Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.
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1 Corinthians 3:1:
Brothers and sisters, I could not address you as spiritual but as worldly – mere infants in Christ.
(NIV)
HOWEVER, BRETHREN, I could not talk to you as to spiritual [men], but as to nonspiritual [men of the flesh, in whom the carnal nature predominates], as to mere infants [in the new life] in Christ [unable to talk yet!](AMP)
And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
(KJV)
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Now the alternative to despair is courage. And human life can be viewed as a continuous struggle between these two options. Courage is the capacity to affirm one's life in spite of the elements which threaten it. The fact that courage usually predominates over despair in itself tells us something important about life. It tells you that the forces that affirm life are stronger than those that negate it.
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Nature predominates over the human will in all works of even the fine arts, in all that respects their material and external circumstances. Na...
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Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other
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Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
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