Sentences with phrase «whose example of love»

He is the one whose life and message are central to our understanding of God and reality, the one whose teaching gives direction to our lives, and the one whose example of love and right relation and concern for others informs our attitudes and actions.

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In a letter announcing his retirement from the army at the close of the War, he wrote: «I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in his holy protection, that he would incline the hearts of the Citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to Government, to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another, for their fellow Citizens of the United States at large, and particularly for their brethren who have served in the Field, and finally, that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all, to do Justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that Charity, humility and pacific temper of mind, which were the Characteristicks of the Divine Author of our blessed Religion, and without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy Nation.»

Everything we read in the Bible surely has to absorbed and considered in line with our experience of God — for those of us who have travelled with God for a long time this experience (I hope) bears out a loving, caring, intimately involved Father whose example in the life of Jesus is all about love — tough, body - taking - the - brunt - of - whatever - life - throws, with the deeper soul fixed to God's promises of what lies beyond.

It is, for example, Tarwater learning of his own history — his whore mother and his birth at the scene of a wreck — in the context of the history of Adam and the Second Coming; it is in the remark by the Negro hand on old Tarwater: «He was deep in this life, he was deep in Jesus» misery»; it is Bishop, the idiot, whose fish eyes are the center of that «extension» into unreasonable, absurd love for both Tarwater and Rayber.

Share an example in the comments below of how you showed lavish love on someone whose path you crossed.

In his teaching and example of unbroken fellowship with God, of love and service to men, of humility and sincerity, of forgiveness toward even his most malicious enemies, of sensitive understanding of the spoken or unspoken needs of the humblest of persons whose lives touched his, we see the kind of living to which we are called.

The chief general lesson of these studies has been the discovery that Christianity survived throughout the ages because it adjusted itself with remarkable ease to the changing demands of the peoples of whose culture it became an inherent part, while it never surrendered the essentials of its faith in Jesus Christ as the revealer of God the Father and the teacher and example of the love of God and fellow men.

bility has many roots — the love of neighbor inculcated by centuries of teaching and example, the faith in a God whose nature it is to order and redeem no less than to create.

I hope I have shown that the intent of these passages was not to affirm the Greco - Roman household structure as divinely instituted and inherently holy, but rather to point Christians to the example of Jesus, whose humility and love can be mirrored by his followers in any culture and in any situation.

Another example was Prince Kunala, whose eyes were torn out by order of one of the king's wives because of rejected love.

A super sad story posted by a loving father to Imgur from Tennessee whose baby caught the terrible RSV is just one example of how serious the spreading of germs and diseases can be to our smallest members of society.

It is yet another example of how 24 Frames lacks balance, flow, and all the soulful charm of Abbas Kiarostami, whose feature Like Someone In Love remains his true swan song.

8:00 am — TCM — Queen Christina Quite possibly the supreme example of Greta Garbo's extraordinary power over the camera, portraying the 17th - century monarch of Sweden whose unanticipated love affair with a Spanish emissary complicates her life and her reign.

The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein, for example, is Enzo's story, the story of an aging dog whose love for and loyalty to his racing driver owner, Danny Swift, translates into a philosophical and at times heart - wrenching tale.