Sentences with word «acedia»

In the state of acedia, Snell explains, one «abhors what God has given, namely, reality and its limits of order.»

I feel now that I have named it in acedia as well as how to grapple with my tendencies.

It's probably the prairie kid thing, combined with the evangelical - mutt thing, but when acedia slinks into my soul, spreading into every corner of my life with an ooze, when my mind is fuzzy and apathetic, when I'm listless and worn out, burned out, on religion and parenting and marriage and family and everything about my life, I get to the daily, methodical, healing goodness of real work.

To pursue entertainment without falling into acedia requires care.

The monastics nicknamed acedia the «noonday devil,» that languor or dullness that besets us around midday.

The Greek word acedia literally means «without care» or «care-less.»

When acedia reaches maturity its final fruit is despair.

Aquinas thought of curiositas as largely caused by acedia — i.e. spiritual laziness or aimlessness.

The main barrier to the revival of Catholic writing and the rapprochement of faith and the arts is despair, or perhaps more accurately acedia, a torpid indifference among precisely those people who could change the situation — Catholic artists and intellectuals.

And I realise, yes, yes, I am.I've been happy for months and months now, even years now, so it's not just a fluke.It's no longer me fighting for a few days of happy in the midst of a lot of exhaustionand acedia and work and tiredness and overwhelmed - ness.

When confronted by sorrow, acedia tells us to retreat to our comfort zones where we don't have to get too involved in the suffering of others.

This widespread sense that we have lost our prospects reflects a bad trade of confident teleology for acedia.

It's an expansion on several ideas within it — namely about acedia (the spiritual cousin of depression).

That certain sense of Tennyson bleeds into the overgrown post-apocalyptic landscape, all torpid acedia in its human ruins and in a tree - bound ape village that represents a sort of circular hopelessness.

The concept of acedia was developed by Christians in the 4th century who had fled to the deserts of the Middle East, opting for a simple life in rebellion against a newly legal, wealthy and politically powerful church.

'» In acedia, all being is treated «as something to possess and discard,» and the slothful «violate the integrity of any and every thing.»

Entertainment isn't the problem; acedia is.

On a recent trip across America, what surprised me most was the number of people - over 200 in one city, 80 to 150 elsewhere - who wanted to discuss this odd word, «acedia.»

These three characteristics of our culture — interior restlessness, excessive curiosity and instability of purpose — are described in classical moral theology as the offspring of acedia.

Kathleen Norris called it acedia, the noonday demon, a religious and relational apathy that «makes it seem that the sun barely moves, if at all.»

Turning toward the positive task of prescribing a remedy for the problem of pornography, Hutter recommends a steady and active discipline of focused communal prayer, arguing that such practice «sustains the spiritual union of the mind and heart with God,» working to fortify our spiritual chastity and protect us from the corrupting vice of acedia.

There isn't anything striking or clanging about the arrival, never an announcement or a grand entrance, it's always more of a day - after - day - after - day insipid stupidity that takes over, thick oatmeal quicksand instead of a wallop of despair, acedia is a bit slower, a creep of a thing.

The work of my hands and my body pauses any existential crisis, the daily work of living redeems, and I feel the acedia fading with each day of right choices, one after another, each step of pushing back the darkness with fabric softener, veggies, backyard camping, laughter seeking, and newly - white bookcases in the fading sun.

In times of advance, and times of goals, and times of purpose, people have little need for that kind of acedia.

There isn't anything striking or clanging about the arrival, never an announcement or a grand entrance, it's always more of a day - after - day - after - day insipid stupidity that takes over, thick oatmeal quicksand instead of a wallop of despair, acedia is a bit...

And I'm feeling it, the acedia, the desert fathers and mothers called it the noonday - demon.

For centuries this spiritual condition of malaise has been referred to as «acedia.»

If we retain a stance of awe toward creation, and ultimately the Creator, we are immune to acedia's advances.

Then I went through a period of acedia this year, a spiritual depression of sorts which greatly tested me, leaving me wondering what of my life mattered.

It's no longer me fighting for a few days of happy in the midst of a lot of exhaustion and acedia and work and tiredness and overwhelmed - ness.

This problem is closely tied to acedia, which Aquinas defines as a sadness because something good is difficult.

It helps to know that this moral failing was originally conceived of as acedia, an outmoded term that conveys both alienation and tedium, tinged with self - contempt.

It's a spy thriller that Alfred Lord Tennyson would've written — the very filmic representation of acedia.