It is comforting to know that our sweet
friends knew they were loved.
Not exact matches
And there
's always «
love money,» also
known as loans from family and
friends.
If you
're stressing out over gifts for your
friend who
is obsessed with Taco Bell, then look
no further; she'll
love everything on this list.
In that sea of options in my closet, there
are a very select few that I really
love — the ones that I
know the feel of by memory and actually remember which company makes them so I can tell my
friends when they ask.
The
friends who
know us best
are those who have seen us at our worst — and
loved us any way.
From whirlwind celebrity romances to your best
friend moving halfway across the country to
be with a guy she
's known for a month, the phrase «
love makes you do crazy things»
is never more true than in our current culture of immediacy.
I have
been encouraging
friends to attend — I've never
been in a church that felt healthier for me or the people around me (okay — my kids
are resistant, when we don't go regularly, but it seems very healthy for all the people I
know and
love who attend).
No, I'm an old woman who had to move a family because of former christian «friends» who «loved me» so much that when I told them I no longer believed thought it was a fun idea to take away my job, vandalize my vehicles, and harass me until I had to move to a new town
No, I
'm an old woman who had to move a family because of former christian «
friends» who «
loved me» so much that when I told them I
no longer believed thought it was a fun idea to take away my job, vandalize my vehicles, and harass me until I had to move to a new town
no longer believed thought it
was a fun idea to take away my job, vandalize my vehicles, and harass me until I had to move to a new town..
I received the odd curious question from
friends, and a neighbour who
is not
known for his
love of multiculturalism made a rude comment, but that
was it.
When I
knew the end
was near all I could think of
was my family and close
friends - I just wanted them to
know just how much I
love them and forgive them as I hope they'd forgive me.
Based on notes of conversations he had with Chanel in 1946, Morand gives us Chanel's observations on
friends and rivals like Picasso («He destroyed, but then he constructed»), Misia Sert («Misia
is to Paris what Kali
is to the Hindu pantheon), Diaghalev («he traveled through Europe in the role of a penniless patron»), Stravinsky (««You
're married, Igor,» I told him... and he, very Russian: «She
knows I
love you.
«I don't
know if the reason for my anger
is just my old fashioned Irish - American patriotism,» wrote the
friend who sent us the link, «or the fact that I just spent a week with my father tripping and limping around with a bad leg he gave in the service of this nation, or because my mother
is an immigrant and both my paternal grandparents
were too, and as much as all of them
loved Ireland they
knew how much they owed this country and considered the precious value of their American citizenship only slightly behind that of their baptismal certificates.»
The greatest
love known is to give (or risk) your life for a
friend - Jesus didn't say that the greatest
love known is to «turn the other cheek and forsake a
friend» - you recieved sacrifical
love from a complete stranger and willfully chose to withhold your sacrificial
love in return.
It often seems as the «share» the details of this relationship that Jesus
is more like a child's imaginary
friend who
is always on their side when any conflict occurs with others rather than the Jesus who
loved people enough to tell them, without accusing or withdrawing affection, the hard truths they needed to
know to encourge them to make more meaningful choices.
But I also want to say, if you had
been here (I
'm in Birmingham) and read some of the stories of people's kids
being killed by this storm (so many had lost power already by earlier storms and had no idea F4 and F5 tornodoes
were about to hit, and their kids
were at
friends» houses... and then those
friends» houses
were totally destroyed, and several parents lost all of their kids - I also
know of several people who lost their wives AND all of their kids because they
were at work while their family
was at home)... anyways, if you could read some of these stories, who
are you guys to tell them that their
loved ones
are not going off to a better place?
Confession time here: although I don't usually end up at places such as drunken parties, stripper bars and porn shops while hanging out with
friends, since those activities and places hold little appeal for me, I
know I need to stay away from certain «religious» people, those who seem to
love only themselves and who seem hell - bent on
being nasty to people they describe as «sinners», supposedly in the name of truth - telling.
I have Evangelical
friends that used to tell me that my depression
was caused from not
knowing Jesus enough, not
loving Jesus enough, not praying enough, not believing enough, and on and on and on.
Ten years later, the need for discernment seems
no less great, for in every generation the story of Peoples Temple seems to
be repeated in some way, leaving in its wake a grieving and confused community of families,
friends and
loved ones.
That
was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently
been diagnosed with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear
's when I hallucinate it
's likes they
are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they
are trying to get me just as they
are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there
's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they
are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they
are saying the only way I can explain it
is emotions comfort joy
love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I
know this for a fact as I can't control myself I
'm an observer watching my family /
Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I»
am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it
's time for change I've lost my faith I've
been trying to connect with God and feel his
love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I
am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it
's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to
be truthfully with myself I fear God which I
know I
'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I
'm up for the challenge like I said I
'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I
'm going to hang around for a wee while there
's lots of good information to
be plundered loll
we
are no longer servants but
friends, we
are no longer exiles but home builders, we
are no longer fighting but farming, we
are no longer orphans but family, we
are no longer meant for the brickyard but for the Promised Land, we
are no longer broken but we
are mended and healed and whole, we
are no longer wanderers but we
are the ones who belong, with just as much a right to
Love and to grace and to redemption as every one who draws breath from the breath of God.
So, if you truly
love God, you will
love yourself, those who
are your
friends, those who raise their fists and arms and guns at you, and then turn that other cheek and
know no fear or hatred.
I
know it sounds simplistic and idealistic but I truly believe that if we
are motivated by the
love of Christ, paying attention to the leading of the Holy Spirit and our
friends around us, we'll look after one another well and disciple each other by pointing one another to Jesus as the true Shepherd.
«You have to tell yourself this crap to justify your reason for believing in an imaginary
friend «= >
No my
love for God
is based on what God personally has done in my life.
My
friend, if you'd read a book once in a while, you would
know that Islam
is about peace and
love.
I
love to see when people create a super human
being that
is beyond
knowing, then have the arrogance or self - delusion to believe that they and they
're group of «special» super
friends alone can
know this unknowable
being.
But when I
am listening to God... I
know that He wants them (and me) to lead others to
LOVE, not to encourage our
friends in a behavior (such as hating) that grieves Him.
So it
is that we dare to say that the goodness, the courage, the integrity, the concern, and the
love which were our friend — that all these are now, and to all eternity will be, safe in the God whom he and we know to be sheer L
love which
were our
friend — that all these
are now, and to all eternity will
be, safe in the God whom he and we
know to
be sheer
LoveLove.
My
friend knew that
loving God, caring for her mother, choosing life and accepting loss
were all somehow wrapped up together.
It
's all about getting to personally
know the homeless, making
friends with them, spending time with them and getting to
know and
love them.
time for me to leave my country for 5 years study (medical field)... and while i
am i that country (China) once i intercourse with a prostitute (i
am really shamefull)... then after few times i found another girl in facebook (from my hometown only) then fall in
love with her and that
loves get stronger day by day (she
is a christian) and i told her that im not virgin and i had this girlfriend and i did with prostitute so she forgives me and ask me to lie new life... but still i havent leave my e girl
friend (i found difficult to leave her, i do nt
love her much, but i do nt
know how i
love her in first place, she
is much older than me), my ex gf came to suspects about my new relationship via facebooks post, comments, likes and all and sometimes i did told her that i have this new
friend... as time passes by, she realised it and she do nt talk to me anymore till now... and last time i went home i met my new girl
friend and we intercourse....
I regularly ask my old church
friends that if the fruits of the Spirit
are love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, etc., then why does the Dalia Lama look more Spirit - filled than the vast majority of Christians I
know?
So the point of this
is, atheists,
is that if you
're claiming someone
is a lune for having God intereacting with them, it
's similar to saying they
're a lune for receiving a phone call from someone they
know, because phone calls
are selective too, they can consume someone
's senses, and there
's no guarantee that the person calling, will contact everyone over the planet... just to prove themself to someone that isn't a
friend... or someone that doesn't
love God.
Yes, I
am happy that I have not
been cut down to one characteristic, and yes, I
am happy that I
am your
friend and that you
love me
no matter what.
When I first came out, one of my closest
friends, who I came out to before I
was comfortable enough to make my orientation widely
known,
was a Christian who believed the heteronormative view of the bible (and to the best of my knowledge still does) but she
was extremely
loving towards me and a wonderful support at a time when I really needed it.
We
know what that
is as Jesus told us «Greater
love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his
friends» (Jn15: 13) Sex
is part of God's plan to share His life and
love with us in Jesus Christ.
Such a unification of existence will
be fully accomplished when
love becomes all that it ought to
be and there
is no longer tension or even difference between
love of self and others or between the
love of personal
friends and of all humanity.
At first I thought my
Friend, God,
was very powerful; but as I looked at the evil in the world, I
knew that the God whose
love I had felt would never willingly cause or allow such senseless suffering.
Every single one of
knows that we
are supposed to show
love to our
friends, coworkers, family members, and neighbors.
Put a man in Sarah's place, let him
know that in case he
were to
love a girl a spirit of hell would come and murder his
loved one — it might well
be possible that he would choose the demoniacal part, that he would shut himself up within himself and say in the way a demoniacal nature talks in secret, «Many thanks, I
am no
friend of courteous and prolix phrases, I do not absolutely need the pleasure of
love, I can become a Blue Beard, finding my delight in seeing maidens perish during the night of their nuptials.»
Last week, a close
friend who
knows and
loves my brother told me to stop
being a retard.
The faith evoked by the preaching of the gospel
is no more subjective than a man's
love for his
friend.
It
was a spiritual healing that reflects the dreams shared by a Nazarene who said there
is «
no greater
love than that a man lay down his life for his
friends.»»
When we say we
love someone but don't like them, we mean this: «I
love them (because I
know I
am supposed to), but I don't want to hang out with them or
be their
friend.»
A
friend is seriously ill; my intercession
is that, in part through my concern for him but more especially through God's faithful
love for him, he may both
know and reflect the goodness that through his life can
be shown and expressed.
Still, to me, the best thing I learned from Mrs. Foster
was this:
friends love each other richly,
no matter how many years lie between them.
While your freedoms
are certainly limited — you can
no longer date or crash at a
friend's house or hit the bars until early the next morning — it doesn't matter, because now you have someone committed to
love and serve alongside you.
Each... will have to cling to what
is close to him, to what he
knows, to what he can do, to his
friends and his tradition and his
love, lest he
be dissolved in a universal confusion and
know nothing and
love nothing [Reporter, January 13, 1955].
im awful i
know but sex for me has to have an element of decadence and not
be scripted and
no i do nt wan na hear a minister or church «
friends» (those who shake your hand and give ya the «we
love ya brothers /
were not like other churches here we
r real BS) talkin about lovin or sex.
There
are friends you've never
known who long for your
love.
«The truth of the matter can
be put,» says Leuba, «in this way: God
is not
known, he
is not understood; he
is used — sometimes as meat - purveyor, sometimes as moral support, sometimes as
friend, sometimes as an object of
love.