Sentences with phrase «unbounded love»

«Her unbounded love and playfulness were always a part of me,» he says.

With wit, poignancy, and an unbounded love for his characters, Jim Harrison has again reminded us why he is one of the most cherished and important authors at work today.

It's a journey that requires fortitude, patience, understanding, and unbounded love.

The fact of evil in the world and in human experience raises serious questions for any Christian discussion, as much about human existence as about the reality and activity of God who in Christian faith is affirmed to be nothing other than «pure unbounded love.»

As I attempt to demonstrate, prayer is essentially what the old masters of it have said: our conscious and intentional, or attentive, relationship with God — and with God as «pure, unbounded Love,» the «Love that will not let me go,» and the Love that in Jesus Christ is both portrayed and enacted in the midst of our human history and situation.

My strong conviction is that this God is self - disclosed in the total event of Jesus of Nazareth — and is there disclosed as nothing other than «pure unbounded Love», as Love - in - act, as (if you will) the cosmic Lover.

Several times already we have quoted Wesley's fine words about «pure, unbounded love»: never was there a more apt description of the reality of God, although in Wesley's hymn the words are in fact applied to Christ — and appropriately, since in Christ (if Christian faith is right) the «pure, unbounded love» that is seen humanly expressed is the manifestation, reflection, and participation in human terms of the divine Lover whom Jesus called «my Father in heaven.»

For my own part, I believe that the first condition for such a revision of our services of worship as shall make them fully Christian is theological; by this I mean that only when our doctrine of God is soundly Christian will these services be appropriate to the worship of the community that finds its center in Jesus Christ, who revealed God as «pure, unbounded Love» but who also revealed that this Love is not soft or sentimental — the fact of Calvary makes that truth sufficiently plain.

This is so, at any rate, if one holds, as I do, that the unbounded love of others whose gift and demand are decisively re-presented in Jesus is nothing merely accidental and contingent in God but is God's very essence and strictly necessary.

It is precisely the gift and demand of this unbounded love that are decisively re-presented through Jesus; and to understand ourselves as we are thereby explicitly given and called to do is to actualize the one possibility of self - understanding that is properly called «Christian faith» (Ogden, 1982).

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 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.

Ogden says of Paul that whenever he talks of God «he unquestionably means the covenant God of Israel, whose significance for man is the promise and demand of pure unbounded love.

I have quoted these passages from Whitehead for two reasons: first, because he is the «founding father» of the Process conceptuality; and second, because what he says in them points to God as «pure unbounded Love» and to our own human existence as intended to be a creaturely love (doubtless imperfect and defective because finite and mortal).

1 So could his brother Charles sing of «love divine, all loves excelling,» and of Jesus, «thou art all compassion; pure, unbounded love [172] thou art.»

If to be even the least of things is somehow to be related to others and dependent on them, then the One «than whom none greater can be conceived» can only be the supreme instance of such social relatedness, the One who as the unbounded love of others is the end no less than the beginning of all that either is or can ever be.

The central theme of the New Testament wherever one looks is the saving activity of God motivated by his unbounded love for every creature.

I wish to gather together what so far has been said and relate it to this basic Christian affirmation of God as love, «pure unbounded love», and nothing but that sheer love - in - action.

Once accept the disclosure of God in Christ (and in all that is Christ - like in human experience, for we ought not to be exclusively christo - centric in the narrower sense); once take that disclosure with utmost seriousness — and then God as «pure unbounded love» becomes central in our thinking.

The hymn is addressed to Jesus, who is named as «pure, unbounded love»; the singer prays, «Breathe, 0 breathe thy loving Spirit into every troubled breast.»

«At the beginning and end of all our ways is One in whose steadfast will and purpose there is indeed no shadow of turning and in whom all our confidences have their unshakable foundation... In his inmost actuality he is «pure unbounded love», pure personal relation to others, who has no other cause than the ever more abundant life of the creatures of his love.

The divine nature, like the divine activity, must then be grasped as nothing other than the «pure unbounded Love» which in Jesus was vividly manifested, as he has been responded to and as through him a vivid and decisive enabling of human life has been made possible.

God loves Jesus with an unbounded love.

The models used to point to God have often been in horrible apostasy from the vision of pure unbounded love given in the event of Jesus Christ as it has been received and found significant.

Not exact matches

If he did it would mean in this connection something like thoroughgoing, unbounded, not limited by prejudice or personal interest; that is, the sentence must mean, «Your love must be all - inclusive, as God's is.»

Revised from «Love Unbounded: The Doctrine of God,» The Perkins School of Theology Journal, XIX, 3 (Spring 1966), pp. 5 - 17; and printed in Theology In Crisis: A Colloquium on The Credibility of «God», pp. 3 - 18, by Muskingum College.

It is unbounded, unequivocal love for a being which we created, a creature we have yet to know.

But as the first commandment itself makes clear, our returning love for God is unbounded, in the second place, because it covers the full scope of our responsibility.

This means that the returning love that faith involves is like the prevenient love to which it responds in being, in its own way, unbounded.

In general, we may say that these implications include everything that follows for human action — both how we are to act and what we are to do — from a love for God and for all others in God that is unbounded in the two respects just noted, and so covers both the full range of creaturely interests and the full scope of human responsibility.

«Though we acknowledge that democracy anywhere is an unfinished business but we must keep nurturing it with the nutrients of peace, love and hard work and protect it with mutual respect, tolerance and unbounded patriotism».

He said the time has come for Nigerians to keep nurturing the present democracy with the nutrients of peace, love and hard work and protect it with mutual respect, tolerance and unbounded patriotism.

When your roots are receiving nourishment from the earth in the first chakra, your creative juices are flowing in the second, your intentions are empowered in the third, your heart is open and exchanging love with those around you in the fourth, you are spontaneously expressing your highest self in the fifth, you are in touch with your inner voice in the sixth, only then, does energy move into the crown chakra and you remember your essential nature as infinite and unbounded.

If your love for 2008's witty, ultra-rude In Bruges is as unbounded as ours, you'll need to check out Martin McDonagh's latest crime comedy, which promises to be just as verbally vicious.

Death, Life, or Love — Unbounded Always Play for Keeps.

In the decades that followed, Loving explored new directions, creating more organic abstractions from torn and sewn pieces of canvas, trading in a restrained formalism for an unbounded, exuberant aesthetic.