Sentences with phrase «marriage is about love»

If marriage is about love and love is about anything, what would constitute a rational limit on such a feeling?

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How about this for a sucker punch: Just as your business starts picking up, you get a love letter from your spouse's attorney telling you that your marriage is over.

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«When the Church, through your service, sets about to declare the truth about marriage in a concrete case, for the good of the faithful, at the same time you must always remember that those who, by choice or unhappy circumstances of life, are living in an objective state of error, continue to be the object of the merciful love of Christ and thus the Church herself.

You certainly have a right to your opinion about everything from gay marriage to anything else that you deem «sinful», or otherwise, but why do you feel the need to assume that everyone who shares this articles» opinion is a liberal Obama - loving Democrat?

The reviewer can tell the reader that in Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions he is to think along with the author about what it means to seek God, how the «resolution of duty» that ought to be present in marriage transforms romantic love into love that conquers everything, and how the awareness of one's mortality, of the certainty of death, of «death's decision» enhances earnestness in life.

Another factor leading to growth in our marriage — maybe a product of our struggles, I'm not sure — is the realization that most, maybe all, of what I believed about love, romance and sex going into marriage was a lie.

And I, quite frankly, don't care about your personal assessment about whether my marriage is loving — even if it were any of your business.

It's important for us not to say, «Look here, the West has Jeffersonian values about the rights of women, values we'd like to see you adopt,» but to argue instead from the Qur «an itself, citing verses like the one stating that God has ordained love and tenderness between the male and female in marriage, or that no man has two hearts in one bosom.

Given that time after time the discussion of priestly celibacy in the media and in many Catholic journals and books begins and ends with statements about the marriages of the apostles and the attempts to impose celibacy in the 12th centurymotivated by a desire to protect the Church's property and by a dualist denigration of marriage, it was definitely good news to link priestly celibacy with Christ and his loving.

To hold that same - sex marriage is part of the fundamental right to marry, or necessary for giving LGBT people the equal protection of the laws, the Court implicitly made a number of other assumptions: that one - flesh union has no distinct value in itself, only the feelings fostered by any kind of consensual sex; that there is nothing special about knowing the love of the two people whose union gave you life, whose bodies gave you yours, so long as you have two sources of care and support; that what children need is parenting in some disembodied sense, and not mothering and fathering.

This is absolutely not because there is anything necessarily sinful about marriage but because of Holloway's firm grasp that there are degrees of loving.

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 love that comes with marriage is about commitment and sacrifice, and if you feel committed enough to make marriage work when money gets tight, then go for it.

It does not share the fundamental Catholic convictions about sacramental marriage: an exclusive, lifelong union of man and woman that is open to new life, a faithful and unbreakable bond mirroring God's love for humanity and, specifically, Christ's love for the Church.

The marriage relationship isn't exempt from the words of Jesus — and the teachings of the Church — about how we are to interact with one another and love one another.

Again the trouble may lie in factors harder to cope with — domestic disharmony, friction in one's work, a job one loathes but fears to leave, worry about the future, lack of success in some pivotal enterprise, separation by distance, by marriage, or by death from one who is deeply loved.

It should be noted, however, that traditionally the church has shown a relative lack of concern about that vague thing called «love» — particularly in regard to marriage and divorce.

Novels could (and should) be written about what this show got right about marriage, but it's enough to say here that their partnership and love is arguably the finest portrayal of marriage in television today.

Bono: «I would love [it] if this conversation would inspire people who are writing these beautiful gospel songs [to] write a song about their bad marriage.

As the Church, we're comfortable when it comes to talking about courtship, love languages, marriage and raising a family.

Coontz is fatalistic in her predictions about the triumph of love at the expense of all the other goods of marriage.

Such a view of marriage is neither good theology nor an accurate view of what marriage — and marital love — has been about.

I love marriage, and I am passionate about helping couples have a thriving relationship that is glorifying to God.

In Canada, evangelical pastors have been assessed heavy monetary fines for preaching the Gospel truth about the ethics of love and marriage.

The state's interest in marriage is not that it cares about my love life, or your love life, or anyone's love life just for the sake of romance.

Again, marriage may be thought the ideal but there will be a strong motivation to ensure that young people have all the necessary information about contraception because they may end up, fairly naturally, doing the «loving» bit first before they are ready to have children.

Marriage isn't about 1 person, it's about 2 people, each giving to the other in nurturing love and loving relating.

Indeed, those who think of marriage as only about love tend to argue against these duties, since they are regretted when feelings change.

Another observation about the humility of marriage comes in the title essay, where he writes, «Married love is not that of angels.

You start to think that dating and marriage aren't meant for you and maybe you're not to be trusted with decisions about your love life anymore.

One thing I love about the Gay Christian Network, of which Justin is the director, is that it welcomes healthy dialog between folks on «Side A,» who believe homosexual relationships have the same value as heterosexual relationships in the sight of God, and folks on «Side B,» who believe only male / female relationships in marriage represent God's intent for sexuality.

But one of the things I've always loved about blogging is that I get to my whole self here: I get to love theology and Church talk, I get to write about mothering and family and marriage, I get to crack jokes at my own expense, I get to love Doctor Who and Call the Midwife, I get to love thrifting and knitting and pretty things as well as being a Jesus feminist, I get to be a homemaker who talks recipes and cleaning and laundry as well as a lover of literature and poetry and history and Girl Power, I love the local church and yet I don't wear rose - coloured glasses about this stuff.

But please, for the love, don't leave a child and a community that was depending on you in a bind so you can make a point about gay marriage.

Traditional ideals can lead to such high expectations about love in marriage that couples are bound to be disappointed.

There is a difference between a more accepting attitude about sexual relationships outside of marriage and advocacy of «free love»!

Thus we have been told... that marriage is not so much about love as about supply and demand as regulated through markets for spouses;... and a man commits suicide «when the total discounted lifetime utility remaining to him reaches zero.»

If marriage and civil partnerships are all about commitment, as David Cameron insists, then there is no difference, apart from the sexual aspect, between the relationship of a same - sex couples and that of equally loving, cohabiting sisters.

However, on a deeper level we do have some ideas about what a good marriage would be, such as mutual respect, unconditional love, freedom to be uniquely you, etc — church is the same way.

The Church Speaks The Language of Love This is the sort of language we use to talk about marriage and complete sacrifice between lovers.

I lean towards the third view... but I admit it is the most difficult of the three views... Christ's priorities appear to be «love in motion» flowing in almost unpredictable directions as dictated by the greatest need: — He heals a slave rather than rebukes slavery; — He heals a man at a pool, then leads the man to belief, then says «cease from sinning»; — He heals many others and says «go and sin no more» to but a few; — He shares money with the poor but establishes no long - term aid; — He touches lepers; He converses with seeking Pharisees; He debates with other Pharisees; He lives with Samaritan outcasts for two days; — He acknowledges the five «marriages» of the Samaritan woman as «marriages»... and then remarks about her current co-habitation... but then moves to higher priorities; — He seems so very focused on internal holiness and not on external holiness; — He violates the Sabbath; He says He is Lord of the Sabbath; He even says that the Sabbath was created to assist man, rather than man created to serve the Sabbath... thus turning the entire concept of the Law into one of assistance rather than being chained to obedience; — He insists on impartiality in the way we bless others, even if we call them «evil» or «good».

Sitting with a group of adolescents and answering their questions about your marriage might sound scary but it is actually a really life - giving and enriching experience for the couples who volunteer and the young people are often amazed and inspired to see that marriages can last and that love can grow through a life time.

The sufferings endured through not relating to the internal Kingdom of Our Lord are of great concern - marriage breakdown, living together before marriage, domestic violence, utter confusion over sexual matters, abortion, to name a few of the problems - when we have little idea about how to grow in love through the necessary inner emotional conversion.

«Marriage is a business, in my opinion, and it has only been in the last fifty or so years that it has been about this love thing,» said one woman, whose boyfriend left her when she became pregnant and now has «a perfunctory relationship» with his son.

The sex that is sold on pornographic sites and in 18 - rated movies will teach us nothing about sex that is fulfilling in a love - marriage.

In your fatherly love you were worried about my weakness because I was then a young man, just entering my twenty - second year (that is, to use Augustine's words, I was still «clothed in hot youth»)... You were determined, therefore, to tie me down with an honourable and wealthy marriage.

So, I'm 23 and still about as far away from the possibility of marriage as the day I entered this world, so I can't comment on the beauty of it in terms of love... but I wanted to share a few of my thoughts from several different perspectives (I'm sorry if this is really long!)

this is such a beautiful post... love how you shared your story about your marriage.

You don't think love is a good basis for marriage, but I'm guessing that your current relationship is about love and companionship.

I can't think of a better way to celebrate love, regardless of Valentine's Day and National Marriage Week, than thinking about how we could make marriage better fit for who we are and how we live today — even if that means there's no such thing as mMarriage Week, than thinking about how we could make marriage better fit for who we are and how we live today — even if that means there's no such thing as mmarriage better fit for who we are and how we live today — even if that means there's no such thing as marriagemarriage.