How To Use Agape In A Sentence
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Christians are urged to practice agape: love not as sexual desire, not as a devotion to something transcendent, not as friendship, but as charity.
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She stood looking at Carmen with her mouth agape.
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Relena and Tamika stared at Lynn, mouths agape.
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As the story progresses, his conspicuous use of foreign terms - agapemone, desiderata, virgo intacta, pace, esprit fort - makes us increasingly ill-disposed to tolerate his point of view.
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And they both just stood here with their mouths agape and wondering what had made the bucket spin like that.
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He was left alone and agape.
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We watched, our mouths agape in excitement.
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A group of three small children sat next to me agape and giggled in awe.
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With my mouth agape I shook her hand, dumbfounded.
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Grant's book is a highly nuanced examination of much of the literature on altruism and agape, while also giving some attention to recent considerations of eros and philia.
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As it is not generally known that the "Agapemone" had a prototype in the celebrated _Family of Love_, some account of this "wicked sect" may not at this moment be without interest to your readers: --
Notes and Queries, Number 34, June 22, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
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Pope Benedict has given us an initial stab at the challenge in Deus caritas est in his treatment of the relationship between eros and agape and the transformation of disordered eros into an ordered eros that provides the vitality for agape love.
Pope John Paul II
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The schooner was called Le Carcajou—the Wolverine—and her figurehead was a carving of the beast, mouth agape and fangs bared, claws ready to strike.
City of Glory
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Rimbault (Edward F) on Agapemone of the sixteenth century, 50.
Notes and Queries, Index of Volume 2, May-December, 1850 A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc.
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In the past 10 years alone, I have tried meditation groups, Buddhism, Agape, Conservative Judaism, shamanism and many more.
Holly Sidell: To Return To Yourself
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God's infinity is not formlessness but rather the beauty of a boundless agape, eternally and freely shared within the Trinity.
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New Testament the same idea is expressed in the Greek word agape, which is variously translated as love, compassion, charity, etc.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
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I know, for example, that in Greek there are three words for love: agape, philia, and eros.
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Lewis Ayres says that the distinction between eros and agape does not work for Augustine.
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The difference between Akil, Agape, and the rest of the slaves, was that they understood d' Armano meant them no harm.
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This ritual blessing of bread and wine was usually performed within the context of a meal called the agape.
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He was left alone and agape.
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Then the herd picked up and moved on, leaving us bundled up against the cold, our mouths agape, wondering if what we witnessed was real or some sort of illusion in the arctic fog.
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The next week they toured Europe with a Bartok third quartet that had virtuoso fiddlers agape with admiration.
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Consequently the absence of an Agapè table from the Christian hypogeum may in future help in dating hypogea.
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Desire is frightening to Christians who are used to saying that only agape - unconditional, self-emptying love - is truly Christian.
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Some just stood there, their mouths agape, stunned by what the old woman had just said.
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Her eyes were popping and her mouth was agape in horror.
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They cruise slowly through the water, cavernous mouths agape, skin covered in a foul-smelling mucous and often trailing long threads of algae from their long pectoral fins.
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God gives you agape love - deep, unconditional, fatherly love.
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At the center stands an unapologetic Christian account of agape.
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Nero's mouth is slightly agape and odd, gurgling noises come from within.
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It may be brilliant political jujitsu - conceding the opposition's most damning point leaves them with mouths agape and little to say - or it may be nuts.
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The kind of love I believe they mean is this agape, unconditional love.
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Anders Nygren's typology of eros and agape gets taken up throughout.
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For in the cross, God's interruption of 'history' and the very grace by which we are given to live vulnerably in history, by way of the excess of God's agapeic love which comes ever anew from
Faith and Theology
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The fish lay at the back of the boat, its mouth agape, its eyes staring sightlessly at us.
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I exclaimed, my mouth agape and my finger pointing straight at the gentleman in question.
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One of us, at least, was stirred at Renard's calm assumption -- the assumption so common to artists, who, when they see a good thing at once count on its possessorship, as if the whole world, indeed, were eternally sitting, agape with impatience, awaiting the advent of some painter to sketch in its portrait.
In and out of Three Normady Inns
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It's called "gazumping" in England, the process by which someone selling a piece of property accepts an offer from one buyer, maybe even going so far as to shake hands on it, then quickly — and often surreptitiously — accepts another, higher, offer from a second buyer, leaving the first buyer with his pockets agape and his heart broken.
Philocrites: One thing you don't learn in seminary.
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Delectio is the Latin word for agape in the Bible, it is a love which honours the other person; it is the love which we are enjoined to love the other person.
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Whereas among the Greeks the primary virtues were practical wisdom, self-restraint, justice and courage, for Paul the primary virtue was agape.
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In other words, such love is still within the province of Eros, whereas, much like Spinoza's third kind of knowledge, agape is intellectual love.
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Agapemone -- which d'you think I ought to put her to -- San Diavolo or Ponte
The Dark Flower
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Thus at least some form of agape is possible independent of Christian faith and hope.
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Pope Benedict has given us an initial stab at the challenge in Deus caritas est in his treatment of the relationship between eros and agape and the transformation of disordered eros into an ordered eros that provides the vitality for agape love.
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I stood there, agape, as a ball of light bloomed in Diana's chest and gradually enveloped her.
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Blessed art thou, bald eagle in blond wood, beak agape, swoop down and clutch us now.
Antiques Fair
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The first had just installed his bride in a house of significant breadth and pomposity, and the other, having detached himself from the parent office, was now executing a comet-like flight that set the entire town astare and agape.
Under the Skylights
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The onlookers are painted in muddy greens and browns, facial features exaggerated into primitive masks, mouths agape or obliterated altogether.
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They did get together, and soon married," Agape ex - plained.
Here There Are Monsters
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At his slightly overwhelmed expression and agape jaw, she snorted bitterly.
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Stan was looking round in wonder, his eyes wide and his mouth agape.
THE MANANA MAN
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When fishermen are throwing away unused bait, the pelicans will descend in noisy throngs and are very adept at catching fish morsels in mid air, mouths agape as they squawk for more!
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He watched with mouth agape.
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Hendricks, quaking with shame and fear, sat shivering before his desk with jaws agape and the forged name gashed into his soul.
A Certain Rich Man
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There were songs sang to emphasise the sad mood, then we journeyed on to my grandfather's house for the agape, which is a funeral luncheon.
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It is an agape feast in the sense that God's love is shared, not only among the participants but also with those who eat and drink and those who are hungry in the world.
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Scinde, musk from Tibet, galbanum from Khorasan; from Afghanistan, asafetida; from Persia, sagapenum; ambergris and civet from Zanzibar, and from Zanzibar came ivory, too.
Messer Marco Polo
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These scriptural images imply that God isn't impassive, and that his love for us is not exclusively agapeic.
Warranted Christian Belief
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Her whole body felt agape, melting in an ecstasy of abandonment.
COMPULSION
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If we work in this way, we offer the possibility that our research will include our own formation of agape, or love for the ‘other.’
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We followed him into the house, trying not to look too much like tourists with our mouths agape.
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They stared at each other, mouths agape and speechless.
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The bridegroom rejoicing over his bride doesn't love her with a merely agapeic love.
Warranted Christian Belief
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Too many craved spiritual gifts and wanted to use them without having agape as their end or aim.
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So you've got to get an enormous charge out of watching the audience with their mouths agape.
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Like most other things, the "Agapemone" wickedness, which has recently disgusted all decent people, does not appear to be a new thing by any means.
Notes and Queries, Number 32, June 8, 1850
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Christ is agape; self - giving, nonresistant love.
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At the NYFF press screening, mouths were agape, eyes entranced during this sequence – and with good reason, as it's fun, end-of-the-world-movie stuff: the slo-mo planetary crash also evokes a pupilary explosion, making for a macro-micro meditation, as well as a kind of update to
Michael Vazquez: 2011's Doomsday Cinema, Part I: Melancholia @ 49th NYFF plus Gainsbourg on Von Trier & Lars' NYFF 47 Press Conference (VIDEO)
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Agape laid in d' Armano's arms, uncaring of the surroundings, his bare feet falling down into my lap.
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Jesus' new commandment is that his followers practice love, agape.
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What a privilege to break the fast with an agape meal
a love feast!
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we stood there agape with wonder
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He may, notwithstanding, as has been recently shown in the famous Agapemone case, keep her under restraint, to prevent her leaving him, provided this be effected without cruelty.
The Book of Household Management
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The audience sat in a stunned silence, their mouths agape at Cohen's audacity.
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Her older sisters stand with their mouths agape.
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This is called "carping," because you look like a carp broaching the surface with your mouth desperately agape.
When Death Is Merely a Paddle Stroke Away
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Both can be used to translate the word "caritas" agape, the highest form of Love.
Archive 2009-07-01
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The next week they toured Europe with a Bartok third quartet that had virtuoso fiddlers agape with admiration.
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Vince watched, his mouth agape in horror.
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The cast members in the wings looked on with mouths agape, but the two on the stage didn't notice, caught up in the sadness and regret an impossible love could provoke.
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The love of God is non-possessive eros; the love of man pure agape; the love of God is passion; the love of man, compassion.
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Her whole body felt agape, melting in an ecstasy of abandonment.
COMPULSION
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The startled crew around us, unaccustomed to hearing a sociopolitical argument in the disco at 1 A.M., looked on with mouths agape.
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For _nuni menei_ (nothing can rob us of the word) _pistis, elpis, agape, ta tria tauta; meizpon de touton he agape_. '
Letters to His Friends
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Three years ago when this Japanese company made its first Montreal appearance, they bowled everyone over and left them with mouths agape, wanting more.
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Even old Washington hands sometimes find themselves with their mouths agape at the brazenness of the latest corporate innovation in ripping off the public.
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In a sudden burst she sat down and gazed at the teacher whose mouth was now agape with shock.
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The ancient Greeks made the distinction between eros and agape.
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His grandmother watched, her toothless mouth agape.
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But agape is love without any thought of reward or benefit.
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It is, as it were, an inexpensive Agapemone: nobody's speculation: everybody's profit.
The Uncommercial Traveller
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Where he voiced a radical vision of a humanity founded on the dual principles of agape (love) and koinonia (communion), Left Behind theology seems to be more of a Save Your Behind theology, one in which Jesus is more of a shill, a name appropriated in hopes of gaining legitimacy.
John R. Coats: What's Real About the Rapture?
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No god mounts guard over the head-water of the Thames; and the only Englishman who boldly claims a divine descent is (I understand) an impostor who runs an Agapemone.
VIII. On the Lineage of English Literature (I)
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After that he told an old beggar woman, he would give her ten dollars if she would get inside the cask, and keep her mouth agape over the taphole, into which he was going to stick his finger.
Popular Tales from the Norse
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The agape did not take the place of an ordinary meal as do the modern church suppers at which people eat to satisfy hunger.
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* A clergyman who had associated himself with H.J. Prince and some others, and founded the “Agapemone” at Spaxton, near Bridgewater.
From Death into Life
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Here there are many good examples of agape friendship.
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with mouth agape
