We want to make the maximum impact
with our expressions of love.
Notes
with expressions of love and protest adorn a wall at National Mill.
I did point out that this was a play
with expressions of love, something that many students find a giggly distraction.
Some cases are hereditary, parents, themselves raised in a negative environment
with no expression of love, guidance, support or positive communication are prone to modelling this parenting style.
Not exact matches
These three brands have tapped into something deeper in all
of us
with their spot - on video advertising campaigns that, respectively, inspire our
love of nature and adventure, our need for human connection and the desire for creative thought and
expression.
Because
of this, we've learned to
love the solitude and to come up
with ways to fill the silence, whether that be having imaginary friends, turning to writing or art, or another outlet for
expression.
With each daily
expression of gratitude, you will create a vibrational match for
love, joy, and abundance.
I have seen such
expressions of love: A husband gently washing his wife's face
with a cool washcloth, cupping the back
of her bald head in his hand to get to the nape
of her neck, because she is too weak to lift it from the pillow.
What was his drive to perfect his writing and craft but an
expression of a real
love of the good, though undoubtedly mixed
with some idea
of the practical benefits (fame, fortune)
of writing well?
This is the central point
of man that is different than animal as we were gifted
with capacity to worship God (worship is closely connected
with the emotive
expressions of love).
With Joseph, for instance, he craves physical affection, while I don't naturally require (let alone give) that as an
expression of love.
But we all know that it can also be a very bad
expression of love, as
with rape or abuse, which has nothing to do
with love and everything to do
with power, domination etc..
He closes
with a renewed
expression of his
love for you and signs
with the name by which you call him.
Some don't want to go beyond the first three stages
of faith (Hadberg / Geulich) and so leave to find a more religious
expression that they are comfortable
with and that's fine providing they admit it, rather than rubbishing off what they once
loved.
Let us here again recall Socrates, for what was the Socratic ignorance if not an
expression for his
love of the learner, and for his sense
of equality
with him?
Shouldn't the sin
of rebellion against God be repaid
with a deprivation
of God's Law, the greatest
expression of His own particular
love for the Jews?
Indeed,
with the Incarnation, the Crucifixion, and the Resurrection more intensely and vividly present to him, one imagines at these times than at others, it is not abstinence from sexual communion, but rather (one would suggest) the fullest, most joyful, most grateful
expression of it that becomes at such times his just response to the costly redeeming
love of God.
Sexuality is a dimension
of personal existence in which the meaning
of love is to be learned and in which
love between persons reaches a depth, intimacy and creativity
of expression which is incomparable
with most other
loves.
I knew someone that had been so abused physically and mentally by men, that her only
expression of love and sexuality was through connections
with women.
The Gospel presents the figure
of the Christ as the
expression of a non-coercive
love which draws the world in its freedom toward a finer community
of being.49 As Whitehead envisions the Christian message, Christ taught, lived, and died
with the authority
of a supreme ideal.
The just war tradition makes theological sense as an
expression of the character
of communities concerned daily
with justice and
with loving our near and distant neighbors.
When a parent or
loved one trusts you
with their thoughts and decision - making on end -
of - life care, it is one
of the highest
expressions of trust.
Or, seen from the opposite perspective, creation (and
with it all
of human history) is a partial
expression of the exchange
of love between the three divine persons from all eternity.
The individual stories still speak at points
with qualities
of expression characteristic
of their origin and background in ancient folklore, when the stories were primarily motivated by etiology
of one sort or another, or by the
love, simply,
of a good story, or by the desire to entertain and to be entertained.
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.
Equal regard under the
love of God, coupled
with the remaining emotional, relational, and symbolic - expressive aspects
of persons
with advanced dementia, leads us to reject the rationalistic outlook captured in the
expression «I think, therefore I am.»
Physical
expressions of love of a member
of one's own gender need not conflict
with putting God first in one's life.
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.
His own conquest
of temptation was intimately connected
with and, indeed, the very
expression of, his holy
love, his living for others.
What we shall be considering is the relatively close - knit unit or group, composed
of a few people — normatively,
of course, a family in the ordinary sense but also other possible associations that involve the presence
of a person
with several others, so that there can be an
expression of belonging,
with mutual
love and concern, sympathy, and understanding, and hence the opportunity and occasion for enrichment and growth in each
of the participants.
And third, the way
of love is to put the emphasis on a positive respect for one's body as the temple
of God's spirit, on one's money as held in stewardship from God for constructive uses, on one's mind as needing to be kept clear and vigorous for God's service, on one's spirit and all one's social contacts as best finding active
expression with «relaxation and warm fellowship» through channels that require no artificial stimulation.
But for the process - thinker if God is in fact creator,
with creative activity in
love as his very heart, then he can not be the God he is, and hence not really God, unless there is a world in which his creativity is expressed and which itself is an
expression of that creativity, and unless he is «affected» by that world and what happens in it.
Israel experienced this invitation and its consequence — the covenant
with God — as an
expression of His saving, liberating
love.
When sin is defined in terms
of sexual purity, the focus
of the Christian life shifts away from
expression of love for God and neighbor to an obsession
with internal conflict between «higher» and «lower» impulses.
But most
of us, confronted
with a shaking event, a presence undefined and ineffable, but persistently there, a gesture
of human
love undeserved and graceful, are (what is the
expression?)
That God's
love, manifest in diverse ways throughout the duration
of the universe, might come to a full and unsurpassable self -
expression in an individual human being who lived and died in the Middle East almost two thousand years ago does not seem incongruous
with what we now understand about the nature
of an evolving universe, especially if we regard religion as a phenomenon emergent from the universe rather than just something done on the earth by cosmically homeless human subjects.
These two will to all eternity remain in agreement
with one another,
with a well - timed harmonia praestabilita, so that if ever the moment were to come, the moment which does not, however, concern them finitely (for then they would be growing older), if ever the moment were to come which offered to give
love its
expression in time, then they will be capable
of beginning precisely at the point where they would have begun if originally they had been united.
But Abraham believed precisely for this life, that he was to grow old in the land, honored by the people, blessed in his generation, remembered forever in Isaac, his dearest thing in life, whom he embraced
with a
love for which it would be a poor
expression to say that he loyally fulfilled the father's duty
of loving the son, as indeed is evinced in the words
of the summons, «the son whom thou lovest.»
1 — God exists 2 — God desires an
expression of His glory 3 — God creates mankind 4 — God
loves His creation 5 — Mankind rebels against God 6 — God implements plan to redeem mankind (a demonstration
of pure GRACE) back into communion
with Him, not because
of our worthiness, but only for His glory.
For if Bultmann's final defense
of an existentialist theology is not that it is apologetically imperative, but that it is,
with respect to belief, the contemporary
expression of the Pauline doctrine that we are justified by faith alone without the works
of the law, it seems to me that the final and comparably sufficient defense
of a liberation theology is that it is,
with respect to action, the contemporary
expression of the equally Pauline doctrine that the only faith that justifies is the faith that works by
love.
God as
love - in - action is more than any particular
expression of His
love (hence He is transcendent); God as
love - in - action is always available (hence He is onmipresent); God as
love - in - action is able to envisage every situation in its deepest and truest reality and accommodate Himself to it, so that He can indeed achieve His
loving ends (hence He is omniscient and omnipotent); God as
love - inaction is unswerving in His
love, unfailing in its
expression, unyielding in His desire to confront men
with the demands
of love (hence He is righteous).
Such notions have little or nothing to do
with love; they are a matter
of human justice which may be a mode
of love's
expression in certain situations but they are also very misleading because
love is ultimately not concerned
with «justice» in the vulgar sense — it is above justice, whose interest is either retributive or distributive, for the interest
of love is
with persons, persons in society
with their fellows, and the fulfillment
of selves in the giving - and - receiving which is mutuality or union.
Mysteriously, we can resist; but when Jesus opened His arms on the Cross it was an
expression of love that was made
with enough power to draw all ages to Himself (cf. John 12:32)- «God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself» (II Cor.
The romantic or idealistic
love between a teenage boy and girl (frequently still to be found even in our modern sensualised world) may also be accompanied by a desire to show bodily affection - a desire filled
with a tenderness and respect that operate as a curb, not only on lust if it seeks to assert itself, but also on bodily
expressions of love which would not be true to the real existential relationship between the couple.
It's not to do
with human nature per se; it's to do
with sin: envy, jealousy, possessiveness, quarrelling, a lack
of willingness to forgive and forget, infidelity, manipulation, the desire to control and dominate, lack
of consideration in matters to do
with running a home as well as in the bedroom (sex can be one
of the highest
expressions of love between a man and a woman; it can also be incredibly selfish); hearts that are consistently closed to new life.
For twenty centuries the Christian faith has struggled to come to terms
with culture, and
with the Christian ethic
of love has both informed and challenged the various
expressions of civilized culture, particularly in the areas
of science, art and education.
Our human
loving,
with its sexual overtones and its physical
expression, can thus be set in the context
of a divine - human
loving that redeems it from triviality, frustration, and ultimate irrelevance.
The Kingdom
of God is a reality here and now, but can be perfect only in the eternal order... The primary principle
of Christian Ethics and Christian Politics must be respect for every person simply as a person... The person is primary, not the society; the State exists for the citizen, not the citizen for the State... freedom is the goal
of politics... Freedom, Fellowship, Service — these are the three principles
of a Christian social order, derived from the more fundamental Christian postulates that Man is a child
of God and is destined for a life
of eternal fellowship
with Him...
Love... finds its primary
expression through Justice — which in the field
of industrial disputes means in practice that each side should state its own case as strongly as possibly it can before the most impartial tribunal available...
And last, the spiritual unity
with Being which the mystic desires is for Schweitzer attained through giving
expression to the natural proclivity within us
of the will - to - relatedness, or
love, and by becoming united in ethical concern
with all forms
of life in the world about us.
As a matter
of fact,
with the full consciousness
of our own historical agency, we become aware that the justice which
love inevitably seeks and in which it finds
expression is, above all, political justice.