It Must Have Been Love

weeds. No new life can spring up on the ground until it is first plowed. Plowing a field will be extremely hard work and it will take up time, but in order to have a crop, the field must be plowed. In understanding that a field must be plowed before seeds are sown, the field will produce a health crop. However, I believe that many of us have forgotten this fact when it comes to the Word of God and someone’s heart. As I read Matthew 13 the parable of the sower, I see that a person’s heart is…

Augustine referred to the love of God as the “City of God”, which contrasts the “Earthly City”, that revolves around the love of self that he calls “amor sui. He believed that humans are defined by what we love, and God and neighbor must be placed above all else. Any lessor focus such as wealth, pleasure, or power is in the contempt of God because love has been directed in the wrong places. This doesn’t mean you cannot love yourself or anything other than God, but you must understand that since…

Love is not easily seized and it is not easily broken. Love is an emotion that humans always have control over even if they were being oppressed in other ways. Love has always fostered hope for people in the face of fear and allowed them to look forward to a better day. In the Soviet Union, in Communist China, and even in Nazi Germany, love could not be changed and was something that people of those nations were free to practice on their own. But this was not the case in Oceania, and Orwell made…

granted, must be affiliated with love, and should always be married. Women often hide their “desires” to protect the reputation that they must maintain to keep status in society. In Women’s Novels the heroine needs to wear a costume to cover over her breast and all discretion. Women have to keep their sexuality to themselves and pretend to not have any sexual feelings towards their partners, only men can dominate over her and the heroine…

My Christianity experience began from birth. I was baptized and confirmed as a Catholic. I practiced that faith until God called my husband, who had been in Protestant ministry, to a higher position in his church. I switched to be the “Helpmeet” I felt God wanted me to be. There are many similarities in practices and beliefs in both faiths so it was not a hard transition. The author of our text book begins the chapter on Christianity by saying “Christianity is basically a historical…

as a character in the Symposium. The date for when Plato wrote the Symposium is not exactly known, but it is believed by scholars to have been written likely no earlier than 385 BC. The setting of the story itself, however, takes place several decades earlier, c. 416 BC. The story takes place at a party in that year in which the host, Agathon has just recently been named victorious at a drama competition. The main dialogue of the story starts off when one of the party’s attendants, Eryximachus,…

In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Shakespeare uses paradoxes to establish the complex relationship between love and hate. A paradox consists of two phrases or ideas that lead to a contradiction, yet when investigated, reveal a deeper truth. The paradoxes of the play propose a hidden theme. For example, the relationship between Romeo and Juliet develops conflicting emotions and paradoxical situations. The depiction of Romeo and Juliet as youthful and ignorant leads to their own…

Much Ado About Nothing is a Shakespeare comedy, which takes place in Messina, Italy. This play focuses on love, romance, and courtships, with a deeper perspective highlighting the brutality of gossip, rumors, lies, and deceptions. Much hurt, complication and stress are piled on top deceptions learned of through eavesdropping, or in Elizabethan English, noting. In Elizabethan English “nothing,” was pronounced: “noting.” This is how Shakespeare came to the title of the play, for much is done over…

concept of romantic love. Many people have formed their opinions about romantic love, however there has been a great amount of research that includes factual information about the concept. Robert Sternberg is considered a pioneer in the concept of love and has developed a theory. This theory is called the triangular theory of love. This theory is considered to be one of the best researched and is used most often. To understand the two situations presented in the prompt, one must first…

The stories, “"A Temporary Matter" ” by Jhumpa Lahiri and "Love Must Not Be Forgotten by Zhang Jie, use the elements, character and symbolism to discuss love and reveals that love must be equally invested within a relationship to keep the relationship active. Analyzing the symbolism in "A Temporary Matter" , It can be said that since Shoba and Shukumar lost the baby, they have both lost the love and passion to nourish their relationship by focusing on food and the pantry. “The pantry was…