Sentences with phrase «only agape love»

Unless one is seriously able to pledge permanent fidelity in days that are «for worse,» «for poorer,» and «in sickness,» he ought not to marry, and it is only agape love that makes this possible.

Not exact matches

The gospel of God's grace in Jesus Christ frees the Christian from both these erroneous tendencies but only if Christians respectfully strive to follow God's commandments and practice agape love.

Love, agape, for one another is the only way we (humanity) will survive on this world.

In this framework, it is indeed agape — selfless, loving concern — which is the ultimate and indeed the only imperative to be served in this or any situation.

Mutual love is one notch below the level of agape, while one notch below mutual love is justice (the only reachable norm for society).

It was Bernard of Clairvaux who said that God would draw the believer toward Himself away from mere (physical) erotic love, which human beings know, to agape, which is only found in Him.

The Church is not the only group in which man is moved by agape and seeks its leading; but it is the one community which in accepting agape as the meaning of its existence places itself squarely under the judgment of the love which seeks one redeemed humanity in the Kingdom of God.

’18 It is not only self - abnegation but also fulfilment which the outgoing love of agape offers to love as affection, and affection may be the first school of agape.

(which is the same meaning of self - esteem only redirected) It is to show agape love, don't do anything that would make a weaker brother stumble, be mindful if they are of weaker faith.

It is not that we discover the meaning of agape by going into the depths of the self; but that we discover in the depths of the self a hunger born of the self's own loves which only agape can satisfy.

Only agape leads to fulfilment, but the fulfilment must be the unintended result, otherwise love masks our self - seeking and then the goal is lost.

The question remains, D'Arcy points out, «whether a human being imitates God by seeking itself and its own perfection or by going outside itself to want only God».35 There is a mystery here in the self - realizing love called Eros and the self - giving love called Agape.

Nygren thus uses his doctrine of the contrasting motifs of eros and agape to point to what is distinctive in the Reformation conception of love, but he treats this as the only interpretation of love which really expresses the New Testament conception.

As you will recall, Nygren insists that in God there is no eros (the Greek word, by the way, for what I have been calling «desire», which significantly also in Greek means «love»); in God there is only agape, which Nygren interprets to mean the love which gives without regard either to the value of the recipient or the urgency on the part of the giver to receive a returning love.

To such agape love, centering not in emotional attraction only but.

The tango of Agape with Eros can only lead to amazing, astonishing love.