Jason shares how he has combined his practice and
his love of nature in thinking outside the...
In working closely with Jack on a number of fundraising events, we have come to see how his interest in the health of the environment extends from the ocean to young people and how he uses his phenomenal talents to awaken
a love of nature in young people and to instill a respect for the planet.
In other comments, he said he particularly valued how the play centered on
the love of nature in the daughter and uncle:
Flowers, Italy, measuring slightly more than 6 feet by 6 feet, is an impressive painting that expresses the artist's
love of nature in quasi-religious terms.
I was grateful to have an opportunity to pursue
my love of nature in high school through an innovative program in environmental science.
Turcotte is now combining his long - term thinking with
his love of nature in his work as CEO with Stone Creek Resorts, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year.
Not exact matches
These three brands have tapped into something deeper
in all
of us with their spot - on video advertising campaigns that, respectively, inspire our
love of nature and adventure, our need for human connection and the desire for creative thought and expression.
You can get that sense
of connection or
love through intimacy, or friendship, or prayer, or walking
in nature.
Instead, he used the words
of someone who spent decades
in jail because
of the color
of his skin to remind us all that racism need not be part
of our
nature, and that anyone who has learned to hate can learn to
love instead.
We transcend ordinary life, as it were,
in moments
of imaginative, ecstatic insight, sometimes brought on by the power
of nature, and sometimes by the power
of love, or even by the power
of what is ugly or evil.
But the end result is the same: By its
nature, human erotic
love is ordered to creating and raising new life, and to the mutual joy and support
of a man and woman vowed
in a covenant
of love.
But let us take action carefully
in order that the sickness
of our
nature may be perfectly healed and we thirst to come to God out
of love for Him and hatred
of this life and disgust with ourselves; that is, let us assiduously seek His healing grace.
If physics proves right about the
nature of reality itself (and the concept the universe is a simulation), you're short - changing yourself by not believing
in a
loving high intelligence.
Then we will see that our actual existence is, from the viewpoint
of the inherited ontology
of nature and grace, «mixed» from its origin and at every step, «a pilgrimage
in which the miracle
of divine
love... is the most ordinary
of events.»
Simply amazing how so many people can exsplain how God does not exsiste
in the our world... have all these people not felt
Love,,,,,,, peace from within... the
nature of caring for another... How about all they have been blessed with so far
in life.
But the great boon
of Catholicism to the world is that it can also stand outside the ebbs and flows
of history to see that human
nature — the truth
in which
love appears — remains unchanged from age to age.
The latter is a subtle, supremist dogmatic domineering movement dressed
in religious garb while the amazing former is the recognition and practice
of Spirit,
Love, heavenliness, harmony, Principle, human rights and the positive healing reform
of finite human
nature and its suffering experience by establishing the fact that «now are we the sons
of God.»
But
in order for
love to determine the
nature of our relationship and to actually maintain it, we hold our opinions lightly and are honestly open for change.
Since last week, I've been thinking about how differently my life and / or the world (all mankind) might have been, had I / we been taught what has been revealed to me over the last 20 + years and now know
in my mind / heart is the truth / gospel for me, about Father God's
love, character and
nature, the death
of Jesus and Salvation.
-LSB-...] i want to encourage you to read today's post by him... here's an exerpt: «But
in order for
love to determine the
nature of our relationship and to actually maintain it, we hold our opinions lightly and are honestly open for change.
Contrary to the plati - tudes abhorred by Lamott and put forth often by people who claim to be Christian, putting faith
in God does not mean letting go, it means grabbing on to the truth
of God, trusting fully
in Him, and acting responsively to His
love which endures for us despite our undeserving
nature.
Granted, therefore, that God's infinite conceptual valuation
of pure possibility may justly be termed «free» since it is «limited by no actuality which it presupposes (PR 524), yet the temporal integrative activity
of his consequent
nature, whereby he
loves particular occasions
of the actual world, may also be called «free,» though
in a somewhat different sense.
And wiht the cross
in the cartoon another symbol
of gods
love, the giving
nature of God
in the soldier posessing the rainbow coloured garment and not forgetting what Jesus said on the cross «father forgive them, they don't know what they are doing».
In sum, then, the penalty for neglecting to allow for a divine temporal freedom beyond that of God's primordial nature is to be required to grant, in effect, that the timeless and the abstract adequately describe the temporal and the concrete, even the concrete acts of divine love for individuals.2 Such a view does not agree with the deliverance of religious experienc
In sum, then, the penalty for neglecting to allow for a divine temporal freedom beyond that
of God's primordial
nature is to be required to grant,
in effect, that the timeless and the abstract adequately describe the temporal and the concrete, even the concrete acts of divine love for individuals.2 Such a view does not agree with the deliverance of religious experienc
in effect, that the timeless and the abstract adequately describe the temporal and the concrete, even the concrete acts
of divine
love for individuals.2 Such a view does not agree with the deliverance
of religious experience.
As with the apple - tart, then, God's
love for this particular occasion is really his
love for this sort
of occasion inasmuch as the occasion instantiates one
of the abstract patterns valuated
in the primordial
nature.
This may seem a hard saying, since
in the final chapter
of Process and Reality he terms the action
of the consequent
nature «judgment,» «tenderness,» and «patience,» and that
of the superjective
nature «
love» (PR 525, 532).
If every object
in the universe, and event
in your life is the results
of past events and the laws
of nature, how could «
love» even come into the equation?
Senior German churchmen have made clear that they believe something different from what's
in the Catechism
of the Catholic Church, whether the issue is the
nature of marriage, the ethics
of human
love, the character
of the Holy Eucharist and the priesthood, the authority
of revelation, or the enduring effects
of baptism.
He,
in his primordial
nature, is unmoved by
love for this particular, or that particular; for
in this foundational process
of creativity, there are no preconstructed particulars.
Therefore, the justified Christian man,
in himself and
of his own
nature a sinner but not seen as a sinner by God, brings forth those good works which consist
in the
love of God and neighbor, not slavishly to win any reward but gladly, that service which is perfect freedom.»
It is a way
of loving in which
nature works through grace to restore the
love in human relationships to God's original intention.
Ephesians 5:21 - 33's teaching on marriage is about changing that view
of marriage to one
of unity and
love — the kind
of love that could transform the authority - subordinate
nature of first - century Ephesian marriages, into what God desires for marriage
in the New Covenant: oneness, companionship and mutuality.
The mystery
of creation and the history
of salvation can then be shown anew to the world with great clarity and power as the one unfolding plan
of Gods Wisdom and
Love in which all things are ordered towards the incarnate Lordship
of Jesus Christ
in whom we are destined to be made co-sharers
of the divine
nature (2 Peter 1:4).
but if anyone truley had God
in thier heart and had faith
in the Lord... simply by folding your hands and asking God to enter your heart... (try it he will be there for you, and you will feel the joy
of His
love), then they would never do things like this... he obviously was not a person who
loved God because No one with God
in thier heart would want to do thing s like that... you HATE sin when you truely
love God, No ones perfect though, even those who belive
in God we all stray from our beliefs, its human
nature and the devil takes advantage
of this.
The mystics (many
of them women) brought together the sentimental and the rational
in extraordinary ways, while the Franciscans, and Bonaventure
in particular, brought to high medieval culture their
love of nature and the beautiful.
These include: the feeling
of deep trust and at - homeness inside oneself, with others, and
in the universe; a fundamental respect for self, others, and
nature; the ability and the inclination to give and receive
love; a lively awareness
of the wonder
of the commonplace — awe
in the presence
of a new baby, a sunset, a friendship; a philosophy
of life that makes sense and guides decisions toward responsible behavior; a dedication with enthusiasm to the larger good
of persons and society.
Thus, instead
of emphasizing aseity, or self - containedness as well as sheer self - existence, as God's essential
nature, such theologians give the central place to
love -
in - action, which presupposes and entails relationships.
Lord Jesus, you who are as gentle as the human hear as fiery as the forces
of nature, as intimate as life itself you
in whom I can melt away and with whom I must have mastery and freedom: I
love you as a world, as the world which has captivated my heart; — and it is you, now realize, that my brother - men, even those who do not believe, sense and seek throughout the magic immensities
of the cosmos.
The process thinkers
of our time who have turned their attention to the religious question — the process theologians, as they are usually called — are sure, however, that there is another and sounder conception
of God, one which makes
love the clue to the divine
nature and manner
of working
in the world and one which is also
in accordance with what we know to be going on
in that world.
For this is the unfathomable
nature of love, that it desires equality with the beloved, not
in jest merely, but
in earnest and truth.
In his notebook, toward the end
of 1946, Camus writes: «If everything can be reduced to man and to history, I wonder where is the place:
of nature —
of love —
of music —
of art» (N 148).
He then utilized terminology that for decades informed the basic stance
of process theology on the
nature of true power, though, as we shall see, that is open to challenge: God «persuades the world by an act
of suffering with the kind
of power which leaves its object free to respond
in humility and
love.»
I believe that
in its broadest and most general meaning
love is central to all reality and order, and that it is grounded
in the very
nature of reality.
This self
love is sin.God never forced chaos on us.we gave
in to satan's lies about evil being an inherent necessity.Jesus said he was the way, the truth and life.He was the life (
love) that everyone craves for, he is the truth which meant that his
love was our only need and he exposed the lies
of satan that we could attain bliss on subordinating people to our cravings.Sinning people don't accept a God who requires us to renounce ourselves because they are not convinced
of God's
love being enough for them and they are afraid to destroy their identity and live for the Glory
of God.So, upon death, these souls realize that the physical world was just a shadow
of God's
love (the
nature, food etc) and their own lies (violence, self
love etc) and realize that
love is their only need.They pursue it from other soul beings but are hurt that there's only hate and self
love.They are afraid to approach the light because they don't want to renounce their identity as they have not recognized God's
love before.
He operates with subtle and sometimes extraordinary vigor here rather than there, thus bringing to pass his «work, his strange work» both
in the order
of nature and
of history, and thus bringing to pass also his
loving care and saving action signally declared
in Jesus Christ.
So God made creation
in such a way that it should
love, and above all
love the divine
nature that is the object
of love of all the persons
in the Trinity.
The divine power is the power
of being - itself, and being - itself is actual
in the divine life whose
nature is
love.»
Once God had decided upon this predestination
of Christ's human
nature, then he willed the union
of Christ's divine
nature with his human
nature in the person
of Christ since only a human
nature united to the divine
nature in one person could
love to the highest extent, the extent to which God
loves.
God embraces the vulnerability
of risk,
in being true to the divine
nature as
Love.
In other words, the earthly, matter - bound origin of human nature calls forth God's greatest act of loving care and humility — the Incarnation of God the Word through which humanity is united to Godhead in a union more intimate than with any other creature and gradually raised to immortalit
In other words, the earthly, matter - bound origin
of human
nature calls forth God's greatest act
of loving care and humility — the Incarnation
of God the Word through which humanity is united to Godhead
in a union more intimate than with any other creature and gradually raised to immortalit
in a union more intimate than with any other creature and gradually raised to immortality.