Not exact matches
On the
other hand, if your partner looks at old
love letters often or has kept around more intimate items (like an ex's favorite hoodie or a bottle
of cologne / perfume), it could indicate he or she still has feelings.»
The reports detailed
other examples
of people having their warnings
of sexual assault at Mexican resorts taken down on the same basis as
Love's, or because the website claimed they were second -
hand information.
Speaking
of ugly, I leave you in the capable
hands of Eels, performing Ugly
Love off
of 2005's Blinking Lights and
Other Revelations.
On the
other hand, ignoring the issue could make for a messy couple
of months after that
loved one's death.
On the
other hand, I have heard people online talking about how they
love the point
of balance on this safety razor.
You on the
other hand will have absolutely no chance at paradise, that is
of course unless the God you deny accepts you out
of the true
love he offers
I had a hard time
loving because
of pain and hurt in my life... from none
other than my family... but I asked God to allow me to see them through his eyes... that helped me pick up the pieces...
hand them to Jesus and allow him to lead me and guide my way to him... that is the only hope
of life we have.
On one
hand God is a behemoth
of dirty done deeds against much
of humanism's dispositions while on the
other hand God shows little to practically no
love to all our civilizations» ongoing trials
of which we steadily reshape as the needs arise.
You mean as part
of what it means to make sacrifices the greatest
of which being God having to make the greatest sacrifice
of all that unlike Abraham who was at the last minute spared from having to make the sacrifice
of his beloved son Isaac, God on the
other hand due to his
love for all
of us imperfect beings had to actually sacrifice his beloved son.
When it GETS DOWN TO LIFE, (i.e., kisses on
hands, words
of love and forgiveness spoken and believed, epiphanies, being there with someone as they die, SEEING EACH
OTHER FOR WHO WE ARE,) we're all the same.
On the
other hand, God is calling these communities, and each
of us as members
of them, to participate in the salvation
of the world God
loves.
I, on the
other hand, presuppose that God can not be evil; that goodness and being belong inextricably together or else there is no ground for basic trust... Even Calvinist Paul Helm, a leading evangelical Calvinist thinker, agrees (as I show in my book) that «goodness» attributed to God can not be totally different from every understanding
of goodness (and
love) we know
of.»
When it comes to living life and
loving others, God is not as concerned with the cleanliness
of our
hands or the perceived purity
of our words, but with the attitude and motivation
of our hearts.
On the
other hand, we have a conception
of God as both morally righteous and supremely
loving.
I believe you can
love little Johnny so much you don't want to spank him then on the
other hand you want to spank the devil out
of him with a two by four.
On the
other hand, these neighbors are watching and listening to our «sermons»
of love, are remembering and are asking questions.
Later, Whitehead explains the division
of the God understanding into the vision
of Jesus
of a
loving God and God as a ruler, on the
other hand, from which Whitehead felt deeply repelled (pp. 175f).
This obstinacy is like the infantile notion
of a child, who in his lack
of judgment even sets up a cleft in the father's nature; for the child imagines that the father is the
loving one, that punishment on the
other hand is something that a bad man has invented.
Relational people, on the
other hand, focus on what God has done for them, and know that God is already in every conversation and relationship (even if He is not mentioned), so they can just
love and enjoy the person standing in front
of them right now.
It invites those most inclined to deal myopically with the infant, most tempted to seek its good at the expense
of others and to crush it to the bosom in apprehensive
love, to
hand over their child into the
hands of another.
On the
other hand, without the dramatic and poetic expression
of the reversal in God's
love play, when Krishna is conquered by Radha and the divine bows to the human, the full reality that the devotee experiences would not be expressed.
Perhaps the best way
of thinking about this is to distinguish between the
loving unity that the three divine Persons experience, on the one
hand, and the
loving unity that defines God's eternal essence, on the
other.
I would
love to be witness to the blind regaining their sight, or cancer complete disappearing with only the interventions
of prayer and / or the «laying
of hands», but unfortunately I've only encountered such things in Televangelist Land and the stories
of others.
Yet, on the
other hand, he never scaled downward man's possibilities, and the very virtues that have been enumerated as belonging to the life
of faith and
love are implicit witness to his confidence that man with the help
of God could live as the «salt
of the earth.»
This way we have a deeper empathy for what
others are going through and can be the
hands and arms
of God by showing
love.
Everyone got groovin» in the streets, the parks, and the
love - ins, and yet this late 60s crescendo
of dance somehow nearly... killed it, with an ugly aftermath
of «Iron Man» on one
hand, «You've Got A Friend» on the
other, and way too many people either too conceited or wasted to cha cha cha.
The concrescing subject lured by (
loves John x) is also lured by
other clauses, i.e., by any
of those in the left
hand column above.
On the
other hand, the notion
of God as sentimental niceness — what I have called «smothering
love» — springs from the wish
of many people to be so completely tolerant that they are unwilling or unable to take a stand on anything.
Therefore on the one
hand they call Him the Object
of Love and Yearning as being Beautiful and Good, and on the
other they call Him Yearning and
Love as being a Motive - Power leading all things to Himself, Who is the only ultimate Beautiful and Good — yea, as being His own Self - Revelation and the Bounteous Emanation
of His own Transcendent Unity, a Motion
of Yearning simple, self - moved, self - acting, pre-existent in the Good, and overflowing from the Good into creation, and once again returning to the Good.6
About these monks it is said that they were people
of great faith, well versed in the Scriptures, large portions
of which they knew by heart, fervent in prayer, gentle and humble in manner, full
of the
love of God on the one
hand, and
love to their neighbour and all humankind on the
other.
The Church on the
other hand, has neither responded to the pain and outrage
of women, nor has it recognized this immense
love women have for the Church.
On the
other hand, if we decide for the model
of love, thinking
of God as more like a human lover (but with defects, imperfections, frustrations, distortions removed), it will follow that whatever power is exercised by Him will be
loving in its essential quality.
If evangelicals are to escape this present tension between the proper valuation
of «
love» on the one
hand and «justice» on the
other, they must listen more openly to one another.
If, on the
other hand, he is mindful
of the gavel (which should be used only when needed), then he would be aware that right now the problem is not getting them to
love each
other more, but how to establish a procedure and a context in which their differences can be articulated and analyzed.
But on the
other hand there would be a wonderful release
of energy in thus accepting
love's centrality, since
love is a releasing (as well as a demanding and dangerous) matter.
On the
other hand lies the possibility
of Christian
love — a
love that uniquely transcends self - centeredness in a genuine concern for the
other, untainted by concern for its consequences for the lover.
For Jesus, on the
other hand, the whole radical demand
of God on men was placed in the context
of God's
love.
On the
other hand, man too is active, but his activity is also in
love; he responds freely to the
love which is given him and in that response he knows that he is truly «being himself», for he was intended by his creation to be a responding lover and in no sense a marionette pulled by strings manipulated by God — certainly not the victim
of the divine coercion.
On the
other hand, tell us what you believe Matt Walsh has said that is (1) peace
loving (or peace - pursuing); (2) considerate and submissive; (3) full
of mercy and good fruit (
love, joy, peace, longsuffering); (4) impartial; and (5) sincere.
On the
other hand, the
love of the tree for the boy is selfless to the greatest degree.
In fact, I would venture to guess you believe you can easily be on that list and still
love others as «the
hands of God.»
Pious practice should therefore be done in such a way that this relationship is expressed adequately, reflecting both the compassionate
loving character
of God on the one
hand, and the transformative effect
of knowing such a God on the
other.
What is
of extreme importance, on the
other hand, is that we should know what course to steer, and how we must spiritually conduct ourselves if we are to ensure that the totalitarian embrace which enfolds us will have the effect, not
of de-humanizing us through mechanization, but (as seems possible)
of super-humanizing us by the intensification
of our powers
of understanding and
love.
Being constantly reminded on the one
hand of the infinite gap between one's own limited talents and vision and the perspective
of Almighty God, and on the
other of the radical equality with which God judges and
loves the human race is a healthy counterweight to the flattery
of the world and the smugness that comes with success.
But if we pass in advance this bitter judgment
of uselessness that paralyzes and discourages us, if we are thus completely lacking in
love for God, or if on the
other hand we magnify our works and regard them as important and successful (Jesus, little Jesus, I have so wonderfully exalted you, but if I had attacked you in your defenselessness your shame would have been as great as your glory...), if we come before God decked out in the glory
of these lofty, grandiose, and successful works, then... «Woe to you that are rich» (Luke 6:24), for the rich man today is the successful man.
Justice is not a fully satisfactory goal in itself because it falls short
of love, being dependent upon coercive power on the one
hand, and requiring rational calculations in the balancing
of rights against rights on the
other.
On the
other hand, if this man was human as I am, if he was a limited, feeling, fallible creature like myself, and he was able to live in this way and
love in this way and give
of himself in this way — then so can I. And his teachings are then relevant, for they come from someone who shared my predicament.
On the
other hand, because I believe that God is consistent, and because I believe his Word is consistent, I have to believe that just as obeying the
other nine commandments is an example
of how to
love God and
others, obeying the fourth one must also be an example
of how to
love God and
others (the «
others» aspect is made especially clear in the parallel passage in Dt 5).
On the
other hand, it must be reiterated that the Old Testament canon reflects the full range
of the life
of that people; that the spirit
of Esther was provoked in their history, again and again; that Jews have known in their long history one Haman after another (the most recent conspicuous Haman being Adolph Hitler); and that if Esther isn't history or theology in any direct sense, it nevertheless informs us more richly
of the life
of man and points up one
of the universal deterrents to the exercise
of the
love of God.
At the end
of this chapter, he laments over the divide between Christians who advocate «God's Truth» on one
hand and «
Love» on the
other when «in the Bible, Truth and
Love are two sides
of the same coin.