Sentences with phrase «redemptive love»
"Redemptive love" refers to a type of love that offers forgiveness, understanding, and the opportunity for someone to be redeemed or saved from their past mistakes or wrongdoings. It emphasizes the power of love to transform and bring about positive change in someone's life. Full definition
For every woman who had a beautiful and redemptive love story, there was a woman who had been terribly and horribly abused.
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They attempted to find new ways of making real and meaningful God's redemptive love in Christ.
He is working always, even in the darkest of human situations, through redemptive love, and in this he summons us to be his co-workers.
When we bring our failures and regrets into the light, we find God's redemptive love brings something beautiful out of the ashes.
My own picture is of God's redemptive love eventually reconciling all beings to the divine, which is suggested by Paul's vision of the time when God will «be all in all» (1 Cor.
Along with attending to the Word, Christians have felt God's redemptive love quite palpably in such sacraments as baptism, Eucharist, and marriage.
We are called to emulate him, to cross the false and imprisoning boundaries of the world with God's transgressively redemptive love.
Hope based on faith in God's future, and love based on God's own redemptive love — these are the twin motifs of the ethics of the Kingdom.
It wasn't until I lived through the trauma of miscarriage that I experienced my need for God's redemptive love in a way I never had before.
The only way to endure suffering when earthly life can give us nothing more is the redemptive love of Our Lord.
The fulfilment of our various vocations of loving, and the integration of our desires and needs, is found by recognising that in all our relationships we share directly and intimately in some aspect of the Lord's own universal mission of creative and redemptive love.
In our first chapter we said that the new life is made possible through an encounter with the redemptive love of God.
The church — the beloved, redeemed bride — can rejoice as we call the nations to witness God's great, redemptive love.
Just say: «Thanks for that, but I am afraid I can't provide the deep and redemptive love of the divine Christ that you really seek... even if you don't realize it».
The central message of the Christian gospel is that the method by which God's redemptive love was shown was not in sending an edited message or program, nor by sending an inter-media-ry, but by being there personally in Jesus Christ, vulnerable to our pain, desolation, disease, anger and retribution - in fact being killed by it.
I interpret this to mean that the Son of Man, Jesus, has come to his own flesh, his own family and by His supreme love, carries us back to the Father, to our natural and supernatural home, through His redemptive love.
This type is the root of all Western philosophical theologies, and of all doctrines of love which seek to bring agape and the human loves into an ordered structure in which the being of God is reflected in all the loves while his redemptive love transforms the whole.
As one of the few remaining personal, interactive communities, the church has a unique opportunity to embody the redemptive love of Christ.
As we have seen, the experience of redemptive love, «Peace,» renewing life, is intimately bound up with the provision of initial aims.
the redemptive love is always love with suffering.
Conveniently, this one - horse town also contains a brothel where Jack gets his rocks off — sorry, glimpses a redemptive love in the arms of a young prostitute named Clara (played by the beautiful Violante Placido — and was ever a beauty more paradoxically named?).
Worse, the redemptive love story between real life couple Schrieber and Watts that's supposed to serve as an emotional climax is too rushed to deliver the required feels.
She gets to go out on a date with Barry in which he further displays a capacity for nutso violence by trashing the men's room, but she is unwaveringly entranced and unconcerned, a shimmering icon of redemptive love.
It is an astonishing tale of redemptive love.
Yet the constraints of a debilitating illness and the looming revelation of a catastrophic secret conspire to throw their worlds into upheaval and threaten the possibilities of their unlikely yet redemptive love.
Anyone hoping for more of a redemptive love story will want to pick up this book.