Sentences with phrase «ruled by love»

The story concerns two rival supernatural kingdoms — one plunged into darkness and ruled by a love - averse Bog King (Alan Cumming), and the other a place of sunshine and high spirits overseen by a jolly Fairy King (Alfred Molina) with two daughters, the boy - crazy Dawn (Meredith Anne Bull) and her older sister Marianne (Evan Rachel Wood).

Living by the rule of Leviticus 19, we point to a God whose justice is ruled by love, who makes provision for the poor and will not allow the disabled to be disadvantaged.

I know for a fact that despite all my talking and writing about love, there are many area of my life not ruled by love.

He said that his observations lead him to conclude that the default of people not ruled by love and justice is brutal violence and chaos.

It's a very sobering thought to wake up one day and discover that you've spent a considerable amount of time misrepresenting the very One who held all power and authority — yet choose to rule by loving rather than «lording».

The book doesn't give you a get out jail card when it comes to grief, but in a clear and Biblically consistent way it helps you to understand something about why such things happen in a world ruled by a loving and all powerful God.

Not exact matches

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«During this month of... activism against domestic abuse, we really need to be characterised by the rule of love and really need to honour each other.

Live by your atheist rules and start explaining to your loved ones the lack of metaphysical or spiritual definition to your love.

The number one rule given by your prophet was to love your neighbors as you love yourself, so by leading in example he would love his enemies.

Everyone's ideas of justice are on a spectrum, but I'd sum of my own in the fewest words by saying to follow the concept of the Golden Rule, which most Christians love to preach but don't follow.

Reflect on this a little: Many of the inspirations of the threefold system of political economy derive from evangelical inspirations such as personal creativity, personal responsibility, freedom, the love for community through association and mutual cooperation, the aim of bettering the condition of every person on earth, the cultivation of the rule of law, respect for the natural rights of others, the preference for persuasion by reason rather than by coercion, and a powerful sense of sin.

According to Bell, «In matters of love, it's as if God has agreed to play by the same rules we do.

They call me the King of Darkness, when I offer you no pain Why would they label me heartless, when your love is my cocaine And your soul is my Rogaine, I have a thirst to know your brain When you enter my domain got ta take this number for your name But you don't have to drink cyanide, I'm gonna be right by ya side If we got ta take that riot ride, on the enemy and defy your side Fight for the place we're building, for the reproduction of more children Trying to get that number back around 6 billion, I'm gonna rule until then Founded this colony like a pilgrim, anybody try to penetrate this section or threaten we KILL THEM

while the writer has little knowledge of the bible, he is also greatly lacking what he should know to write such a article, the laws give to people of all walks of life is the commandments given by moses, religion does not have anything to do with goverments laws or rulings, he told us straight the one law that there is no forgiveness for is murder, rulers and goverments take it upon themselves to make the decision whether to go to war, or if a person should be put to death, as far as jesus and the apostles are concerned thier labours was a work of love and true humanitarian towards all peoples, races, religions, they never asked for anything for themselves, and they never took from one to give to another.

The material has its origins in conferences given at Pluscarden and other religious houses and is primarily a commentary on Saint Benedict's writings for those who have placed themselves under his Rule, but the heading «quisquis» (literally «anyone») implies that here is wisdom for everyone who sincerely seeks to «prefer nothing to the love of Christ», a goal that ought to be shared by all the baptised.

Any truth to be gleaned from the bible will be done by studying the prevailing themes like love, charity, and the golden rule and applying them to our God given consciences and living well.

He describes with great accuracy the necessities of Christian existence in which love is the meaning of all knowledge and action, but in which man must cope with vast and threatening powers and institutions which are ruled by the distorted and misdirected passions of the corrupt human spirit.

A personalistic philosophy of life does not offer us absolute knowledge;... we discover divine purpose in so far as our human purposes are ruled by the New Testament principles of logos and agape - reason and love.

@Roger Bolero «societies ruled by athiests have no concept of love or justice, just a will to power and disregard for human life and rights.»

The Golden Rule, which Matthew gives here, is placed by Luke with the sayings about nonresistance and love for enemies (Mt 7:12; Lk 6:31).

30 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; 31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?

He looks forward to a world ruled by God, but the kind of rule depicted is not that of an emperor who punishes his enemies and rewards those who obey him, but of a father who forgives and loves all.

Christians regard themselves as a Chosen People in the sense that to them has been entrusted the message of God's grace to sinful (selfish) man in Jesus, who was shown to be the Christ by his coming alive in the Christian community where, because the fear of death is gone, the rule of love replaces that grasping for security which is the cause of sin.

Because all people do not respond to the preaching of the gospel and its concomitant call to discipleship, however, the gospel itself demands that Christians both encourage society to» «make serious and positive use of the social theories» of Jesus Christ and the Scriptures,» and help society to heal social injustices by loving our neighbors as ourselves.21 Toward this end, the church must first of all proclaim to the world the Bible's perfect rule not only for faith but also for practice.

MARY & PAUL You lied or at least showed ur ignorance by calling «love thy neighbor as thyself» Christ's Golden Rule.

Neville i mentioned those people only because the discussion was talking about dominionism the combination of the church and state as a governing rule all those people were government leaders all of them suffered in there own way.Its was the suffering that prepared them for the roles that they were to play and there faith in God was what helped them get through.We are made stronger in our weakness no matter how important or unimportant we may appear to others.I guess it is easy to fall into the lie about political involvement that its hard to make change but some people have had a huge impact.Really it is God who deserves the praise he is the one that creats the opportunitys to make impact on the world as in our strength we can do nothing.In hebrews the great men and woman of faith there are those that seemed unimportant to the world and many suffered for there faith Our Lord knows everyone by name and every small act of faith we do he remembers because we do it out of our love for him that is what the christian walk is about living for Jesus and sharing that love with others.brentnz.

But this sort of obligation lies alongside rules of conduct that are not guided by love.

Neville there were times when dominionism worked for Israel which were the exceptions rather than the rule but generally it did nt sadly because of the wickedness of peoples hearts.Power tends to corrupt people ie in the case of nebbucanezzar especially when they succeed.Like you i think Gods people have more impact by just letting Christ work through them could be me but i find politics tends to involve power money and compromise.Regardless of what political state we find ourselves Gods sovereign and his will be done on earth as it is in heaven.My focus is real simple just follow Jesus with all my heart mind soul and strength and love others as myself and that is just following Jesus daily and trusting him in everything.regards brentnz

In catholic school, as vicious as Roman rule I got my knuckles bruised by a lady in black And I held my tongue as she told me «Son fear is the heart of love» So I never went back

Any god who creates people who by his rules must be persecuted and burned alive for all eternity for loving who they choose is an as.shole.

Forty - eight percent of Lutherans «agree» or «probably agree» that «people can only be justified before God by loving others,» and 60 percent agree that «the main emphasis of the gospel is God's rules for right living.»

Unless the self knows itself, and unless it loves something more than the world and itself, the self will, to be sure, rule the world, but it will itself be governed and driven by the spiritual hunger we call greed, the desire to possess and enjoy infinite abundance.

From them we glean what has previously been indicated as basic notes in the understanding of the kingdom: the timeless kingship, or kingly rule, of God; an ongoing and present kingdom to be entered and lived in by accepting God's sovereign rule in obedient response; and a final victory of God which is in God's hands, though he calls us to labor in faith and love for its coming.

We enter the kingdom by accepting God's rule and with it the demands of love in all our relationships.

Rules about head coverings and hair length had a purpose in Paul's culture, but if they have ultimate bearing on our commission to selflessly love God and our neighbors, then, led by the Spirit, we can safely set them aside today.»

This Golden Rule is identical to John Galt's proclamation (paraphrased): I swear by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for another person, NOR EXPECT ANOTHER PERSON TO LIVE FOR ME.

Sufism seeks to strengthen that love by showing the disciple the means by which he can purify his actions and thus purify his character, and then elevate his soul to sublime heights — which is accomplished under the continual supervision of spiritual educators who are true mystics following the rules and precepts of Islam.

What I just can not get is how any patriotic, democracy - loving American would ever follow a system that fantasizes about being ruled over by some alien king?

That Jesus was aware with every breath he drew of the eternal kingship of God everyone will agree; that he believed men could come even now in some real sense and measure under the righteous and loving rule of God is almost equally clear; and only by the most tortuous methods of interpreting the Gospels can one escape the conclusion that Jesus expected the kingdom of God as a future supernatural order.

We lack a belief that we can live by these rules without losing the love and care for one another that help us lead fully human lives.

Those who were no people — slaves in Egypt — but who now have been made into a special people, embraced by love, they are to live out a new humanity that is not ruled by envy, jealousy, or hostility.

Even in gay loving relationships which by the way are a mere quarter of 1 percent of the US people are we giving in and changing the definition of marriage for all and allowing these who define marriage by their own rules and ways rather than saying you need to live up to this standard.

You are Sovereign and as a Sovereign nation under YWHY may you sin no more but love and show others the truth that so many have failed to receive due to false deception and show them love and forgiveness and what it means to be born through Salvation and to give up inheritance of sin through the believing of Satan by giving consent to rule over you and your children.

Because if grace is water, then the church should be an ocean It's not a museum for good people, it's a hospital for the broken Which means I don't have to hide my failure, I don't have to hide my sin Because it doesn't depend on me it depends on him See because when I was God's enemy and certainly not a fan He looked down and said I want, that, man Which is why Jesus hated religion, and for it he called them fools Don't you see so much better than just following some rules Now let me clarify, I love the church, I love the Bible, and yes I believe in sin But if Jesus came to your church would they actually let him in See remember he was called a glutton, and a drunkard by religious men But the Son of God never supports self righteousness not now, not then

«My own sense is that CT readers would be best served by focusing on the practical work of strengthening relationships within the church and acts of service and neighbor love outside of the church,» he told CT before the ruling was announced.

He rules by the force of love and the energy of goodness.

The kind of ethic promoted here by Paul is one which stresses liberation from the law — from those rules which prevent the maintenance of a loving community and for a freedom which accommodates differences between a people called to share in faith and life.

But if the kind of trust in God's love and loyalty to its cause that are Christian faith are, in fact, authorized by ultimate reality in its meaning for us, the encompassing whole of reality in its structure in itself must be as individual as it is universal, or as universal as it is individual, and hence an exception to the rule by which individuals and universals are otherwise distinguished.

They taught me to work hard; to stand on my own; to play by the rules; to tell the truth; to obey the law; to care for others; to love our country; and to cherish our faith.»