The above is a lie We all know god does not exist, except in the minds of fools And note, I am happy
in a loving relationship for many years now, seems your god does not want to hurt me?
If God is love, then either there has always been creation for Him to love, or (my belief) the Trinity has existed
in a loving relationship for all eternity.
She has been
in a loving relationship for over two years now.
I was
in a loving relationship for eight years before this one, I know boundaries, but as me and my current girlfriend were in the early stages of our relationship I took the opportunity to holiday with my friends, although I did not do anything wrong whilst abroad, the very fact that I went irks her over a year later.
Not exact matches
He made note that Trump borrowed his trademark phrase
for his NBC show, «The Apprentice,» from Steinbrenner, who first popularized «you're fired»
in his years - long,
love - hate
relationship with manager Billy Martin, whom Steinbrenner hired and fired a total of five times.
Maybe one of you is absolutely
in love with your current city or the place you met and from which your partner moved while the other half of your
relationship has totally fallen
for their new city and hopes you'll head there.
Despite a shared
love of pageantry and pomp, there is a real question if Macron will be able to leverage his personal chemistry with Trump and the close
relationship between the two countries» diplomatic corps and defense establishments to deliver tangible results
for France and its partners
in Europe.
Undoubtedly, Jesus still
loves us all more than either of us could ever fathom but the only way you, me, we're going to be able to live fulfilled and victorious lives is by accepting God's truths as they truly are
in the bible and by leaning on His grace
for empowerment to walk
in them
in our personal
relationships with him.
It contends that two men who use each other's anus»
for sexual gratification are
in love and may therefore live
in the covenant
relationship God ordained between a man and a woman.
One of the best ways of strengthening your
love for your friends and your mutual commitment to your
relationship is to be
in prayer.
Do you think it is wrong, according to the bible,
for two people of the same se.x to live together
in a
loving and se.xual
relationship?
One that believes
in God's everlasting
love for all of us, that faith is a
relationship which can't be proved or disproved - but experienced.
What we can't forget is that these analogies were chosen
in order to explain things that are constant (God's character, God's
love for the church)
in ways that people
in those cultures would understyand (gendered
relationships).
To maintain its dependency scam, revenue flow, nd unearned privileges and tax dodges, religion tries to force itself into every aspect of life when dying is a time to bask
in the glow of
loving human, real
relationships... and perhaps make a few apologies... like
for wasting others; time with ignorant, self - servinge proselytizing.
But
in order
for love to determine the nature of our
relationship and to actually maintain it, we hold our opinions lightly and are honestly open
for change.
Twenty years ago, the liberals were saying, «St. Paul was talking about the evils of pederasty
in Romans 1, not the kind of
loving, committed
relationships we're advocating
for.»
-LSB-...] i want to encourage you to read today's post by him... here's an exerpt: «But
in order
for love to determine the nature of our
relationship and to actually maintain it, we hold our opinions lightly and are honestly open
for change.
I have known one too many single Christians who have struggled with their
relationship with God because they are told that God is only one who could fill all of their longings
for intimacy when all the while God made humanity to be
in loving relationship with another.
I think about the teacher who was kind and encouraging to me when I was a teenager
in need of encouragement and would like to know how her multi-decades-long
loving committed monogamous
relationship with her same sex partner is remotely bad
for society or bad
for them.
Praying
for love means you learn to take ownership of your role
in the equation of a
relationship.
-LSB-... this] ought not be surprising — except to those who carry a burden of false assumptions about
love, celibacy, and their
relationship... As a mature man, he took the decision to express his [proven] capacity
for love as a celibate
in the priesthood... He was choosing to express his
love and his paternal instinct spiritually, through the gift of his life
in service to others.
As St Paul says
in Ephesians 5, the more that the husband
in his
relationship with his wife reflects the sacrificial
love of Christ
for His bride the Church, and the more that the wife
in her
relationship with her husband reflects the self - giving
love of the Church
for her Bridegroom, the more they will be truly fulfilled and the more they will live up to what they are called to be.
When we refuse to give ourselves completely, especially
in marriage, we destroy the foundations
for a truly mutual and
loving relationship, and we no longer live up to the meaning of marriage which is the Great Marriage of total self - giving between Christ and the Church.
Whatever season you're
in: single and
loving it, single and struggling, dating, engaged, married, simply trying to be
in a
relationship with another broken and beautiful human being, I hope these lessons are like guideposts
for you.
* worship God, whose will is and who has always yearned
for us to...... be free and independent;... think;... be curious;... be intelligent and wise;... value knowledge over ignorance and compassion over knowledge;... be creative;... grow and mature;... live long healthy satisfying lives;... live non-violently without vengeance;... be generous;... be hospitable;... be compassionate;... do no harm;... heal and rehabilitate and restore;... forgive and reconcile and include all and have all participate;... be good stewards of all resources;... live here and now as one family;... live
in a
loving intimate
relationship with God;... be transformed through resurrection; and... be the kingdom of God.
For example, significant numbers experience moderate to severe depression and difficulty
in establishing
love relationships.
Every other form of revelation would be a deception
in the eyes of
love;
for either the learner would first have to be changed, and the fact concealed from him that this was necessary (but
love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself); or there would be permitted to prevail a frivolous ignorance of the fact that the entire
relationship was a delusion.
The ability to accept, respect, and
love others is a learned ability; it develops only
in a
relationship in which the child receives acceptance, respect, and
love for what he is — a person of worth.
In contrast, modesty can awaken an instinct of respect, and so prepare the way
for a truly
loving relationship between a man and a woman.
And, most importantly, to take all of that sin and pain and brokenness
in the world onto his body and die on the cross
for us, because He
loves us, unconditionally, so that we can have a
relationship with Him.
She's the most amazing person and her
relationship with her wife is so steeped
in unconditional
love, peace and joy, that I CAN NOT judge her
for it.
(Liberal religion refers to open and ongoing revelation, interconnected
relationship grounded
in love and never coercion, an understanding of our responsibility to assist the arc of the moral universe
in bending toward justice, and our understanding that there are resources both human and divine that make it possible
for us to do so.
The second gain is to see that the meaning of
love expressed
in the life of Jesus becomes the basis of an ethic
for human
relationships.
They have been led, often unwillingly, to affirm that
Love in its infinite capacity for relationships and its profound participation in that in which it is at work, is the very nature of God himself; they have found in that love the clue to God's way of working in the wo
Love in its infinite capacity
for relationships and its profound participation
in that
in which it is at work, is the very nature of God himself; they have found
in that
love the clue to God's way of working in the wo
love the clue to God's way of working
in the world.
It shows that disagreement need not threaten the
relationship, but
love and unity can still exist
for the sake of the Kingdom of God and living like Jesus
in the world.
If Jesus is what the gospel proclaims him to be — that One
in whom the
love and light and life of God possessed completely a genuine human life, possessed it so fully that we may say of him, as Mr. Basil Willey has well phrased it, that «the life of God is seen
in him
in human life» — then we can preach Jesus Christ as decisive, as definitive, as the norm
for the God - man
relationship and the clue to whatever else God may be purposing and accomplishing
in this vast and mysterious creation.
Again, it has nothing to do with two men (or two women)
in a committed,
loving relationship; it has to do with one being used
for sex — something I think all of us would agree is WRONG.
Relational people, on the other hand, focus on what God has done
for them, and know that God is already
in every conversation and
relationship (even if He is not mentioned), so they can just
love and enjoy the person standing
in front of them right now.
God's governance is a
relationship in which people derive from God's
love examples
for their care
for one another.
«It would seem,» he writes
in his new book, «that a stable and coherent primary culture is essential
for children to develop a sense of identity, which is
in turn a prerequisite to developing a tolerant and
loving relationship with others....
Love in relationship is possible only when God is present, for God is l
Love in relationship is possible only when God is present,
for God is
lovelove.
This means that you and I can be courageous every day
in our
relationships as we care
for those we
love.
Thank you
for being part of this growing movement of God
in the world, and
for joining me on this journey out of religion and into a closer
relationship with Jesus
in which we learn to
love others as we have been
loved.
From this basic inequality
in the establishment of the
relationship stems the demand
for a unilaterally unconditioned
love of the parents
for the child.
That insight is nothing other than the understanding that while
in one sense God is indeed unalterable
in his faithfulness, his
love, and his welcome to his human children,
in another sense the opportunities offered to him to express just such an attitude depend to a very considerable degree upon the way
in which what has taken place
in the world provides
for God precisely such an opening on the human side; and it is used by him to deepen his
relationship and thereby enrich both himself and the life of those children.
Hence we have every right to think that
in that dynamic life which is unsurpassable and hence divine there is, not a becoming more divine, which would be absurd, but an increasing capacity
for finding occasions through which God may employ,
in one way or another, that which is always remembered; and also,
in this very action as it continues on
in God's
relationship with creation, a growing acceptance of those who have contributed to the cosmic enterprise of
love at work
in creation.
This is because the stress
in the pictures is on the divine all - sufficiency, total control, demand
for moral rectitude, and active self - assertion, none of which fits
in very well with the focus on
Love — for love is always a matter of receiving as well as of giving, and it requires that both lover and beloved are involved in a kind of relationship which matters to and has its results for each of t
Love —
for love is always a matter of receiving as well as of giving, and it requires that both lover and beloved are involved in a kind of relationship which matters to and has its results for each of t
love is always a matter of receiving as well as of giving, and it requires that both lover and beloved are involved
in a kind of
relationship which matters to and has its results
for each of them.
Jesus prayed that the church «may be one» just as He is
in the Father (John 17: 21), and this goes
for a
relationship as well — it is essential a couple be united by their
love for God.
It is sacramental not only because physical contact is employed to express and increase human
love but also because the human relationship in love is symbolic of, an expressive medium for, and a representation and effectual sign that enables a deep relationship with God, for God is Love and acts ever lovingly in and toward human
love but also because the human
relationship in love is symbolic of, an expressive medium for, and a representation and effectual sign that enables a deep relationship with God, for God is Love and acts ever lovingly in and toward human
love is symbolic of, an expressive medium
for, and a representation and effectual sign that enables a deep
relationship with God,
for God is
Love and acts ever lovingly in and toward human
Love and acts ever lovingly
in and toward humanity.
And one way
in which this experienced reality can be guaranteed
for what it is would be by affirming that when this life is ended the
loving relationships will somehow be continued and given fuller and finer expression.