Sentences with phrase «love seeking understanding»

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Even without feeling loved or properly touched in childhood years, the human spirit understands the corruptness of it and seeks to heal itself in future years.

Man's world will continue to crumble from within, and man's solutions always ultimately fail, but the good news is that God provides peace to those who continually seek to understand and strive to serve His Kingdom, and part of that for us is trusting that any hardships we encounter on the way will ultimately bring us closer to Him, our perfect and loving Creator.

Two books published by Inter-Varsity Press also call for compassionate understanding, with one showing the struggles of a young male homosexual who seeks to live a celibate life although he deeply loves another man (The Returns of Love, by Alex Davidson, 1970).

Just because we assume someone wouldn't understand our love of Jesus doesn't mean we shouldn't seek to build a friendship and understand their point of view.

The document also insists, however, «that God has been present in their seeking and finding, that where there is truth and wisdom in their teachings, and love and holiness in their living, this, like any wisdom, insight, knowledge, understanding, love and holiness that is found among us, is the gift of the Holy Spirit.»

Lord, may I not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love.

And merely to give his love for her an imperfect expression was in his eyes a deception, even though no one understood him and reproaches sought to mortify his soul.

And the understanding — how precarious, and how close each moment to misunderstanding, when the anguish of guilt seeks to disturb the peace of love!

That kind of love refuses to have vicious battles in the comments section of some blog or social media post — that love sits down over a hot cup of coffee and seeks to understand.

Paul saw that in Christ we come to understand that the God we seek to obey is Love.

Good Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love.

That insight had such significance for John Paul that he would return to it fourteen years later in Fides et Ratio, writing that the chief purpose of theology «is seen to be the understanding of God's kenosis, a grand and mysterious truth for the human mind, which finds it inconceivable that suffering and death can express a love which gives itself and seeks nothing in return.»

Rather than pontificating on how alcoholics should quite drinking, and gays should choose to be straight, we might rather seek to understand these people and learn to love them with the love of Christ.

And so they don't seek treatment, those who love them can not understand their symptoms, and victims suffer for decades.

It is the understanding of the heart that leads one to forgive instead of seeking vengeance, to love instead of hate, to be open to others instead of closed, to seek the good of all instead of just one's own well - being, to give of one's self and one's property for the good of others, and to feel that a God of love is pulling for all of these.

Through Christian education the fellowship of believers (the church) seeks to help persons become aware of God's seeking love as shown especially in Jesus Christ and to respond in faith and love to the end that they may develop self - understanding, sell - acceptance, and self - fulfillment under God; increasingly identify themselves as sons of God and members of the Christian community; live as Christian disciples in all relations in human society; and abide in the Christian hope.

O Divine Master, Grant that I may not so much seek To be consoled as to console; To be understood as to understand; To be loved as to love.

Instead of honestly trying to understand how love and wrath can both find their source in a holy God, Crossan seeks to tear God in two.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love.

I understand the analogy, but people walking off a cliff and people headed toward eternal separation with God are two very different things, and when God sought to rescue humanity from eternal separation, He does not choose to yell at us, but instead chooses to love and serve.

«We seek an understanding that does not divide power and compassionate love in a dualistic framework that identifies love with a resignation of power and the exercise of power with a denial of love.

Love also does not seek to point out sin in it's brother and certainly, not to cast a blanket of condemnation over a people of which the perceiver does not understand.

The relation of love to the intellect proceeds from three assumption: first, that faith transcends rational categories through God's self - revelation in Christ; second, that intellectual understanding is necessary for the guidance of human life; and third, that both seek the same object in God's being and His revealed truth — namely, that it is through agape with its consequent repentance, humility, and understanding of human limits that the intellect can appropriately function.

When people we love or respect shift in their theological beliefs, rather than jumping to judgment or to finger pointing, seek to listen and to understand, and to assign positive intent.

They asked, in words that have become celebrated in Christian history, that they might be enabled to give «love where there was hatred, pardon where there was injury, joy where there was sadness, light where there was darkness»; that they might seek «not so much to be consoled as to console, not so much to be understood as to understand; not so much to be loved as to love.»

King sought to exclude these attitudes by understanding God and the universe in terms of love and power and by insisting that means and ends cohere.

Agape means nothing sentimental or basically affectionate; it means understanding, redeeming good will for all men, an overflowing love which seeks nothing in return.

He goes on to say, «After five years of marriage if a husband has failed to understand or seek help for the major causes of disharmony, either he doesn't understand what genuine love is, or has chosen to ignore God's command to shepherd his family wisely.»

we seek knowledge... we seek things beyond immortality... we want to see the world with the eyes of god... to be a true christian is to embark on a journey of compassion, forgiveness, love, and understanding... those are the values of our faith

The deeper and truer the love between a man and a woman, and especially between husband and wife, the more they will be prompted to pay heed to shame, and to seek to understand it and respond adequately to it.

It does mean that the books of the Old Covenant are studied in the context of an intellectual love of God and neighbor, of a faith that seeks understanding.

In searching for a worthy response, Rollins says he is drawn to Christian mystics like Meister Ekhart, «for while they did not embrace total silence, they balked at the presumption of those who would seek to colonize the name «God» with concepts... By speaking with wounded words of their wounded Christ, these mystics helped to develop, not a distinct religious tradition, but rather a way of engaging with and understanding already existing religious traditions: seeing them as a loving response to God rather than a way of defining God.»

If you go within first, and nourish your relationship with God within yourself, there you will find the peace and love and understanding one seeks.

«As long as love, understood minimally as the inclination to seek another's companionship and advance her well - being, exists, commitment is not necessary.

Your toddler loves and seeks to understand their parents.

They want to understand why a relationship has ended, or if they're any closer to the love they're really seeking.

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I am seeking a person who is hardworking, kind, caring, thoughful, who loves family, loves travelling, outgoing, understanding, loves shopping.

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I understand why people think it's more difficult to assess someone's faith and beliefs on Match, but I feel it's the same there as it is anywhere (including eharmony): when someone loves the Lord and is seeking the same in a partner, they're going to talk about it.

Providing guys with a guide to love in his book, Manni now offers women his best dating tip from the man's perspective: «The things that every guy seeks in women is somebody who understands him and is supportive of what their ambition, goal, or dream is.

I'm seeking a guy that is understanding, good looking, handsome, humorous, generous, trustworthy, and loving; a guy that is ambitious, sets goals and has a basic purpose in life.

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He began writing love - focused advice to share perspectives on dating with men who are trying to evolve beyond the pickup artist and with women seeking to understand the psychology of dating.

am a simple and a loving person, i am trustworthy and understanding and i seek such from my partner

Andersonam a simple and a loving person, i am trustworthy and understanding and i seek such from my partner

I am loving caring and kind hearted person seeking for good caring and understandable person who's believe in real understanding and dedication.

They are just seeking for a serious man who can understand the meaning of love.