Tag: love
Love Is … Above Human Reasoning
The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference. ~ Elie Wiesel I remember once someone trying to explain to me…
Reflections on Love and Respect
Laws to enforce respect? Can you have #LoveWithoutRespect or #RespectWithoutLove? 34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. ~ Jn 13:34 Something I never realized is that cases of “elder abuse” are on…
Love Is From the Heart
Here’s one for those who deride love as being an emotion. 22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently: ~ 1Pe 1:22 I’ll just leave this right…
Devouring Widows’ Houses
Homeless woman, Washington DC Used under CCA generic license 38 And in his teaching he said, “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes and like greetings in the marketplaces 39 and have the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at…
Why Loyalty in Marriage?
Photo credit: deeplifequotes via photopin cc 31 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: 32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took…
Science, Fallibility and Love
Harry Harlow with a “wire mother” surrogate nurse and a rhesus monkey subject Hard as it is to believe, during the early Twentieth Century, a whole school of mental health professionals decided that unconditional love was a terrible thing to give a child. The government printed pamphlets warning mothers against…
Call to Action: Summation of Paul’s Writings on “Spiritual Gifts”, What’s Really the Point?
22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. 23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: 24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth…
Can Cognitive Dissonance Explain the False Equating of Keeping the Commandments to Love?
“Moses with the Ten Commandments” Original painting by Rembrandt Is a car an automobile? Careful how you answer. I like to think about things and put them in logical categories, but there is always a danger in doing so. A few months back, Seth Godin wrote “Your first mistake might…
What Are You Willing to Live For?
Plaque at Wheaton College honoring Jim Elliot and Ed McCully for giving their lives on a mission to Ecuador He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose. ~ diary entry of missionary Jim Elliot just before his death Yesterday in “What…
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Love Is … Above Human Reasoning
The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference. ~ Elie Wiesel I remember once someone trying to explain to me…
Reflections on Love and Respect
Laws to enforce respect? Can you have #LoveWithoutRespect or #RespectWithoutLove? 34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. ~ Jn 13:34 Something I never realized is that cases of “elder abuse” are on…
Love Is From the Heart
Here’s one for those who deride love as being an emotion. 22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently: ~ 1Pe 1:22 I’ll just leave this right…
Devouring Widows’ Houses
Homeless woman, Washington DC Used under CCA generic license 38 And in his teaching he said, “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes and like greetings in the marketplaces 39 and have the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at…
Why Loyalty in Marriage?
Photo credit: deeplifequotes via photopin cc 31 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: 32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took…
Science, Fallibility and Love
Harry Harlow with a “wire mother” surrogate nurse and a rhesus monkey subject Hard as it is to believe, during the early Twentieth Century, a whole school of mental health professionals decided that unconditional love was a terrible thing to give a child. The government printed pamphlets warning mothers against…
Call to Action: Summation of Paul’s Writings on “Spiritual Gifts”, What’s Really the Point?
22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. 23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: 24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth…
Can Cognitive Dissonance Explain the False Equating of Keeping the Commandments to Love?
“Moses with the Ten Commandments” Original painting by Rembrandt Is a car an automobile? Careful how you answer. I like to think about things and put them in logical categories, but there is always a danger in doing so. A few months back, Seth Godin wrote “Your first mistake might…
What Are You Willing to Live For?
Plaque at Wheaton College honoring Jim Elliot and Ed McCully for giving their lives on a mission to Ecuador He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose. ~ diary entry of missionary Jim Elliot just before his death Yesterday in “What…