Sentences with phrase «importance of loving god»

Some Christian doctrines might require modification, but his convictions about the supreme importance of loving God and neighbor would in no way be weakened.

Not exact matches

I John, which emphasizes the importance of concrete love for neighbor, also insists that he who does not confess that Jesus the Messiah is the incarnate Son of God is the antichrist (I John 2:22 - 25; 4:1 - 3, 15 - 16).

Our praying, whether in word or thought, whether in church or at home, whether at ordinary services in church or at the Lord's Supper, should be grounded in two matters of supreme importance: the reality of God as Love and the concrete place where we happen to be as human beings.

In chapters like «The Meaning of Sex,» «Becoming a Singular Sensation,» «The Gift of the Present Moment,» «Winning the Spiritual Battle,» and «Craving Heaven,» Eden describes God's design for human sexuality, why sex is reserved for marriage, the importance of modesty, how singles struggling with loneliness and unrequited love can empower themselves through prayer and the sacraments, and why shared values with one's spouse are so vital for a successful marriage.

The major importance of Hartshorne's work in my view» is the way in which his dipolar panentheism indicates the possibility of a concept of God which allows believers to speak of him as an individual, personal reality and significantly to use active verbs of him — like love, create, know, respond — without denying anything that properly belongs to his ultimacy and worshipfulness and without falling into self - contradiction.

Nevertheless, what an extraordinary testimony to the world about the importance of praying to the one true God and to the wonderful and mysterious way he responds in reassurance and love to those prayers.

I have encountered no stronger advocate of the importance of these statements than C. H. Dodd, who insisted in light of 1 John that the Gospel is the proclamation «of God himself as love.»

The creative movement in the world, in its every detail and its varying degrees of importance, with whatever it has contributed to furthering God's love and his activity in love, is continuously experienced by God, known to him, cherished by him, and used in the furthering of his objective — which is the wider and wider sharing of love, with its related righteousness and truth and in its enduring beauty, in the ongoing of the creative process.

This dramatic vision of the universal church in no way minimizes or mitigates the importance of the local congregation, the covenanted community of God's pilgrim people which regularly gathers to worship, praise, sing, pray, proclaim, discipline, love, serve, and send.

But Pharisaic Judaism, while recognizing the supreme importance of love, had not reinterpreted the whole relation of God and man in terms of love.

Personal relationship — loving relationship — is of central importance to this universal God.

On the basis of these premises — experience as the highest authority, the importance of reason, the continuity of all of life's experiences, God as personal and immanent - transcendent, Christ as the incarnation of God's love, and confidence in humanity — I believe that Protestant liberalism can offer an important critique of the dominant theological movements of the past 30 years.

So, because of the love of God, we must live «compelled by love» — Christ's love — to tell what is «of first importance» according to 1 Corinthians 15:3.

On a somewhat lesser level of importance, we know love as philia, friendship, camaraderie.6 It is not wrong to attribute all these aspects of love to God.

And loving God with all our mind may not make it into as many of our worship choruses, but most of us recognize the importance of learning more about Him.

Bushnell recognized the importance of love as a key aspect of God's reality and affirmed that «love is a principle essentially vicarious [125] in nature.»

This is why I'm so adamant about the importance of marrying someone who loves God more than they love you, as much as I'm adamant about you becoming that kind of person in your own life.

26 Raising motifs we are encountering throughout this exploration into the challenges to the Augustinian synthesis, Brightman recognized the vital importance of the love of God and the presence of suffering in God.

However, those familiar with the Church's doctrine on the importance of marriage and family know it is based on principles of respect and love for all of God's children.»

The importance of this presentation is that God creates the world out of love and keeps it in being as an act of love, and that this creative act is, as it were, focussed through Christ as the very mind of God, the Logos, as described in the Gospel of John and as foreshadowed in Wisdom literature in the Old Testament.

Our praying, whether in word or thought, whether in church or at home, should be grounded in two matters of supreme importance: the reality of God as Love, and the concrete place where we happen to be as human beings.

The organization particularly emphasizes the importance of giving back value to the women who have worked as prostitutes by demonstrating God's love for them.

I'm aware of the importance of morality in yoga, but many great teachers, including my own, have said that the two most important principles are Satya, which is benevolent truthfulness, and Ishvarapranidhana, which is the cultivation of love and surrender to God through the practices of meditation, chanting, pranayama and asanas.

Loving God is of utmost importance, then family.

The middle of this album — Love Like a Bomb, The Importance of Being Idle, The Meaning of Soul, Guess God Thinks I'm Abel, Part of the Queue — is absolutely fantastic.

The Graduate School of Education's Convocation ceremony on Wednesday afternoon in Radcliffe Yard began with the exuberance of a pep rally and closed with three sets of personal reflections: on the importance of love; on the reason people enroll at the GSE; and on ways to improve public education, in part by restoring the kingdom of God to the process.

Cheers, Love, and Altruism at the Graduate School of Education Harvard Magazine, 5/29/13 «The Graduate School of Education's Convocation ceremony on Wednesday afternoon in Radcliffe Yard began with the exuberance of a pep rally and closed with three sets of personal reflections: on the importance of love; on the reason people enroll at the GSE; and on ways to improve public education, in part by restoring the kingdom of God to the process.&raLove, and Altruism at the Graduate School of Education Harvard Magazine, 5/29/13 «The Graduate School of Education's Convocation ceremony on Wednesday afternoon in Radcliffe Yard began with the exuberance of a pep rally and closed with three sets of personal reflections: on the importance of love; on the reason people enroll at the GSE; and on ways to improve public education, in part by restoring the kingdom of God to the process.&ralove; on the reason people enroll at the GSE; and on ways to improve public education, in part by restoring the kingdom of God to the process.»

We have learned so much about the importance of giving a sense of uncondional love and security to these little ones that God will place in our care — and we feel so blessed to be given the opportunity to make a difference in this way!