Sentences with phrase «love is an ancient»

Love is an ancient brain system.»

Romantic love is an ancient wired - in survival code to keep people you love close to you.

Not exact matches

There's an ancient proverb that sums up these assumptions, «If I love you more will you love me less.»

When gold futures hit an all time high of $ 1,913 an ounce last Tuesday, it seemed our modern civilization was no different from the ancients in its love affair.

There is now an opportunity to exercise that love in a way that not only will restore communion between two ancient churches but will demonstrate that all Orthodox Christians truly do belong to one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church.

So how do you go from that reasoning to «Since it wasn't accidental then it must have been this ancient male diety named (fill in blank depending on religion) who loves me and knows me and cares for me and wants me to perform rituals that have nothing to do with morality like prayer, not eating certain things, sabaath and many more just because he said so, even though we have no record of him saying anything, just records of humans who wrote things down that they claim he said, but I want to believe it all so badly I will base my beliefs on no other evidence than «it just can't be accident».

Our love is to give the ancient world of «eternal cycles of return» a fresh and real history of responsibility, of daring, of potential progress and of threatening degradation.

Ancient religions should welcome the political achievements of modernity while calling modernity to open its windows and doors to a world of transcendent truth and love: ``... the great achievements of the modern age» the recognition and guarantee of freedom of conscience, of human rights, of the freedom of science and hence of a free society» should be confirmed and developed while keeping reason and freedom open to their transcendent foundation, so as to ensure that these achievements are not undone....

At least «god is love» is an advance from the ancient «angry gods» paradigm, where they require sacrifices, to gain their favor.

I actually think the article is very affirming of early Christians because it points out that their love for others and the inclusive community they created was the it - factor that awed so many in the ancient world.

But though I love some of the ancient ponderings, we should first check off some other possibilities that have been tried and tested when God is not speaking in my own God - Conversations journey.

This nondenominational charismatic kid embraced liturgy and hymns, monastics and mystics (charismatics find it a bit easier to love those ancient mystics, let's be honest).

rather, it is this: «god is love and loves me» is the only palatable petal of theology (ancient or modern).

Some of the ancients knew that to honour marriage was to affirm the goodness of the body, of embodied love and new human life.

For the future of the Church everywhere, too, what is most essential is the ancient yet ever - new message of Christianity, that is to say that in the darkness of this life the hearts of men must entrust themselves to that ineffable, adorable mystery of life which we call God in faith, hope and love and unconditional confidence in Jesus Christ our Lord.

If they are true believers and not riding some particular hobby horse they must surely say that everything has remained the same that is really necessary for life as well as for death: the crucified and risen Christ, his grace, baptism, the true body and blood of the Lord in the Eucharist, the forgiveness of sins, the expectation of eternal life, the ancient dogma binding on all, the one commandment of the love of God and our neighbour.

A second feature of ancient Jewish thought and life with which we need to wrestle anew is the love of the land.

He's an authority on the Song of Songs, and he interprets the biblical Song in light of other ancient love poems — as it should be.

The compensations of love and work and God described by psychologists ancient and modern will be gone — obliterated by History.

The individual stories still speak at points with qualities of expression characteristic of their origin and background in ancient folklore, when the stories were primarily motivated by etiology of one sort or another, or by the love, simply, of a good story, or by the desire to entertain and to be entertained.

The ancient Hebrews were a wicked people who were constantly killing other people, supposedly upon orders from «The Lord» yet YHWH's son Yehoshua preached a completely different message that was filled with love for other people and instruction to live peacefully with them.

Christian apologists love to drag out this argument, that somehow ancient desert dwellers were more humane and kinder to foreigners that they captured and kept.

But the general context, surely, is the love play of ancient Israel.

Unfortunately, as a former Christian, well acquainted with sin and confession and the whole bloody business of sacrifice to appease Someone who thinks that shows «love,» I question the whole ancient story, all the animals killed, all the trees cut down (for temples and churches and crosses and «holy books») and all the human beings left to feel separated again and again from the universe, Nature, each other and their «gods.»

In The Four Loves, C. S. Lewis writes, «Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue; but also (as they did not see) a school of vice.

The ones who want to discriminate based upon an ancient book of highly questionable morals are the reasonable, loving ones.

The ancient Hebrew loved God for the sake of a long life in which to enjoy creation, but she also was to love the Lord for the Lord's sake.

In history, there has always been Premarital sex, in history there have been methods to prevent pregnancy (the ancient Egyptians used herbs), in history women couldn't divorce their husbands because they would lose their property and many marriages in the 30,40,50 s were not because were in love simply people had no choice.

Here is the sheer miracle of it: a literature that long antedated our glorious gains in science and the immense scope of modern knowledge, which moves in the quiet atmosphere of the ancient countryside, with camels and flocks and roadside wells and the joyous shout of the peasant at vintage or in harvest — this literature, after all that has intervened, is still our great literature, published abroad as no other in the total of man's writing, translated into the world's great languages and many minor ones, and cherished and loved and studied so earnestly as to set it in a class apart.

As for how we arc to use these resources for seeking and finding God, I imagine Julian saying something like this: Get firmly in your mind that each of these three really does correspond to one of the three persons of the Trinity — truth, to God the Father; wisdom, the ancient Sophia, to the second person, who is God our Mother; and love to the Holy Spirit.

The depth and coherence of such divine love revealed to us through the Cross is perhaps most beautifully captured by that ancient hymn the Letter to the Philippians:

So, when we speak about God's love for the stranger, it is not a conversation that is based on any one particular verse pulled randomly from an ancient text, but a striking truth that is rooted in the entire revelation of God's salvific activity that culminates on the cross.

On a more sophisticated level, liberal Protestantism refreshed weary spirits with the announcement that all those ancient obscurities in the Bible were really intended to say no more than that we should love, forgive, be charitable, promote justice, and usher in the brotherhood of man under the fatherhood of God.

The experience of many couples confirms a statement by Terentius, a playwright of ancient Rome: «Great love was never lost by small quarrels.

Hartshorne confesses his belief that the insight into God as universal love was most clearly perceived by the ancient Jews and by Jesus, but the distinctive aspect of his position is the claim that secular philosophy can demonstrate and partially explicate the truth that «God is love.

pat is an oppresionists in Christian cloting... the ancient egyptians wheret the fathers of the trinity and it predates 10,000 years... there is no love or forgiveness in pats life, politics or ideas.

What those ancient Greeks (who also had some understanding of philosophy) regarded as a task for a whole lifetime, seeing that dexterity in doubting is not acquired in a few days or weeks, what the veteran combatant attained when he had preserved the equilibrium of doubt through all the pitfalls he encountered, who intrepidly denied the certainty of sense - perception and the certainty of the processes of thought, incorruptibly defied the apprehensions of self - love and the insinuations of sympathy — that is where everybody begins in our time.

The ground to be covered in this volume includes discussions of the biblical, historical and patristic understandings of the love of God and human love as they encounter both ancient and contemporary theology and philosophy.

When we speak about God's love for the stranger, it is not a conversation that is based on any one particular verse pulled randomly from an ancient text, but a striking truth that is rooted in the entire revelation of God's salvific activity that culminates on the cross.

«I have just taken the oath of office on the Bible my mother gave me a few years ago, opened to a timeless admonition from the ancient prophet Micah: «He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God.»»

Mary would easily understand Augustine's notion that God is nearer to us than we are to ourselves (interior intimo meo) and his bittersweet confession, «Late it was that I loved you, beauty so ancient and so new, late I loved you!

What the event of Christ accomplished was the purification of ancient Jewish insight and the completion of ancient Jewish aspiration; in him Love was seen at work in a fashion that those who responded knew to be both mysterious and full of meaning in their lives.

This reveals the ancient wisdom of our faith that recognizes that most of our people are good hearted, who do not victimize others actively, but passively miss the clear call to love — not because they are unloving, but lazy, ignorant, or whatever.

This is no less true of Warren's literary criticism, whether in such ambitious works as the famous essay on The Rime of the Ancient Mariner («A Poem of Pure Imagination: An Experiment in Reading»), the more modest but nonetheless incisive essays on such writers as Eudora Welty and Katherine Anne Porter, or in the textbooks themselves — just hardheaded practical sense for anybody who loves literature and believes it is an autonomous discipline and not a substitute for anything else.

Thus, to understand the meaning of love to an ancient Greek expressed in English it is necessary to look at how the people of the day conceived love - a conception that we can see most definitively expressed in the culture itself through the expressions of friendship, eroticism, charity, and brotherhood.

I would love to see more literary quotes, but, «The Rime of the Ancient Mariner» or Shakespeare would be a bit out of place.

Obviously, Paul was a force to be reckoned with, but as David suggested, his use of polemics, not to mention the recently (40 yrs) discovered art of ancient rhetoric help us to place his words in the category of particular and avoid the generalities of «one size fits all» This is important stuff to consider when trying to make sense of an apostle that wished castration on some, while preaching a gospel of love to all the world.

Yet we are all aware of the Oedipal conflicts and complexes, named after the ancient Greek myth of Oedipus, the king who fell in love with his mother after killing his father.

[7] So the love of the Sacred Heart is of one economy with the wisdom enshrined within the fabric of our ancient universe, but most especially in Scripture, the institution of the Church and sacraments, and above all the Holy Eucharist.

But it also nourishes the achievement of a vastly larger number of voluntary associations, a higher degree of voluntary social cooperation, a broader base of love and gratitude for the commonwealth, and a more explicitly consensual national community than was known in ancient or medieval times.