Sentences with phrase «ultimate love for»

You Said:» The Bible is a love story about God's ultimate love for us and sacrifice for us.

Not exact matches

[14:18] Rules of the game to succeed, but not for fulfillment [14:40] God loves diversity; same is true with people — different sources of fulfillment [14:55] Success without fulfillment is the ultimate failure [16:53] We all have something different as our inner desire, you need to find what fulfills you [17:05] A cautionary tale: Robin Williams, the loss of a national treasure [18:42] He lit everybody up, except himself [19:15] Most of us live a life where we succeed but we're not truly fulfilled [20:10] Richard: Tony, what is your method for happiness?

Offering comfort by listening and allowing the dying to express their understanding of the Divine (God, for me) by talking of family and love is the ultimate expression, in my opinion, of what a real person of God should be like, especially at the end.

For a relationship formed with a non-believer, our ultimate desire should be to display the love of Christ.

If the answer is yes, then I must say in firm admonition that you have completely and utterly dismissed God's ultimate act of love and dismissed it for some eartly mush that ends at the persona last breath.

The power is not in the person but in surrendering to God; and power is not over another but the love of God working through a person for our ultimate well - being.

For this development, too, the pastor must be prepared in order that the assurance of God's love and ultimate mercy can be provided in a ready, genuine way.

Since Jesus atoned for our sins by carrying love for enemy to the ultimate degree, a refusal to follow his example at this point not only involves a denial of scriptural authority; it also constitutes a questionable doctrine of the atonement.

The interpretation of divine love, as being a concern for the other with no concern for itself, may be the ultimate instance... this kind of love, like this kind of power, needs an alternative conception.40

What we ought to be able to discover in this world picture, once the incredible science is gone, is a conception of the universe in which, under what are for us weird and frequently utterly impossible images, the whole creation is seen as dependent upon a loving and active God who is its ultimate meaning and its ground of being.

For I suppress much of my actual truth, I do not want to admit it; I am perhaps in an ultimate attitude of protest without noticing it; despite all my talk about the love of one's neighbour I may even be the greatest egoist without realizing it.

Being is the ultimate reality, not itself a sentient agent, of which all actualities, God included, are actualizations; and God is the ultimate actuality, indeed a sentient agent who loves and cares for the world, who is the primordial embodiment of Being.

If Jesus is drawing all people to himself, if judgement is about putting all things right, if Gods goal is the reconciliation of all creation then whatever judgement and punishment happens to seek to achieve this end, how can we say love never fails, if in this ultimate instance, it does, by leaving anyone lost for all eternity?.

Thus, for every conceivable self, «the ultimate motive is love, which has two equally fundamental aspects, self - love and love for others» (MVG 151).

Stapledon's persona reflects about the moment of ultimate confrontation with Star Maker: «For I have been confronted not by a welcoming and kindly love, but by a very different spirit.

Stapledon thus brings together his basic concerns for a viable community and a metaphysic as his narrator questions the ultimate meaning of the only good he is able to perceive — the symbiotic love of two human beings.

John, You are right, of course, but His ultimate, guiding theological paradigm is that love for others is the ultimate way of living one's theology.

For, if faith is «trust in God's love alone for the ultimate meaning of our lives and loyalty to this same love and to all to whom it is loyal as the only final cause that our lives are to serve,» then a concern for justice, including political justice (the creation of a more humane and just social order), clearly follows from an attitude of faith without being identical with For, if faith is «trust in God's love alone for the ultimate meaning of our lives and loyalty to this same love and to all to whom it is loyal as the only final cause that our lives are to serve,» then a concern for justice, including political justice (the creation of a more humane and just social order), clearly follows from an attitude of faith without being identical with for the ultimate meaning of our lives and loyalty to this same love and to all to whom it is loyal as the only final cause that our lives are to serve,» then a concern for justice, including political justice (the creation of a more humane and just social order), clearly follows from an attitude of faith without being identical with for justice, including political justice (the creation of a more humane and just social order), clearly follows from an attitude of faith without being identical with it.

The interpretation of divine love, as being a concern for the other with no concern for itself, may be the ultimate instance.

The principle may be stated thus: Growth in Christian maturity is growth in love for all the goods of mortal life, and at the same time it is growth in the capacity for detachment of our ultimate faith and hope from dependence upon our particular plans and interests.

For Israel, God was the ultimate reality, he was all power (though that is very different from the concept of omnipotence of later centuries), and he was good — not a being concerned with selfish interests, but his character was grace and love.

Nope, it is a symbol of the ultimate love of God for us, the hope that we are all offered and the fact that Jesus Christ defeated death and that through him we can too!

The prophets asserted the demand of the clean heart against all the specific requirements of the law.30 Jesus summed up all the law in the two commandments to love God and our neighbor.31 Paul puts it radically when he says, «All things are lawful for me; but all things edify not «32 It is in the actual service of my neighbor's need and my own that the ultimate permission or prohibition of any action lies.

The ultimate goal of Christian marriage enrichment is to liberate couples to claim and share the fruits of the spirit for which the human family longs — love, faithfulness, integrity, reconciliation, healing, joy, and peace.

For the careful reader, the creation accounts are saying that however God fashioned the world — we are not made privy to the formation but only to the results and, in a general way, their cosmic purpose of displaying God's glory — he, his generous love, is its single ultimate source.

They will know that whatever may be the real and ultimate truth of God's being and purpose (and it must be, in the nature of the case, far beyond our knowing), we never approach so near to that truth as when we say with Paul, «God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us,» or with the author of the Fourth Gospel, «God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son,» or with still another of those upon whom the light first shone,» Because of the great love wherewith he hath loved us, God hath made us, who were dead in sins, to live again with Christ.»

Hartshorne's translation of this Anselmian formula for God is «the Unsurpassable One,» which he acknowledges was partly derived from the demands of worship.4 But whence has the Western world obtained its idea that God is worthy of adoring love and ultimate devotion?

Christian faith has deciphered in this man's exceptional outpouring of empathy for the poor, the captives, the abandoned, and the sick, the consummate entrance of an ultimate love and mercy into our world.

[4] It is evident that in this literature to love the prophet or him who is loved by God and the angels and the blessed equates, in the ultimate analysis, to love for God.

This is no morbid theme, but the assurance of the Gospel that just as there is the ultimate demand of self - giving, so is there no real life or fulfilment without learning that he who loves can give himself up for God since God has given himself for us.

«I often wonder if coming to understand and believe that God does, indeed desire us,» he writes, «and that we are invited to return his desire might be the «remedy» in some ultimate sense, for the loneliness and craving for love that I and other homosexual Christians experience on a regular basis.

Since the Christian's ultimate loyalty is to God and not the state in its demand for obedience to the law, the Christian always tempers his loyalty with insistences on justice with love that calls for an equality and liberty that holds the state's necessary powers of coercion under restraint and accountability to God.

In a world where struggle for survival at the expense of others is the law, He showed that death for others is the ultimate act of love.

For Teilhard, the Christian church as (ideally) a universal community of human / divine love and shared idealism is the prototype of the movement of humanity as a whole toward a superhuman social reality organized around Christ / Omega as the ultimate attracting and unifying principle.

Susceptible to bouts of despair (at one point even welcoming visions of being run over by a bus), her love for philosophy rescued her: It reopened her interest in religion and questions about ultimate meaning and existence.

Jesus paid the price for my sin on the cross, that's the ultimate demonstration of love.

But if the meaning of God for us is the gift and demand of unbounded love that authorizes trust in this love and loyalty to its cause as our authentic self - understanding, the ultimate whole of reality that we call by the name «God» has to have a unique structure in itself.

Because the ultimate power is that of love, one is drawn to work for righteousness and to temper with love one's understanding of justice.

If we ask now for the material content of this self - understanding, the only adequate answer is that it is an understanding of ourselves and all others as alike objects of the unbounded love of God, which is to say, of the inclusive whole of ultimate reality of which both the self and others are parts.

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.

Second, so God is so benevolent to mankind to hide himself fearing it would be «forced» love if he showed up, and then literally burn people for not believing in him despite his ultimate absence, while he could've saved the whole humanity if he just showed up every now and then?

Love is the weight which bears the creature toward God.3 Since God is to be loved above all else, a rightly ordered life can be founded only upon love for God, not for God as chief value among others, but as the ultimate and absolute good which underlies all the creaturely goLove is the weight which bears the creature toward God.3 Since God is to be loved above all else, a rightly ordered life can be founded only upon love for God, not for God as chief value among others, but as the ultimate and absolute good which underlies all the creaturely golove for God, not for God as chief value among others, but as the ultimate and absolute good which underlies all the creaturely goods.

If the ultimate cause of Man's exploitation and alienation is selfishness, the deepest reason for voluntary poverty is love of neighbour.»

Church and theological school have the same ultimate purpose: the increase of love for God intellectually — that is, to know God.

In order for theological education to overcome its self - contradictions and recover unity it needs to repent its placing ultimate love and loyalty in these proximate purposes and convert to placing all its proximate goals within the context of faith in the One beyond the many.

He replaces those analyses with a theological analysis that is both teleological (ministry's proximate goal is to nurture church communities) and ecclesiological (the church's ultimate purpose is to increase love for God and neighbor).

On the contrary, the human search for knowledge and love is essential to the human condition and takes on ultimate meaning in light of the communion of Trinitarian persons.

Third, «the institution of matrimony itself and conjugal love are ordained for the procreation and education of children, and find in them their ultimate crown».

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Thus, I advocate for taking away the «fear of ultimate judgment» by a God... and emphasizing learning to walk in love with Him, relaxing from the rigors, and becoming friends... rather than risking becoming addicts.