Sentences with phrase «sacrificial love»

The religious understanding of the conflict between good and evil, the fact of the stubborn resistance of the human heart to the love of God and its demands, the vision of the divine strategy of sacrificial love in the life and death of Jesus as the climax of history, all this is foreign to most of the philosophies of progress, but it was the heart of the great expressions of Christian liberalism.

(The second aspect of Christ the Truth was treated by Niebuhr under the heading of «the second Adam» — a disclosure of sacrificial love as the perfect form for human nature.)

While being held, the couple apparently treated their captors with sacrificial love.

If it's your ministry philosophy to minister whole heartedly in self sacrificial love, it's better to pastor a small congregation where you are able to built deep relationships.

Sacrificial love requires a perception of the relation between the ultimate claims of agape and the complexity of human motives.

But to expect that all tasks will get split evenly down the middle and neither spouse will ever do more work than the other is not only unrealistic, it's not the kind of sacrificial love God calls us to in any relationship.

And the union of Christ and His Church, the union of God and his people, is nuptial, and Christ's sacrificial love on Calvary was nuptial — and the writer of this editorial, and all the baptised, are children of that union — and every Mass is a nuptial Mass, and one day all will be brought to completion in the Marriage Feast of the Lamb.

We stop trying to mostly entertain each other in church, and instead help each other find faith that will deepen into sacrificial love.

We do find pointers to meaning in our lives — in acts of human love, in the way justice can be partially achieved even through structures of injustice, in a life of perfect sacrificial love that ends upon a cross.

He chose sacrificial love over revolutionary violence not because he was anti-revolutionary but because the revolution of God which he represented was radical and total.»

Although sacrificial love transcends the realities of history (since it is grounded in the character of God), it is nevertheless validated in history where concern for others is manifest.

Sacrificial love completes the incompleteness of mutual love, clarifies and defines the ethical possibilities of history, and represents a perfection which contradicts the false pretensions of virtue in history.13

Mutual love is the first level below sacrificial love.

Rather as an amateur sportsman or woman may go to watch a star and feel his or her own game is inferior, so the worshipper as she or he senses the glory of God and the holy sacrificial love of Jesus Christ, recognizes her or his own shortcomings.

A Dionysian sacrificial love is not a responsible love.

The fundamental nature of this transcendent God is that of absolute sacrificial love.

The cross of sacrificial love usually does not and can not mean the cross of physical death.

Cling on to Jesus, persevere in prayer, practise sacrificial love, wait on the Spirit and don't try to make the world in your image.

Niebuhr does talk about sacrificial love as an ideal and also as a solvent in human affairs.

Through this they can share in the mutual sacrificial love of Christ and the Church.

To the parish priest of today, Pope Francis issues a call: to a deeper faith and life of prayer, to purity and holiness of life, to a trust in the call of the Father, and above all to a life of ceaseless sacrificial love and preaching» a service that is in turn rooted in prayer and holiness.

Browning rightly objects to Niebuhr's identification of «agape» with sacrificial love.

Their deep wounds will be healed by sacrificial love (of which Christ is the incarnate example) and intimate relationship (both human and divine).

So Niebuhr refers to sacrificial love as the pinnacle of love.

So, while we can affirm the right to life as a noble political value, as Kingdom people we have to revolt against the temptation to this noble value above the value of self - sacrificial love in order to manifest the beauty of the Jesus - looking Kingdom (The Myth of a Christian Religion, 84 - 85).

Reward, on the other hand, is an added bonus or additional incentive God offers as a way to encourage faithful living and self - sacrificial love for others.

Hmm, «In the precious name of boundaries, and by the blood of the lamb, I will not show self sacrificial love»!

Trust me, even at your best, you will not have the patience and sacrificial love required to sustain a thriving marriage on your own.

Is self - sacrifice an ultimate limit toward which the self may move, but which it can never quite reach, or is there a union of sacrificial love with the self's growth into its full stature which can be realized, though certainly only through grace?

It is our response to His sacrificial love.

The greatest love known is to give (or risk) your life for a friend - Jesus didn't say that the greatest love known is to «turn the other cheek and forsake a friend» - you recieved sacrifical love from a complete stranger and willfully chose to withhold your sacrificial love in return.

We pledge to stand with you, our Christian brothers and sisters of the historic Black church, and to work arm in arm with you in Christ - like self - sacrificial love to build in America a true culture of life and of family life.

As St Paul says in Ephesians 5, the more that the husband in his relationship with his wife reflects the sacrificial love of Christ for His bride the Church, and the more that the wife in her relationship with her husband reflects the self - giving love of the Church for her Bridegroom, the more they will be truly fulfilled and the more they will live up to what they are called to be.

Recently, in his first Encyclical Deus Caritas Est, Pope Benedict has beautifully set the goodness and delight of the love of man and women — and indeed wider loves — in the context of the sacrificial love of agape and the ecclesial service of caritas.

For others, the books were a celebration of the Christian ideal of sacrificial love.

Do emerging structures / ministries / programs carry and pour out the new wine of Jesus» sacrificial love?

If we're unaware of what the Bible teaches with regard to sexuality and stewarding our bodies, unaware of our proclivity to sin, and unaware that sacrificial love is the goal for marriage, we might not understand that we're settling for a counterfeit version of our true need.

IMHO, it's not worth trying to figure it out because it takes our attention away from the big picture of God's sacrificial love.

That is a good point about focusing on the big picture of God's sacrificial love.

But privileged Christians who desire to demonstrate Jesus «cross-cultural and sacrificial love must wake up the fact that there are multiple realities in America.

As Christians, we believe our faith is founded in God's self - sacrificial love, a virtue we are commanded to emulate: «Let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven» (Matt.

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