Sentences with phrase «sanctifying love»

A central feature of this task is to portray the «worldview» of the previous point as a «story» rooted in the creative, liberating, sanctifying love of God.

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Marriage is a form of acramentum — a symbolic expression of Christ's love for his Church, even a channel of God's grace to sanctify the couple, their children, and the broader community.

(25) «Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the Church, and delivered Himself up for her, (26) that He might sanctify her, cleansing her in the bath of water by means of The Word; (27) IN ORDER THAT HE MIGHT PRESENT TO HIMSELF THE CHURCH IN ALL HER GLORY, NOT HAVING SPOT OR WRINKLE OR ANY SUCH THING, BUT THAT SHE MIGHT BE HOLY AND WITHOUT BLEMISH.»»

(After all, if anatomical complementarity alone were what sanctified a marriage, then an abusive heterosexual marriage would be considered more «sanctified» than a loving homosexual one.)

Temple life sanctified the conquest's booty, proving with every libation Jewish love for Creation.

Ephesians 5:25 - 27 ESV — Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.

He has showed you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God (Mi 6:8): God hopes, indeed expects, mercy to emerge from liberated and sanctified human nature; God hopes, and indeed expects, that human beings should be just, merciful, and loving freely, not from compulsion.

25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, 26 so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27 that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless.

Churches often use the language of sacrament and covenant to bless and sanctify extremely narrow views of love that are not far from what Coontz describes.

I submit self deception in our heart must be overcome so that our love is sanctified and discriminating.

How, minister to royalty, who call The prophets troublers of the church, Disturbers of the Christian peace, meddlers In matters — so they say — irrelevant To life in faith and hope and love; for whom The double altar is imperative; Who seek to shape the deity in form That sanctifies the royal of the earth?

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.

He makes marriage a special reality through which He pours his love, that is, his grace, into the world, and so marriage «sanctifies people.»

Sanctifying grace, in Catholic theology, is a stable disposition that quickens our spirit to act in union with the Holy Spirit and gives us the gift of faith that works through love and is active.

Transient emotions every man surely has, but if as a consequence of such emotions one would do the terrible thing which love has sanctified as an immortal exploit, then all is lost, including the exploit and the bewildered doer of it.

He would write to Lady Georgina Chatterton (a friend also of Newman), «When the love of God is supreme in us, then every other love partakes in His Divine Love, becomes exalted, purified and sanctified&raqlove of God is supreme in us, then every other love partakes in His Divine Love, becomes exalted, purified and sanctified&raqlove partakes in His Divine Love, becomes exalted, purified and sanctified&raqLove, becomes exalted, purified and sanctified».

When, in baptism, the natural bond is reconfigured, it is taken up into our love for God, there to be transformed and sanctified.

Of course, although a man and woman fall in love, their love must still be transfigured and sanctified» redirected, that is, to God.

Chosen not for good in me, Wakened up from wrath to flee, Hidden in the Savior's side, By the Spirit sanctified, Teach me Lord on earth to show, By my love how much I owe.

«We affirm his pastoral concern for Notre Dame University, his solicitude for its Catholic identity, and his loving care for all those the Lord has given him to sanctify, to teach and to shepherd.»

It gives spouses the grace to love each other with the love with which Christ has loved his Church; the grace of the sacrament thus perfects the human love of the spouses, strengthens their indissoluble unity and sanctifies them on the way to eternal life.»

Ephesians 5:25 - 27 ESV / Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.

They purge believers from false loves under the sanctifying power of the Spirit even as they proclaim a love that mercifully forgives all and calls all to forgive.

When you get married to another person that is truley being sanctified then the Love that Jesus has for us begins to touch you in all areas of your life.

The real deal is: «the law given to Moses aims at protecting the wife from arbitrary domination by the husband» and» the Apostle Paul makes clear when he says: «Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her,» adding at once:» «For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one.»

English football's relationship with the ball - playing central defender is an interesting one: it (if we may for a moment reduce such a complex muddle of thought and action to a singular entity) loves them in theory, it sanctifies them when they're Bobby Moore, but it doesn't entirely trust them, and it certainly doesn't have time for them in the early formative years, when all that ball playing seems to detract from the serious business of stopping goals.

«Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.»

Opened and fastened with a screwdriver, the piece serves to sanctify inseparable love.