Sentences with phrase «spiritual people do»

Think about it: how many angry, unhappy spiritual people do you know?

Spiritual people do not see gay men as born faulty.

Our surety then upon God for our end and our very intelligibility as spiritual persons does not arise from the claims or debts that our spiritual substance vindicates against the Divine Essence.

Not exact matches

Dogs, precisely because they do not have spiritual souls, are not persons.

While most people don't think about sustainable buildings in a spiritual light, the Benedictine Women of Madison, Wisconsin, believe they should.

Certainly if Christian people don't believe in ghosts, the boogyman or other's spirits, how can they claim the spiritual thought of heaven for themselves?

As to the argument that since Jewish people do not believe in baptism — thus what difference does it make... Yes — we don't believe in it's effectiveness as a spiritual rite, but we know that it is NOT meaningless.

I am passionate about providing a place where people are free to explore their own faith, discover their own spiritual path, and to do that with the benefit of community without fear of judgment, both locally and online.

Michael «As a gay man I appreciate there efforts and support, but I think putting up this sign isn't really the best way to get through to people, all it does is create more hate, intolerance, and separation, I am not a christian but I am very spiritual, and putting up this sign implies that all gay people are atheists which is the furthest thing from the truth, I have no problem with religion, I have a problem with those who use there religions to control and hate others, same applies with atheism, if you don't want to believe in anything than fine, just don't push your non beliefs on me.»

I believe that it is not possible to explain spiritual things to people who do not believe.

I know that I see elements of divine around me in things and in ways that others don't, including other religious people... And as long as different religions and even sects constantly argue about what god truly is, and as long as they come up with different asnwers, then I have to say that the spiritual elements of our universe simply manifest differently for different folks, including not at all for some... as with those who label themselves as athiest...

Perhaps the best way to understand what spiritual autobiographies do is to contrast them with recent first - person autobiographical narratives.

The first person to do so at length was Augustine, whose Confessions, written in the late fourth century, is regarded as the founding document of autobiography, spiritual and secular.

As a gay man I appreciate there efforts and support, but I think putting up this sign isn't really the best way to get through to people, all it does is create more hate, intolerance, and separation, I am not a christian but I am very spiritual, and putting up this sign implies that all gay people are atheists which is the furthest thing from the truth, I have no problem with religion, I have a problem with those who use there religions to control and hate others, same applies with atheism, if you don't want to believe in anything than fine, just don't push your non beliefs on me.

A person that does obviously doesn't weight evidence or use logic and precedence for their personal beliefs, so it is not so far - fetched to have an irrational atheist become a theist (also irrational) after having a so - called «spiritual experience.»

I'd like to note that when we «pray for someone» in the face of difficulty, it also means in addition to spiritual support, we should do something tangible and practical for the person.

If you don't have discernment be careful how you assess someone who is seeing into the spiritual realm and things about a persons character that you can not see.

Don't name names or anything, but tell stories so that people in the pews can be alerted to the spiritual abuse that happens in some churches, and so that spiritual abusers can be put on notice that we aren't going to take it any more.

Honestly, do people like TG not realize the world is full of other religions, with people who have also had spiritual experiences within the framework of their own belief system?

BillyD said: «Without arbitrarily labeling as mass mental illness, how do explain the personally experiential, spiritual revelations of countless people throughout the centuries, many by people previously not convinced by the faith of others?»

Gods judgment rest upon all the corporate and local churches temples, tabernacles, TV evangelists, ministries and congregations ever for all their false teachings and deeds, and God does not want any of His people to suffer the spiritual plagues which are being brought upon them.

Even if you can write very spiritual research papers, how do you expect to hear God's voice in college if you're not regularly interacting with His people?

But, how do you know if the people that you're «following» are at the same spiritual level you are?

It is understood that the sōma has parts, some physical (bones, flesh, blood), some spiritual (soul, spirit), and some psychological (emotions, intellect, will, personality), but the word does not refer to just one of these parts, such as the physical, but to the entire person.

I have to respect the people that DO believe in this, but until I find a church that is more spiritual and less about literal myths, I'm going to abstain from the whole process.

Without arbitrarily labeling as mass mental illness, how do explain the personally experiential, spiritual revelations of countless people throughout the centuries, many by people previously not convinced by the faith of others?

Unlike the more «spiritual» and heroic religious literatures of the world, the Bible gives attention to a host of ordinary people, doing rather ordinary things.

Because I take accusations of spiritual abuse seriously (as, I'm sure, do all the people named in Julie's email), in recent days I've gone back in my email archives and reread the many emails Julie sent or forwarded to me during and since 2008.

If god loved people unconditionally then he wouldn't torture people in fire for all eternity because they don't say a magic spell to cause a spiritual energy to cleanse an invisible and undetectable disease (sin).

I had what people refer to as night terrors my entire life, but in reality, I fought (and still do fight) spiritual face to face battles with dark forces in my dreams.

I am neither, but I did marry a mentally ill person who has abused his position as a chaplain and as a Pastor just as Danielle Shroyer, Brad Cecil, Doug Pagitt, Brian McLaren, Mike King and Mark Scandrette did by aiding in this spiritual abuse and diabolical behavior.

We're in a conversation about spiritual abuse — the process by which people who have spiritual authority (pastors, preachers, priests, etc.) take advantage of that authority to do harm to those entrusted to their care.

But very often this constant awareness of spiritual climates enables us to also recognising the Lord's heart for a particular / person / situation and partner with Him in what He chooses to do through us, perhaps through prayer, releasing of scripture, laying hands, etc., in order to release His purpose and power.

I don't think most spiritual leaders intend to control people so intensely, but they do.

In 1971, British child psychoanalyst D. W Winnicott was approached by Anglican priests and asked to solve the following dilemma: How does one distinguish between a person's need for spiritual counsel and the need for psychoanalysis?

He had to teach them that there was only one God, a spiritual being who did not resemble human beings, and this could only be done by keeping them as far apart as possible from other peoples and cultures.

Jesus knew very well that the people who followed him were not saints, holy men and women; and they did not follow him purely for spiritual reasons.

«After Katey passed away I didn't set out to draw people around or do spiritual direction.

There is great spiritual truth in Jewish feasts like the Passover meal, and so the only people who would not want to observe them are people who don't care about spiritual truth.

It is utterly impossible to explain things which are spiritual to people who do not have God's Spirit living within them.

I do believe spiritual abuse is rampant, that systems perpetually pull towards inhumane policies and treatment of people, and that all kinds of harmful ideas, attitudes and behaviours run rampant inside systems, including the church.

The Quranic texts do not give in detail the code of laws regulating dealings — human actions — but they give the general principles which guide people to perfection, to a life of harmony — to an inner harmony between man's appetites and his spiritual desires, to harmony between man and the natural world, and to a harmony between individuals as well as a harmony with the society in which men live.

I don't believe God selects one group of people to spread the message, or even has rules to gain entrance into the great spiritual theme park called «Heaven» (another uncertainty — but I understand the notion).

What many people do not know is how much spiritual support Archbishop Romero received from Opus Dei.

Tracey Rowland, in Catholic World Report's «round table» discussion (not reported in its print edition) argues that the Pope is affirming that «When cultures no longer serve the deepest needs of human nature and actually narrow the spiritual horizons of people, people don't know who they are and feel depressed.

well fishon, if i may, i would say that on a blog that is basically known for helping people who have experienced spiritual abuse... it is best to be gentle, which you don't seem to be able to do.

Re: «Since you use a symbol from a spiritual practice I guess I can assume that you are just on this blog to argue with people, you really do not believe anything.»

Aside from being an apostle, the people that followed Paul as their spiritual father appear to have done so by their own choice.

As a spiritual person I am also (in not even a remote way) rejecting the idea of the afterlife, however I am rejecting most ideas as written in scripture since IMO scripture has very little to do with the true msg of Christ or the true msg Christianity once was about.

«I'm a very ordinary person and not «spiritual,»» she said, «but I feel like the Lord spoke to me through Psalm 37, «Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; do not fret when people succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes.»