Sentences with phrase «forms of love from»

They are also just as happy when it's time for belly rubs and other forms of love from their people.

But only recently have we realized how distinct is this form of love from agapé, how important in itself, and how badly needed in the Christian life.

Not exact matches

The unity of love is above all other forms of unity and the source from which they all flow.

Have you ever 2Timothy3: 1 - 5 It speak about in the last day critical time hard to deal with will be here.2 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.God speak of these thing occurring in our day.

I am reminded of what Jesus said about the purest form of religion being taking care of the most vulnerable of society with widows and orphans and to keep from being polluted by evil, in this case the love of money over meeting the needs of the poor.

-- but takes us away from the even more countercultural questions it raised earlier, about the forms of love we ignore in our laser focus on romance.

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.

Man - made hypothesis of where we came from, such as from evolution (saying that proteins formed in a «prebiotic soup» and then «joining hands» with DNA, so that eventually a living cell is born), is not satisfying nor does it provide logical answers as to how the quality of love came about nor a conscience, that literally means «co-knowledge» in Greek.

Every other form of revelation would be a deception from the standpoint of the divine love.

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.

religion is a form of control people are generally stupid people love old lies as much as new ones lots of money can be made from religion religion, since all based on imaginary creatures to explain the unexplainable of the time, is all a money making scheme!

We see here a principle which runs through the entire history of love; the forms which express the spirit of love do not arise like some pure fountain from love alone.

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.»

This tremendous insight into the very depth of love comes from a perception about God ready to empty himself and take the form of a slave (Phil.

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 BeFrom 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 Befrom 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.

Whatever its visible forms, the important goal is the redirecting of life from finite attachment and acquisitiveness to the active love of the good.

But because the early church inherited from Hellenistic culture the love of penetrating into the truth by intellectual enquiry, the Christian thinkers of the West have too commonly concluded that they could define and delineate the being of God in the forms of human language with some confidence.

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.

However, in other respects, friendship was not independent in its nature from other forms of love.

Or is Christian love something discontinuous from all other forms of love such that a distinct word is needed?

When they thought to manipulate me by withholding the approval I now see I was seeking from them and their man - made «church» organizations, certain «pastors» achieved only the removal of the vary bars that imprisoned me — bars formed, again, from my pursuit in all the wrong places of what I took to be love.

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.

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.»

Still in draft form, the Code of Conduct commits signatories to faithful compliance with Charitable Choice; to straightforward and consistent communication about their religious identity among their volunteers, service beneficiaries, donors and government partners; to refraining from using government funding for «confessional activities»; to winsome and gentle witness; to love of neighbor; to freedom from religious coercion; to nondiscrimination toward program participants; to faithfulness to their mission; to credible and objective evaluation procedures; to avoidance of «turf wars» with other FBOs and nonprofits; and to rigorous financial accountability.

Much suffering of people comes from the wickedness of others, as in child abuse, wife abuse, and many other forms of not loving a neighbor as oneself.

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.

For Socrates, true love is a matter of ascent (this is the famous scala amoris) from the physical and the individual to the spiritual and universal: the purest form of love is love of the Forms, or of Being itself; love in its highest and best sense is undifferentiated and abstract.

An even more dangerous fudge is to divide the form of marriage from its substance — to say «we don't need promises because we're in love.»

When they came to be baptized by John in the Jordan, they were turning away from the corrupt forms of religious Judaism, and turning to a new way of living according to the loving and forgiving ways of God.

Niebuhr summed up the sin of sensuality by pointing out three of its invariable characteristics: a self - defeating self - love, an attempt to escape the self by finding a god outside the self (in a person or process), and an attempt to escape from the confusion caused by sin into some form of subconscious existence.

This is a sad fact of which we are all aware, and because of this separation of head and heart we are bound to conclude that, however social necessity and logic may impel it from behind, the human mass will only become thoroughly unified under the influence of some form of affective energy which will place the human particles in the happy position of being unable to love and fulfill themselves individually except by contributing in some degree to the love and fulfillment of all; to the extent, that is to say, that all are equal and integral parts of a single universe that is vitally converging.

God appears to me in another form besides that of love; in the form of omnipotence, of a severe power not bound by love... So long as love is not exalted into... an essence, so long there lurks in the background of love a subject who even without love is something by himself, an unloving monster, a diabolical being, whose personality, separable and actually separated from love, delights in the blood of heretics and unbelievers, — the phantom of religious fanaticism.»

I can totally get «wouldn't it be cool if our sense of consciousness survived our physical deaths and we got to hang out with the consciousnesses of all the people we loved who died» but the jump from that to «I'm positive we have immortal souls» seems too much like wishful thinking that's been codified by some form of group consensus.

If these selves are not partially capable of self - determination and thus partly free to wish, choose, and act in independence of the rest of the universe, then they are not distinct selves at all but are indistinguishable from a cosmic causal system.35 Similarly, as explained above, Hartshorne holds that love in the form of sympathy, either immediate or mediate, is a fundamental feature of the human condition and of the total cosmos.

Moreover, Hartshorne contends that the finite personality can not soberly adjust to its own finitude but will suffer from some form of megalomania, unless it knows itself to be in the presence of an actually infinite reality that understands and loves it.

Love is spirit, and such understanding as we have of it takes form from the spirit of the Servant and within our faithful response in our situation.

In our present state of human nature, lust accompanies our sexuality and, if not countered, prevents sexuality from being a school and a means of love, and turns it into an obsessive form of self - centeredness that tends to make others into objects of gratification or exploitation, and not persons to be respected or loved.

The purpose of this book is to interpret love from the perspective of process theology, that claims God is involved in the world's becoming and his love takes new forms throughout history.

The kid is right in a way Religion is a way to enslave people to the thinking of that particular religion Jesus didn't come to form religion but to give us a way to get to Heaven through him The only mission of a church is to teach you about God's love to help the poor to love one another to do things that Christ would do There is a penalty for not being saved by the blood of Jesus There will be a separation from God for all eternity God made us for one reason to love Him the Creator of all The meaning of life

God is present in every form of suffering and depravity — painful relationships, chronic illness, addictions, deaths of loved ones, unemployment, financial strain, children who turn from God.

The grace of God has impelled members of many Churches and ecclesial Communities, especially in the course of the present century, to strive to overcome the divisions inherited from the past and to build anew a communion of love by prayer, by repentance and by asking pardon of each other for sins of disunity past and present, by meeting in practical forms of cooperation and in theological dialogue.

Gary; we become the words we speak, therefore to reject the words that comes forth out of my heart, is to reject me: How can you separate the two: Are you to say to Jesus: O we love you Jesus, but not what you preach: Jesus said; if you love me you would do what I say: We would heed to His words and not depart from them: Jesus is the Word of God become flesh, how can you separate us who are also grafted into His Word by the Holy Spirit: Now to also separate us from the one that man also said was a lunatic (Jesus) because of His words: Truly, this is what it means to have Christ form in us, and that is why we now are not received by those of this world: Thank - you Gary, In Jesus name Alexandria:

From his perspective, equipping the saints for ministry will require a form of pastoral care which is oriented toward incorporation (and reincorporation) of persons into communities of love and service.

However, the fact remains that God chose from all eternity to take the form of a man, and that Jesus is the embodiment of the Father's love.

Obviously we can not share in these various Afro - Asiatic forms of religion nor can we remain indifferent to the fact that each of them, in its own way, should regard itself as being the equal of any other and should authorize its followers not to seek to discover whether God has revealed the perfect and definitive form, free from all error, in which he wishes to be known, loved, and served.

Schweitzer's radical demonstration of love in the form of unpretentious human service, under conditions which involve personal renunciation, corresponds directly to St. Francis's rule of love and humility as the authentic foundation of a way of life free from attachments of privilege and power.

I think too much concern about modesty and so on is a form of preoccupation in itself that keeps us from enjoying what God has created all around us to enjoy — His love letter to humanity and evidence of His glory.

Faith's love for the Creator, on the other hand, engenders respect and reverence for the work of his hands, and protects creation with forms of government cognisant that all authority stems from God and is at the service of the common good.

A narrative of a Lenten meditation in poetic form written from the standpoint of the apostle Thomas: And if it were not for his love, his grace that sought me out behind locked doors, called me to touch and then believe, I would not be here at your humble table ready now with you, to break the bread and pour the wine as he did years ago.

The tendency there has been in Christian thought, from quite near the beginning, to depreciate the true humanity of Jesus and to turn him into a divine being, appearing temporarily in the form of man, fails to do justice to the magnificence, indeed the perfection, of that portrayal of love in the human scene.