I'm no prude,
I love being intimate as much as any other woman, but guys, please, come on now... If you're falling for that rubbish then there's no hope for you.
It Felt Like
Love is an intimate portrayal of a teenager's struggle into adulthood that avoids exaggerating or sugarcoating circumstances in favor of genuinely convincing ones.
Not exact matches
Given how small and
intimate our gathering
is, I
'm afraid it has to
be invitation - only (and space
is truly limited), but if you want to
be a part of what I
'm guessing will
be a mind - opening two days of conversation, thought, and interaction, we'd
love to have you apply.
While roses
are red and chocolates
are sweet — and lingerie
's an
intimate treat — mere trinkets and gifts don't always say «I
love you.»
That
's why, Dunbar continued, people who
are in
love typically have four other
intimate relationships, since they
're already investing a lot of time and effort in the object of their affection.
People who don't believe in your God
are still capable of deep committed
love, it
's through our
intimate relationships with other human
beings we learn the true meaning of
love.
Every year, millions of people abandon the institutional way of doing church, not because they
are abandoning God, Jesus, or the Church, but because they find that
intimate relationships with others and
loving service in the community apart from the systematized and scheduled meetings on Sunday morning
is a more natural way of following Jesus and living life as His disciples.
It
is this «higher relationship of
love», that
is «so great, so
intimate» that it can «knock on the most private doors of the human heart» (TPL p. 3).
Those two days will likely
be one of the greatest memories of my life; just a peaceful, quiet,
loving and
intimate two days of learning Evelynn, nursing her, seeing her skin - to - skin for hours with her Dad, eating,
being cared for and even watching Hockey Night in Canada on Saturday night.
Even beyond politics, religion and parenting, beyond the bigness of our world and its problems, to the smallest, most
intimate of relationships, it
is always powerful and life - giving to use your words to
love each other.
* worship God, whose will
is and who has always yearned for us to......
be free and independent;... think;...
be curious;...
be intelligent and wise;... value knowledge over ignorance and compassion over knowledge;...
be creative;... grow and mature;... live long healthy satisfying lives;... live non-violently without vengeance;...
be generous;...
be hospitable;...
be compassionate;... do no harm;... heal and rehabilitate and restore;... forgive and reconcile and include all and have all participate;...
be good stewards of all resources;... live here and now as one family;... live in a
loving intimate relationship with God;...
be transformed through resurrection; and...
be the kingdom of God.
If a homosexual person
is so made that an
intimate loving relationship
is possible only with a member of the same sex, on what basis can this experience of
love be declared sinful?
Lord Jesus, you who
are as gentle as the human hear as fiery as the forces of nature, as
intimate as life itself you in whom I can melt away and with whom I must have mastery and freedom: I
love you as a world, as the world which has captivated my heart; — and it
is you, now realize, that my brother - men, even those who do not believe, sense and seek throughout the magic immensities of the cosmos.
*
be guided and instructed by the Good News message, which
is: ---- God
is unconditional boundless grace and unlimited unrestrained
love and always has
been; ---- God wants to have a
loving intimate relationship with each of us without exception and without qualification; ---- seek justice as healing and rehabilitation and restoration; ---- seek universal reconciliation and inclusion and participation; ---- in healthy partnership, compassionately serve all who
are hurt or lost or oppressed; ----
be generous and hospitable to all; ---- live non-violently without vengeance and with a cheerful fearlessness of death and worldly powers; and ----
be — here and now — the Kingdom of God.
Prayer in the smaller and still more
intimate group of two or three friends who
love and understand each other well enough to share all their other interests can
be a doorway to blessedness.
In other words, the earthly, matter - bound origin of human nature calls forth God's greatest act of
loving care and humility — the Incarnation of God the Word through which humanity
is united to Godhead in a union more
intimate than with any other creature and gradually raised to immortality.
But the inner destiny of the sexual experience
is toward the
intimate and transforming discovery of
love.
Rather it
is something deeper and even more
intimate; and like you, I know now that what holds us together
is love.
From humble award - show speeches to giggly fan surprises, everything about Swift
was intimate and personal, and people
loved her for that.
John Paul uses the strongest language possible: Suffering in Christ «unleashes»
love — again, both in the sufferer, who
is united with Christ at the most
intimate level, and in the one who ministers to him in imitation of Christ.
Her family, like Beth, would have preferred otherwise, but come to accept that this
is what she
is capable of in terms of a
loving,
intimate relationship.
One of the few historical observations on which there
is a large consensus
is that companionate marriage of the last 150 years — in which the marriage relationship
is based on
intimate love alone — has created more problems than it has solved, carrying within it the seeds of its own destruction.
With this framework, you will sometimes make
love several times a week, many times less often depending on work, life and health patterns, but all the time we
are intentionally making our energies flow towards an
intimate and supportive relationship that will see us both through the joys and demands of real life.
(13) There
is a fundamental difference between alienated and
intimate sex — the difference
is love.
It also can
be an experience of
intimate friendship that lays foundations for deeper appreciation of expressions of God's
love through the sacraments.
The Good News
is concerned with how well we live our lives, with how well we interact with others, and about each of us having a progressively more
loving and
intimate relationship with God.
Thus the union with Christ means a most
intimate and vital companionship with him, keeping Him before our eyes and in our hearts, and
being permeated by the highest
love, so that we can turn our hearts, toward our brothers, united with us through Him, and for whom He had sacrificed himself.
There
is so much in the dynamics of human relating, and the most
loving and
intimate one of course
being marriage, the pledge that one embarks on to live,
love and nurture all your lives together.
They may have chosen to abstain until they
are married, or they may
be expressing their
love for one another in a more
intimate manner.
Even within the
intimate relations of the family where
love ought to
be most regnant, there can
be no justice without the exercise of authority, and authority sometimes necessitates coercion.
To have a
loving intimate relationship with God; to serve others by practicing generosity and hospitality; to seek justice, mercy, healing, reconciliation, rehabilitation, inclusion, and participation; and then to live non-violently without vengeance and with a cheerful fearlessness of death and worldly powers — that
is the radical and the defiant message and the transformational spirit of the universal and timeless Good News.
Such a vision excludes Man's
love being potentially fulfilled in
intimate communion with the
love of God.
But unless God has given me the gift of celibacy, the need for
intimate, human
love and interaction
is innate.
John 13 - 17
is called the Upper Room Discourse and
is the most
intimate and
loving sermon of Christ in the Bible.
Through the constant presence of God, we
are constantly invited by God to have an
intimate loving relationship with God.
The wife
is feeling lonely and frustrated because she has
been cooped up with the children all day and needs some warmth and
love from an
intimate adult.
This
is how I grew up, looking for
love in all the wrong places.Id give anything to get all those
intimate moments back.
Their deep wounds will
be healed by sacrificial
love (of which Christ
is the incarnate example) and
intimate relationship (both human and divine).
[4] Humanae Vitae makes the point quite clearly: «a conjugal act imposed on one's partner without regard to his or her condition or personal and reasonable wishes in the matter,
is no true act of
love, and therefore offends the moral order in its particular application to the
intimate relationship of husband and wife» (no. 13).
There
is a natural
love for our people in the
intimate family group and in the larger community.
Let us recast his maxim, «God did not fashion sex «for
loving» but that the incarnation might
be the gift of creation...» as «God fashioned sex as a beautiful way of
intimate sharing and
loving that provided a vehicle for the incarnation to happen.»
You have to feel somewhat sorry for him, having such
intimate judgments of his past
love - life opened to all, in part because you know that any modern president, and not just a remarkably un-vetted one who wrote a memoir that played footsy with fact,
is going to eventually get this treatment.
Wesley says that he, like most people, longs for the experience of mutual desire — the feeling of knowing and
loving someone, and
being known and
loved by that person in return, at an
intimate, unconditional level.
My own analysis
is that the Church, rather than any hierarchy of ends, now wishes to emphasise their
intimate connection and interdependence, especially so as to help overcome the modern mindset that marriage can
be truly fruitful and «fulfilling» independently of the children who may
be born of and nourish any genuine conjugal
love.
It
is a
intimate love relationship between us and a God that
loves us infinitely.
The result
is that religion becomes a defense against God or, at least, a defense against a deeply
intimate experince of God that challenges us to become what we
are — image bears of God, called to become sacraments of Divine
Love in this world, not just waiting for God to «come down» and do the transforming work FOR us instead of THROUGH us.
Again idiot, gays
are normal human
beings and deserve to have
loving long term
intimate relationships.
It
is interesting to me that the most
intimate human experiences, namely tile object ot our worship ana the object or human
love, provide the vocabulary of profanity.
He holds that
love, not in the
intimate sense of interpersonal relations, but as good will, eagerness to serve, concern for the welfare of persons as persons,
is a necessary ingredient of justice.
Through the sacred character which they receive, men cooperate with Christ in His work of redemption and salvation: they
are called «to an
intimate participationwith Him in His words and works, His
loves and cares» [13].