Sentences with phrase «inordinate love»

The idols of moral people are not usually what we would consider evils; but a good for which we have an inordinate love, something intrinsically good that we love more that God.

«Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.»

Not exact matches

To «break the self - will» is to reorient the will «from inordinate self - love to love of God.»

But just here we have to admit the problem of the Christian life appears, for is it not so that our human love is actually egocentric, that under the guise of love to God or neighbor we insinuate our inordinate self - love into our most spiritual efforts?

That being said, there does seem to be an inordinate number that fall into that category, which undoubtedly makes it harder for the loving Christians who hold that view to not be misunderstood.

One of Niebuhr's most telling insights is that the claim to love the other equally usually is the mask of our inordinate self - love.

... that no matter how wide the perspectives which the human mind may reach, how broad the loyalties which the human imagination may conceive, how universal the community which human statecraft may organize or how pure the aspirations of the saintliest idealist may be, there is no level of human moral or social achievement in which there is not some corruption of inordinate self - love.

It seems that the transfer window has been with us forever, especially with the heightened expectations often created by the media, who love all the speculation, especially the frenzy of the last day which fills inordinate amounts of airtime and column inches.

My first fitness love was swimming, a sport that requires an inordinate amount of coordination, physical fitness, and dedication.

It's a hot - button for me and I spend an inordinate amount of time making sure that singles are safely looking for love online.