She saw that growth toward wholeness occurs
in relationships of love and respect and that neurotic character patterns are learned by children when their relationships lack these essential qualities.
Christ Himself made and makes this very invitation, to enter into a
higher relationship of love towards Him and His people, when he spoke to his disciples regarding those «who have made themselves this way for the sake of the Kingdom of God.
It is new
relationship of love of the other that has to flow from a conversion of heart and mind, of intellect and will inspired by the love of God.
And he made human fathers and he gives us the example of good fathers so we can understand the kind of
secure relationship of love and protection he offers to us.»
Fighting what he sees as the vacuous definition of marriage as a purely
private relationship of love, Blankenhorn urges readers to work toward resurrecting marriage as a public institution designed to uphold what he believes is the birthright of every child — to have a mother and a father.
We can counter by asking why political transactions, or forms of religious sacrifice, or ransom payments are more able to bear the freight of the divine meaning than are the
personal relationships of love, betrayal and forgiveness.
This Christ does not have that
holy relationship of love for the real world which purifies it and renews it; he is simply compassion, bearing an invitation to leave the world.
But by those who have become sensitive to the fact that their freedom is a gift of God's self - absenting, a new and
invigorating relationship of love and gratitude, and one of deep, mature dependency as well, may take over their lives and shape them into the new creation of which St. Paul speaks.
They spoke of God as our creator, sustainer, and redeemer; the loving giver of bread and forgiveness and protection from evil; the One who calls humans
into relationships of love to Himself, to their neighbors, to their worlds, and to themselves.
[T] he sexual act is a communion in a
sacred relationship of love and of office to life, which embraces time, and in the child's birth is a ministry into eternity.
Once this principle is accepted, the world eagerly draws all the consequences, brushing aside impatiently any gossamer - webbed restrictions based upon «only in a
permanent relationship of loving care etc».
It is this «
higher relationship of love», that is «so great, so intimate» that it can «knock on the most private doors of the human heart» (TPL p. 3).
Pope Benedict again reminds us: Many people today have a limited idea of the Christian faith because they identify it with a mere system of beliefs and values rather than with the truth of a God who revealed Himself in history, anxious to communicate with human beings in a tête - a-tête, in
a relationship of love with them.
It can be done only in
a relationship of love.
It is not clear what a relationship based on absolute otherness or separation would mean especially in the relationship between God and the believer, which many describe as
a relationship of love, worship and intimacy.
Sex without companionship in marriage is better than no sex at all; but its pleasure falls far short of sex within
a relationship of loving and trusting.
This is particularly reflected in his gifts of reason, freedom of will and
relationships of love.
His intellect is ordered to the vision of God, and his will to
the relationship of love with the Lord.
Since God has always wanted
a relationship of love with us, and all people can now have this relationship through Jesus Christ by the indwelling Holy Spirit, why would we want to return to the failed and idolatrous religion of law?
In other language, harshness and grace need each other, and they are inextricably interwoven in the very necessity of form in
the relationship of love.
The point of the Pentateuch is to show that complete failure of law and religion to lead to
the relationship of love that God wants with His people.
God wants
a relationship of love with each of us.
So when the people of Israel reject
a relationship of love in favor of a religion of law, it is not surprising that this religion of law exponentially increases in complexity.
We become truly human only when we establish
this relationship of love with one another.
In the Godhead, three distinct persons exist in
a relationship of love in community, communion and in communication.
When the doctrine of the Trinity says that one God exists in three persons, it means that God is a community of three persons in
a relationship of love.
When the Bible says that we are created in the image of God, it means we are created to share in the very life of the Godhead -
a relationship of love and community and communion with God and with one another.
The essence of God is
a relationship of love, a communion, a community which the church fathers called Trinity.
An orderly marriage between man an woman shall represent the relationship between Christ and his Church, which is
a relationship of love and joyful partnership.