A human object of love may serve for a while, but unfortunately the mortality rate is one hundred per cent.
Not exact matches
Hatred is what they certainly project, not
love for the embryos, which is a piece
of nonsense no one could experience, but hatred, a virulent hatred for an unnamed
object... Their hatred is directed against
human beings as such, against the mind, against reason, against ambition, against success, against
love, against any value that brings happiness to
human life.
To this useful image Marian Evans contrasts Dr. Cumming's God, who «instead
of sharing and aiding our
human sympathies is directly in collision with them; who instead
of strengthening the bond between man and man, by encouraging the sense that they are both alike the
objects of His
love and care, thrusts himself between them and forbids them to feel for each other except as they have relation to Him.»
Negroes and Indians were part
of the great
human race and should, therefore, be
objects of love as much as any other being.
No
human love, it is held, even the most idealistic, can be said to embody agape, the
love of God, for
human love is always limited and ambiguous in its
object, and is corrupted by
human selfishness in its essential spirit.
But religious
love is only man's natural emotion
of love directed to a religious
object; religious fear is only the ordinary fear
of commerce, so to speak, the common quaking
of the
human breast, in so far as the notion
of divine retribution may arouse it; religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge; only this time it comes over us at the thought
of our supernatural relations; and similarly
of all the various sentiments which may be called into play in the lives
of religious persons.
Spirituality is intimately related to sexuality because
of the natural
human desire to seek union with the
object of love.
The idea is absent that sexual conduct can do harm to the health
of one «sspirit,
of one's humanity; that it can overthrow a person's
human balance, turning him or her obsessively in on self, seeing in others no more than sex -
objects, incapable
of any deep or lasting
love or
of the respect that is the very hallmark
of love.
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 relation
of love to the intellect proceeds from three assumption: first, that faith transcends rational categories through God's self - revelation in Christ; second, that intellectual understanding is necessary for the guidance
of human life; and third, that both seek the same
object in God's being and His revealed truth — namely, that it is through agape with its consequent repentance, humility, and understanding
of human limits that the intellect can appropriately function.
It is interesting to me that the most intimate
human experiences, namely tile
object ot our worship ana the
object or
human love, provide the vocabulary
of profanity.
Personality is sacred not only in the
human object of the serviceable deed but in the doer
of it also, and he is to
love his neighbor even as he
loves himself.
To realise its being and life, and to experience the fullness
of human experiencing, the
human person must be the subject and
object of love, for it is precisely in
love that the
human person most fully actualizes itself, and thus reaches the fullest realization
of its being and life (66).
Instead
of connecting online with other people — who very likely are zombie spambots peddling pregnancy hormones as diet aids, or zombie
humans insisting that the president
of the United States is an alien — we will link up with the
objects we own and
love.
Puppetry is a form
of theatre or performance that involves the manipulation
of puppets — inanimate
objects, often resembling some type
of human or animal Planet Rock Dating is the dating site for people who
love rock music!
Hazel and Ben's twinned sibling rivalry and
love is beautifully complex, and their relatable
human yearnings for the
objects of their affections anchor the novel in the believable, despite the fact that said passions are for a comatose enchanted prince and a fairy changeling.
We become editors because we
love words and we
love books: books as
objects, books as art, books as treasure boxes
of the
human mind and spirit.
As the territory
of birth,
love, illness, and death and as the most anthropomorphic shape in the history
of all civilizations, the bed a much - reproduced
object in art and a common metaphor for the
human condition.
Another
of Hirst's modified «found
objects» is a lavishly decorated
human skull, entitled For the
Love of God (2007, Private Collection).