Sentences with phrase «than a loving father»

I looked back on all of the willful sin that had still been in my life after crying out, and I could see that I had been loving that sin more than I loved the Father, and the Son.

Not exact matches

«On the eve of @simonegjohnson #goldenglobes as the first #GoldenGlobeAmbassador I honor and thank the two fathers in her life who love her more than life itself,» Garcia wrote with a pic of her current and ex-husband both standing by Simone.

I would love to move to a state with enough land and a warmer climate for my sons to ride their race bikes, my daughter to have the horse she dreams of and me to finally be at peace, I also believe that there should be someone home with the kids no matter what their ages are and as a single Mom with no family support or father involvement being at home for me is even more important, especially now that they are teenagers, There are no more nap times or time outs and the things you worry about during this age are so much more dangerous than falling down and hitting their heads as toddlers.

For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things that He Himself does; and He will show Him greater works than these, that you may marvel.

Jesus said in Matthew 10: 37 - 38, «Anyone who loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and anyone who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.»

We need to be building bridges from wherever someone is to the Love of the Father rather than alienating them because they may think differently.

Ideally, our experiences with our father should point us to the heart of a greater Father who loves us more than any earthly father ever father should point us to the heart of a greater Father who loves us more than any earthly father ever Father who loves us more than any earthly father ever father ever could.

He loved us so much that he suffered more than any of us can ever imagine and even asked his Father to take the cup from him, but said thy will be done.

However, a life time of theological / spiritual formation in our Western Churches has left many people with a concept of God that is more like Baal than the Loving Merciful God and Father of Jesus.

It is better to stay at home and bask in the Father's love than to join with a group of power - hungry, controlling Christians.

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

I will respond simply to two of his points which touch the central point of the original article: first, whether or not vowed chastity (or «celibacy») can enable a fuller living - out of the loving of Christ the priest and second, whether the Council Fathers in Presbyterorum ordinis intended more than simply defending celibacy in the Latin rite as a «useful discipline».

I'm more concerned about kids growing up without any father than kids growing up with two loving fathers.

THE HURT THEY LOVE TO BRING IS DEVASTATING... U MUST LOVE FATHER IN HEAVEN «MORE» THAN YOUR ASPIE TO GRASP WHAT I AM SAYING... LOVING YOUR ASPIE WILL BRING U DEVASTATION, LOVING GOD MORE THAN YOUR ASPIE WILL BRING U VICTORY!!!! (may i share this with u)

To think that my patient, kind, and tender father who loves God and people more than anyone I know, served as a supportive deacon to these scumbags, and began to question his own observations when they put their spin on the situations... SICKENS ME.

Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

John reminds us that we are to spend our lives loving the Father and living differently than the world.

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me, and he who does not take up his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.

Luke 14:26, a passage tempered a bit in Matthew 10:37 («He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me»), had been a forbidding problem for almost 2,000 years before the master of Lord Zealous called her to follow.

Father John Misty's thoughtful musicality and self - aware lyrics on I Love You, Honeybear played out more like the score of a coming - of - age film than an album.

God is all, love me more than yourself, your children, mother, and father.

Then they'll be where they belong with a Heavenly Father who loves them more than their selfish mothers!

«Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends... I have called you my friends, for all that I have heard from my father I have made known to you.»

1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)

How better can we do that than proclaim and show on Christmas day not only our love for the Christ, the Son of the Father's love for us, but our love for one another as families?

We can face anything because we love the Father, and the Son more than anything.

I don't know what your viewpoint is on someone being gay and a Christian, but let me suggest that you read his book before you talk about the «choice» Wesley Hill made to be gay (he didn't), or how his father was abusive or absent (he wasn't), or how Wesley should just «man up» and fall in love with a woman (he's tried), or get «cured» by reading the Bible and praying more (he probably reads the Bible and prays more than you or I).

Such participation means nothing less than to be drawn into the very life and love of God» Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Can there be a more magnificent example of the love, grace and mercy of God than the conversion of our father in Christ, St. Paul?

you really have to dig thru some sh-t to get to the gems, modern christians who claim the founding fathers on their side should keep this in mind, these men where largely liberal intellectuals with a practical bent and where not the judeo / christian zealots that some try and make them out to be, jeffersons take on jesus is wonderful and it is useful in the modern world where we really need to focus more on the lessons of jesus than THE RULES in the entire bible, as jesus said ABOVE ALL ELSE love neighbor as yourself, jefferson had a great mind and his approach to spiritual matters like this is great

Hence, the whole hierarchy of evaluations based upon law and obedience was overturned as the initiative was seen to be in the hands of the loving Father rather than with the ethical striving of man.

On a personal level there is nothing I would love more than for the chance to dance for the Holy Father and to go speak to him about this, and if God wants it'll happen.»

God, making him a little bit other than He is, a little bit more like a loving father who all too much indulges the child's «only wish.»

In the end, my prayer felt more like pleading with a disgruntled DMV worker than communicating with my loving Father.

First of all to my parents, my father, Remus Muray, and my mother, Marianna Muray, for their part in bringing me into the world, and their love, understanding, and encouragement throughout my life; to John Cobb, my theological «godfather» who first introduced me to process thought, and to whose friendship, inspiration, encouragement, and intellectual stimulation I am more grateful than I could ever express; to David Griffin, who taught me how to think critically; to Jay McDaniel and Kevin Clark for their enduring friendship since our student days and perpetually intellectual stimulating conversations; Nancy Howell, without whose encouragement this project may not have been undertaken; William Dean, whose work has proved to be so liberating; to David and Rosanne Keller, for their friendship, the opportunity to work and play with them, and for their living relationally; Josephine Bates, for her friendship, encouragement, and support in this endeavor; the Rt..

Still stronger is the statement that follows in Matthew (10:37 - 38): «He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and he who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.»

But the Lord had chosen a mother for that baby, and a child for that mother — nothing is more loving, our friends found, than helping a parent to receive the Father's gift of life.

What if you spend all your life thinking your «father» loves you more than the people of the «false religions», and praying to this God of Love who you also believe is going to punish most of His children eternally for not believing right?

Nothing less than God — albeit God in the mystery of his being as Father, Son and Holy Spirit — is the object toward which Scriptures, Church and Jesus Christ himself direct those who begin by loving them.

Lately, this has struck me as being more in the character of the old men in the movie «Trading Places» than the character of a loving Father / Creator.

People too often talk about Jesus aside from his words, about his compassion towards all, while they fail to wrestle with some of his steepest moral teachings: «Whoever divorces his wife... and marries another, commits adultery; Everyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart; If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away; I have come to bring not peace but the sword; Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me» (Mt 19:9, 5:28, 5:30, 10:14, 10:37).

What if the thing we need most to repent of isn't the sin we are committing in our daily lives, but the sinful way in which we see and portray the most loving of Fathers, who loves us more purely and completely than any other person this world has ever known.

Father - love is a different thing than Mumma - love and they are swimming deep, filling their lungs with the smell of him for those nights when they are grown - up and missing his everyday presence but remembering his heartbeat thudding.

«He who loves father and mother more than me is not worthy of me.»

They never leave a man behind, dead or alive, and if there's any more beautiful sentiment than that from our loving heavenly Father, I don't know it.

When one adds this to the role of «father» as protector, guardian, and provider of the family and the life of the womb, it is easy to see the preference for father as the proper anthropomorphism for the role of God to mankind in care and love, rather than for a mother figure.

Jesus saying, «He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me» (Matthew 10: 37) may suggest that human loves are not destroyed but transcended in the higher loyalty.

We see the truly human in Christ in the words spoken in the olive grove (cf. Lk 22, 42), and in the reminder to the apostles that if they loved him, they would put selfishness to one side, and would be glad that he was going to the Father, «for the Father is greater than I» (Jn 14, 28), which is but to say that the Father is the source of my origin and my joy.

If anything agreeable offers itself to your senses, yet does not at the same time tend purely to the honor and glory of God, renounce it and separate yourself from it for the love of Christ, who all his life long had no other taste or wish than to do the will of his Father whom he called his meat and nourishment.

Totally selfless, built a company on his own, came from nothing, loving father, etc far greater man than me and he is Jewish.