Breastfeeding is one of the most beautiful and gentle expressions
of human love on the planet.
When we realize how large a role our sexuality plays in the whole of our lives, the importance of the unconscious element
in human love is impressive.
This tragic romance is about the love of art and theater as much
as human love.
Not when I know what I do these days about the psychology of dogs and their need
for human love and company being as essential to them as air and water.
Three psychiatrists describe what new scientific research has to say
about human love.
Certainly, if this priest is saved, it must be through his
very human love, since he had little else to offer.
A cat like this doesn't know what he doesn't know... including
how human love and compassion can improve his plight in life.
In either case a
merely human love is a closed system, like a river with no outlet to the sea.
Recent correspondence concerning sexuality and love draws me to argue that, surprising as it may seem, sexual activity can not by itself generate or
increase human love.
This isn't surprising
since humans love to be outdoors and be in the water with their furry friends.
Yet any authentic discovery of
human love involves the will to affirm the other's being whatever that may cost.
To speak of him at all adequately we must use personal language: it can be so personal in fact that its only parallel is
in human loving and the language of the heart.
We pass on to the case where man and woman are united in marriage, which is the fullest setting
for human love.
But we may yet regard humanitarianism as a form of
human love which, though it can not be identified with agape, reflects human values which agape incorporates and fulfils It is true that the Bible does not speak of a general fraternity of humanity which we recognize just because we are human.
There is indeed a dimension in the love of God which differs
from human love, and the platonists and many mystics have seen it.
While humans love sunbathing to acquire a healthy tan, have you ever wondered why your canine companion might be indulging in the same?
We come to the question of what use we can make of this analysis of
human love when we speak of the love of God.
Sexual love may exist for its own sake in the Song, but... Proverbs relativizes
human love by placing it within the established order of life and questions of prudence.
Thus, to be faithful to the full measure of Christian intellectual conviction about the dignity (and fallibility) of the human person, about civilization as a state of society characterized by uncoerced decisions arrived at through civil discourse, and about the pull
upon human love of God's own command of love, new forms of social institutions will have to be labored towards in history, and not without setbacks.
Though sex is not love and love is not always sexual they are linked, and Christian doctrine affirms that agape
fulfills human loves including the sexual when sex transcends itself in self - giving to the beloved.
It was often emotionally repressed, inclined to
view human loves not as extensions of God's love for us but as rivals of that love.
That calling has drawn him away from
ordinary human loves, it has compelled him to harden himself against quite natural emotions, it has brought upon him and those who accompany him countless hardships.
Worse, Wyeth uses the same devices in painting after painting, in tempera and watercolor, as
if human love could stand outside of time.
And it is worth saying once more that this life together is nothing other than «life in love»,
human love because also sharing in divine Love, in God who is Love - in - act.
The Spanish peasant saying that «to make love is to declare one's sorrow» is very much to the point here,
Human love requires such an identification with the one who is loved that his or her deepest and most painful experience is known and shared.
Moreover, what men
call human love and righteousness has nothing in common with the love of the perfect man, for it is perverted by being the subject of a command.
The allegorizing of the Song's wonder
concerning human love was given impetus by the early Christian scholar Origen, who contended that all language had a literal, a figurative, and a spiritual, or allegorical, sense.
It must be said of his view what has been said of the monastic and the Reformers» solution, that it solves the relationship of self - sacrifice to
human loves too easily.
Phrases with «human love»