They give you a language full
of symbols of love, and strengthen your child's sense of belonging and self - love.
But the meaning got skewed along the way - instead
of a symbol of love, the ring became more of a claim of ownership.
Not exact matches
And as Kareem Adbul - Jabbar pointed out in a July piece in Time, «In our disillusioned mind, «home» becomes a romanticized
symbol of our innocence, in which we dreamed limitlessly and were
loved unconditionally.
you also need brackets around the mindless and heart
symbols, or you are only dividing by
love and subtracting the result
of war from mindlessness.
The cross is a powerful
symbol of love, deep commitment and courage, and as such, should be part
of the memorial.
And wiht the cross in the cartoon another
symbol of gods
love, the giving nature
of God in the soldier posessing the rainbow coloured garment and not forgetting what Jesus said on the cross «father forgive them, they don't know what they are doing».
As I see the rainbow I am reminded
of the rainbow after the flood
of Genesis being a
symbol of God's
love.
In his powerful book The Non-Violent Cross James Douglass makes a great deal
of the resurrection, but for him the resurrection is only a
symbol of oppressed people's awakening to the power
of nonviolence: «Man becomes God when
Love and Truth enter into man, not by man's power but by raising him to Power, so that revolution in love is revealed finally as the Power of resurrection» (pp. 23 -
Love and Truth enter into man, not by man's power but by raising him to Power, so that revolution in
love is revealed finally as the Power of resurrection» (pp. 23 -
love is revealed finally as the Power
of resurrection» (pp. 23 - 24).
Infant baptism discloses through
symbols this determined,
loving aspect
of God's character.
Paul said that without
love, no amount
of eloquence, wisdom, knowledge, prophecy, faith, charity, or sacrifice can compensate for the fact that we are little more than noisy, clanging
symbols.
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.
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.
Love is the will to that communion between God and man and between every man and his neighbour which has its ontological ground expressed in the Trinitarian symbol of the love of the Father for His
Love is the will to that communion between God and man and between every man and his neighbour which has its ontological ground expressed in the Trinitarian
symbol of the
love of the Father for His
love of the Father for His Son.
These are only
symbols, parables
of love.
Drawing on the conventions
of the classical literature
of love and using an existing pan-Indian stock
of symbols and figures
of speech, the bhakti poets nevertheless strive for spontaneous, direct, personal expression
of feeling rather than a rarified cultivation
of aesthetic effect and the «emotion recollected», preferred by the Sanskrit poets.
The lamb slain at the cross is the John 3:16
symbol of just how much God
loves the whole world.
These two characters represent the mixture
of evil and good in human beings but also, in their
love for Lyra and their sacrificial acts, a powerful
symbol of redemption and transformation in the face
of evil.
As a
symbol it is our clearest evidence and surest pointer to what God did not only for men on Calvary but
of what God has always been seeking in
love to do for his erring children.
The cross
of Christ gives us a pattern, a power, and a
symbol of eternal
love.
Indeed, in the parables and the sayings about the Kingdom, that
symbol includes the unconditional acceptance in
love of those who are normally outside the religious and social mainstream.
The missionaries» preaching concentrated on several aspects; access to the powerful Book (The Bible), Christianity as a way to Heaven, the
love of God, the need to give up the worship
of Satan, the need to remove all
symbols of «devil - worship,» etc..
Further the
symbol speaks
of Love — expressed in the mutual relationship
of Father and Son bound together by the Spirit — as the Ultimate dynamic reality.
The cross, which was used by the empire as the ultimate instrument
of shame became the
symbol of God's suffering
love.
His description
of reconciliation is
of course indebted to biblical formulations, but his presentation
of Christ as the New Being in whom is manifest the power
of love brings out more fully the importance
of personal
symbols.
The cross is a beautiful
symbol of Hope &
love in a world full
of hate and madness.
Atheists's need to refocus their energy on helping those that survived throw the money they are wasting on suing over an international
symbol maybe they should donate that money to those families still struggling to cover medical costs or make ends meet because they lost not only a
loved one but a source
of income.
We are joined as sons and daughters
of that Abba when we
love, irrespective
of the distinct
symbols that make us Jews or Christians or any other religion.
Remembering the day and the horrific acts that affected the lives
of so many should not come down to a cross or any other religious
symbol, it should come down to remembering those who senselessly lost their lives; remembering those who were courageous enough to enter those fallen buildings; to remembering the
loved ones left behind.
This particular group is wrong about the cross, it should be displayed, along with the Star
of David, the Crescent and Star, and whatever other
symbols of faith the
loved ones
of those who died that day chose to believe in.
And certainly the resurrection remains as an important
symbol of God's
love and
of the triumph
of love over death.
Since for him the whole
of life was crammed with spiritual significance, he saw in the patriotic passion a sacrament
of heavenly
love, and in earthly cities
symbols of the City
of God.
In communities under siege from plague, wars and malnutrition, the Virgin's breast was a
symbol of God's
loving provision
of life, the nourishment and care that sustain life, and the salvation that promises eternal life.
The lamp was van Gogh's
symbol of love and recalls the light
of the gospel which he once brought into the huts
of the peasants and miners.
For most Christians, the primary
symbol of God's
love and care for humanity is a cross — a reminder
of the crucifixion.
Forget about the cross being a Christian
symbol, and why don't you just view it for what it is — one man's message
of hope,
love and compassion to the victims and their
loved ones.
It's simple a
symbol of hope, faith and
love.
Would a christian be comforted if a
symbol of muslim or jewish faith was used to memorialize their
loved one?
But would a Christian appreciate a Wiccan or Muslim or Taoist putting their religious
symbols all over to honor the death
of their
loved one?
Nope, it is a
symbol of the ultimate
love of God for us, the hope that we are all offered and the fact that Jesus Christ defeated death and that through him we can too!
It's a
symbol of the ultimate
love of Jesus Christ and the choice
of a future eternity with him DEFEATING DEATH AND HELL!!!
What is more, such
love can overflow;
of this possibility, the child or children in a marriage stand as a
symbol.
It means that Jesus elevates the relationship between a man and a woman in the order
of creation, making it into a flesh and blood living
symbol of His
love for His Church, «a sign
of a sacred thing.»
In this play, Faust and Juan — each magnified or reduced to a
symbol of a certain kind
of spiritual temperament — vie for the
love of Anna, whom Faust ends up killing.
But it ceases to be a mere tree and becomes the substance
of his hopes, a
symbol of his
love for Lara, who embodies the feminine strength and grace
of the Russian land.
After the pope departed the nuns wanted to place the sacred
symbol inside the gate
of the camp as a
symbol of God's
love... however, The Jewish community was in an up roar... for they felt that in this place God was not!
It is a tragic fact that
love's counterfeits, caricatures, and even its authentic
symbols may become the tools
of unlove.
No serious participant in the ecumenical movement can mistake the judging and purging power
of agape as it moves within the centuries - old forms and
symbols which have guided Christian devotion and have become infused with the very human
loves of the familiar and the satisfying.22
He states: «Christianity's highest
symbol is the crucifixion, and sacrifice which God brings for man, whereas the highest
symbol of faith in Judaism is the Akedah where all man's values are canceled and cast aside for reverence and
love for God.»
From an aesthetic point
of view, the cross is not itself a beautiful thing, but it is the
symbol of a beautiful act, that
of the self - giving
of the Son
of God incarnate out
of love for the Father and for fallen creation, in order to restore the beauty
of what He had made but sin had marred.
The word «intimacy,» like «
love,» is a
symbol that carries a freight
of meanings as diverse as a peddler's wares.