Free Essays on Love And God

  1. Love Sex and God in Four Dimensions

    Love Sex and God in Four Dimensions The question of sexual ethics is complicated. Humans have the unique property of having the animalistic need for sex, the natural desire for procreation, but also the conscience that comes from our humanity. This is further complicated by other facets of society and...

  2. Philosophy of Love

    Love has been defined as “an intense feeling of deep affection” or “to feel a deep romantic or sexual attachment to (someone).” It is an emotion that has been simplified, mystified, and tragically reduced to secular interpretation. To understand the real concept of love is to yearn for perfect love...

  3. Nature of Love: St. Maximos and Sufism

    death. In this paper I will explore the nature of love. More specifically, I will explore the concept of love as it relates to the writings of St. Maximos the Confessor and Sufism. The heart of spiritual life is love and spiritual life is about how we love. The spiritual teachings of both Sufism and St...

  4. Different Levels of Meaning in George Herbert’s Poem, Love

    This unique love poem by George Herbert seems both simple and complex at the same time. There are many levels which display the depth of Herbert’s writing. He gives a three stanza poem, six lines each with the rhyme scheme of: A, B, A, B, C, C, and the lines alternating ten and six syllables. This simple...

  5. To Know the Love of Christ

    know the love of Christ Eph 3:19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God. • Our human minds cannot comprehend the love of God. • It passeth knowledge and understanding. • To be filled with all the fullness of God, you have...

  6. Explain love within Christianity

    the concept of love within Christianity C.S Lewis explores the nature of ‘love’ from a Christian perspective “Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God because God is love” all forms of love come from God, who is the very source of love itself. Situation...

  7. Saying Yes to God

    sick and tired of being sick and tired? Well if so, I will like to take this time out to introduce you the remedy of all your problems. God, the true and living God, the one who has giving his son to save us from our sins. I know many of you have heard of him but how many of you have had the chance to...

  8. Confessions: Language as a Simplified Pathway Towards God

    towards God Since Augustine has a firm belief that human beings, born sinful, and “glued” to pleasures, are unable to reach true happiness unless they pursue God (or a better understanding of God). Writing Confessions, he tries and hopes to enlighten humanity by providing aids to find God. However...

  9. The Ideology of God

    think that the best way to know is to love many things (Vincent va gough)Compare in which the two novels present the influence of God. The ideology of God is expressed in many different contexts throughout the novel, many of the characters exploit the qualities of God and often became reliant on his power...

  10. If God Is Such a Loving God. Why Does He Allow Sin and Suffering?

    “If God is a loving God, then why does he let sin and suffering happen?” By: Banna Maxfield 11 Silver In the Catholic tradition there is a belief in a loving God. In order to understand the catholic view’s on whether God is a loving God or not, an examination of the unique and loving relationship...

  11. God Is Responsible for Everything That Happens in the Universe – Discuss

    God is responsible for everything that happens in the universe – discuss St. Augustine was walking on the seashore thinking about God’s nature when he noticed a boy doing something strange. After filling his bucket with water, the boy then poured it into a hole in the sand. He did this several times...

  12. Analyze of “How Do I Love Thee?” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    The poem I am choosing to analyze is “How do I love thee?” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. In her sonnet Mrs. Browning is expressing her unconditional love for her husband and God. The overall theme of the poem is intense love, it is also an Italian sonnet, and a lyric poem. Lyric poems are poems that...

  13. Book Review God Has a Dream

    First Book Club Meeting: God Has a Dream – Desmond Tutu Synopsis of Impressions Desmond Tutu’s God Has a Dream is a book that revives the Christian spirit in many ways. God Has a Dream is an engaging piece of literature that renews one’s faith in humanity and brings about a new vision of hope...

  14. Love and Attractions

    Love and attraction Love and attraction are topics that this society wants to figure out. They are two very different things, and yet one of the most confusing topics. Not many will know the meaning of love, just the pain and the errors of life. What’s the difference between knowing that you love...

  15. What Is Love?

    - By Mrs. E. G. White. - (Concluded.) Christ and his obedient children love one another. Their tastes are identical. The true followers of Jesus are so abiding in him that they love that which he loves, and hate that which he hates. One spirit pervades the whole body. How then can the branches...

  16. The Battle of God

    there is no real answer, and that question is the existence of God. There have been endless arguments and controversies in the philosophical world and the religious world trying to answer the question of whether or not God is real. Some say God is a thing to answer the questions of the unknown, and some...

  17. What is Love

    What is Love? In today’s society, love is most often contemplated as a romantic innervation between two people. However, it also exists between friends, relatives, and even your worst enemies. When you say, “I love you” to someone or you say that you love something, do you know what you are saying...

  18. Major Gods of Hinduism

     Essay List the three major gods of modern Hinduism and give a brief description of each Just like in most religions, people who practice Hinduism believe in god(s). Similar to Christian trinity of God as the father, Son and Holy Ghost, Hindus have the Trinity...

  19. In the Hands of God

    When I heard I had to write an essay on “In the hands of God”. I thought “what am I going to write?” Then I thought about it. I thought about how I hear this topic every Sunday in church and how it’s so easy. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty...

  20. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

    October 2009 Love: And What We Talk about Raymond Carver’s “What we Talk About When we Talk About Love” from the start the reader has the image of two couples having a get together drinking around a table. Carver portrays these characters drinking gin with a little buzz and the topic love is brought...

  21. Romeo and Juliet - Lust vs Love

    the lovers to love openly and thus, they took their lives for the other, hence settling their quarrelling families. In Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet, the idea of real love has been mistaken for infatuation. In the play Romeo and Juliet, their love seems to be infatuation rather than real love as the both...

  22. Love Dare

    Day 1. Today's Dare   The first part of this dare is fairly simple. Although love is communicated in a number of ways, our words often reflect the condition of our heart. For the next day, resolve to demonstrate patience and to say nothing negative to your spouse at all. If the temptation arises...

  23. What do we learn about God and humankind (theology and anthropology) in Genesis 1-3?

    What a God there was in creation, furthermore what a God there is in redemption. The God who gave the Bible as a revelation to humanity that reveals His character. The God who is love who loved His creation first before creation loved Him.1 The God who created the heavens and the earth in the...

  24. The Kingdom of God

    when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, “The kingdom of God does not come with your careful observation, nor will people say, 'Here it is,' or 'There it is,' because the kingdom of God is within you. What Jesus is trying to tell the Pharisees is that the Kingdom of God is eternal and spiritual...

  25. Love Thee

    Love thee How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.  I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of everyday's Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.  I love thee freely, as men...

  26. One Word: God

    God God and he being behind it all, blessed me these 21 years of my life. Without him I could forever be lost. I had many times to fall away from my given path, and at times I did. I don’t always know if it’s part of a plan or not, but I am a lucky young woman to be where I am today. God saved me and...

  27. Gods Love

    often find her crying in her bedroom, sometimes even when she was cooking dinner. Every night I would hear her pray to God to give her the strength she needed. She would talk to God and repeat, ?Please help me? over and over again. I remember feeling so sad. My mother was in so much pain. I was only...

  28. It's All About Love

    What is it all about? - It's all about Love. “According to philosophers, the only goal of life is to be happy. And there is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved. Love is essentially an abstract concept, much...

  29. Love?

    4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres...

  30. The Love Revolution

    drinking water, and 270 million without access to any medical services whatsoever. 83746 i-xiv 001-258 r2vk.indd 1 7/13/09 2:21:19 PM 2 THE LOVE REVOLUTION Are these statistics as staggering to you as they are to me? I hope so. They are the stunning, sobering facts of life in the world in...

  31. Love: a Positive and Uplifting Aspect Not Limited to Physical Desires

    Signifying that this love is not limited to physical desires, but transcends the human body and reaches a much higher and nobler level. She also equates her love for her husband with those things she needs to live, 'to the level of every day's Most quiet need'. In other words she loves him as much as her...

  32. Love Your Enemies

    into a position where I thought I had to lash back out and explain and defend myself to others...to tell my side of the story, but after much prayer God began to reveal to me why certain things were the way they were and how to handle it the right way...his way. So here's a little friendly advice... ...

  33. Thier Eyes Were Watching God. Essay

    Unknown language arts Their eyes were watching god essay Love and indepence Love and Independence, a division between together, and alone. In the book "their eyes were watching god" Janie shows her strong and her dependent side several times through out the story. Most of the time one may see...

  34. Peace Love and Grandpa Blakeslee

    such as God. Many people live accordingly to the rules of God, and in turn are directed in leading a better life. In the brilliant novel Cold Sassy Tree, by Olive Ann Burns, Grandpa Blakeslee is such a person. Whenever Grandpa faces an obstacle, he turns to God. Grandpa turns to God whenever...

  35. Saved by love

    Saved by Love Even though love can’t make a person succeed in life sometimes, Victor Hugo uses the theme of compassion to show that a person’s life can be changed in a positive way. To begin with, Marius saves his neighbor, the Jondrettes, from being homeless by paying the rent for them. After...

  36. Sinner in the Hands of an Angry God

    an angry god Jonathan Edwards talks a lot about god being angry. He implies that God will throw us in hell as soon as he gets the chance. He also says that “...the world would spew you out, were it not for the sovereign hand of him who hath subjected it in hope”. According to Jonathan, God “abhors”...

  37. Overcoming Odds with Love

    OVERCOMING ODDS WITH LOVE! The five events that shaped my life are struggle, pain, heartbreak, change, and VICTORY. Though things were hard, it was prayer that kept me standing. Growing up, I wasn’t as fortunate as everyone else; I went through being talked about. I went through feeling rejected,...

  38. Eyes Were Watching God Essay

    Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zara Neal Hurston, a young woman named Janie faces many challenges and follows her dream of finding true love. Her image of true love came to her as she was sitting down beneath a tree. But unfortunately, early in the beginning, her image of true love is destroyed when Nanny...

  39. Is God real

    IS GOD REAL? Science gives ample reason to believe in God. Why is DNA important? British philosopher, Dr. Antony Flew, was a leading spokesperson for atheism, actively involved in debate after debate. However, scientific discoveries within the last 30 years brought him to a conclusion he could...

  40. Their Eyes Were Watching God

    third husband and was the key to Janie’s spiritual growth. Tea Cake is Janie’s first real love and the ideal husband for both her and Nanny. Although Tea Cake physically harms her by beating her, he truly loves her and respects her for who she is. Unlike Logan and Jody, Tea Cake allows Janie freely express...

  41. God, Goodness, and Evil: an Interpretation

    God, Goodness, and Evil: An Interpretation Who is God? What is evil? If God is morally good, just, righteous, knowledgeable, and all-powerful than why is there evil in the world? To begin, let’s examine what the definition of good and evil are. Good is the inclusion of morally positive acts, while...

  42. Their Eyes Were Watching God

    Their eyes were watching God Key facts -full title  · Their Eyes Were Watching God -author  · Zora Neale Hurston -type of work  · Novel -genre  · Bildungsroman (coming-of-age novel), American Southern spiritual journey -language  · English -time and place written  · Written in seven weeks during...

  43. Existence of God Summary

    In order to prove the existence of God, philosophers provided the following arguments and there is the weakness of these following arguments. The first one is Ontological argument. The ontological argument is based on arguments about a "being greater than which cannot be conceived". This argument...

  44. Love

    Love Is….. Love is giving the little girl with the pigtails and the blue barettes the other half of your peanut butter sandwich even though its your favorite and you were told not to share. Love is jumping into the bad boys’ car your mother always warned you about. Love is giving yourself fully...

  45. Love in "Their Eyes Were Watching God"

    Love plays a very important role in Zora Neale Hurston's “Their Eyes were watching God.” This is a statement that Bertrand Russell agrees with in her quote, “To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.” Love is the essence of life and everybody has the obligation...

  46. What God Has in Mind for You

    What God has in mind for you Jer 29:11-13 For I know the purposes (plans) which I am purposing for you, says (declares) the Lord; purposes of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you shall call on Me, and you shall go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. And you shall...

  47. How Would I Imagine God

    God is the creator of the universe and the creator of the Holy Spirit and Jesus also. Jesus is God and the Holy Spirit is God and God is God. This is known as the Trinity and is important to the understanding of the Catholic faith. It is also important to understand that God is spirit, but he is...

  48. love

    that I would not have done to be able to hold you in my arms and look at you in love and awe. I worked hard to get you here, spent many nights laying in bed dreaming of what life would be once you arrived, I prayed to God for you so often, it became a mantra,. In order to bring you into this world, mommy...

  49. God V.S. the Teenage Soul

    Charles D. Hill III 09/29/09 English 111 Narrative Essay Godly Love and The Truth Within You I lived in Oakland, Ca all my life. From first grade to fourth I lived with my grandparents and cousin, spending most of my time going on vacations, getting everything I wanted and living a lavish...

  50. Children of God

    As a child of God, I can be a sign of God’s presence in the world here and now. I can do so by doing what God taught us through Jesus, His son. I can follow His will and do good deeds, no matter how small, like not talking when the teacher’s teaching us a lesson, doing my homework, not saying bad things...

  51. Love ESSAY

    Love is a slow form of suicide. Love is not patient and love is not kind. It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is more painful is to love someone and never find the courage to tell them how you feel about them. Maybe god wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting...

  52. The Decision of Love

    received an email that asked the question “What is Love?”. The answers were from a group of children ages four to six years old. Their minds amazed me. Some of the answers were funny, “Love is when mommy gives daddy the best piece of fried chicken” or “Love is when mommy sees daddy on the toilet and she...

  53. The Lack of Parental Love and Its Feminine Aspects Towards the Monster in Mary Shelleys Frankenstein

    Marie Meixnerová May 7, 2008 The Lack Of Parental Love And Its Feminine Aspects Towards The Monster In Mary Shelleys Frankenstein This essay will explore how important are feminine elements (that means either share some features connected primarily with women behavior or have been influenced by...

  54. love hate

    09/06/2013 “Love and Hate” Honestly I am not sure where to start when it comes to the discussion of love and hate. I will do the best I can to express my opinions on the writing topic. When It comes to love I feel as if we have lost almost all understanding of what real love is. As humans...

  55. Their Eyes Are Watching God

    Their Eyes Were Watching God Quotes Directions: Know the meaning of each quote and its importance to the novel/characters. 1. “‘Yes indeed. You know if you pass some people and don’t speak tuh suit ’em dey got tuh go away back in yo’ life and see whut you ever done. They know mo ’bout yuh...

  56. A Gift from God

    A Gift from God It was a depressing night full of gray shades of darkness and heavy rain. My girlfriend, Erin, and I were slumbering on her bed, when suddenly she thrusts my hands off her and sat up. “We need to talk; I have something important to say. She uttered. I got up and sat beside her...

  57. Presentations of God in Children's Literature

    Presentations of God in Children’s Literature: His Dark Materials and The Chronicles of Narnia In recent years no series of children’s books have caused quite so much controversy as Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy. While also gaining attention for the success of the series (having sold...

  58. The Twenty-First Century Love

    Century Love Love is the only word communicable to express the indescribable feelings we have for our significant other, friends, and family. After my teenage years and many girlfriends later, I have learned there are several meanings of our twenty-first century love. The ideology of love has changed...

  59. Disciples Are Created in the Image of God

    created in the image of God, yet fallen and choosing to learn.” The Bible tells us that God made man in His image (Gen. 1:26, 27). Barna, in Growing True Disciples, ask us to consider the heart of God and states that his sole purpose for creating mankind was for man to learn, love, and serve Him and...

  60. Kingdom of God

    The Kingdom of God The Kingdom of God is GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY Bible 123 Sept. 18, 2009 The kingdom of God is transformed to so many forms of interpretation. A kingdom is a territory ruled over by a king. (Gen 10:10) the term “Kingdom of God” or heaven used interchangeably, refers to...