Sentences with phrase «in loving ways toward»

Joe and I actually made a new vow when we signed our divorce papers, «to speak and act in loving ways toward one another and about one another,» for the sake of the children and for our own wholeness, for the rest of our lives.

This is always how the self - righteous react when Godly people reach out in loving ways toward those whom society considers sinful.

Not exact matches

It wasn't the summer that brought an end to my doubt, but it was the summer I encountered a different Jesus, a Jesus who requires more from me than intellectual assent and emotional allegiance; a Jesus who associated with sinners and infuriated the religious; a Jesus who broke the rules and refused to cast the first stone; a Jesus who gravitated toward sick people and crazy people, homeless people and hopeless people; a Jesus who preferred story to exposition and metaphor to syllogism; a Jesus who answered questions with more questions, and demands for proof with demands for faith... a Jesus who healed each person differently and saved each person differently; a Jesus who had no list of beliefs to check off, no doctrinal statements to sign, no surefire way to tell who was «in» and who was «out»; a Jesus who loved after being betrayed, healed after being hurt, and forgave while being nailed to a tree; a Jesus who asked his disciples to do the same...

He will show us how express our faith and live it out in a way that expresses love toward Him and humanity.

«Imitatio Dei» does not mean becoming like God as He is in Himself but only the following in His way in relation to justice and love — the divine attributes which are turned toward man.

A perusal of the Church of the Brethren Web pages provides clear evidence that a commitment to pacifism is not limited to denominational headquarters: the 48 churches of the Northern Indiana District Conference have joined to urge «the use of nonviolent approaches and interventions» in response to the terror; the Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, Church of the Brethren has adopted a statement in which they «remain committed to walk in the Jesus way of nonviolent love, in which evil can only be overcome with redemptive acts of love»; a group of Brethren Volunteer Service Workers have issued a statement in which they «advocate the use of nonviolent means to settle disputes» and «stand opposed to the increased drive toward militarization»; on October 7 members of local Brethren churches (along with Mennonites and others) organized a peace rally at the state capitol in Harrisburg, «Sowing Seeds of Peace: Prayers and Petitions for Nonviolent Action,» which attracted over 300 people.

Can Christian participation in outrage culture be a good thing if Jesus went out of his way to move toward His enemies in love?

We have looked at various aspects of the pattern of the universe: at the way infinitesimal entities consisting mostly of empty space make up a solid world; at the existence of not only life itself but also conscious life; at the presence of ethical and aesthetic faculties in us; and at the soft but persistent pull toward love.

The problem we are attacking can be formulated in the following way: Can it be shown that the interests of man, the creature, and the earthly efforts of man to increase values in this life, bear a positive relation to the work of God's love looking toward His Kingdom?

We are concerned with the specific way that loving response is directed toward us in our own particular existential predicament.

The moment we choose to love, we begin to move toward freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others.

Here is where some compassion is essential, perhaps what's required is the recognition that WE can only BEGIN the work, WE in our life time can only hope to see the first steps taken toward a new way of loving not fearing each other and so on.

The productive question which leads toward inner freedom and personal growth is this — «Why do I relate to others in ways that keep me at a distance and prevent me from participating in the give and take of loving relationships?»)

At the same time it does not identify agape with the form of any human love, and it does not expect human loves to move toward agape in a direct and simple way.

On the other hand, when we respond in love for love, and with it for the establishment of the justice that love desires and enacts, we are on the way toward realizing our potential humanity and becoming more truly what we have it in us to become.

For as we have stressed throughout this book, the purpose of prayer is to bring God's human child, now become adult in responsibility and thus asked to act in mature ways, into cooperative awareness of God, opened to his love and ready to act in love toward others.

Schubert Ogden has written an essay on «The Strange Witness of Unbelief» (included in his book The Reality of God, SCM Press, London, 1967), in which he demonstrates how often it is the very negators of meaning whose way of life, attitude toward others, and struggle for a «better world» exhibit a dim yet pervasive feeling of significance in the world and in their own existence, a sense of meaning that (as Ogden argues and as I believe) is a hidden working of divine Love in their hearts.

There are Jesus - like heros in almost every culture and religion and they point the way toward the way to Heaven, but they are not a substitute for the real, life - giving, loving Jesus.

AND And teaches us to say yes And allows us to be both - and And keeps us from either - or And teaches us to be patient and long suffering And is willing to wait for insight and integration And keeps us from dualistic thinking And does not divide the field of the moment And helps us to live in the always imperfect now And keeps us inclusive and compassionate toward everything And demands that our contemplation become action And insists that our action is also contemplative And heals our racism, our sexism, heterosexism, and our classism And keeps us from the false choice of liberal or conservative And allows us to critique both sides of things And allows us to enjoy both sides of things And is far beyond any one nation or political party And helps us face and accept our own dark side And allows us to ask for forgiveness and to apologize And is the mystery of paradox in all things And is the way of mercy And makes daily, practical love possible And does not trust love if it is not also justice And does not trust justice if it is not also love And is far beyond my religion versus your religion And allows us to be both distinct and yet united And is the very Mystery of Trinity

I suggest that it means to be on the way to becoming human, that is, on the way toward actualizing human potentialities and in so doing becoming more open to the possibility of reflecting the Love that is God and of serving as the personalized and personalizing agent for that Love.

This way of knowing opens toward love and therefore toward «the tree of life» planted by G - d in the middle of the garden.

Buddhist compassion, Christian love and the sentiment of fraternity in revolutionary France are not versions of a single attitude; they are very different ways of experiencing and being oriented toward self and world.

Mothers tend to be very invested in themselves as loving and nurturing toward their children; the idea that they put their own children in harm's way creates great dissonance.

Haneke brings his usual, acutely and ruthlessly observational way of telling a story (in both the narrative and stylistic senses) to bear on that of the trials endured by the strong, abiding, true love between a long - married couple of cultured seniors (French - cinema royalty Jean - Louis Trintignant and Emanuelle Riva) in the wake of the wife's illness, debilitation, and irretrievable, erosive slide toward death.

One of the better classic studies of social differences since George Bernard Shaw found an unspoken love between a professor and a sidewalk flower seller in «Pygmalion,» «The Second Mother» highlights the ways an allegedly liberal woman acts with condescension toward her long - employed maid.

Actually, «Let the Sunshine In» is quite funny in a Lord - what - fools - these - mortals - be way, as Isabelle continually talks herself toward love while continually backing awaIn» is quite funny in a Lord - what - fools - these - mortals - be way, as Isabelle continually talks herself toward love while continually backing awain a Lord - what - fools - these - mortals - be way, as Isabelle continually talks herself toward love while continually backing away.

Though this execution could verge toward the excessively operatic, as in the heavy - handed De Mayerling à Sarajevo (1940), these managerial efforts largely paid off, with a variety of fine performances across the generic and national spectrum: a spirited Lien Deyers in the tongue - in - cheek The Company's in Love; Magda Schneider, who also starred in Ophuls» Love Story (Une histoire d'amour, 1933), as the tragically morose Christine in Liebelei, her final despair registered in an extraordinary extended close - up; and acting luminaries James Mason, Barbara Bel Geddes, and Robert Ryan, searing in Caught's three - way confrontations.

In a real way, her pictures are as objectionable as those films regularly pilloried for objectifying women (and those like the unforgivable Love Actually that somehow slip under the radar for doing the same), functioning as something of a reactionary version of feminism that seeks to denigrate the opposite gender as the sole means toward gender equality.

So it goes in The Young Karl Marx, an improbably lush and deadpan - funny epic about a pair of two - fisted materialists and the bodacious babes who loved them, as they brawled and rollicked their way toward writing The Communist Manifesto.

A sparkling personality goes a long way toward making people fall in love.

I loved Molly and Vivian, two brave, difficult, true - hearted women who disrupt one another's lives in beautiful ways, and loved journeying with them, through heartbreak and stretches of history I'd never known existed, out of loneliness toward family and home.»

Ashamed that her silence puts loved ones in harm's way, Grace gravitates toward the women of Willingham Avenue, who recognize her suffering as their own.

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I still love my Wii console, and I am falling in love with my 3DS, but I am looking forward to the promised future with hope, rather than toward the sordid past with sadness, because... Well, to put it in pirate language, «Arrgh... That way lies despair.»

I often find that careful measuring takes me away from my natural way of seeing so I tend to avoid doing too much of it... I usually don't invent things or move things, but I will bend or stretch or shrink things to fit a compositional need, not always consciously... I do paint a lot at street level and have over the years, but I have loved being high up for as long as I can remember... I believe my first 10 years living in Washington Heights at one of the highest points in Manhattan with a view from the ninth floor toward the Cloisters created some kind of archetypal inner landscape.

Three points, however, stand in the way of this tidy, if somewhat simplistic, analysis: (1) the child doesn't want to spend any time with the rejected parent and will certainly experience some degree of trauma at being taken from the home of the loved parent and forced into the home of the rejected parent, while (2) leaving the child in the home of the favoured parent risks exposing the child to continuing efforts to nurture rancour toward the rejected parent, and, making things worse, (3) many of the strategies commonly employed to regulate the favoured parent's behaviour or enforce contact between the child and the rejected parent — including fines, contempt proceedings and peace officer enforcement — can backfire and inadvertently entrench the child's attitudes toward the rejected parent.

Windows Phone 8.1 goes a long way toward making switching easier, and there are a number of genuinely great, unique things about it — I really love the Start screen — but most people are so entrenched in Android or iOS that Microsoft has to make a stronger case.

And to do that, it's crucial to find ways to turn toward each other on a regular basis, have fun, make shared memories and dreams, and rekindle the memory of why you fell in love in the first place.

When he chooses to understand and empathize with these critical needs, he can choose a new mindset: He can love her in ways that pull her toward him instead of pushing her away.

The path toward this change in the way you relate to each other is by no means easy and will require a lot of effort on both parts, but the alternative is to continue a relationship that is ultimately destructive since true love and intimacy can not grow between unequal partners.

When you can't turn toward, and you're really too busy right then, turn away in a kind, loving way.

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If hiring divorce attorneys seems to be the only way out then, family counselors and divorce mediators want you to bear in mind the following safety tips that will hopefully prevent you and your family from scars that result in bitterness and resentment, ultimately hindering the ability to move on toward a future that may have many gains including a new relationship with your children, a new love relationship and believe it or not, a civil and amicable relationship with your ex-spouse,

I love Thanksgiving and am very grateful for my blessings, but I can love it all the more with the evolution toward beautiful greenery and sparkling lights in my home on my way to celebrating Christmas!