It is impossible for one partner (or a parent) to be
unaffected by their loved one's distress.
Not exact matches
God's
love has [48] been reduced to a stance God takes unswervingly toward the creation and fallen humanity, bereft of passion and particularity, an eternal and unchanging
love utterly
unaffected by the responses of the beloved.
For the Christian, Christ is the paradigm of incarnation, or
love, and Christ is to be understood as a living reality who is not
unaffected by the encounter of incarnation.
33 But this God whose death Altizer is proclaiming is precisely theism's God, the classic God - image that represents the triumph of power over
love, a God «known as transcendent and impassive... a primordial deity who is
unaffected by the processes of time and history.»
Brock identified agape
love with the wrong direction of classical (patriarchal) theism in championing «disinterested»
love, «dispassionate»
love that includes no dynamic interrelationship between Lover and beloved and leaves God utterly
unaffected by the creaturely response to God's
love.21 Erotic
love,
by contrast, «connotes intimacy through the subjective engagement of the whole self in a relationship.»
But when it became obvious to me that this faculty destroyed human freedom and the dynamic responsiveness of divine
love, I realized that it was my Friend's steadfastness that had won my friendship, not the power to remain
unaffected by the torrent of time.
(To emphasize the utter self - givingness of God does not in any way mean that God is unreceptive to, or
unaffected by our own
love in return.
Her deed was even reinforced
by a round robin letter from 70 other Labour council chiefs, which a cynic would see as evidence of collusion rather than an entirely
unaffected outpouring of
love and affection for a fallen colleague.
So many of our beloved furry friends just
love to roll around in the snow seemingly
unaffected by the cold temperatures.