12 «If the Christian religion means anything, it means that God is Suffering Love, and that all real progress is caused by the working
of Suffering Love in the world.»
A number of authors have made use of process categories in the expression of Christian theology.23 The process model leads to an emphasis on certain biblical themes which were minimized in later Christian thought, such as God's participation in temporal process and the vulnerability
of suffering love.
The eschatological tension of this situation, constituted essentially as the denouement of a ministry
of suffering love, implies for ministry something other than mere encouragement to persons who are suffering.
It is as if there were a cross unseen, standing on its undiscovered hill, far back in the ages, out of which were sounding always, just the same deep voice
of suffering love and patience, that was heard by mortal ears from the sacred hill of Calvary.4
He persuades the world by an act
of suffering love with the kind of power which leaves its object free to respond in humility and love.
The moral influence theory points to the power which the example
of suffering love can have.
When Jesus says, as in the Fourth Gospel's interpretative words, «Love one another as I have loved you, greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends,» the very quality of the love which God has expressed through Jesus becomes the quality and character
of suffering love poured out for another beyond the worthiness of that other.
His lordship was the lordship
of suffering love.
Not exact matches
Building a brand
of love around a movement to end pain and
suffering has been part
of their drive from day one and here's how they've accomplished it one step at a time.
The aggregate
of all our joys and
sufferings, thousands
of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer
of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in
love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher
of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history
of our species, lived there - on a mote
of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.
What his
loved ones made
of that
suffering, however, was different, and had enormous consequences.
These companies may be growing or about to be going, but the founders are spending every day just like you facing the same kinds
of challenges, coming up with new and novel solutions, and
suffering all the ups and downs
of the startup process that we know and
love so well.
But my decision also sprang from a realization that would be familiar to people who have
suffered a personal loss, for whom the passing
of a
loved one leads to a profound understanding that life is short.
It takes acknowledging the flavor
of suffering [29:06] it starts with making the most important decision
of your life: who you spend time with, and who you
love [29:28] Decide: Do I want to be happy, do I want to commit to being happy?
[01:10] Introduction [02:45] James welcomes Tony to the podcast [03:35] Tony's leap year birthday [04:15] Unshakeable delivers the specific facts you need to know [04:45] What James learned from Unshakeable [05:25] Most people panic when the stock market drops [05:45] Getting rid
of your fear
of investing [06:15] Last January was the worst opening, but it was a correction [06:45] You are losing money when you sell on corrections [06:55] Bear markets come every 5 years on average [07:10] The greatest opportunity for a millennial [07:40] Waiting for corrections to invest [08:05] Warren Buffet's advice for investors [08:55] If you miss the top 10 trading days a year... [09:25] Three different investor scenarios over a 20 year period [10:40] The best trading days come after the worst [11:45] Investing in the current world [12:05] What Clinton and Bush think
of the current situation [12:45] The office is far bigger than the occupant [13:35] Information helps reduce fear [14:25] James's story
of the billionaire upset over another's wealth [14:45] What money really is [15:05] The story
of Adolphe Merkle [16:05] The story
of Chuck Feeney [16:55] The importance
of the right mindset [17:15] What fuels Tony [19:15] Find something you care about more than yourself [20:25] Make your mission to surround yourself with the right people [21:25]
Suffering made Tony hungry for more [23:25] By feeding his mind, Tony found strength [24:15] Great ideas don't interrupt you, you have to pursue them [25:05] Never - ending hunger is what matters [25:25] Richard Branson is the epitome of hunger and drive [25:40] Hunger is the common denominator [26:30] What you can do starting right now [26:55] Success leaves clues [28:10] What it means to take massive action [28:30] Taking action commits you to following through [29:40] If you do nothing you'll learn nothing [30:20] There must be an emotional purpose behind what you're doing [30:40] How does Tony ignite creativity in his own life [32:00] «How is not as important as «why» [32:40] What and why unleash the psyche [33:25] Breaking the habit of focusing on «how» [35:50] Deep Practice [35:10] Your desired outcome will determine your action [36:00] The difference between «what» and «why» [37:00] Learning how to chunk and group [37:40] Don't mistake movement for achievement [38:30] Tony doesn't negotiate with his mind [39:30] Change your thoughts and change your biochemistry [40:00] The bad habit of being stressed [40:40] Beautiful and suffering states [41:50] The most important decision is to live in a beautiful state no matter what [42:40] Consciously decide to take yourself out of suffering [43:40] Focus on appreciation, joy and love [44:30] Step out of suffering and find the solution [45:00] Dealing with mercury poisoning [45:40] Tony's process for stepping out of suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations for appreciation [50:00] The key to life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom
Suffering made Tony hungry for more [23:25] By feeding his mind, Tony found strength [24:15] Great ideas don't interrupt you, you have to pursue them [25:05] Never - ending hunger is what matters [25:25] Richard Branson is the epitome
of hunger and drive [25:40] Hunger is the common denominator [26:30] What you can do starting right now [26:55] Success leaves clues [28:10] What it means to take massive action [28:30] Taking action commits you to following through [29:40] If you do nothing you'll learn nothing [30:20] There must be an emotional purpose behind what you're doing [30:40] How does Tony ignite creativity in his own life [32:00] «How is not as important as «why» [32:40] What and why unleash the psyche [33:25] Breaking the habit
of focusing on «how» [35:50] Deep Practice [35:10] Your desired outcome will determine your action [36:00] The difference between «what» and «why» [37:00] Learning how to chunk and group [37:40] Don't mistake movement for achievement [38:30] Tony doesn't negotiate with his mind [39:30] Change your thoughts and change your biochemistry [40:00] The bad habit
of being stressed [40:40] Beautiful and
suffering states [41:50] The most important decision is to live in a beautiful state no matter what [42:40] Consciously decide to take yourself out of suffering [43:40] Focus on appreciation, joy and love [44:30] Step out of suffering and find the solution [45:00] Dealing with mercury poisoning [45:40] Tony's process for stepping out of suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations for appreciation [50:00] The key to life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom
suffering states [41:50] The most important decision is to live in a beautiful state no matter what [42:40] Consciously decide to take yourself out
of suffering [43:40] Focus on appreciation, joy and love [44:30] Step out of suffering and find the solution [45:00] Dealing with mercury poisoning [45:40] Tony's process for stepping out of suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations for appreciation [50:00] The key to life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom
suffering [43:40] Focus on appreciation, joy and
love [44:30] Step out
of suffering and find the solution [45:00] Dealing with mercury poisoning [45:40] Tony's process for stepping out of suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations for appreciation [50:00] The key to life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom
suffering and find the solution [45:00] Dealing with mercury poisoning [45:40] Tony's process for stepping out
of suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations for appreciation [50:00] The key to life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom
suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations for appreciation [50:00] The key to life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom for you?
Hear we are in December, that time
of year when families get together to celebrate their shared
love; to express thanks for the wellbeing
of their families and friends; and, to join together to help those who are
suffering, and in need
of our help and generosity.
For more than fifty years, GLIDE has worked to create a radically inclusive, just and
loving community mobilized to alleviate
suffering and break the cycles
of poverty and marginalization.
What a kind and merciful god we have... he comes up with the coolest diseases and all kinds
of fascinating ways to make the children he
loves so much
suffer countless horrors on this planet he created.
And the Christian God is a lot like Prometheus — a God who is animated by
love of and pity for man and is willing to
suffer for us to be healed or delivered from the misery
of our mortality.
We know how the music world
suffers when plastic - wrapped, uberperformers pushing skin - thin notions
of beauty and manufactured pop messages on
love become the norm.
I think that the cross is the great point at which all the
suffering, sorrow, torture and sin and all that yuck
of the world ends up on God's shoulders out
of love for us.
I'm going to make you
suffer as a way to prove you are worthy
of my
love».
Healing the wounds I have caused and sometimes the one's others have caused is my only religion... and it is completely void
of a mythical eternity in fire, or
suffering, or absolute confinement from God,
love or happiness.
God allows us to unite our
suffering to his as an act
of love.
Religion
loves to capitalize on the
suffering of people and chastise them for not being devout enough to avoid their unfortunate circ «umstances.
perhaps God has allowed the
suffering to give those
of us more fortunate the opportunity to show and share Gods grace and mercy to them.Maybe we are supposed to
love Lucas like God
loved us when He gave us full capacity.instead
of finding fault, maybe God trusted mankind enough to think that we would or could do something for the Lucas»
of this world, maybe we are given the trust to heal the sick, clothe the naked, feed the hungry,
love the unloved, if so how are we doing?i got room for improvement how about you rational?
The
suffering of this world is but temporary, with an end in sight, but God's promise and
love is eternal.
Short and simple God Jesus good angels but only the ones appointed also fallen angels and the God
of this world.I hear it all great
love great
suffering but the holy spirit doctors
of this world say schizaphrania but Ill trust GOD not man.
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.
Now that is a God
of love and long
suffering.
As seems Mr.Stephen Hawking had
suffered a lot from early age and from age
of 21 to 69 tied to a chair facing death every day, had no chance to live a natural
loving life... towards which he had been in the state
of denial towards God existence for not having his pleadings answered...?
The Second Death that is referred to in the Bible is the return to complete nothingness because if one believes that Jehovah will permit anyone to
suffer for an eternity can not believe that this same God is the epitomy
of Love.
I
suffered a terrible car accident... during 3 weeks I almost died «many times»... Now I can read a beautiful article like this one and agree with it... Believe me... no matter your faith, your fortune or whatever you may be involved with... on the face
of death if you are human you will only care about your
loved ones... you will remember about the moments you were happy together and dream they happen again... you will remember your childhood like you were 7 again... you will ask forgiveness and try to show your
love, no matter how hard you are... In the face
of death we realize that nothing more then our family matters... For the professor, once his life
of arrogance reaches an end, he will then understand what is the meaning
of family...
When you say that
love is the most important thing, I hope your heart includes
loving those women who have made the unthinkable, unbearable decision that spared an embryo from being born into a traumatic, awful experience... from a situation
of pain and
suffering... from an environment where people are incapable
of loving the child or providing for that child's basic needs.
= > symbolically Christ on the cross was a visual
of the pain and
suffering God experiences when we reject the opportunity to experience perfect
love and choose instead our ways over «The Way»
The latter is a subtle, supremist dogmatic domineering movement dressed in religious garb while the amazing former is the recognition and practice
of Spirit,
Love, heavenliness, harmony, Principle, human rights and the positive healing reform
of finite human nature and its
suffering experience by establishing the fact that «now are we the sons
of God.»
He
loved us so much that he
suffered more than any
of us can ever imagine and even asked his Father to take the cup from him, but said thy will be done.
We imitate Jesus because we
love Him, and this is the continuation
of our story — the happy ending beyond the eucatastrophe that endures
suffering in order to journey outward in small victories, eventually breaking through to the light.
In the last six years
of John Paul's life» as his physical condition deteriorated, and some called for his abdication, insisting that he was no longer capable
of managing the bureaucracy
of the Church» the mystery
of the interconnection
of love and
suffering was dramatically realized on the world stage.
Seriously, look into the eyes
of a
suffering victim
of any
of the multiple disfiguring, debilitating, painful diseases that your «
loving» god has purportedly created.
The article is informative in letting people that
suffering is part
of the human experience, just like joy,
love, etc..
All
of the
suffering, inconvenience, and discomfort caused by the decree
of Caesar was actually the
loving hand
of God working things out to accomplish His purposes in His own way.
It inconsistent with the teachings
of Christianity to make snide remarks, as Christianity teaches its followers to be patient, kind, long -
suffering,
love your enemies, pray for those who despitefully use you, turn the other cheek, and so on.
Takeaway for me is that the pain /
suffering / rejection we experience in this life does not equal rejection by God — even if it does serve as a chastisement / correction for sin / failure in our lives — it reveals God's
love and personal concern for our development, reminding us
of our mortality and need to rely upon him... In short, the wounds / scars we receive are God's way
of branding / choosing us as his own...
Satan would have
loved it if Jesus would not
suffer for man - kind because then the gates
of Heaven would remain closed.
And
love is defined as patient, kind, long -
suffering, and a host
of other attributes that do not include judgment or the denigration and dismissal
of those who hold different views as damnable, reprobate, and
of another «kind».
But at what an awful price that Glory is obtained — the endless
suffering of billions
of human souls that God says He
loves and longs to come to repentance.
We should do whatever we can to alleviate the
sufferings of others, but Jesus also invites us to «take up our cross» each day and follow him by making our lives a sacrifice
of love to God's glory and in the service
of others.For more information see our video on
Suffering.
The only way to endure
suffering when earthly life can give us nothing more is the redemptive
love of Our Lord.
We should do whatever we can to alleviate the
sufferings of others, but Jesus also invites us to «take up our cross» each day and follow him by making our lives a sacrifice
of love to God's glory and in the service
of others.