Sentences with phrase «being in a spiritual sense»

Jesus, the second Adam, was the first complete human being in a spiritual sense; fully aware of his own spiritual nature and where it came from.

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(Matthew 23:9) This had to be meant in a spiritual sense since we all have earthly fathers, while our heavenly Father is a spirit to be worshiped in spirit and truth.

I can't say we're persecuted in any real sense in Utah, but on a very subtle level, it is different than it was in California, and there just isn't spiritual time or energy for the debates that there once was; we're focused on evangelism and getting the truth that we - do - agree on out there.

When we recognize our place in an immensity of light - years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual... The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.»

God intended this as a blessing in that we would be fruitful in a spiritual sense thus multiply in goodness.

Moreover, it is a truth accessible to reason unaided by divine revelation that human beings have a spiritual nature, in the sense of being rational and free and having a soul that is not reducible to matter.

Meanwhile, it behooves humanity to gain the spiritual sense of Jesus» marvelous words, I am the Way, the Truth and the Life» in their science and prove their utility and beauty now.

belief: 1: acceptance by the mind that something is true or real, often underpinned by an emotional or spiritual sense of certainty 2: confidence that somebody or something is good or will be effective 3: something that somebody believes in: a statement, principle, or doctrine that a person or group accepts as true

That's not to say that Atheists couldn't be in awe of the beauty and wonder in this world and the universe, they absolutely can be (and they should be if they have any form of empathy and sense of wonder) but they can never consider themselves to be at all «spiritual» because that instantaneously makes them no longer atheist!

Jesus is spoken of as the second Adam, reversing in his physical death humanity's spiritual death — so there is a sense that the fall is also being undone in Jesus, but that this is coming into fruition gradually, in the sense that the kingdom of God coming both has come and is coming — so a gradual progression away from the curse of the fall should actually be the expectation.

Maximus the Confessor interprets this event as a moment in which the disciples passed from flesh to spirit because «having both their bodily and spiritual senses purified, they were taught the spiritual meanings of the mysteries that were shown to them.»

I didn't mean accountability in a negative sense... it was more like «back - up», checking things out, having a spiritual director, someone who is able to offer advice (which may mean questioning and challenging on occasion).

Because I think that any spiritual discipline can be taken and emptied of its purpose of connecting us in a very real sense physically, spiritually, emotionally and mentally to our God.

Oh, we all know their bodies are out in the cemetery, but as long as we have that altar and all that goes with it, these people in a very real, spiritual sense are still with us.

Whether or not Obama has been spiritually «reborn» in the evangelical sense, his spiritual counselors say the president's faith has helped shape his first term in ways that haven't been appreciated by voters or the news media.

Although the Holy Roman Empire had been in decline since the late Middle Ages, and it had faded also as an agreed - upon interpretation of history, it was not until the French Revolution that the spiritual framework it provided — and without which Europe could not have been formed — would shatter in a formal sense.

, but I believe there is a need to remain vigilant, in the sense of being discerning and aware of spiritual environments / spiritual forces at work in a certain person / situation.

So psychologically, the «higher power» tenet is a practical and effective belief to acquire - whether or not it is actually true in a spiritual sense.

To make sense of Kasper's statement, we may have to assume that he used the term «spiritual communion with Christ» to mean the state of being already properly disposed to receive Christ in sacramental Communion.

And elsewhere he wrote: «It seems to me that the point of origin of this invasion and envelopment of my being was the rapidly increasing importance which the sense of God's will was assuming in my spiritual life.»

Community, tradition, connect to family and neighbors as well as a sense of national community in many societies (although many atheist societies are evidence that the spiritual component is not needed) are wrapped up in a religious ident.ity.

It is the man and the woman to whom the act remains, each time, as fresh and beautiful, as it was the first time, who are able to sustain and perpetuate their first sense of its glory in the midst of the sober or bleak or sordid realities of day to day life, and who can feel, afresh each time, a boundless gratitude for each other and for this blessed source of sweetness and strength — it is they who are the truly «virgin», the truly pure and chaste; and (on the Humanist hypothesis) it is they who are the remnant selected by grace to be the true and spiritual seed of the risen Christ.33

There is a complex interplay, therefore, between «spiritual virginity» and the exterior state, in the sense that each is the necessary complement of the other and neither is sufficient on its own.

For in a spiritual sense, place is not something external, to which a slave might come against his will when the overseer uses his scourge.

The sense that spiritual renewal in the West will come from a rediscovery of the mystic heart of religion is not new.

But then, in a spiritual sense, there is another illness, a still more destructive one: to fear what a man should not and ought not to fear.

Fasting in the sense of living with a bare minimum of nourishment would be practically inevitable in the wilderness of Judea for one absorbed in solitary spiritual struggle.

She invites her readers into Christian practices that heighten both the spiritual and relational dimensions of time, so that we may live with greater authenticity as people created in God's image — with an awareness of time as a gift rather than a burden thrust upon us by our daily planners, and with a sense of being «attuned to the active presence of God.»

It is still perplexing to me how our five senses (the carnal mind) continues to be the instrument in which to explain, debate, discuss, or prove SPIRITUAL matters.

«When we recognize our place in an immensity of light ‐ years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual.»

Ironically, this sense of a downward spiral into pastoral mediocrity has been occurring at a time when laypeople are expressing interest in the spiritual life at a new level, and are searching for ways to connect their yearnings with a way of faithful living.

But there is a greater microscope called the spiritual realm that magnifies everything that you feel and sense in this world.

Being disinterested, in the sense of not measuring one's own success by the spiritual success of those we are discipling is a good thing; but disinterested is not the same as dispassionate.

The principal types of petition are for a sense of God's presence, for spiritual and moral help, for material goods, for changes in external events, for the recovery of health.

with all and full respect; You know that your used name is dear to my heart, for having been a believer in God the Creator of the whole Universe he has all the beautiful names that we know or do not know, I believe that God starched his hand to mankind in love, sending among them his prophets and messengers to warn and guide to righteous, am not told to force belief or religion upon people of any faith or of non faith, am a mere reminder and Warner to my self and whom my want to know and judge their senses life is a spiritual challenge, life is a maze and only if make use of the heavenly codes that could be found in All Scriptures of God that was relaid upon mankind from prophets & messengers from Adam to Noah to Abrahim to Musa to Issa to Muhammed which many obviously seem to Ignore!!

As to the atheist your being at such the advanced stage in spiritual development you are ripe in time for turning the senses inward / thus knowing one's true self I can only repeat your at further state in your spiritual development you believing meditation the next port of call upon your human journey leading to enlightenment.

All religious texts have such incidents described or alluded to — take them all strictly in a literal sense and you end up being a fanatic and likely manipulated rather than being a truly spiritual being who imbibes the best that the religion is trying to teach.

Extremely sensitive, gifted and dedicated, she felt tremendous pressure to «be the Indian» in a spiritual sense; this finally contributed to a emotional breakdown.

Prayer but a shortened version of meditation that having come over the many centuries / as the art of true prayer in meditation was lost / where the focus of reality had turned to the external based on ideas belief / rather than practical spiritual experience of one turning the senses inward / thus knowing / not believing.

For Underhill the spiritual life was a life «soaked» by a sense of God's reality and claim, where «all we do comes from the centre in which we are anchored in God.»

But the world is waiting in another, more urgent sense, because the pope isn't just a spiritual leader to Catholics.

Alas, many of those who would style themselves devout Christians are in fact believers in the Manichean rejection of the world as not only temporal and in the obvious sense ephemeral but also as evil and without spiritual worth.

Here are three typical answers: «He is as much a necessity to my spiritual existence as the elements of pure air are to my physical system»; «If I were convinced that there is no God, I fear a sense of loneliness would become intolerable»; «As for any repose, or ability to face life and death with composure, any incentive to be perfect in things hidden from outsiders, any exhilaration in living and trying to do my best — I can not conceive it without the idea of God.»

It [the realism] arises from a conviction that there is no mere analogy, but an inward affinity, between the natural order and the spiritual order; or as we might put it in the language of the parables themselves, the Kingdom of God is intrinsically like the process of nature and of the daily life of men... Since nature and supernature are one order, you can take any part of that order and find in it illumination for other parts This sense of the divineness of the natural order is the major premise of all the parables... 132

Give me a richer world of substantial forms, and we can dispense with talk of humans being machines, much less spiritual machines — indeed, in such a richer world (and I believe it's such a world that we inhabit) there are no machines in the sense that I define the term.

Philistinism is spiritlessness, in the literal sense of the word; determinism and fatalism are spiritual despair; but such spiritlessness is also despair.

Whilst the concept is certainly not primary at the level of spiritual communion between persons, actual and potential usefulness, in the sense of functional relationality, is, in the light of modern physics, chemistry and biology at the heart of the very being and metaphysical significance of physical things.

The words are at best a very rough translation and they convey a sense which is in tension with Church Tradition concerning the uniquely spiritual (non-physical) human soul.

I have briefly noted some aspects of modern physics, medicine, and parapsychology to point to what you probably already knew: there is nothing in our modern common sense itself which rules out our consideration of a spiritual reality.

We might say today that this is why, In one sense or another, everyone is «spiritual» even if not all are «religious.»