But even the depraved
love their wives and children and do nice things for their friends.
Why do
they love their wives and children (aka drains and extra consumers of resources)?
A few decades after Jesus, Epictetus — a great man in many respects — said:
Love your wife and your children, but not so much that you will be hurt when they die.
The dark skinned Lamanite
loved their wife and children better than the white fair skinned Nephite.
You should always
love your wife and children as what the Christ bible is about.
A guy who
loves his wife and children, wants to be a father and a husband, can provide for the family.
But perhaps love was a part of the equation too, for Sigfrid does
love his wife and children and brief moments of intimacy remind us of that.
He loves his wife and children.
He loves his wife and his children, but lately he feels like he's been pushing them away with loud displays of anger he can hardly control.
Not exact matches
What matters to me is making sure I
love my
wife until the the day I die, making sure I support her, making sure I cherish
and nurture my
children...
and then getting the chance to play complex characters the audience can empathize with
and understand.
I
loved how you embraced, not just me, but my
wife and my
children.
Most important, you deeply
loved your family: your
wife, Beth, your
children Lexi, Jamie
and Izzy, their spouses Justin
and Jamie,
and your two young grandchildren, Bobby
and JoJo.
I'm not even going to address how ridiculous that argument is in light of the issues of overpopulation or the fact that gay people can indeed have
children (my
wife and I are planning to have five), or how many orphans there are in the world that could use a
loving home.
The purposes of this relationship are (1) the mutual
loving support of husband
and wife and (2) their
loving service of life by bringing
children into the world
and raising them to be virtuous
and productive.
Now, Job after his bought with «pride» he ask YHWH for his forgiveness,
and was later blessed with more sons
and daughters who did the law, who were good
children and an even better
wife,
and he lived for four generations of his
children and their
children,
and died a very happy
and fulfilled life, knowing that all of his family was left with
love,
and peace
and togetherness among each other, now this is true life, living righteously
and wholesome by ourselves
and by others around us is what we are all suppose to live like, caring for your neighbors faithfully,
and all be as one now not after it is too late but now we need the law of righteousness from YHWH, the 10 commandments, the sabbath, a day of rest,
and the passover to remember the ones who died innocently,
and to remember the freedom of our lives given by YHWH
and do good by one another
and not let each other fall, right now is what we need in this world today people.
I will give credence to all of these if you can answer just one thing for me — how do you rationally explain your
love for your
wife and children?
All of his
children were killed, his
wife,
and the many sufferings of his own took him through a terrible world wind, but Job stayed faithful, but he held on to the «pride» of his
love for his family,
and YHWH had him to break down to witness the truth of them.
He showed us that the women in the paintings were not just bodies but Rubens's
wives, whom he had
loved deeply; the
children were his
children, with names
and histories of their own.
Christianity is a middle - eastern religion that bashes followers who most resemble a 33 yr old man, who did not have a
wife, no
children, no girlfriend
and happily
loved 12 men he chose.
Paul is saying God calls women to be faithful, helpful
wives, raising
children to
love and worship God
and managing the household wisely (1 Timothy 5:14; Titus 2:3 — 5).
But if the servant declares, «I
love my master
and my
wife and children and do not want to go free,» then his master must take him before the judges [Hebrew: ELOHIM].
He is the author of The Centre Brain: 5 prompts to persuasive power (SPCK)
and loves nothing more than camping by the sea with his
wife and four
children.
What makes the New Testament household codes powerful
and countercultural is that they actually challenge those hierarchies by instructing all members of the household — even the masters, who in that culture held unilateral authority over their slaves,
wives,
and children — to imitate Jesus Christ in their relationships by modeling his self - sacrificing
love.
Whether one is caught in a tug - of - war between a religious sect
and one's parents, between the demands of the workplace
and the claims of
wife and children, or between the
love of fellow soldiers
and the
love of
wife and parents, the strains are very real.
We are man
and always
love our
loves as our
wives and our
children!
Our Church has always taught that rejecting the gift of
children erodes the
love between husband
and wife: it distorts the unitive
and procreative nature of marriage.
Meanwhile, the slightly - older - than - middle - age grandmother who doesn't play the piano so well — or the forester who
loves to study the Bible but can't make it every Sunday — or the welder
and his
wife, who homeschools their 3
children with the desire to minister to their kids
and their friends but can't because they ticked off the pastor's
wife on the last trip — they'll just sit
and wait, or wonder if they should leave
and re-enter.
The prophetic emphases in his thought developed roughly during the same time he discovered his
love for Pauline Rother, who later became his
wife, the mother of his
children and a beloved companion in hard work
and tender play.
The
love between husband
and wife, parent
and child,
and between members of the extended family ranks high among our blessings.
Should the course you follow be exactly the same regardless of whether (1) you are
loved in return, (2) the marriage is a good one, (3) there are
children, (4) the
children, if any, are small / grown up, (5) the emotional
and social consequences for all concerned parties will probably be devastating, (6) you stand a good chance of losing your job if you interfere in the marriage, or (7) you / the
wife accidentally becomes pregnant?
One thing I've learned, just from observing myself, observing my relationship with my
wife Lisa, observing my relationship with my
children,
and observing my relationship with every other living creature... is that unity is not achieved through compatibility, but through
love.
From this fund, we regularly buy groceries for needy families, make chicken soup for our sick friends, watch the
children so a deployed soldier's
wife can get a few hours to herself, take blessings baskets to folks who need a smile after life's tripped them up,
and numerous other ways of blessing
and loving others.
If he has «parentified» his
wife or if he was an only
child,
and had no experience in sharing his parents»
love with siblings, competitiveness with the baby may be strong.
Even the most gentle
and sensitive man among you will have no compassion on his own brother or the
wife he
loves or his surviving
children,
and he will not give to one of them any of the flesh of his
children that he is eating.
Tolstoy, we're charmed to discover, was no Socrates; he, for one thing, actually
loved and liked
and was endlessly aroused in all sorts of way by his
wife (who gave him 13
children and apparently 48 less - than - serene years).
I had a good
wife who
loved me
and whom I
loved; good
children and a large property which was increasing with no pains taken on my part.
But using two proof texts, Genesis 3:16 («To the woman he said, «I will greatly multiply your pain in childbearing...»»)
and Titus 2:4 - 5 («
and so train the young women to
love their husbands
and children, to be sensible, chaste, domestic, kind,
and submissive to their husbands»), he nevertheless concludes: «
Wife, mother, homemaker - this is the appointed destiny of real womanhood.
It's not a matter of having to prove to anyone else that we care about someone,
love them
and share Jesus with them, just like we don't need to prove that we
love our
wife or our
child.
The sun rose like an irritated eye;
wives cooked rice pancakes;
children went to play at tag in dusty fields or caught frogs by the banks of the Euphrates; while the men took to the brick kilns, potters» wheels,
and plows; lovers arose to make
love once again;
and old men at the gate weighed claims
and vows.
Much suffering of people comes from the wickedness of others, as in
child abuse,
wife abuse,
and many other forms of not
loving a neighbor as oneself.
Those who
love Him - holy parents, good
and dear friends, faithful
and loving wife or husband,
children that are a joy,
and priests who are spiritual
and true,
and over all the Eucharist
and the Church - all of this spiritual «ecology» may give us years
and years of almost unbroken happiness.
Reality is that most families are dysfunctional, men
love their
wives, but they adore their mistresses
and too many
children suffer physically
and psychologically at the hands of abusive / tired / angry / frustrated / unhappy parents.
Equally refreshing are Laura's motherly desire to have twins (provoking Paterson's sudden awareness of twins throughout the film),
and the
love poems Paterson writes to his
wife — gentle verses (composed by real - life poet Ron Padgett) which mention heaven,
and include the remarkable line, «unborn
children fearing they will never see the light of day.»
Or the wickedness of hugging my
children and my
wife and telling them I
love them every day.
The
wife is feeling lonely
and frustrated because she has been cooped up with the
children all day
and needs some warmth
and love from an intimate adult.
Most of us, not being hermits, also are called to
love and serve others: a parish priest his parishioners, a cloistered nun her community, a
wife her husband, a father his
children.
But if the slave plainly says, «I
love my master, my
wife,
and my
children; I will not go out free,» then his master shall bring him to God,
and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost;
and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl;
and he shall serve him for life.
A great deal of the world's unhappiness is caused by the fact that people who have to live together — as husbands
and wives, parents
and children —
and who in a deep sense really
love each other, still do not understand each other.
The proper Christian attitude in all such relations is briefly indicated: husbands are to
love their
wives,
children to obey their parents, masters to treat their servants with consideration,
and so forth.
In his meditation on «Thou shalt
love thy neighbour» he writes in the spirit of the Reformers as he tells us not to give up
love of
wives and children but «preserve in your earthly
love and friendship your
love for your neighbour».17 Certainly the suspicion about the earthly
loves remains,
and Kierkegaard rightly brings it into the open.