Sentences with phrase «attention on»

Psychologically, the act of praying centers attention on the higher emotions, unifies the spirit, crystallizes motives, clarifies the judgment, releases latent powers, reinforces confidence that what needs to be done can be done.

For one reason, his own interest was so centered in the new life in Christ through our Lord's death, resurrection, and living presence as the Spirit, that he did not focus attention on the details of Jesus» life and teaching.

Both focused their attention on the literary qualities of the text and used analysis of the writer's styles to enhance appreciation and deepen understanding.

When we put our attention on a particular movement, we call that a moment.

Rather he centers his attention on the manner in which the project residents, in the face of these horrors, nonetheless managed to make do, to «work with others, sometimes productively and at other times conflictually, to improve their living environment.»

Thus, if we only consider the course which Achilles ran, Zeno can make his case, but so long as we concentrate our attention on the race as run, the paradox can not arise.

However, it should be pointed out that although James in the Psychology concentrated his attention on the stream of thought as discovered through introspection, his theory of neutral monism was being developed prior to the publication of the Psychology.3 This theory gave James the bridge to cross over from introspective psychology to metaphysics, a bridge which he utilized in his later writings.

«Druther spend that attention on Jesus!

(The piece by Khurram Dara, author of «The Crescent Directive» has already garnered a lot of attention on Twitter, Facebook and in the comments section of CNN's Belief Blog.)

In his reflections on theology and politics, Catholic theologian William T Cavanaugh has focused attention on how Christian liturgical practices embody and inform — or should embody and inform — Christian political witness, His book Torture and Eucharist: Theology, Politics and the Body of Christ (Blackwell) is about the Roman Catholic Church's responses to the rule of Augusto Pinochet in Chile during the 1970s.

We need some means to help focus attention on how that could be done, and to underpin a new model of world governance and finance.

Reuters: Pakistani mob burns alive a man accused of desecrating the Koran A mob broke into a Pakistani police station and burnt a man accused of desecrating the Koran alive, police said Saturday, in the latest violence focusing attention on the country's blasphemy laws.

It focussed attention on holy places.

However, the growth of computer technology has focused our attention on interactivity as a key component in communication.

In this month in which I focus my attention on justice, I've been reexamining my concept of need.

In his book, Mindfulness for Beginners (Sounds True), Kabat - Zinn defines mindfulness as «paying attention on purpose in the present moment as if your life depended on it».

Between about 1870 and 1970 many countries of the western world did focus their attention on economic policies that promoted social cohesion at the national level.

David Tracy's work (1975) has focused our attention on religious language.

When we learned that the government wisely plans to focus attention on rural development, we rejoiced, but we also feared that this would involve the modernization of agriculture on a vast scale.

I started paying attention on the internet, only to find a whole series of pieces, big and small, regarding not only fan theories but critical theories on Westworld.

Our views differ in certain highly important respects, and in our comments we have naturally concentrated our attention on these points of difference, and tried to explain our reasons for them.

Indeed, the modern mind misjudges the ancient situation when it centers attention on the prophets as the creators of the dominant attributes of Judaism.

If we could only push religion and politics aside and focus our attention on research and truth, what an amazing world it would be to wake up to every morning.

Since they set out to abolish such later innovations as the venerating of Islamic saints and visiting their tombs, the Wahhabis came into direct conflict with the Shi'ites, who focus so much attention on the mausoleums of their imams.

The author encouraged people to repeat a short phrase or single word to foster loving attention on God.

As Christian fundamentalism focuses its attention on the so - called Holy Land, so also does the Islamic world, where it has served to strengthen and spread Islamic fundamentalism.

(Acts 1:24 - 26; I Timothy 5:5) Prayer was the affirmation of confident trust, the centering of attention on faith, not fear, on assets rather than liabilities, on the help of God rather than the troubles of life.

Rather than concerning itself with specific «sins,» the Emmanuel approach focused attention on the underlying causes of these symptoms — namely, the sick personality.

Many have noted that while globalization has been drawing people together into worldwide unions and federations, opposite forces have been focusing attention on individualism and on small, tightly knit groups and movements.

It is entirely possible that, at a time when very important decisions have to be made and acted upon for the good of humankind and the planet as a whole, far too many people will focus their attention on their own immediate vicinity and insist on claiming their individual right to act within it as they wish.

Of necessity, the mental health professionals concentrate the bulk of their attention on the mentally ill person himself.

By keeping his parents» attention on himself, he may also have felt that he was «keeping them together.»

Of these two works I wish to concentrate attention on the first of these, God and Power.

This intercessory prayer in itself has a powerful influence in that it focuses the feeling of divine attention on the individual.

Protected by this apocalyptic hope from any sense of obligation to reform society, New Testament Christians concentrated attention on individual quality.

We touched on this a little bit Friday, when several of you encouraged me to focus less attention on deconstructing fundamentalism and more attention on moving forward in the reconstruction process — good suggestions for bringing more life and focus to the blog.

It carried to fulfillment a long development of thought, disentangling persons from submergence in the social mass and giving to each one status, meaning, and rights of his own; it concentrated attention on the spiritual value of personality and its possibilities; it created a religion to be entered by free personal choice, regardless of race or nation; it set persons to building a social fellowship for the redemption of souls; and it proclaimed as the ultimate goal of divine creation and human hope the kingdom of God in «new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.»

Not at all; rather, it is a help to fix attention on the reality of God in Christ, who is everywhere present but to whom we must turn consciously and attentively from time to time if that reality is to be vivid to us.

One of the major factors in concentrating attention on the individual has always been faith in some form of immortality.

Debate about contraception, abortion, same - sex marriage, even Satan, has attracted just as much attention on the presidential campaign trail in recent weeks.

But this response to doubt is common enough to address here generally, for the sake of those of you who doubt and those who are in a position to mentor those who doubt, so without focusing too much attention on Keller himself, I'd like to address why it's problematic.

Most Christians through most of Christian history have focused their attention on quite immediate problems.

Instead, fix your attention on God.

Liberation theology focuses attention on the political sphere, whereas process theology has devoted considerable attention to the cultural and religious spheres.

One such group has focused its attention on worship seeking the deepening of the church's life through liturgical renewal.

The reading from 1 Corinthians focuses attention on the cross as the power of Christ: «For the word, of the cross is folly to...

Let's further suppose this being, which we'll call God, focused his attention on this planet, terraformed it to sustain life, and then created the life on it.

-- After creating the entire universe containing billions of stars, God focuses all his attention on one planet revolving around one star, terraforms it, and creates life, one form of which he claims is in «his image.»

And then, having created this universe of over 100 billion galaxies containing a trillion trillion stars he decides to focus his attention on one planet where he creates life «in his image» as if such a being would even have an image.

In order to right the balance and place proper emphasis upon the importance of life here on earth, they have focused attention on the second rather than the first commandment.