The brief
history of my love life is that my current boyfriend and I met in college almost five years ago, we broke up after dating for two years.
Not exact matches
But McAlpine, who
lives in Cornwall, says the British secretly
love the phrase because
of its
history.
Procrastinators
of course
love these examples
of people from
history who did great things very late in
life.
Tom Hanks solidifies himself as one
of the greatest actors
of his generation with this look at a man whose
life intersects with some
of the greatest moments in
history while trying to connect with his true
love, Jenny.
The aggregate
of all our joys and sufferings, thousands
of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer
of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in
love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher
of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the
history of our species,
lived there - on a mote
of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.
The book is a «well - researched and provocative look at the
history of romance, courtship, and marriage, putting into context the fantastic amount
of pressure that our current ideas have put on our own
love lives and partners.
In his book
Love: A History, University College London philosopher Simon May is more skeptical, writing that, similar to Perel's reasoning, love has had to fill the vacuum of meaning - making left in the West with the «retreat of Christianity» from much of public l
Love: A
History, University College London philosopher Simon May is more skeptical, writing that, similar to Perel's reasoning,
love has had to fill the vacuum of meaning - making left in the West with the «retreat of Christianity» from much of public l
love has had to fill the vacuum
of meaning - making left in the West with the «retreat
of Christianity» from much
of public
life.
Many recent mass shooters, including Orlando shooter Omar Mateen, Texas shooter Devin Patrick Kelley, 2014 Santa Barbara shooter Elliot Rodger, and others had
histories of abusing women or feeling spurned by women in their
love lives.
Valerie earned a degree in
history from the University
of New Mexico, and as a freelance writer combines her
love of history with her extensive experience in the tourism industry to provide insightful, informative articles about
life in Italy.
She's a wife, mother and world shifter who has transformed her own
life and, as a result, ignited a movement for women entrepreneurs that is changing the course
of history in their
lives and in the
lives of those they
love most.»
The songs on this two - cd set are arranged thematically rather than chronologically and reflect many
of the recurring themes
of Cash's oeuvre:
love, sin, redemption,
life, death... Adding to the intimacy level, many
of the songs feature spoken introductions by Cash, as if he were introducing the songs to an audience, in which he talks about his
history with the song, how he learned it, or wrote it and, more personally, why he feels such a deep connection with the composition.
Lolololololololololololol... the god cop - out answer... there is NO evidence
of anything resembling a god anywhere throughout
history... if your god
loves you so much why did he wait until the earth had been around 4.6 billion years and created many different forms
of life before creating you?
Sorry honey, but you're
living in a fantasy world (not that you weren't already I guess) but to claim that christians have always
loved the jews is rewriting
history to the point
of fiction.
The purely individual need for a fulfillment that is denied to us in this
life, for an everlasting
love that we await, is certainly an important motive for believing that man was made for eternity; but only in connection with the impossibility that the injustice
of history should be the final word does the necessity for Christ's return and for new
life become fully convincing.»
For the unshakeable truth
of all
of history is that «God so
loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal
life.»
The first thing that must be said, however — a point only faintly adumbrated in the WCC statement's suggestion that Jesus had redefined the family — is that the fellowship
of the kingdom
of God, though it may be spoken
of as a family, is neither generated nor sustained through biological transmission
of life nor by the
love given and received in the
history of our families.
Moreover, Jesus» correspondence to God's deepest nature (his «freedom which is
love») allowed him his radical liberation from the «dead seriousness»
of history, says Moltmann; the laughter
of Easter reveals that
life can indeed be taken playfully, 50
It is, for example, Tarwater learning
of his own
history — his whore mother and his birth at the scene
of a wreck — in the context
of the
history of Adam and the Second Coming; it is in the remark by the Negro hand on old Tarwater: «He was deep in this
life, he was deep in Jesus» misery»; it is Bishop, the idiot, whose fish eyes are the center
of that «extension» into unreasonable, absurd
love for both Tarwater and Rayber.
This is a very healthy corrective to a great deal that has unquestionably disfigured the
history of institutional Christianity; for instance, the sometimes subtle but persistent belittling
of the richest and most profound
of human experiences, as if the joys
of human
love were somehow suspect, and not among the most sheerly precious experiences that
life has to offer.
The later
history shows three main ways in which the
love of God made known in Christ was grasped and embodied as a Christian view
of life.
God in His will through
history had into reality seemingly illogical or cruel events to happen in our world, but no one is spared if the purpose is for the good
of humanity, wars pestilence even the holocust has a reason and purpose beyond our comprehension at our times but will be reveald in the future, The Phillipine catasthrophy for example is viewed by some as Gods punishment, we experienced the brunt
of natures punishing power but it also unveiled the true feelings and concern
of the whole world in helping us materially and spiiritually by aiding and consoling us that was unprecedented in
history, The whole world had demostrated, to me, a kind
of humanitarian concern and
love that trancends races and culture, A kind
of demonstration by higher being the we humans is one with Him.The cost
of human
lives and misery is nothing in
history compared to its positve historical consequences
Time,
history, and freedom make a difference because through them God reveals that he is a
living God in man's future waiting for man's free return
of self God wills to be a lover responding to man's free return
of love.
Love has a
history in the very
life of God as he deals with his recalcitrant creatures.
It doesn't change the message he left behind
of love and forgiveness, there have been many great wise men throughout the world and
history not all
of them were perfect and Jesus
lived as a man among us I am sure he made mistakes and learned what was important to teach his followers what really mattered.
The
history of the Christian conception
of love begins in the Old Testament, has its centre in the New Testament, and continues throughout the
life of the church.
If the
history of nature is a result
of unilateral, divine control, then God's
love must be questioned, for the
history of life on earth does not readily attest to the existence
of an all - controlling and all -
loving God.
He developed what he called the «hero tradition» to describe these archetypal features
of history's most
loved heroes; twenty - two common events likely to occur in a hero's
life:
And when I write «the complete chain
of events» I mean the complete chain, beginning with God eternal
love for humanity, including the creation
of mankind and their subsequent fall, and going through God's calling
of Israel, His work through them during their checkered
history, the birth,
life, ministry, death, resurrection, and ascension
of Jesus, and looking forward to the return
of Jesus and the new heavens, the new earth, and our eternal existence with God.
By «God» I mean the pervasive personal presence, distinct from me and prior to me, who is the source and support
of my existence; who through Scripture makes me realize that he has towards me the nature and name
of love - holy, lordly, costly, fatherly, redeeming
love; who addresses me, really though indirectly, in all that Scripture shows
of his relationship to human beings in
history, and especially in the recorded utterances
of his Son, Jesus Christ; and who is daily drawing me towards a face - to - face encounter and consummated communion with him beyond this
life, by virtue
of «the redemption which is in Christ Jesus» (Rom.
Never forgetful
of the conflicts
of history and
of the harsh treatment received by their people, the authors
of Salvation and
of The New Discovery
of America have long known and
loved mediæval Christianity and Catholic spiritual
life.
Fortunately I have
loved history all my
life, and it helps make sense
of most
of it.
Besides that, I can not see how any so called
loving God can include mass distinction
of life, his creations, over and over again in the
history of our planet as we know it.
«This pinnacle
of faith in New Testament religion is the final expression
of certainty about the power
of God to complete our fragmentary
life as well as the power
of His
love to purge it
of the false completions in which all
history is involved.»
And I have a graduate degree, have both
lived and traveled extensively abroad, have studied all kinds
of cultures and
history,
love science and learning.
Your difficulty is that you want to try to
live in
history without sinning... our effort to set up the Kingdom
of God on earth ends in a perverse preference for tyranny, simply because the peace
of tyranny means, at least, the absence
of war (
Love and Justice [Westminster, 1957]-RRB-.
The religious understanding
of the conflict between good and evil, the fact
of the stubborn resistance
of the human heart to the
love of God and its demands, the vision
of the divine strategy
of sacrificial
love in the
life and death
of Jesus as the climax
of history, all this is foreign to most
of the philosophies
of progress, but it was the heart
of the great expressions
of Christian liberalism.
If this can be done we shall have passed beyond the crisis
of liberal Christianity; for the liberal view
of the relation
of Christian
love to moral problems is in difficulty today precisely because the philosophy
of history on which it is based does not sufficiently recognize the tragic obstacles which are set in the way
of the
life of love.
But what we have established so far is that the exercise
of power in
history, the expression
of the interests, vitalities, and wills which belong to us as human beings, and even the participation in the inevitable conflict
of these interests and vitalities, are not in contradiction to the real human good which is the earthly content
of our
life in the
love of God.
God himself came in Jesus Christ as holy universal
Love to fulfill the
life of past human
history in the
life of one historical person; his coming paved the way for the fulfillment
of the
life of every man.
If the doctrine
of the new
life of the Christian is the hardest
of all to believe, as in our disillusioned time it must be, still there can be no good news
of Christ apart from the possibility that in some measure the
life of love can actually be
lived on this dark and bloody battlefield
of human
history.
The fall
of Adam and Eve, the covenants with Israel and its deliverance from bondage, its falling away and punishment through new sufferings, the speaking
of the divine word through the prophets, the birth
of Christ in human flesh, the
life and death
of Jesus, the experience
of the resurrection, and the
history of the Church, the expectation
of the final events and the established reign
of God in
love and peace — all this is the Biblical understanding
of what God has done, is doing, and will continue to do for the judgment and redemption
of the world.
On the other hand, it must be reiterated that the Old Testament canon reflects the full range
of the
life of that people; that the spirit
of Esther was provoked in their
history, again and again; that Jews have known in their long
history one Haman after another (the most recent conspicuous Haman being Adolph Hitler); and that if Esther isn't
history or theology in any direct sense, it nevertheless informs us more richly
of the
life of man and points up one
of the universal deterrents to the exercise
of the
love of God.
In one
life, which arose in the midst
of that people, God uttered His truth and spirit in such a way that His
love, which is His very essence, became known and operative in human
history with transforming power.
For with baptism, «we are immersed in that inexhaustible source
of life that is Jesus's death, the greatest act
of love in all
of history.»
23 This points Gutiérrez in the direction
of where God as
love is to be recognized in our presence: «To believe in the God who reveals himself in
history, and pitches his tent in its midst, means to
live in this tent — in Christ Jesus — and to proclaim from there the liberating
love of the Father.»
The inseparability
of the two
loves has been less manifest in theological analysis than in the actuality
of history but theology has pointed out often enough how the thought
of God is impossible without thought
of the neighbor and how the meaning and value
of the companion's
life depends on his relation to God.
As we examined the biblical foundations
of the doctrine
of love we saw that the Bible regards human
life as a
history in which God seeks to create a community
of those who
love him and one another, and who celebrate his
love in a
life of faithfulness and joy.
I worked in a military - based bank, I
loved and respected the Canadian and American military, I was proud
of my own family's military
history, developed an small understanding
of their
lives — and a deep respect for their honour and choices.
While Calvin seems to see more clearly than Luther the need for reforming the orders
of the world guided by
love and justice, both Reformers see the organization
of society in terms which we know are far too simple in the light
of the later
history of democratic forms
of political
life.
We have only to open our eyes, to understand how dearly we are
loved by a creator who is not malevolent, who understands our human condition, who despite our sad
history continues to express faith, hope and
love for us by these daily decision to create
life in the form
of innocent children and then to entrust them to us.