Not exact matches
[14:18]
Rules of the game to succeed, but not for fulfillment [14:40] God
loves diversity; same is true with people — different sources of fulfillment [14:55] Success without fulfillment is the ultimate failure [16:53] We all have something different as our inner desire, you need to find what fulfills you [17:05] A cautionary tale: Robin Williams, the loss of a national treasure [18:42] He lit everybody up, except himself [19:15] Most of us
live a
life where we succeed but we're not truly fulfilled [20:10] Richard: Tony, what is your method for happiness?
Live by your atheist
rules and start explaining to your
loved ones the lack of metaphysical or spiritual definition to your
love.
Live life and just follow one simple
rule: be good, kind, and
loving to all you meet.
You can theorize all day long that we have other
rules and laws... but for my moral guide in this
life... Jesus principle of
love will do just fine.
The
rule of
life for the Christian is to
love God above all things and to
love our neighbour as ourselves.
We encourage Christians in America to look to the persecuted church for an example of steadfast courage and radical
love — and to reject the temptation to allow fear to
rule our
lives.
Justice is the «alien» or «left - hand»
rule of God through temporal powers, while
love is the «proper» or «right - hand»
rule of God through the Church and the gospel she proclaims and
lives.
while the writer has little knowledge of the bible, he is also greatly lacking what he should know to write such a article, the laws give to people of all walks of
life is the commandments given by moses, religion does not have anything to do with goverments laws or
rulings, he told us straight the one law that there is no forgiveness for is murder, rulers and goverments take it upon themselves to make the decision whether to go to war, or if a person should be put to death, as far as jesus and the apostles are concerned thier labours was a work of
love and true humanitarian towards all peoples, races, religions, they never asked for anything for themselves, and they never took from one to give to another.
I know for a fact that despite all my talking and writing about
love, there are many area of my
life not
ruled by
love.
Any truth to be gleaned from the bible will be done by studying the prevailing themes like
love, charity, and the golden
rule and applying them to our God given consciences and
living well.
Paul speaks of the new
life in the freedom of
love as being itself the «
rule» (canon).
Yet, the verse begins, «Let us make man in our image, after our likeness...» Human
rule of the animal creation and the natural world should mirror what I believe to be God's
loving care for all
life.
There is a skill and diplomacy to know how to put aside the cultural expectations and still
live out Christ's
love and generosity much like the father in the story of the prodigal son - both sons and the father knew the cultural
rules, but when it came down to it, the father, who had much to lose, put aside those cultural burdens in order to
love lavishly.
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.
This is another one of those
rules that somebody must have dreamed up in a rage of vengeance: a schoolmaster named Ichabod, disappointed in
love, glowering down on his young charges, and thinking, «Yes, I shall make their
lives miserable!
It is this type of capricious handling of the Bible that helped me to realize that the institutional church that
loves its
Rules and Expectations must «burst apart», in order for mercy to finally be
lived.
To
rule out such praying would
rule out large areas of
life so vital to us that they must have a vital place in the concern of a
loving God.
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.
@Roger Bolero «societies
ruled by athiests have no concept of
love or justice, just a will to power and disregard for human
life and rights.»
In his new book, The New
Rules for
Love, Sex & Dating Stanley talks about why, in order to find the person we're going to spend the rest of our
lives with, we should focus on being the person that our future spouse is looking for, as well.
What the New Testament does do is to portray the gracious message of an open access to that same God whose depth of accepting
love is seen on a cross and whose presence in the
life of that crucified one is designed to call forth from us the same awe, reverence, and obedience to those
rules of
life through which we find the fullness of
life, the depth of
love, and the meaning of our own humanity.
Neville i mentioned those people only because the discussion was talking about dominionism the combination of the church and state as a governing
rule all those people were government leaders all of them suffered in there own way.Its was the suffering that prepared them for the roles that they were to play and there faith in God was what helped them get through.We are made stronger in our weakness no matter how important or unimportant we may appear to others.I guess it is easy to fall into the lie about political involvement that its hard to make change but some people have had a huge impact.Really it is God who deserves the praise he is the one that creats the opportunitys to make impact on the world as in our strength we can do nothing.In hebrews the great men and woman of faith there are those that seemed unimportant to the world and many suffered for there faith Our Lord knows everyone by name and every small act of faith we do he remembers because we do it out of our
love for him that is what the christian walk is about
living for Jesus and sharing that
love with others.brentnz.
It's that
living under law thing that kills us (the Spirit gives
life but the letter kills), trying to
live up to standards and
rules, principles and guidelines, etc... The church these days has pretty much no idea what grace even is, and if you start talking about God's
love, I mean his real
love based only on Christ's merit, people call you a heretic.
Forty - eight percent of Lutherans «agree» or «probably agree» that «people can only be justified before God by
loving others,» and 60 percent agree that «the main emphasis of the gospel is God's
rules for right
living.»
From them we glean what has previously been indicated as basic notes in the understanding of the kingdom: the timeless kingship, or kingly
rule, of God; an ongoing and present kingdom to be entered and
lived in by accepting God's sovereign
rule in obedient response; and a final victory of God which is in God's hands, though he calls us to labor in faith and
love for its coming.
When we
love God and
love others, we are
living those laws (
rules).
Yet there is no adequate substitute for the New Testament understanding of God as both Creator and Redeemer,
ruling his world in both power and
love, offering to mankind both judgment and mercy, and affording a ground of security and hope for both present and future, for this world and for an ongoing
life after death.
Love your thoughts, but until ignorance is no longer bliss you can expect those who back their good thoughts and feelings with fantasy rather than the realities we are confronted wth every day to
rule our
lives.
If our theology causes us to bind heavy burdens on people's backs, while creating
rules, restrictions, and regulations for how to
live life with God and others, and we stifle people's joy, censor their
love, and chide them for their grace, it is no wonder that people reject us and our theology, and maybe the God we claim to follow as well.
This Golden
Rule is identical to John Galt's proclamation (paraphrased): I swear by my
life and my
love of it, that I will never
live for another person, NOR EXPECT ANOTHER PERSON TO LIVE FOR
live for another person, NOR EXPECT ANOTHER PERSON TO
LIVE FOR
LIVE FOR ME.
We lack a belief that we can
live by these
rules without losing the
love and care for one another that help us lead fully human
lives.
Ironically, these two men are often caricatured as promoting a religion of wild emotional excess, when in fact they took pains to insist that a
life of
love and joy does not
rule out reasoned reflection or active social involvement.
Those who were no people — slaves in Egypt — but who now have been made into a special people, embraced by
love, they are to
live out a new humanity that is not
ruled by envy, jealousy, or hostility.
Even in gay
loving relationships which by the way are a mere quarter of 1 percent of the US people are we giving in and changing the definition of marriage for all and allowing these who define marriage by their own
rules and ways rather than saying you need to
live up to this standard.
Are we afraid of bearing the responsibility of
living a
life loved,
living a
life connected to the vine, seeking him first rather than our
rules or our expectations?
At that instant of time when I gave all up to him to do with me as he pleased, and was willing that God should
rule over me at his pleasure, redeeming
love broke into my soul with repeated scriptures, with such power that my whole soul seemed to be melted down with
love; the burden of guilt and condemnation was gone, darkness was expelled, my heart humbled and filled with gratitude, and my whole soul, that was a few minutes ago groaning under mountains of death, and crying to an unknown God for help, was now filled with immortal
love, soaring on the wings of faith, freed from the chains of death and darkness, and crying out, My Lord and my God; thou art my rock and my fortress, my shield and my high tower, my
life, my joy, my present and my everlasting portion.
The kind of ethic promoted here by Paul is one which stresses liberation from the law — from those
rules which prevent the maintenance of a
loving community and for a freedom which accommodates differences between a people called to share in faith and
life.
Schweitzer's radical demonstration of
love in the form of unpretentious human service, under conditions which involve personal renunciation, corresponds directly to St. Francis's
rule of
love and humility as the authentic foundation of a way of
life free from attachments of privilege and power.
While Jesus» name won't appear on the ballot this fall, I imagine that every time I care for the poor, attempt to
live more simply, turn the other cheek, and
love my enemies, I'm casting a vote for Jesus, who will one day return to
rule His Kingdom in person.
When we actually
love God and
live according to His
rules rather than our man - made ones, something happens that is amazing.
I
love this
rule, which has guided my
life and thought for as long as I've known it, and I think of it as the central Protestant proposal to the Church catholic.
Living by the
rule of Leviticus 19, we point to a God whose justice is
ruled by
love, who makes provision for the poor and will not allow the disabled to be disadvantaged.
You know, we who CHOOSE to believe in REALITY and who choose a morality based upon HUMAN
love, compassion, mindful awareness, and LOGIC as opposed to a salvation - based transactional morality - exchange entered into with a petty, arrogant, childish, vengeful, MYTHOLOGICAL «Sky Father» in the hopes that, should we
live a «good»
life according to «His» contradictory, hypocritical, and inconsistent «
rules» (or Commandments, or whatever you enjoy calling them) or else spend «Eternity» burning in everlasting torment in «Hell» you know, because «God»
loves us so much.
If you are being bullied or abused in the name of religion, if you suffer the heavy yoke of legalistic
rules and authoritarian church leadership, Jesus is calling you out of that
life and into a new one, where the fruit of the Spirit isn't coercion or fear, but rather
love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self - control.
Love is simply this, that one no longer sits, like the spider, in the midst of its web, or like the King Ego upon his throne, demanding service, but that one instead of
living for himself,
lives for others, instead of
ruling, serves.
They want both wentz and elliot, jerry falls in
love with qbs and after his son over
ruled him on jonny football who jerry cried about not getting; the possibility could be there for him to say go get him... last year was a disaster for the cowboys without romo and jerry does nt have alot of
life left so who knows what that old coock will be willing to do if he thinks its the one piece from him getting a super bowl before he dies... although just a mock so who knows
I am sorry that i can not follow Bertrand intellectual
rule, since everyone
lives on their own beliefs attached to the facts and being an AFC reader and Arsenal supporter, i always
love to be part of the emotions without any hatred, following the moral
rule.
When labels are applied to anything as complex as all of the choices and
love and anguish that go into being a parent, that role is immediately trivialized and for some frightening reason parenting is converting into following a set of
rules (or «principles») rather than
living in the moment, responding to your child and doing the best you can with what you've got.
Just imagine how nice
life will be for you and your
loved ones when you can wake up without food fears and rigid food
rules?
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