Sentences with phrase «love as a principle»

The New Testament also talks about justice and love as principles embracing one another.

On the contrary, love as a principle of social ethics implies that distribution and organization of power which can offer the foundation for free and constructive human relations.

He simply carried a Christian understanding of agape (love or covenant fidelity), relatively detached from its theological context, into medical ethics and then used this love as a principle by which to evaluate and transform the covenants already present in the world of medical care.

Not exact matches

The Leader's Guide is for both those who are new to Lean Startup as well as those who love the methodology in principle, but want to know more about how to put it into practice.

Much as we love boom markets and the positive impact they have on our portfolios, we've had to bear witness to the erosion of some core principles that are at the essence of the value creation process.

On the same point, I know many, many people of faith who do not «force» their views on others, yet instead use their faith as their guiding principle to share love, kindness, and goodness to others.

He «was one of the first great teachers to proclaim the basic principle of individualism» the inviolate sanctity of man's soul, and the salvation of one's soul as one's first concern and highest goal,» but «when it came to the next question, a code of ethics to observe for the salvation of one's soul... Jesus (or perhaps His interpreters) gave men a code of altruism, that is, a code which told them that in order to save one's soul, one must love or help or live for others.

I love how republicans cite their faith as their guiding principle and say that America needs more faith and religion... but only as long as that religion doesn't impede on their tax cuts to the rich.

As one of the key principles in the law of love is to do no harm... I came to the conclusion that my former view failed that test.

Thus, because we love, and in order to love more, we find ourselves happily reduced to sharing — we more and better than anyone — in all the struggles, all the anxieties, all the aspirations, and also all the affections, of the earth in so far as all these contain within them a principle of ascension and synthesis.

It might be well to consider whether this lack of positiveness does not perhaps explain the narrowness of his principles, which were doubtless rooted in a zeal for what is universally human, and in a discipline of self marked by the same divine jealousy as his discipline of others, a zeal and discipline through which he loved the divine.

Just what that role is has always been a problem for ethics, particularly one that has love as its guiding principle.

The problem with interpreting «biblical principles» as moral absolutes without taking the mitigating circumstances into consideration is that there is no room for compassion or mercy, which leads to the commission of sins against the law of love, which transcends and surpassingly fulfills all other laws.

what you would call «lockstep» i would call upholding and abiding with one of the basic principles of the catholic faith, which is to love on another as jesus loves us.

Holloway «sargumentation, however, is more technical: He argues that love is spiritual and is «made» «through the spiritual soul» «not through the body as [the] principle of eliciting», [3] and the body is not apt to be the cause of spiritual union per se.

Many moralists speak of love as the one fundamental and universal moral principle, the golden rule honored in all traditions.

The particular role of the Petrine principle (through its objectified holiness and rule), in relation to this mutual love, is to prevent us from proposing our own human spirit as the Holy Spirit.

The complex of ordered energy that is the human body centred on the brain must itself be integrated through its own individual principle of transcendental control and direction - the centred knowing and loving as person which we call our «soul».

Although Balthasar speaks of a mutual indwelling of love between the Petrine and Marian principles (perichoresis), he continuously views the Marian principle as more fundamental because all the various principles, charisms and missions find their embracing point in her.

Consequently, the child needs the parents as the focus of his love and as the principle of integration of his personality.

Therefore, the fetus does not merely tend toward its own maturation, but rather, in order to achieve maturation, in the fullest sense of the term, it has to have an «other,» in this case, the parents, as point of convergence, as principle of unification and integration, as revealer to the child of what it is; and to the degree that the child learns to love with the aid of his parents, to that degree he is differentiated and thus revealed to himself for what he is.

And being good meant trying to live in accord with the ethical teaching of scripture, whether that was understood as a narrow and highly specific code of righteousness, or more generally as following important principles such as the golden rule, loving your neighbor as yourself, and so forth.

The fiscal integrity of the black church and community depend on biblical ethical principles such as working together, loving one another and caring for the poor.

A personalistic philosophy of life does not offer us absolute knowledge;... we discover divine purpose in so far as our human purposes are ruled by the New Testament principles of logos and agape - reason and love.

This principle of neighbor love is recognized by both Jesus and Paul as the summary and essence of the entire Jewish law.

It is noteworthy that while Paul's reflection upon the saving facts of the death and resurrection of Christ leads him to the love of God as the supreme principle exhibited in these facts, it is his reflection upon the Spirit and the charismata or gifts of the Spirit in the Church that leads him to love or charity as at once the greatest of all charismata --» the love of God shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit given to us» (Rom.

any christian that has any basic understanding of the bible knows that all the laws and principles in the bible are subject to TWO SUPREME LAWS — love your gGod with all your heart, mind, strength and Love your neighbour as yourslove your gGod with all your heart, mind, strength and Love your neighbour as yoursLove your neighbour as yourself.

We also see that those novels (and the old genius himself) stand somewhere in between Sophya's selfish obsession with personal love and the the Tolstoyan (and Tolstoy's own) political principles — directed as they are toward a kind of selfless or disembodied love of the people or humanity as a whole.

Verse 24 means that it is impossible to give absolute loyalty to two principles, just as it is impossible for a man to be in love with two women at the same time, if love has any real meaning at all.

There are many positive principles you can glean from it, such as turning the other cheek, loving those who hate you, and casting no stones of dispersion against others.

Of course, it is true what Proverbs 27:6 says, that «Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiples kisses,» but this principle can often be reversed as well, in that friends often overlook our faults and failures because they love us (and maybe because they have the same issues), whereas enemies see through our self - righteous attitudes and hypocritical charades and are more willing to criticize and call us out for our many failures.

Plato, he said, would have us believe that there is no need «for a natural base on which to form conventional ties; as though the love of one's nearest were not the principle of the love one owes the state, as though it were not by means of the small fatherland which is the family that the heart attaches itself to the large one; as though it were not the good son, the good husband, and the good father who makes the good citizen!»

As was pointed out a moment ago, because the agape in question is a principle of finite creative agents, the agapastic love of these agents must be infected by eros.

Reinhold Niebuhr is less dualistic in that he stresses the relevance of love as an «impossible possibility» to every human situation, but he warns so continually against a sentimental substitution of love for the requirements of justice that the major impact of his thought is a dichotomy in which again justice, and not love, is the determining principle of social ethics.

So the law of love which is the requirement of community is a law which can be formally stated as a principle of action; but community must be experienced in life before we can really say we know what it is.

For «community» as that order which is sought by love can be stated as a formal principle.

I choose to obey those laws because I love my fellow man as I love myself which is a simple principle to live by that outdates the bible by nearly 800 years as it was included in the code of Hammurabi.

Lutheran ethics, following certain tendencies in Luther's own thought but neglecting his main intention, conceived the social orders outside the Church as necessary bulwarks against sin, but obeying principles of a different order from the demands of the Gospel of love.

Can't one love the triune God and His revealed Word in such a way that one sees His holy principles, precepts and commands as His loving protection for His called out people?

Jesus felt that the principles of Torah on which shalom rests were summed up in Leviticus 19:18: «You shall love your neighbor as yourself.»

Assuming this distinction, which turns upon his more basic distinction between «all,» «some,» and «none,» he can assert that God's love and knowledge differ in principle from ours without denying, as he appears to do, that the difference is still not absolute and hence expressible only in nonliteral concepts.

A goodly number list principles such as the Golden Rule or «Love your neighbor as yourself.»

But as men became more and more aware of moral principles and as their thinking was «rationalized», the way in which the sacred was understood, the way in which men came to interpret the more - than - human, was in terms of love and of «persuasion» (as Whitehead put it), although it never lost the awesome quality which evoked from them worship and adoration.

As «social» as the coordinate processes of weaving one's own life from strands taken from the lives of others and giving one's own life as a strand to be woven into their lives, and as the universal essence of actual events, the single principle of love is the master key to the understanding of both facts and values.37 He denies that any human institutions, churches included, could be infallible; but he affirms that we can infallibly know «the appropriateness of lovAs «social» as the coordinate processes of weaving one's own life from strands taken from the lives of others and giving one's own life as a strand to be woven into their lives, and as the universal essence of actual events, the single principle of love is the master key to the understanding of both facts and values.37 He denies that any human institutions, churches included, could be infallible; but he affirms that we can infallibly know «the appropriateness of lovas the coordinate processes of weaving one's own life from strands taken from the lives of others and giving one's own life as a strand to be woven into their lives, and as the universal essence of actual events, the single principle of love is the master key to the understanding of both facts and values.37 He denies that any human institutions, churches included, could be infallible; but he affirms that we can infallibly know «the appropriateness of lovas a strand to be woven into their lives, and as the universal essence of actual events, the single principle of love is the master key to the understanding of both facts and values.37 He denies that any human institutions, churches included, could be infallible; but he affirms that we can infallibly know «the appropriateness of lovas the universal essence of actual events, the single principle of love is the master key to the understanding of both facts and values.37 He denies that any human institutions, churches included, could be infallible; but he affirms that we can infallibly know «the appropriateness of love.

The programs taught me about (1) admitting I was beat, (2) coming to believe in something greater than myself (eventually a higher power)(many evolutions and concepts of HP, all of these at one time or another: nature, the 12 steps, creator, Love, spiritual principles)(Step 3) applying my low self worth and gigantic Ego to these spiritual principles (4) write down my liabilities and assets (5) share them with another and my higher power (6 & 7) ask for the liabilites to be removed and be patient with the process (8) Make a list of all that were harmed by me (9) make amends to such folks except whn to do so would injure them or myself (10) take a daily inventory of my day, checking for snafus, mean temperment, arrogance etc (11) meditation and prayer to communicate to my higher power and quiet reflection to listen for the Truth (12) after having a spiritual awakening as a result of working these steps, help others if they wish for help because now I am in the position to assist.

On the one hand, love can not serve as a principle for liberating transformation.

Man chose satan as their god and have had the chance to show what they could do without their creator and his ideas, principles and laws but it has not been pretty and as Jesus taught that satan is «The ruler of this world», «the god of this system» etc.but for «a little while longer» and the Creator will take his wisdom, justice, power and love and take over to show what was intended from the beginning.for scriptures (see 1 John 5:19, Rev. 12:9 - 12, Luke 22:31, Matt.25: 41, 1 Pet.5: 8,9, John 8:44,45) and so many others for those who care.

To develop and maintain an informal association of people banded together, to go out as «ambassadors of reconciliation», modeling the principles of Jesus, based on loving God and loving others.

A strong argument for this point of view is made by Emil Brunner who relates the difference between love and justice to the difference between the I and Thou relationship of persons and the abstractness of justice as impersonal principle.1

As an ethicist he moved from the imperatives of the gospel ethic of sacrificial love to the requirements of ambiguous situations, always under the mediation of the principles of justice — freedom, equality and order.