In time this relationship becomes a transition stage toward the patient's discovery of an
adequate object of his love, and one in accordance with reality.
A
human object of love may serve for a while, but unfortunately the mortality rate is one hundred per cent.
Since love must go out to another, it is only right and good that the highest object of creation's love should be God himself, for nothing within creation could be a more
fitting object of love than the God who lovingly created.
The
final Object of love and the final Subject of love is God — the Whole in whom all live and love and have their being.
Second, there is the discovery that belonging requires self - giving as well as receiving and the consequent search for an
adequate object of love.
Creation is called to love, as it is infused with the love of God, and it is fitting that the highest object of creation's love should be God himself, for nothing within creation could be a more
fitting object of love than the God who lovingly created.
Love necessitates suffering when
the object of that love must suffer.
So God made creation in such a way that it should love, and above all love the divine nature that is
the object of love of all the persons in the Trinity.
love does not intend to change
the object of its love.
To this useful image Marian Evans contrasts Dr. Cumming's God, who «instead of sharing and aiding our human sympathies is directly in collision with them; who instead of strengthening the bond between man and man, by encouraging the sense that they are both alike
the objects of His love and care, thrusts himself between them and forbids them to feel for each other except as they have relation to Him.»
I do not believe God ever withdraws from
the objects of His love, whether it is Jesus or humans.
Negroes and Indians were part of the great human race and should, therefore, be
objects of love as much as any other being.
To be united to Christ means to be
the object of His love in laying down His life for His friends, and in return to love Him, to trust and obey Him, and to love all those who belong to Him.
The limerent person regards
the object of love as embodying all earthly virtues and as the one person who can give meaning to life.
Strictly speaking, ideal compassion was not conceived as a form of love according to the definition of love in this chapter, for in it there was ultimately no distinction of subject and
object of love.
In any deep and truly spiritual love, it is the personality, and its quality, which is
the object of the loving and the centre of the sheer joy in the possession of that loving of another.
If God loved me while I was dead in my sin, ignorance and unbelief, then this is the only basis of community for God: God's choice with a divine disinterest in
the object of the love.
The freedom to and from God as the origin and future of freedom, and freedom as a dialogical power of love are accomplished in the highest modality of these aspects: as freedom supported in personal love by God's own self - communication and which accepts God himself, so that the horizon and
the object of the love that is made free to itself become identical.
... love places the eternal security and permanent welfare of
the object of love above any transitory or temporary comfort or present pleasure down her upon this earth.
A return to durable love, and an understanding of what that love must cost (financially and otherwise), depends on our capacity to return to a recognition of our indivisible I as
the object of love.
Each individual as
an object of the love of God has a unique value.
Spirituality is intimately related to sexuality because of the natural human desire to seek union with
the object of love.
He still comes in the midst of time to renew human beings and their communities, which are
the objects of his love.18 Similarly, Bola Ige of Nigeria, after saying that there are people who want change to remain within the constitutional limits, said, «We do not need the past; we have got to throw it away - including, if necessary, those who held political power in the past».
The true test of agape lies in the answer to the question: Does the love that begins in the free nature of God create in
the object of the love the very freedom of its source?
To realise its being and life, and to experience the fullness of human experiencing, the human person must be the subject and
object of love, for it is precisely in love that the human person most fully actualizes itself, and thus reaches the fullest realization of its being and life (66).
Creation is distinct from God, but is
the object of His Love, because it is His cosmos.
If there is
no object of love, love is impossible and God as love is impossible.
His reminiscences just before his execution contain only one
object of love: his illegitimate daughter.
For instance, whether we fight for or against something, the impulse is the same, assigning supreme power to
the object of our love or hatred.
If we discard this definition of a people, and, assuming another, say that a people is an assemblage of reasonable beings bound together by a common agreement as to
the objects of their love, then, in order to discover the character of any people, we have only to observe what they love... it will be a superior people in proportion as it is bound together by higher interests, inferior in proportion as it is bound together by lower.
the object of its love is not the concern.
He asked this because he loves the U.S. and knows that love isn't pretending that what you love is perfect, but shows itself in wanting
the object of your love to be the best version of itself.
It's what
the object of our love feels: love without strings attached.
So for instance, this may be a passionate attachment to yourself (not selfishly though), passion for someone, an appreciation affair, or even the passion for
any object of love.
It is a million small events that we must recreate over and over for as long as we wish
the object of our love to know that we care about them.
«Accordingly, attractive people are more likely to be
the object of love at first sight.»