Sentences with phrase «love of man»

The true love of man is not a general love for all humanity but a quite concrete, direct, and effective love for particular individuals.

No significant difference exists between the passionate love of men and women.

Indeed, he alone of all religious leaders of all time was bold enough to state, as we saw above (see Matthew 25, verses 31 to the end), that love of God must be expressed by love of man, even in his earthly and sordid distresses.

The Christian virtues that he substituted, as the righteousness of the kingdom of heaven, are the mood and spirit to refrain from anger and lustfulness and the severing of the marriage bond, positive injunctions to straightforward speech, outgoing and uncalculating service, love of all men including one's enemies as befitting sons of the God whose love is limitless.

«The generous and indissoluble love of a man and a woman is the effective context and foundation of human life in its gestation, birth, growth and natural end,» he said.

Leading the «royal priesthood» of the whole Church in worship becomes more important for this pastoral director than it had been for the preacher; this worship is not simply the accompaniment of the preaching of the gospel but the effort of the Church to demonstrate its love of God, whose love of man is being proclaimed in the gospel.

«By its very nature, the institution of marriage and married love is ordered toward the procreation and education of the offspring and it is in them that it finds its crowning glory... Sexuality is ordered to the conjugal love of man and woman.

Even though one finds his life by losing it, by letting go of his present self, and even though one can not realize his greater fulfilment by attempting to control the process of creative mutuality for his own purposes or by concentrating his attention upon his forthcoming reward, surely the vision of perfect love of man can not be conceived normatively in terms of extinction.

In the Kingdom love of God and love of men go hand in hand.

My selections for this month's gallery chart my own fascination with maleness and my unabashed love of men.

But I understand the peasant; for to know the needs of men and to help them bear the burden of their sorrow, that is the true love of man.»

Do they teach the love of man?

«For it taught also that the fear of God was the love of God and that the love of God was the love of man and the service of man.»

Love of man is a desire to be liked by others rather than risk offending others by proclaiming Christ (the stumbling block, as St. Paul rightly called Him).

In the case of Jesus, it could be seriously argued he sought the love of man versus the love of God, just based on his actions alone.

In some ways, seeking the «love of man» is perfectly healthy.

Recently, in his first Encyclical Deus Caritas Est, Pope Benedict has beautifully set the goodness and delight of the love of man and women — and indeed wider loves — in the context of the sacrificial love of agape and the ecclesial service of caritas.

I think you should just avoid the Christianeze language and just say complicitly what you mean by using the terms «love of man» and «love of God» (neither of which are bad).

The love of a man and a woman, lived out in the power of baptismal life, now becomes the sacrament of the love between Christ and his Church, and a witness to the mystery of fidelity and unity from which the «New Eve» is born and by which she lives in her earthly pilgrimage toward the fullness of the eternal wedding.»

We can hardly overestimate the significance of this statement, or of the general tenor of Jesus» teaching, which would not allow any divorce between love of God and love of man.

We must replace the love of God by the love of man as the only true religion... the belief in God by the belief in man... My wish is to transform friends of God into friends of man, believers into thinkers... candidates for the hereafter into students of this world, Christians, who, by their own profession are half - animal, half - angel, into men, into whole men.13

The love of a man for a woman and her love for her man is one of the most treasured understandings in God's eyes!

Barth calls it the «Magna Carta» of humanity 47 In it the implications of the creation accounts of the love of a man for a woman are put into song.

And if some amongst you, paralyzed by the gloomy likelihood of the catastrophe, should already have lost their courage, they, too, still have the chance to prove their love of man by heeding the cynical maxim: «Let's go on working as though we had the right to hope.

And yet, as others were quick to point out, no one doubts the love of men for men, or women for women, just as no one doubts that there may be abiding relations of love between brothers and sisters, or grandparents and grandchildren.

A child is a brand - new human person, created out of the love of a man and a woman.

He wrote, «The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.»

Then there is a charm to promote the growth of hair (6:136); to obtain a husband (2:3); to obtain a wife (6:82); to secure the love of a woman (6:8); and to secure the love of a man (7:38); a charm to secure harmony (3:20); and one to procure influence in an assembly (3:30); a charm to ward off danger from fire (6:106); another to stop an arrow in its flight.

As repugnant as it may seem today, the love of a man for a younger man or boy was considered especially noble.

What I try to present in this book is a perspective on the meaning of the love of God and the loves of men derived from that mode of Christian thought which has come to be called «process theology».

The love of a man for a woman and her love for her man is one of the most treasured understandings in God's revealing eyes!

We are seeking an interpretation of the love of God and the loves of man in the light of the biblical faith and in relation to human experience.

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.

20 Hence this Christian will not be satisfied with the prospect of a time when «faith in God and love of man will be the only requisites for mutual fellowship and service.»