Sentences with phrase «necessity of love»

But the filmmaker's after much - larger thematic game here — namely the futility yet necessity of love on a planet that will one day soon, per George Carlin, «shake us off like a bad case of fleas.»

He emphasizes the importance and necessity of love as a prerequisite for any expression of church.

In speaking of the momentous significance of the fact of death, not only as the finis or clear terminus of earthly life for every man and for the whole race of men, but also as the event which qualifies and colors each life, we introduced in our conclusion the possibility and the necessity of love.

I will be publishing a post later today about the necessity of love and compassion with truth and accuracy.

The remainder of this chapter is devoted to a discussion of the reason for the necessity of this love for the fulfillment of spiritual existence.

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Originally, out of necessity because I didn't have any kind of business partner, I started doing it myself, and I really love it.

The right solution ties in perfectly to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, a well - known pyramid which ranks human needs and desires in order of necessity: From the physiological (the basics like water and oxygen), up to safety, love and belonging, esteem, and finally, self - actualization.

My wife was always a bit scared of my razor but I assume out of necessity she used my razor on her legs and loved it.

The purely individual need for a fulfillment that is denied to us in this life, for an everlasting love that we await, is certainly an important motive for believing that man was made for eternity; but only in connection with the impossibility that the injustice of history should be the final word does the necessity for Christ's return and for new life become fully convincing.»

As J. I. Packer has put it, «Scriptures expressing the reality of God's emotions (joy, sorrow, anger, delight, love, hate, etc.) abound, and it is a great mistake to forget that God feels — though in a way of necessity that transcends a finite being's experience of emotions.»

The most we can do is first to break the problems down into what can partially be answered and what can not, and secondly, to suggest an attitude of mind which can be honestly held without the necessity for denying the existence of a God of Love.

13 This freedom is not conditioned in any way by anything other than Godself: «God loves because he loves; because this act is His being, His essence and His nature... God's loving is necessary, for it is the being, the essence and the nature of God,» but this is a necessity grounded in God's freedom and nowhere else.14

We know he did not reject the necessity of grace, but thought of it as leaving man free for co-operation with God.15 But Augustine has always been given credit for having preserved the essential Christian doctrine that God's grace is necessary to give to man what he can not give to himself, that is forgiveness, and the empowerment of his will to love God and his neighbour.

«Therefore the Church gives thanks for each and every woman: for mothers, for sisters, for wives; for women consecrated to God in virginity; for women dedicated to the many human beings who await the gratuitous love of another person; for women who watch over the human persons in the family, which is the fundamental sign of the human community; for women who work professionally, and who at times are burdened by a great social responsibility; for «perfect» women and for «weak» women - for all women as they have come forth from the heart of God in all the beauty and richness of their femininity; as they have been embraced by his eternal love; as, together with men, they are pilgrims on this earth, which is the temporal «homeland» of all people and is transformed sometimesinto a «valley of tears»; as they assume, together with men, a common responsibility for the destiny of humanity according to daily necessities and according to that definitive destiny which the human family has in God himself, in the bosom of the ineffable Trinity.»

He describes with great accuracy the necessities of Christian existence in which love is the meaning of all knowledge and action, but in which man must cope with vast and threatening powers and institutions which are ruled by the distorted and misdirected passions of the corrupt human spirit.

For man as spirit - ordered - to - time, time becomes a necessity for placing self in a state of gift in return of God's love.

Although fully familiar with the enormous power of modern science, medicine and technology, he held high Christian love as the answer to human needs in the broadest sense: «If you have Christian love,» he declared to a stunned audience, «you have motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.»

Jesus affirms their feelings about the necessity of obeying the law, but puts the law of love above the law of of man.

And this love is characterized, once again, as qualifying the nature of God's power: «Not that you, Divine Omnipotence and Eternal Wisdom, gave unwillingly, as though compelled by some sort of necessity, but rather that you freely bestowed your love, out of the boundless flood of your loving generosity, upon an unworthy and ungrateful creature.»

An actually creating, loving creator is the only unqualified necessity; all else more specific or particular than this abstract essence is contingent, the play of divine - creaturely freedom.

I have noticed that when in a sermon a reference is made to love, to the difficulty and pain of loving, to the necessity for us to know that we are loved, and the like, there is an immediate quickening of interest.

Most especially, she knows, probably from the beginning, that the life she will nourish must cost her her own, and she anticipates necessity by giving her young child everything most needful, trusting that a happy and loving childhood will see him through the sorrows and pains of tomorrow.

Peirce's argument against determinism in «The Doctrine of Necessity Examined,» published a year earlier than his paper on evolutionary love, clearly lays the basis for the affirmation of radical creativity and the need for the principle of agape (6.36 - 65).

When, on the wall of a labor union headquarters, we read, «Love thy neighbor, but organize him,» we see the necessity; yet we instinctively sense the threat that every organization, labor unions no more than any other, makes to the free personal relationship.

The problem of the compromise of the Christian with the necessities of secular life is solved in Catholicism by the establishment within the Church of religious orders in which, through renunciation of «the world,» the life of love can be realized and the moral merit thus achieved, shared with all the believers in the Church.

One of the burdens which love assumes Is that of reckoning with the grim necessities.

«Where is the recognition that the necessities of our human life serve love and do not always destroy it?

And it was this doctrine, in turn based on the doctrine of justification by faith, which made it possible for Luther and Calvin to say what it means to live the Christian life of service to the God of love in the midst of the tragic necessities of this world.16

This position sees no necessity of applying love to justice.

One believes in him and follows his laws out of love and gratitude, not because of being compelled by necessity.

By this hypothesis only a veritable super-love, the attractive power of a veritable «super - being», can of psychological necessity dominate, possess and synthesize the host of earthly loves.

This is a sad fact of which we are all aware, and because of this separation of head and heart we are bound to conclude that, however social necessity and logic may impel it from behind, the human mass will only become thoroughly unified under the influence of some form of affective energy which will place the human particles in the happy position of being unable to love and fulfill themselves individually except by contributing in some degree to the love and fulfillment of all; to the extent, that is to say, that all are equal and integral parts of a single universe that is vitally converging.

In other language, harshness and grace need each other, and they are inextricably interwoven in the very necessity of form in the relationship of love.

Since He must of logical necessity thus love and will himself, He can not be called «free» ad intra, with the freedom of contrarieties that characterizes finite creatures.

On the international level, she argues that «concrete neighbor love» sometimes must be acted out in the face of «harsh necessity.»

There is not a final contradiction here between what love requires and what we accept as political necessities so long as we recognize that the threat of nuclear destruction may help to restrain nations from all out war long enough to allow the growth of a minimal world order under law which can bring the weaponry under control.

I refer here to Peirce's essay on «Evolutionary Love,» and the preceding essays in the series, «The Doctrine of Necessity Examined,» in Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, Vol.

It is not therefore the fact of God inflicting punishment but rather the necessity of the removal of obstacles between us and God's love.

Oord also carries through consistently on the critical necessity of absolving God of any and all residual power that is not the power present in divine love.

We can see the necessity of this categorical obligation to preserve individuality if we consider the standpoint of one who is the receiver of love from another.

Here St. Augustine's realistic view of political life is of such character that Reinhold Niebuhr can call him the wisest political philosopher in Christian history.24 What St. Augustine does is to see the way of love in history as requiring the adjustment of life to political necessities.

To love the absolutely immutable good which is above time and growth is of necessity to turn from the mutable and the temporal.

But consider the price at which that comfort is purchased: it requires us to believe in and love a God whose good ends will be realized not only in spite of» but entirely by way of» every cruelty, every fortuitous misery, every catastrophe, every betrayal, every sin the world has ever known; it requires us to believe in the eternal spiritual necessity of a child dying an agonizing death from diphtheria, of a young mother ravaged by cancer, of tens of thousands of Asians swallowed in an instant by the sea, of millions murdered in death camps and gulags and forced famines.

The command is, you must love; the will is called to action, that is, the man is addressed, with the implication that he is placed by God under the necessity of decision and must decide through his free act.

So true love of neighbor will never indulge and weaken him, but will recognize him as also under the necessity of decision and treat him accordingly.

C.S. Lewis in his classic The Four Loves points out the necessity of «lesser loves.&rLoves points out the necessity of «lesser loves.&rloves.»

But Amos knows Yahweh's love and patience (see 4:6 - 11, with the essentially tender refrain, «Yet you did not return to me»; but especially 7:2,5); and when he speaks the apparently immutable sentence of death upon Israel (4:12; 7:9; 9: l - 8a) it is surely motivated (as the articulation of despair is of necessity always motivated) by hope, indomitable hope, that the pronouncement of judgment will effect decisive change in the conditions which invoked the judgment.

The difference is that God made it clear to Dame Julian that creation is an act of love, not of necessity.

Into this holy estate these two persons come now to be joined.7 Such marriage must of necessity be monogamous, based on a holy love with vows of mutual fidelity and with the expectancy of permanence.

He suggests the necessity of distinguishing between the Greek words philos (friend) and philia (usually translated «friendship,» but perhaps more accurately, he says, translated «loving relationship»).