Sentences with phrase «of authentic love»

Relationship expert Dr. Gary Chapman applies the seven characteristics of authentic love to family life, friendship, the workplace, and beyond.

Renew our prayer, asking for the grace to act wisely, charitably and to resist the temptation to cooperate in thought or action with the undermining of authentic love.

Hence the view developed that in and of itself, as absolute act, nonviolence is of no direct value; that the principle of nonviolence must lead to ways of acting that are valid expressions of authentic love of neighbor.

One of the marks of authentic love is growth in freedom to acknowledge the realities, and to keep the integrity of the self within those realities.

This is the vulnerability of authentic love — that it surrenders to the other power over its own issue, power to determine the triumph or the tragedy of love.

What sexual behaviour will serve rather than destroy the growth of authentic love?

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«This book helped me realize that being authentic would help me find my customers... I began to get more customers I really loved to work with, I began to feel better about my personal brand and my positioning, and I felt confident that I could make any sort of adjustment that I needed to in the future.»

When the church lets people know that it's ok to be authentic... to be gay in this case... then they can encourage healthy expression of their sexuality through loving, monogamous relationships.

The authentic spring of liberal learning is simple: It is love.

As members of the Christian community, we endeavor collectively to bring the love of Christ and authentic Christian freedom and justice to all» especially the weak and helpless who, too often, are denied the respect due all who are created in God's image.

What needs to be asked is how men and women can live in this culture filled with sexual symbols, sharing in the new freedom, and discover the creativity and satisfaction of authentic human love.

Talk about «affirmative consent» in campus hook - ups, for example, contains no trace of authentic virtue or love.

Merely to censor or turn away is to refuse what may be a cry for help, or a creative new truth, or the furnishing of a new symbol in the search for authentic love.

The New Testament speaks and faith knows of an act of God through which man becomes capable of self - commitment, capable of faith and love, of his authentic life.

According to Father Maillard, there is no connection between authentic brotherly love and the hypothetical conversion of theca rich man who oppresses his fellow human beings.

Myth and fact are inextricably entangled, and a person is not necessarily a more authentic Christian by being more firmly grasped by the one or the other: «For this is the marriage of heaven and earth: Perfect Myth and Perfect Fact: claiming not only our love and our obedience, but also our wonder and delight, addressed to the savage, the child, and the poet in each one of us no less than to the moralist, the scholar, and the philosopher.»

Reformation in truth and authentic love come from union with him in the Church, as creation is healed and perfected to the full measure of God's original will.

, but they have only very hazy ideas about what the Church really says on human dignity, the value of each one of us, the beauty of human love, the value of authentic family life, the mutual companionship of men and women.

Meanwhile, if we lose the ability to respect that people can only go as far as their consciences will allow, we risk becoming mired in a muck of illusion, imagining hate where none exists, equating compelled behavior with authentic love, and losing sight of the fact that traveling together sometimes means that we walk the extra mile on one challenging road, and they walk it on the next.

I have a private / secret Facebook group for Christian moms of LGBT kids who love their kids unconditionally, want to develop and maintain authentic, loving, healthy relationships with their LGBT kids and are working to make the world a kinder, safer, more loving place for LGBT people.

Paul makes some qualifications concerning the adequacy of human judgment, even his own, in specific cases; but we see that commitment to the spirit of love as an alternative to legal obedience requires responsible living and the honouring of authentic forms of behaviour appropriate to the new life.

We have done such a poor job of being an authentic community that humbly seeks truth, loves one another, and unselfishly serves our neighbors, that even if people want to learn about Jesus, it's hard for them to get past the gatekeepers of the church.

The problem under consideration has been clarified considerably by Hendrikus Boers, who identifies several points in the New Testament at which christological exclusivism is clearly transcended: (1) the authentic teachings of Jesus, which «did not bring the love and forgiveness of God, but affirmed its presence... by articulating it» (6:23); (2) Paul's treatment of the «faith of Abraham» in Rom.

The dumping of all adults into a unified life style called marriage may guarantee to a military empire the child - warriors it needs and to an economic empire the consumer - citizens it is greedy for — but it can not guarantee the existence of the authentic cell of society which is love - justice.

There are a gazillion buzzwords out there like «authentic» and «missional» and»em ergent» this or that but really, I have yet to see anything capbable of transforming the politics of power and privelege into, well, into a group of believers living in the world whose love for God and one another is lived in a way so real and so powerful that they become a transformational presence in their community.

The suffering of the church results from love, and from failure to realize the authentic community of love.

It's no good simply telling them to love Jesus, we must tell them about the Jesus they can love as an experience and effectively to directly engage the minds of the young with authentic truth, explained in a lively and jargon free manner, with a sense of joy and shared friendship in God is an act of love and it is received as such.

In Jesus Christ God unites His people in an authentic fellowship of peace that passes all reason and a love that plants itself firmly in the heart, just as once it was nailed firmly to a bloody Cross.

Since it is love that drives the authentic Christian concern for other individuals and other peoples, this shift to law is part of what weakens our witness.

I thought this young man was very inspiring, because he reflected the only authentic way to get over childhood traumas and betrayals, whatever they may be, is by following the Way of Christ., which is always about repentance, forgiveness, and living in His Love.

If the Christian continues to believe in the gracious and providential love of God after Auschwitz, then not only is he once more denying the humanity of the Jew, but he is also inevitably denying the pain of all humanity, refusing the authentic or ultimate reality of a pain that can not be relieved or assuaged by a dehistorized or dehumanized God.

One of the authentic forms of humanitarian love appears in the response to this common plight.

You said «this «experiment» of an authentic, open, loving community had failed».

It is a tragic fact that love's counterfeits, caricatures, and even its authentic symbols may become the tools of unlove.

An account by a Protestant minister, the Reverend Andrew Juvinall, of the memorial service in Selma, Alabama held after the killing of the Reverend James Reeb is an authentic document in the history of love:

You are right, I am feeling grief and pain, but more than that an overwhelming sense of sadness that this «experiment» of an authentic, open, loving community without borders has failed.

But how we treat and love our neighbor is at the very core of what it means to be an authentic follower of Jesus Christ.

He, also, constantly said that he wanted to have the type of community that was authentic, open, loving, inclusive etc. etc..

[19] It requires a rational reorientation of the human person — in mind and body — toward the authentic logos of nature and the opening of the mind toward the action of God's grace in love.

If such was the response of the Church to those who have suffered abuse, many would be discovering authentic love and hope for the very first time.

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But her search for the authentic way of love took her into the midst of the social struggle.

As for authentic acceptance — well this is also a piece of love.

But if the meaning of God for us is the gift and demand of unbounded love that authorizes trust in this love and loyalty to its cause as our authentic self - understanding, the ultimate whole of reality that we call by the name «God» has to have a unique structure in itself.

Rightly understood, faith and justice are in principle different because, while faith is a matter of human existence, of authentic self - understanding in trust and loyalty in response to God's love, justice is a matter of human action, whether right action toward all others (its generally moral sense), or right structures of social and cultural order (its specifically political sense).

If we already presuppose, then, that the theistic religious language employed by the Christian witness in authorizing faith in God's love as our authentic self - understanding can be metaphysically justified, we can say — as I, in fact, have already been saying — that ultimate reality includes not only the self and others but also the encompassing whole of reality that theists refer to when they use the name «God.»

Schweitzer was an authentic saint, exhibiting the power of radical dedication to express the meaning of love.

According to Wesley, a loving quality of life reveals more of authentic Christianity than any spoken creed.

Our goal in Christian community is not just tolerance of others, but authentic love and relationship.

Schweitzer's radical demonstration of love in the form of unpretentious human service, under conditions which involve personal renunciation, corresponds directly to St. Francis's rule of love and humility as the authentic foundation of a way of life free from attachments of privilege and power.