To the degree you experience God's love towards you - seeing you as beautiful and radiant - to that degree sex won't ruin your life.
Interpretation
Experiencing God's love helps us understand our worth, leading to healthier relationships and a positive approach to intimacy.
This quote by Timothy Keller emphasizes the importance of feeling loved and valued, particularly in a spiritual context. When one comprehends the depth of God's love and sees themselves as beautiful and radiant, it fosters a sense of self-worth that can protect against the potential negative impacts of sexual relationships. Essentially, a strong foundation of divine love can guide individuals in navigating their intimate lives more healthily and meaningfully.
In practice
This quote could be used in a sermon to highlight the significance of God's love in how we view ourselves.
Falling in love in a Christian way is to say,'I am excited about your future and I want to be part of getting you there. I'm signing up for the journey with you. Would you sign up for the journey to my true self with me? It's going to be hard but I want to get there.
Only in Jesus Christ do we see how the untamable, infinite God can become a baby and a loving Savior. On the cross we see how both the love and the holiness of God can be fulfilled at once.
All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage.
To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.
God's Kingdom is "present in its beginnings, but still future in its fullness. This guards us from an under-realized eschatology (expecting no change now) and an over-realized eschatology (expecting all change now). In this stage, we embrace the reality that while we're not yet what we will be, we're also no longer what we used to be.
Thou tyrant, tyrant Jealousy, Thou tyrant of the mind!
Love makes the world go 'round, it's true, but lust stops the world in its tracks; love renders bearable the passage of time, lust causes time to stand still, lust kills time, which is not to say that it wastes it or whiles it aimlessly away but rather that it annihilates it, cancels it, extirpates it from continuum; preventing, while lasts, any lapse into the tense and shabby woes of temporal society, lust is the thousand-pound odometer needle on the dashboard of the absolute.
Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
The God of love my shepherd is, And he that doth me feed: While he is mine, and I am his, What can I want or need?
Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.
I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.
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