Not exact matches
I just
love the insoght you have into what is going on in the Church and I agree that God is moving
toward a more organic and
less planned event style of church.
Far
less often, however, we are aware of our own lack of
love toward others and our indifference to their needs and feelings.
These and other
less central activities of the ministry of all periods are carried on by the pastoral director, but the work that lays the greatest claim to his time and thought is the care of a church, the administration of a community that is directed
toward the whole purpose of the Church, namely, the increase among men of the
love of God and neighbor; for the Church is becoming the minister and its «minister» is its servant, directing it in its service.
Nothing
less than God — albeit God in the mystery of his being as Father, Son and Holy Spirit — is the object
toward which Scriptures, Church and Jesus Christ himself direct those who begin by
loving them.
Niebuhr was correct in insight and King in insight and practice: without
love every endeavor
toward justice can only produce something
less than justice.
In the late M. Scott Peck's classic self - help book, The Road
Less Traveled, he notes that most of us «confuse cathecting with
love,» cathecting being the emotions and feelings we have
toward someone we're drawn to.
In particular, the more helpful their partners were with the baby, and the warmer, more
loving, and more affectionate they were
toward the baby, the
less colic was reported.
In particular, the more helpful their partners were with the baby, and the warmer, more
loving, and more affectionate they were
toward the baby, the
less colic was reported.
It can be a
loving, but it is generally
less involved than the relationship move
toward marriage.
It improves 1) our emotional state; 2) our resilience and our acceptance of ourselves; 3) how we interpret situations or events, so that we see them as more manageable; 4) our motivation to overcome adversity and strive
toward our goals; 5) the adaptiveness of our responses to specific situations, such as our coping strategies and our ability to learn from experience; 6) our relationships themselves in terms of closeness, trust, and feeling
loved; 7) our physiological functioning, such as improved immune response; and 8) behaviors that comprise a healthier lifestyle, like better eating habits and self - care and
less substance abuse.
Those who more easily separate sex from
love (i.e., high sociosexuality) rated kissing as more important early in a relationship and experienced more change in attraction (
less attraction
toward a partner who was initially attractive post-kiss).
I do
love evolved over time, but I seem to personally veer
toward less is more.