Sentences with phrase «love as motive»

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It masquerades as loving and benevolent, but behind the facade there are ulterior motives.

Although fully familiar with the enormous power of modern science, medicine and technology, he held high Christian love as the answer to human needs in the broadest sense: «If you have Christian love,» he declared to a stunned audience, «you have motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.»

It must be given as an offering in love, not as a manifestation of my superiority — offered without calculation or ulterior motives and without any hint that my word is the final word to be spoken on the subject.

God, then, in Dr. Cumming's conception, is a being who has no pleasure in the exercise of love and truthfulness and justice, considered as effecting the well - being of His creatures; He has satisfaction in us only in so far as we exhaust our motives and dispositions of all relation to our fellow - beings, and replace sympathy with men by anxiety for the «glory of God.»

The great motive was love of neighbor and this was found to be in a certain tension with the love of God, since the latter prompted a servant of the Lord to shun worldly duties as well as distractions and to give his life to adoration and contemplation in monastic seclusion.

Therefore on the one hand they call Him the Object of Love and Yearning as being Beautiful and Good, and on the other they call Him Yearning and Love as being a Motive - Power leading all things to Himself, Who is the only ultimate Beautiful and Good — yea, as being His own Self - Revelation and the Bounteous Emanation of His own Transcendent Unity, a Motion of Yearning simple, self - moved, self - acting, pre-existent in the Good, and overflowing from the Good into creation, and once again returning to the Good.6

To stress love as one's motive for involvement encourages an overvaluation of voluntaristic structures as the key to Christian social ethics, and ultimately aborts rigorous structural involvement in society.

This appreciation is love, not something extra as a motive to love.

Jeremy good message and quite relevant for today God is still looking at our hearts and motives for serving him or are we serving our own agenda as Jonah was.He did nt feel compassionate towards his enemies and who could blame him they had cruelly killed many Jews it was a question of life or death to his own people.The Jewish nation was no more deserving of Gods grace than the other nations that is revealed by sending Jonah to preach a message of hope and life.Ultimately God calls all by faith in him and is willing to be merciful to all nations and peoples that do not not deserve it just like us it is by grace that we all are forgiven.I am pleased that God is sovereign and knows whats best he is merciful to us.Our human nature is that it is better to kill our enemies before they can kill us and that is essentially Jonahs message that is why he struggled to be obedient to Gods will.Gods message is to forgive those that trespass against us and show mercy.Its complicated and it is natural to protect ourselves and our families from those who would seek to destroy them but ultimately its about trusting God with everything easier said than done.If it comes to a choice we will have to trust God and ask for his strength because we cant do it in ours.As Christ laid down his life for us are we ready to lay our lives and the lives of our families as a sacrifice for him.To me that is where the story of Jonah is leading to we have the choice to fight our enemies or to love them as God loves them.brentnz

Whether you were compelled to accept Jesus as Lord and Savior to escape hell or because an emotional crisis brought you to him or because «he loved you first,» all of these (and other «tesimtonies») stem from a selfish and self - fulfilling motive.

Apart from buying one for myself, I'm thinking of giving it as a birthday gift to some of my non-vegan friends, so they can experience some vegan love and joy too (okay I confess, my motives would not be entirely altruistic...) Thank you for writing such wonderful cookbooks!

As he has sole decisions over such matters (despite the claims of the AKB's) I really wonder about his motives and why I sometimes doubt his claims to love Arsenal.

It's clear that our intentions towards healthy lifestyle changes is what matters the most — making sure our motives aren't coming from a place of self - hate, but from a place of self love and appreciation for ourselves and the abilities of our bodies as a whole.

over Julie is a stretch not only because of the admittedly subjective question of attractiveness (with my eye as the beholder, Cruz is no beauty), but also because Cruz is a breathtakingly awful actress — it's Sofia Coppola - impossible to believe that anyone would betray love for her without an ulterior motive.

As you should intuit from the title, the titular Mandy Lane (Amber Heard) finds herself the object of much love from her male high school classmates; love with a rather obvious ulterior motive.

The artists profiled here seem to be driven by the same basic motives as the customers who buy their works — a love for and a fascination with dogs.

With motives of reminiscence, nostalgia and love lost reverberating both in the lyrics as well as in the performers» guarded interactions, they inhibit a world of extreme artifice, melancholia and sentimentality that is only occasionally punctuated by comical ambiguity.

This said, I love the merging of visual and word narratives and hope to one day contribute pictures to a work of fiction, perhaps of a novella length, where my pictures can serve as pause or a break but also function with similar motives I consider with the addition of text to a collection of pictures.

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