Sentences with phrase «love of enemies»

He who is kind only to friends does not know what love means; for complete love includes love of enemies.

For instance, the early Church did teach love of enemies in a way that reflects direct dependence upon the Old Testament rather than upon Jesus (cf. Romans 12:20 - 21, quoting Proverbs 25:21).

He can, with no qualms, assent to any of the catechisms of historical Christianity, but for some reason thinks God is wrong when he teaches love of enemies, therefore rejecting that teaching.

@ Bridget, Good, I was hoping your understand that LOVE, and even love of enemies is in no way a unique teaching of Jesus.

In 3:10 - 14, Luke adds some of John's ethical teaching, but it seems perfunctory and not particularly demanding, especially when compared to Jesus» teaching on wealth and on love of enemies.

Even a casual reader of the Bible notices that between the alleged divine endorsement of genocide in the conquest of Canaan and Jesus's call for love of enemies in his Sermon on the Mount, something has clearly changed!

But while the «sufferers» try to practice love of enemy in concrete ways, these people (like the prudent individuals who take the first position) make love a kind of theoretical value.

Liberation theologians who want to appreciate the truly radical ways of Jesus might ponder these words of Hans Küng, who writes in On Being a Christian that Jesus» revolutionary method means «love of enemies instead of their destruction; unconditional forgiveness instead of retaliation; readiness to suffer instead of using force; blessing for peacemakers instead of hymns of hate and revenge» (p. 191)

I particularly found my experience the Buddhist «meta» or loving kindness and finding contentedness through all things through the teaching of the Buddhist Tara Brach and her book «Radical Aceeptance» worked more for me though applying the same principles of love including love of enemies that Christianity teaches.

13:8 - 10 that love means the fulfillment of the Law), but also in pagan literature love — love of man and even love of enemies — is regarded as one of the highest virtues.

How does this action fit in with Jesus» words about nonresistance to evil in Matthew 5:39 and love of enemies in Matthew 5:43 - 44?

All the demands implied in these words — faith in Jesus Christ, love of enemy, the overcoming of evil by love — must be affirmed, taught and lived with the most absolute intransigence.

But he misses some of the subtle paradoxes connected with Christian forgiveness and love of enemies.

Jesus taught that love is to be a sign of his disciples (John 13:35) and further, that love of enemies is to be the defining feature of Christian love — the very thing that defines Christian perfection (Matt.

Whatever the decision should be concerning this word, the demand for a righteousness that goes beyond strict obedience to precepts, and includes love of enemies, is an essential and distinctive element of Jesus» own teaching.

Following the rejection of the lex talionis 26 Bonhoeffer turns to the «extraordinary» feature in the disciple — the love of the enemy.

What if, in our ongoing discernment, we made the starting point our shared experience of God's love of enemy in Christ and the worship in life and thought to which it summons us?

Jihad, much in the news since 9/11, is one aspect of Muslim ethics that for Christians occasions distress and causes some of them to deny that its practitioners worship the (Christian) God who commands the love of enemies and the practice of non-retaliation.

Jesus does not support his demand for love by referring to the value of other men as human beings, and love of enemies is not the high point of universal love of humanity, but the high point of overcoming of self, the surrender of one's own claim.

Hypocrisy is rebuked without the threat of hell fire; love of enemies is demanded without the promise of heavenly joys.

It censured libertinism and cruelty, and upheld the freedom to practice the good, chastity, virginity, innocence, conjugal fidelity, love of enemies, charity, abnegation, goodness toward the weak, and dignity for all human beings, created in the image and likeness of God.

But also post-Christian saints, Jews as well as Muslims, have preached and lived the love of the enemy.

But more astonishing still, this Buddhist love includes the love of the enemy, as also among Brahmans and Sufists.

The early Christian writer Tertullian asserted that the love of the enemy was an exclusive characteristic of Christianity.

The Bible speaks of the love of God and of all the human loves and their involvements: sex, comradeship, love of neighbour, love of self, love of mammon, love of enemies.