This is mostly for the dogs that are emotionally attached to humans and can feel when they are being showered
with actions of love.
Not exact matches
Here's an example from my life where I wholeheartedly regret my
actions and how I handled some
of the precious moments that I had
with loved ones.
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I
love my children but that doesn't mean I am happy
with some
of their
actions but I don't stop
loving them just because they did something wrong.
I had a professor in college who prayed for a particular person each time he turned on a light switch, and I
love that idea
of partnering normal, daily
actions with intentional prayer.
But let us take
action carefully in order that the sickness
of our nature may be perfectly healed and we thirst to come to God out
of love for Him and hatred
of this life and disgust
with ourselves; that is, let us assiduously seek His healing grace.
I agree
with NP and Brian — we need to extend
love to that person — that doesn't mean we admonish their
actions — but that we deal
with the reality
of the situation in a gentle / meek manner (God forbid we ever find ourselves in that predicament — so be merciful).
Because one challenges the oppressor
with a gentle firmness that underlines God's
love even for him, the evangelical practitioner
of nonviolence can invite the oppressor to repent and change even while opposing his evil
actions.
I have learned that forgiveness and
love along
with setting things right in the form
of direct
action results in an abuser feeling discomfort, even pain, as long as abuses continue.
But I think there is some risk that it might be misconstrued so as to obscure certain truths which I believe to be fundamental: that the Passion is the moment at which that complete oneness
with the Father which is the unique and all - pervading characteristic
of the life
of Jesus is paradoxically manifested; that it is at that moment, above all, that Jesus discloses to us God himself in
action; that the judgement passed on Jesus and the testing brought to bear upon him are a judgement and a testing exercised (
of course, within the permissive will
of God) by evil men, or, to use mythological language, by the devil; and that the judgement
of God pronounced at Calvary is that which Christ's accepting
love passes upon those men, and upon ourselves as sharers in their sinfulness, by showing up their sin in all its hatefulness.
Naturally suspicious
of Hollywood's motives, he wrote to insist that God's
action on the soul is the key to the novel, which, he said, «deals
with what is theologically termed «the operation
of grace,» that is to say, the unmerited and unilateral act
of love by which God continually calls souls to himself.»
He operates
with subtle and sometimes extraordinary vigor here rather than there, thus bringing to pass his «work, his strange work» both in the order
of nature and
of history, and thus bringing to pass also his
loving care and saving
action signally declared in Jesus Christ.
We can respond
with compassion and
love for the sake
of our neighbors,
with actions as well as
with words.
In great areas
of human
action man's refusal to accept his finiteness makes him proud, self - righteous, and in rebellion against God; man's selfishness makes him refuse to use his freedom
with love toward his fellow men.
Before you answer too quickly, realize that while Scripture does not support the idea that
love is just a feeling, Scripture also may not support the idea that
love consists
of loving actions (
with or without the feeling).
We accepted the lies
of satan ourselves because God has bestowed us
with free will.We seek magnification
of ourselves in everything as satan did.All our
actions are aimed at impressing fellow people so as to derive
love and care from them.This hurts other people when we are concerned only
with our satisfaction and also, people couldn't
love unconditionally without first receiving christ's
love (we
love because he
loved us first).
That it can be so is a proof that this human
love belongs
with the creative
action of agape.
There is a certain amount
of undeniable «controlling
of the masses» that comes along
with instilling a consequences - for -
actions model, and preaching
love and kindness is not completely useless either.
He describes
with great accuracy the necessities
of Christian existence in which
love is the meaning
of all knowledge and
action, but in which man must cope
with vast and threatening powers and institutions which are ruled by the distorted and misdirected passions
of the corrupt human spirit.
God is
love in that he can perfectly sympathize
with, participate in, the being
of his creatures.60 The emphasis is totally on God's receptivity, on his
action as Redeemer.
Ultimately, the question
of whether or not masturbation is healthy for a particular person springs from the question that governs all good discernment: Does this
action help me
love myself and others more fully and freely, and does it allow me to
love God more deeply and
with more
of myself?
A perusal
of the Church
of the Brethren Web pages provides clear evidence that a commitment to pacifism is not limited to denominational headquarters: the 48 churches
of the Northern Indiana District Conference have joined to urge «the use
of nonviolent approaches and interventions» in response to the terror; the Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, Church
of the Brethren has adopted a statement in which they «remain committed to walk in the Jesus way
of nonviolent
love, in which evil can only be overcome
with redemptive acts
of love»; a group
of Brethren Volunteer Service Workers have issued a statement in which they «advocate the use
of nonviolent means to settle disputes» and «stand opposed to the increased drive toward militarization»; on October 7 members
of local Brethren churches (along
with Mennonites and others) organized a peace rally at the state capitol in Harrisburg, «Sowing Seeds
of Peace: Prayers and Petitions for Nonviolent
Action,» which attracted over 300 people.
They are the visuals, perhaps several miles» worth
of Pentagon - approved operational footage
of destroyers and aircraft carriers, bombers, fighters, and other weapons systems in
action, produced in concert
with the defense contractors who profit from their manufacture and who would
love nothing more than to gain additional appropriations from Congress based on cool - looking footage.
Please don't turn away from the
love and support that fellow Christians can give you which is so vital to the Christian life, based upon the
actions of the few you have had bad experiences
with.
Although fully familiar
with the enormous power
of modern science, medicine and technology, he held high Christian
love as the answer to human needs in the broadest sense: «If you have Christian
love,» he declared to a stunned audience, «you have motive for existence, a guide for
action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.»
I've never met him, but it seems like Sam Rivera does a good job
of showing Jesus
love with his
actions / ministries.
If there is a «wrong» kind
of Christian it is the one who uses the Bible as an excuse or to justify their
actions (war, slavery, discrimination, oppression, suppression, or condemnation) and it is the one who ignores the preaching
of Jesus (tolerance,
love, forgiveness, inclusion) and turns instead to a handful
of lines in the Old Testament more in keeping
with how they prefer to act.
In the same chapter, Hartshorne rejects dogmatic pacifism by arguing that the religious ideal
of love as
action from social awareness «seems clearly to include the refusal to provide the unsocial
with a monopoly upon the use
of coercion (MVG 173).
From this fountainhead Christians are called to
love all men as brothers and to treat all men
with a justice that finds its criterion and springs
of action in
love.
He himself has stated in his manifesto that he is not a christian «in the strictest sense» and many
of his statements directly contradict what christ taught not to mention his
actions are also in direct conflict
with christian
love... so exactly in what way is he one
of my own?
God Himself,
of course, is always
loving and just, but sometimes the human authors
of Scripture confused the true God as revealed in Jesus Christ
with the
actions of Satan in history, and referred to the
actions of both as coming from «Yahweh.»
Hence we have every right to think that in that dynamic life which is unsurpassable and hence divine there is, not a becoming more divine, which would be absurd, but an increasing capacity for finding occasions through which God may employ, in one way or another, that which is always remembered; and also, in this very
action as it continues on in God's relationship
with creation, a growing acceptance
of those who have contributed to the cosmic enterprise
of love at work in creation.
In the repeated phrase «yet have you not returned unto me» Amos makes it clear that the very catastrophe which Yahweh visits upon his people is itself an expression
of his
love and faithfulness, since out
of this negative
action he seeks to bring about a reconciliation
with prideful rebellious Israel.
God's
action is first, since He always
loves men and surrounds them
with His
loving action — but it is genuinely
loving action and hence not pressure
of a coercive type.
A self - renouncing God humbly withdraws, and in doing so paradoxically becomes more intimate
with us, evoking the response
of love, patience, and
action.
How does this
action fit in
with Jesus» words about nonresistance to evil in Matthew 5:39 and
love of enemies in Matthew 5:43 - 44?
But we must be brought to understand that along
with such dedication to service or to work, there is another «end» — in the sense now
of that which comes when the proclamation has been made and there has been repentance for wrongness, commitment to God disclosed and the divine power
of loving released in the originating Christian event, and when the imperative to service has been accepted and implemented in
action.
The more our thoughts and
actions are compatible
with God's
loving will and purpose, the more fully he will incorporate them as objectively immanent in one aspect
of his nature.21 We earlier emphasized the divine priority in the whole event Jesus Christ: we also thought
of Jesus intensifying his obedience to the call
of God in each situation that confronted him.
The pastoral role is concerned
with ministry to individuals; the priestly role has to do
with the proclamation
of the faith and
with leadership in the liturgical life
of the church; the prophetic role focuses on judging the level
of humaneness in the social order and pointing to the changes required if common justice is to be approximated; the kingly role takes up governance and the expression
of neighbor
love through responsible corporate
action.
Let us not forget that this
love, declared in
action, went to the limit
of identification
with humanity.
Krishna indicates the three paths
of knowledge,
action with detachment and
of love which can lead to full knowledge
of God.
The underlying theme
of Jesus» words and
actions is seen throughout the New Testament, and is summarized in Jesus» own words in Matthew 22:37 - 40: «And he said unto him, Thou shalt
love the Lord thy God
with all thy heart, and
with all thy soul, and
with all thy mind.
For Holloway, a suicide always ultimately is an
action that is seeking to recover or affirm a deeper
love of self, a
love of what should have been even though now seemingly thwarted, because life seems filled
with an unhappiness that should not be there.
Laws that are intended to produce
loving actions in one culture
with one particular people in a particular set
of circumstances, may actually produce unloving
actions when applied to another group
of people in a different set
of circumstances.
It is more a matter
of living the faith than proving it, as the document clearly states repeatedly
with full scripturalauthority:» «Faith working through
love» (Gal 5:6) becomes a new criterion
of understanding and
action that changes the whole
of man's life (cf. Rom 12:2; Col 3:9 - 10; Eph 4:20 - 29; 2 Cor 5:17).»
Greater
Love Has No Man The washing
of the disciples» feet, then, is closely associated in meaning
with Jesus» symbolic
action with the bread and the wine in the synoptic accounts
of the last supper.
A Response to Responses») writes: «Today the uniqueness
of Jesus can be found in his insistence that salvation or the Reign
of God must be realised in this world through human
actions of love and justice,
with a special concern for the victims
of oppression or exploitation.»
Christ is «
of one substance
with the Father»; but the utmost, and inmost, it is given us to know
of God's «substance» is that he is
love — as such he is revealed in Christ — and
love is not a metaphysical essence but personal moral will and
action.
Again, the parable is not showing that the neighbor was the victim and that we should therefore copy the Samaritan's
actions in order to show «
love to our neighbor», but rather, it is highlighting the way to tell who the neighbor is — and who we should «
love» like one
of the family — by noting his
actions towards us (the victim in the parable); and not judge on the basis
of apparent allegiance, or who we feel more comfortable
with, or who does our commandments (acts like us).
It is this idea which can and must bring us the spiritual fire without which all material fires, so laboriously lighted, will presently die down on the surface
of the thinking earth: the fire inspiring us
with the joy
of action and the
love of life.