Sentences with phrase «into sacrificial love»

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Divine love is as glorious as a summer day high in the Alps; it is merciful and makes our sins, though they be as scarlet, vanish into insignificance, replacing them with his own action in us; it is, finally, self - sacrificial unto death, for it seeks not its own.

The Law can support a stable society based on reciprocal altruism; but it can not transform self - interested moralism into self - sacrificial love.

Yes, it takes greater courage to follow Jesus into self - sacrificial love for our enemies than it does to cry out for their death and destruction.

Is self - sacrifice an ultimate limit toward which the self may move, but which it can never quite reach, or is there a union of sacrificial love with the self's growth into its full stature which can be realized, though certainly only through grace?

The love of a birth mother is at times sacrificial and gives life and possibility, not only to the precious life brought into this world but also to the adopting mother and family.