Because it is only when we are set free from the law of sin and death... from condemnation... that we are free to love
ourselves which leads to a love for our neighbor and ultimately for Him.
White fat cells are the culprits behind obesity, storing excess energy
which leads to love handles and beer bellies if it goes unused.
I had an aggressive obsession with garage sales growing up,
which led to a love of estate sales, which meant I ended up with a stockpile of vintage «stuff.»
My husband and I adopted our first pittie Belle from a different organization
which lead to our love of the breed.
She raised livestock,
which lead her to the love of animals.
However, my favorite that we initially had was the classic platformer Pitfall,
which led to my love of the genre to this day.
Not exact matches
«Recalling a nice memory when looking at a photo may
lead to more positive thoughts such as, «I am
loved»
which in turn relaxes muscles and breathing [and even]
leads to a change in behavior, [causing you
to smile more often],» says Smith.
We forwarded Allete's response
to Love,
which included a 1991 industry -
led study, and he said it was «very interesting.»
We're hard - pressed
to say
which is best: Duke's Coach K (above, right), who has developed players for decades with a mixture of toughness and
love — in the process becoming the winningest Division I men's college basketball coach in history and
leading the U.S. Olympic men's basketball team
to a pair of gold medals?
Apart from starting the day by being surrounded by the people you
love, this also has the additional benefit of ensuring your day begins in a playful, creative space,
which often
leads to innovation in your business.
In the film,
which takes place in Los Angeles in the not too distant future, Samantha's evolving emotional intelligence
leads her
to fall in
love with her human user, Theodore Twombly, played by Joaquin Phoenix.
But in January, Rozenberg discovered that his old friend was in
love with his then - fiancee and now wife Kate,
which led to an argument that ended their friendship.
«The millennial workforce
loves leaders with a high EQ,
which leads those who possess it
to be promoted into managerial positions,» he said.
I pray
to whichever holy name (God, Allah, Jehovah, Krishna, Jesus, etc.) suits the ONE Omniscient, Omnipresent, Omnipotent being that ignorance is wiped away from our species and we become a closer, more
loving, peaceful creature and that we realize how much time we waste and how much further we push our fellow neighbor and brother under God, regardless of creed, away debating over who's God is better and discover the error of our ways before we destroy each other... before it's too late, because The End is Nigh!!!!! LOL!!!!! Really though, isn't the world full of enough tragedy, and aren't their so many more important things that need our energy and attention like the innocent children in Pakistan dying from diseases from the flood or the homeless children in our own country, or the lack of education,
which is exactly what
leads to this kind of debate?
However, I do believe we can make some observations about our world,
which may
lead to greater clarity, and, more importantly, may
lead to greater
love, peace, kindness and gentleness when we use our words.
Here is a far better set of test:
Which community has beliefs tat
lead its members
to treat persons in other communities with
love and respect -
to serve them and meet their needs?
Here is a far better set of test:
Which community has beliefs tat
lead its members
to treat persons in other communities with
love and respect —
to serve them and meet their needs?
Telling people that they should suppress their sexuality instead of finding a
loving committed relationship causes shame...
which leads to unhealthy expressions of their sexuality
which leads to emotional trauma, promiscuity, the spread of disease, and sometimes death.
I also wish you the same —
which you will do irregardless of what you write back — cause I do believe God's Spirit will
lead you into ideas like «
love your neighbor as yourself» and even «treat other how you want
to be treated»... or am I sadly mistaken?
When a friend challenged him
to read the Gospels, Moby unexpectedly fell in
love with the person of Jesus, an encounter
which led to a faith
which has never gone away.
He calls
to greatness of soul and
to sacrifice, He invites a man
to fully imitate Him and
to walk a path with Him
which leads to the perfection of
love.
The problem with interpreting «biblical principles» as moral absolutes without taking the mitigating circumstances into consideration is that there is no room for compassion or mercy,
which leads to the commission of sins against the law of
love,
which transcends and surpassingly fulfills all other laws.
Sexuality turned into cruelty, cynical exploitation, and destruction of others is certainly evil, and sexual behaviour
which leads to mutual regard and
loving growth can so far be called good.
The mystery of
love in God's creation is nowhere more powerfully revealed than in this: the sexual attraction
which man shares with the animals is immediate, self - centred, and gratifying, yet it
leads to the possibility of a
love which requires commitment and loyalty and in
which physical and emotional gratification become sacraments of the spirit.
They have been
led, often unwillingly,
to affirm that
Love in its infinite capacity for relationships and its profound participation in that in which it is at work, is the very nature of God himself; they have found in that love the clue to God's way of working in the wo
Love in its infinite capacity for relationships and its profound participation in that in
which it is at work, is the very nature of God himself; they have found in that
love the clue to God's way of working in the wo
love the clue
to God's way of working in the world.
But there is an irony here: Reading on, I found that this very
love of dogma eventually
led Newman away from the evangelicalism with
which I then identified, first
to Tractarianism and then
to Rome.
In Christian faith all thought about
love leads to the nature of God, and therefore the reconception of
love leads to the question of the being of God
to which we now turn.
Replacing «for God so
loved the world» with «for God so hated the world» (
which I believe Calvinism requires) is so disorienting
to me, so dark and frightening and hopeless, that I fear it would
lead me
to despair.
Unless processed through grief, pain will eventually find a way out in illness or depression, or will
lead the griever
to avoid all the deep feelings with
which it is associated, preventing her from ever again feeling
love or enjoying herself as deeply as before.
And as I have already argued, truth
which does not
lead you
to love, is not truth at all.
But what makes the lack of
love even more heretical, is that a lack of
love often
leads religious people
to do horrendous and hurtful things «in the name of Jesus,»
which makes these actions not just heretical, but satanic and evil.
And think how it is with me, Adam: that life I have
led is like a land I have trodden in blessedness since my childhood; and if I long for a moment
to follow the voice
which calls me
to another land that I know not, I can not but fear that my soul might hereafter yearn for that early blessedness
which I had forsaken; and where doubt enters, there is not perfect
love....
By the end of the third season — and particularly in the infamous Christmas Day 2012 episode,
which featured
leading man Dan Stevens» surprise departure — Downton had moved from being a programme
loved by people who like period dramas
to being viewed as a national treasure.
And so there live perhaps a great multitude of men who labor off and on
to obscure their ethical and religious understanding
which would
lead them out into decisions and consequences
which the lower nature does not
love, extending meanwhile their aesthetic and metaphysical understanding,
which ethically is a distraction.
Faith in Christ
leads to repentance
which leads to Baptism (a covenant
to follow Him) resulting in the gift of the Holy Ghost
to guide and protect those who
love Him and serve Him.
here's the argument
to your stupid hedge bet...
which is a weak reason
to believe by the way... if there is a god, he is the all knowing, all
loving, all accepting kind of god and he will recognize those that
led good lives and those that
led bad ones and regardless of their religious beliefs will judge them on their actions and be allowed into this heaven.
But he speaks also of another kind of
love, the tender, lyrical kind
which leads Arele
to marry the ill - favored Shosha.
In the current era of privatized religion, this mode of interpretation has
led to believing that the Song is basically about the way in
which Jesus
loves me as an individual, even
to the point of overlooking my faults in order
to praise my inner and outer beauty.
Jesus seems
to be prefiguring his death with phrases about his «hour»
which was
to come, and the temple of his body
to be destroyed, about the kind of
love that
leads one
to give one's life for a friend and a shepherd
to give his life for the sheep.
In his recent book, Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity, he offers «four benefits» of mortality: interest and engagement, suggesting that adding, say, twenty years
to the human life span would not proportionately increase the pleasures of life; seriousness and aspiration, proposing that the knowledge that our life is limited is what
leads us
to take life seriously and passionately; beauty and
love, presenting the idea that it is precisely their perishability that makes, for instance, flowers beautiful
to us, just as the coming and going of spring makes that season all the more meaningful; and, finally, virtue and moral excellence, by
which he means the virtuous and noble deeds that mortality makes possible, including the sacrifice of our own life for a worthy cause.
Krishna indicates the three paths of knowledge, action with detachment and of
love which can
lead to full knowledge of God.
Jesus seems
to be prefiguring his death with phrases about his «hour»
which was
to come, and the temple of his body
to be destroyed, about the kind of
love that
leads one
to give ones life for a friend and a shepherd
to give his life for the sheep.
But Jesus was more accepting of women, children, aliens, beggars, leppers and even sexual minorities than OT practice,
which I think represents a greater inclusiveness
which should
lead us
to believe that
love / protection /» rights» be extended
to these vulnerable groups and not just the priveledge adult male population.
The word has been employed
to indicate that
which can be shared for mutual enrichment; and this use
leads us
to the description of God as being essentially «
Love».
In the last few pages of the book he speaks frankly about the «serious crisis» suffered by concept of «Traditio», the «deep wound
which the Church is experiencing after Vatican II», owing
to the refashioning of the understanding of Revelation from the conceptual, propositional approach of Vatican I and scholastic theology
to the notion of Revelation as experience and encounter,
leading to «a displacement of the dynamic aspect of revelation
to the detriment of the noetic», «a gap between truth and
love» and a «strong subjectivism».
Any one can pull the law
to piece's that's why it
leads to death, Jesus
love leads to life, we are asked «
which will you choose today».
It was what Paul knew of the
love of God as actually manifested in the human Jesus
which led him inevitably
to see in the humanity of Jesus itself the sublimest conceivable manifestation of that same
love.
From rising filmmaker Jeff Nichols,
Loving tells the moving real - life story of Mildred and Richard
Loving, the interracial couple who's romance
led to the landmark Supreme Court decision
which made it illegal
to prevent marriages on the basis on race.
This
leads Christian anthropology
to a Moral Realism
which recognizes the Human Community in the ultimate sense, like the human experience of friendship and
love, is a gift of Divine Grace, and that therefore there is no final path towards it through technological, political or legal organization.
Belief in a God who is all
love and no wrath, all grace and no justice, all forgiveness and no condemnation is idolatry (worship of a false god invented by men), and it inevitably
leads to universalism -
which, of course, is what many liberal churches have been preaching for generations.