotion of growth.

In his introduction to the fourth way in the form of a motu proprio (or, decree on his own initiative), the pope opens with the words of Jesus according to St. John: «No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends».

The simplest genuine form of love is sympathy; without that the rest is something else, lust for example.

From Plato onwards, philosophers have sought to escape from the anxiety of personal freedom by searching for certainty and objectivity in a supra - human realm, whether it be that of unchanging Platonic Forms, or in the inexorable unfolding of some grand historical design, or in an eternal life with an omniscient, loving, supreme Being.

They are forms created by and for expression of the love which redeems.

The writer, Bill Sakovich, is a professional translator of Japanese to English who's lived in Japan for two decades or so, who married a Japanese woman, and who just loves Japanese culture in general — in many of his cultural posts, for example, he suggests that the more typical Japanese approach to religion, while seemingly shallow, contradictory, and form - obsessed, makes a lot of sense to him, and indeed, is superior to Western ways.

Loving is the highest form of abiding, of being present for another.

Christians certainly include compassion as a form of love, and process theologians especially emphasize compassion in just that way that Yokota has described and appropriated for purposes of expounding and expanding Pure Land thought.

This would invite us to base the claim for the finality of Jesus Christ on the claim that Christian love transcends all other forms of love and can not itself be surpassed.

And he uses here a form of the word agape, for the highest kind of love.

defiling your skin is ok now... well thats good, but it doesn't bode well for the sins of the bible... perhaps he is really the devil in one of his many forms... clearly the devil loves irony!

For the Hebrews, in contrast, the love of God was the central form of love and the determining principle of all life.

In either case, why does love play so central a role for Christian existence, whereas other forms of existence can be more or less adequately treated without special reference to it?

2) For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, self - assuming, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, disloyal, 3) having no natural affection, not open to any agreement, slanderers, without self - control, fierce, without love of goodness, 4) betrayers, headstrong, puffed up [with pride], lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of God, 5) having a form of godly devotion but proving false to its power; and from these turn away.

How, minister to royalty, who call The prophets troublers of the church, Disturbers of the Christian peace, meddlers In matters — so they say — irrelevant To life in faith and hope and love; for whom The double altar is imperative; Who seek to shape the deity in form That sanctifies the royal of the earth?

Strictly speaking, ideal compassion was not conceived as a form of love according to the definition of love in this chapter, for in it there was ultimately no distinction of subject and object of love.

These theological tactics pay homage to her early love of Troeltsch, with his concern for social «types» and their relation to different sorts of theological forms.

The search by the Hebrews for a true understanding of God, from Abraham to Egypt, from the Promised Land to exile, witnesses as a whole to the love of God and to the requirement for justice on our part, and forms the matrix out of which Jesus» teachings developed.

As assistant novice mistress, she was able to form the young postulant nuns in her own Little Way, encouraging them to respond to God's infinite love for each of us.

There are places where he resorts to the imagery of myth and speaks of Christ as if he were living an unseen life with God in a heavenly realm above, from which he would descend to appear on the earth at the imminent end - time.38 At other times Paul could speak of the church as the body of Christ, of which the Christian believers formed «the limbs and organs».39 He exhorted the Galatians to «put on Christ as a garment», 40 he said to the Romans, «Let Christ Jesus himself be the armor that you wear», 41 and he told the Galatians how he was in travail until they «took the shape of Christ».42 In various ways Paul spoke of the risen Christ as an indwelling presence in the believer, the most moving passage being his own testimony, I have been crucified with Christ; the life I now live is not my life, but the life which Christ lives in me; and my present bodily life is lived by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.»

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Youngsters need to know that sacrifice for what is right is the deepest form of love, and that, through Christ's self - offering, it will bear fruit.