Exempel på agape

• The Greeks separated various facets of love, and those involved in marriage are eros, phileo and agape.

• The word that best describes this kind of love is not “eros", not “agape", but yet another Greek word, “philia", which means “love between friends".

• God gives you agape - deep, unconditional, fatherly love.

• This is because agape is too distant from its objects, and involves no necessary mutuality, a feature which makes it destructive of altruism.

• In this scene it is eros rather than agape that reigns.

• The astonished fiancée stands with mouth agape, eyes downcast and shut, as she presses her left hand beneath her heart, as if to uphold it.

• What this omission reveals is the inadequacy of an exclusive focus on agape as the central ethical concept.

• This type of love is what we call agape.

• These are the merely inane, and artists sometimes portray them with mouth agape, teeth erose and prominent.

• I have used the terms eros and agape, but this duality can also be expressed in other contrasting terms, such as those of the flesh and the spirit.

• It coherently combines a variety of attitudes which might otherwise be at odds with each other (not least the vexing distinction between eros and agape, need and gift love).

• I am rather sardonically amused at the way in which it is the secularists whose mouths are agape when they come across sin, as if they cannot understand it.

• The highest form of contemplation originates in the heart (see agape), a higher form of contemplation than that of the intellect.

• However, there are some examples of "agape" used to mean the same as "eros".

• Many members of the astonished audience were seen on camera with mouths visibly agape with surprise.

• The other three are "storge", "philia" and "agape".

• There are, however, three theological virtues: faith, hope, and charity (which is used interchangeably with love in the sense of "agape").

• The whales then lunge feed, often as a synchronised group, suddenly swimming upward through the net, mouths agape, swallowing thousands of fish in one gulp.