More often than not, you probably won't «speak» the same
love language as your spouse.
Physical touch may seem like one of the more straightforward of Gary Chapman's five languages, but in a culture where touch can be misinterpreted on all kinds of levels, it is often the most misunderstood
love language as well.
However, this book has made me more aware of what I think is my primary love language and my partner's
love language as well.
My default
love language as the giver is acts of service.
If you've been reading my posts lately you've probably noticed I've been featuring Love Languages and how we can learn about our own
love language as well as how others like to be loved.
But then the more I thought about this particular son I realized that «acts of service» is his primary
love language as well.
Chapman describes those five
love languages as:
Children and parents alike will experience firsthand the power of
the love languages as they cuddle up and spend precious time together reading this book over and over again.
Not exact matches
We're referring to them
as workplace communication
languages, simply because saying workplace
love language seems little bit red flag - ish to HR.
But I was just amazed by how everyone, young and old wanted to be involved... and was so deeply enriched and touched by the experience and the laughter and the
love I experienced from the people I met and how women would in particular open their hearts to me and tell me the stories of where they've come from, particularly because I have the
language and was coming there
as a woman and just how touched they were that I was there
as a woman from England who's learned the
language and who's an artist and running this project and come all the way to see them so they didn't feel forgotten I think that was pretty much what they felt... that their stories were being heard so they don't feel forgotten knowing the tents would be around the world.
Kohl was much more comfortable than Merkel with the
language of German patriotism (the Prussian tradition
loves to obsess over guilt, and sees the
language of German patriotism
as being «tainted»).
Nicole Calma
loves Jesus, her friends and family and her life
as a Ph.D. student studying
language and music in the brain.
As love becomes merely a passion, as safety becomes merely a term for never being contradicted, as victimhood and oppression are turned into subjective categories rooted in emotional psychology, the very language by which we understand virtues, well - being, and concern becomes not a tool for care but a barrier preventing us from carin
As love becomes merely a passion,
as safety becomes merely a term for never being contradicted, as victimhood and oppression are turned into subjective categories rooted in emotional psychology, the very language by which we understand virtues, well - being, and concern becomes not a tool for care but a barrier preventing us from carin
as safety becomes merely a term for never being contradicted,
as victimhood and oppression are turned into subjective categories rooted in emotional psychology, the very language by which we understand virtues, well - being, and concern becomes not a tool for care but a barrier preventing us from carin
as victimhood and oppression are turned into subjective categories rooted in emotional psychology, the very
language by which we understand virtues, well - being, and concern becomes not a tool for care but a barrier preventing us from caring.
We become ourselves,
as infants, by learning to
love and to speak, and we have
language in particular
as a gift from other people.
I want to ask you,
as clearly
as I can, to bear with patience all that is unresolved in your heart, and try to
love the questions themselves,
as if they were rooms yet to enter or books written in a foreign
language.
I think unfortunately it is not
as straightfoward
as neglecting to fire someone or make them «step down» (got ta
love that image - preserving
language, eh?)
Most of us are familiar with the
love languages concept for marriages by Dr. Chapman, but this book for children has been a huge help for the ways that I don't receive
love in the same ways
as my tinies.
His extraordinary gifts
as poet — and these are the most salient aspects of what he has left behind — enable him to reach everyone who
loves to watch or hear
language do everything it can do.
But I think there is some risk that it might be misconstrued so
as to obscure certain truths which I believe to be fundamental: that the Passion is the moment at which that complete oneness with the Father which is the unique and all - pervading characteristic of the life of Jesus is paradoxically manifested; that it is at that moment, above all, that Jesus discloses to us God himself in action; that the judgement passed on Jesus and the testing brought to bear upon him are a judgement and a testing exercised (of course, within the permissive will of God) by evil men, or, to use mythological
language, by the devil; and that the judgement of God pronounced at Calvary is that which Christ's accepting
love passes upon those men, and upon ourselves
as sharers in their sinfulness, by showing up their sin in all its hatefulness.
In a time when tweets and status updates dominate the communication landscape, we must —
as Christians — reclaim our interactions and demonstrate how we can
love one another with our
language.
As young couples «in
love» know intuitively (but married couples often forget), appreciation is the
language of
love because it is the food for nurturing self - esteem.
It is distressingly banal to reduce Paul's
language about sin and grace, about disobedience and
love, to the level of cultural attitudes (toward, for example, «imperial ideology»), though such a reduction often passes itself off
as theology in some seminary classrooms today.
As the Church, we're comfortable when it comes to talking about courtship,
love languages, marriage and raising a family.
I would like to beg you, dear Sir,
as well
as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to
love the questions themselves
as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign
language.
Let's go on just for fun... it seems
as if the following quote goes with your «food fight being friend sight seeing» [Well maybe you've realized I
love naively «misusing»
language including nonsensical neglect of grammar and punctuation rules].
It would be more in accord with the spirit of myth to regard man
as just one element in an infinite universe — even the New Testament does so in clear and classical
language; it says, not «God so
loved mankind», but «God so
loved the world».
Nevertheless it is a present fact; and even if we dislike the
language that is popularly used, the truth is exactly
as one popular song of the earlier part of this century put it: «It's
love and
love alone the world is seeking.»
«We have just religion enough to make us hate, but not enough to make us
love another» wrote Jonathan Swift.4 He may be pressing his point, but it seems
as if religious
language is more specific articulating the role, place, needs, concerns of its own people and is if anything rather general when addressing the other
as significant other.
Since mixes are my
love language, I created a Monkey Town Mix for readers — a playlist meticulously selected to give you just the right ambiance
as you work through the story.
As Ogden indicates, this can be expressed in nonmythological language: «Jesus» office as the Christ consists precisely in his being the bearer, through word and deed and tragic destiny, of the eternal word of God's love, which is the transcendent meaning of all created things and the final event before which man must decide his existence.&raqu
As Ogden indicates, this can be expressed in nonmythological
language: «Jesus» office
as the Christ consists precisely in his being the bearer, through word and deed and tragic destiny, of the eternal word of God's love, which is the transcendent meaning of all created things and the final event before which man must decide his existence.&raqu
as the Christ consists precisely in his being the bearer, through word and deed and tragic destiny, of the eternal word of God's
love, which is the transcendent meaning of all created things and the final event before which man must decide his existence.»
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.
The martial
language of armor, breastplates, shields, and helmets disrupts the
language of
love as if to convey the fierceness of the temptation to fall back into the attitudes and habits associated with the old way of life (6:6 - 18).
@John And while you presumably can say «I
love you» in every
language and have it mean more or less the same, you DO N'T say «if you don't believe
as I do, the
loving god will subject you to eternal torment and, oh by the way, gays are an abomination and god doesn't want them to have the same rights that you and I enjoy» in every religion.
And yet, while Brown's most recent work,
Love's Body (Random House, Inc., 1966), indicates he is familiar with Barfield's discussions on
language as metaphor, Altizer does not seem to see the necessary connection between this concept and Saving the Appearances.
I could be wrong I do believe in a higher power and in
love as the universal
language (for lack of a better phrase of words, although it might be more universal today to say sex is the universal
language) and in this post just now realized I have to change my 100 % enabler label to 99 % based on the higher power belief.
human
language has not found the words to express the pleasure, the joy, the surprising awakening to another world, that god exists, that he lives and
loves me, the missing part, the answer to all questions with one touch, to see life
as it is and
as it should be, and to do nothing to have entered into this dimension except to ask, to beg, to plead with all one's strength - merely to know him, if he is there.
Accordingly, he correctly points out that the
language of intimacy in
love as applied to God, the
love between father and son, between husband and wife, are basic in Hebraic speech about the
love of God for Israel (SFL 19f).
[W] e Hindus are bound together not only by the ties of
love we bear to a common fatherland and by the common blood that courses through our veins and keeps our hearts throbbing and our affections warm, but also by the ties of common homage we pay to our great civilization — our Hindu culture, which could not be better rendered than by the word Sanskriti suggestive
as it is of that
language Sanskrit, which has been the chosen means of expression and preservation of that culture.
I feel like I tested «
Love as a universal
language» and «the body does not lie» and bless you is okay.
If we already presuppose, then, that the theistic religious
language employed by the Christian witness in authorizing faith in God's
love as our authentic self - understanding can be metaphysically justified, we can say —
as I, in fact, have already been saying — that ultimate reality includes not only the self and others but also the encompassing whole of reality that theists refer to when they use the name «God.»
This position helps to uncover one aspect of the confusion in much popular
language about
love which treats it
as a universal experience which is merely illustrated in particular cases.
’15 When he turns to religious
language, Miles describes a believer
as a person who accepts «the «theistic» parable — the parable of a
loving father who has called us all to be like him and to become his children».
She was born in this country, speaks English
as her first
language,
loves football, holds a British passport and was christened in a church.»
As a self - proclaimed persecuted minority, the sexual revolutionaries enjoy the greatest unchecked privilege of our time, that of identity victimhood, with a monopoly on the positive
language of
love and freedom.
Perhaps this is what Rilke meant when he wrote in «Letters to a Young Poet,» ``... Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to
love the questions themselves
as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign
language.
So I find myself second - guessing the «leaving evangelicalism»
language, not because it's an inaccurate representation of what I'm experiencing, but because I don't want anyone to think for a moment that this means walking away from the many, many people who identify
as evangelical whom I
love and respect very much.
The mystic finds no
language so well suited to express symbolically the relationship of his own soul to that of God
as the
language of
love, and here he finds it superbly used.
You are most definitely talking my
language here
as I
love all things shrimp and a bit of heat
as well.
We had an amazing time
as a family spending quality time together (quality time is totally my
love language so this was especially wonderful for me!)
I have always
loved to cook and bake and a year spent in Italy and France
as part of my modern
languages degree, tasting the world's finest patisserie, inspired me to enrol at Westminster Kingsway College, London, on the Professional Patisserie Scholarship.