Sentences with phrase «between flesh and spirit»

His novels named for me that great struggle between flesh and spirit, but even more important, they named the feelings I had about growing up in the South and the affection and repulsion I held in equal parts about my home.

Like the screenplays he wrote for Martin Scorsese (notably Taxi Driver) and the tormented works he's made about the wages of sin (Hardcore, American Gigolo, The Comfort of Strangers, Auto Focus), Schrader — raised as a strict Calvinist — has never lost his obsession with the war between flesh and spirit.

Nivolo, as the pious husband, caught between flesh and spirit and searching for answers he can't find in the Torah, tears at the heart.

Thorn in the flesh, constantly at odds between the flesh and the spirit!

The interacting roles of these three powers may be seen in Paul's contrast between flesh and spirit (Gal.

It can resemble the allegorizing of the Stoics or that of Philo, or it can adopt the quasi-Platonic language of the opposition between flesh and spirit, between shadow and true reality.

Taking up its seat in man's flesh, (Paul is no doubt influenced here by Hellenistic dualism between flesh and spirit, although it is to be noted that he does not regard flesh as being essentially evil.

Paul clearly states that we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities in high places; He is suppose to be setting a principal and he is in fact destroying the thing that God stand for, serving the flesh and the creation more than the creator who is blessed forever; Man will always have a battle between flesh and spirit; he is more flesh than spirit ever in his dress muscles and tight shirts; which has no place in the spirit;» dealing with matters of the holy ghost «he can speck it but he can «t live it; which is the trouble with a lot of modern day Christians; do as i say not as i do... old fashion parents had the same concept, its not just Eddie he got caught, he was just falling weak to the flesh and his own desires; only thing is, he is responsible for the souls of those under his leadership; He must answer and atone to God for those actions, you think for a moment we are being hard on him; God has a way of letting us know when we are wrong that lets us know we need to change.

If we assume that the distinction between body and soul or the conflict between flesh and spirit are metaphysical divisions, then the situation is conceptually hopeless.

The struggle between flesh and spirit is a big one; winning one little battle over genetic expression of MAOA does not in itself indicate that we are ready to declare total victory in the war against the flesh.

He expresses deep emotion and inner feelings, but in highly codified ways: he has «peace and comfort,» «takes delight,» «strives mightily in this heart,» «lays hold upon,» «experiences conflict between the flesh and the spirit.»

Thus he maintained a sacramental view of the unity and mystery of the relationship between flesh and spirit, between the visible and invisible.)

After that second or third day I have a hard and long battle between my flesh and my spirit.

I'm constantly at war between my flesh and my spirit.

In God, His Word, His Son, His Spirit, His people... etc Now, I am well aware of the continual struggle between flesh and Spirit even within my self.

Not exact matches

We have a fight within us for control in decision making between the soul (called the flesh) and the spirit.

We have to be careful to discern between the flesh and th spirit.

It differentiates between those who sow to the flesh (the lost) and those who sow to the Spirit (saved).

«Paul explained the internal war between the spirit and flesh of a believer very well.

The portrait is psychologically true: the perennial tension between the animal ecstasies of the flesh, which bind one to unthinking material necessity, and the rational freedom of the spirit, which is always striving to subdue the brute.

was excellent contemporary religion; and his contrast between «flesh» and «spirit» doubtless gained sharpness from Hellenistic thought.

I believe this is common when I am walking in the Spirit (no effort on my part) instead of walking after the Spirit (a struggle between the Spirit and the flesh) any way take this or leave it.

we are born with a nature of sin, that which is unlike God, hence, Jesus tells Nicodemus, «You must be born again», even going so far as to make a distinction between that which is flesh and that which is spirit.

The bible gives the great opposite between spirit and flesh, these inward parts / nature of us that are opposed to each other.

Not a conflict between choice and will but a decision between two possible choices — between mind and spirit, between the desires of the flesh and the «will of God».

So, can we abandon all the confusing jargon: body, flesh, mind, spirit, soul, will, choice and tooth fairy, It boils down to there's a choice to be made between possibilities although sometimes there isn» a conflict?

This sort of hyper - spirituality led them to make a dualistic division between the physical realm and the spiritual realm, so that anything they did in the flesh did not affect their spirit, and vice versa.

This is the Paul who is so deeply renewed in the dawning of modernity, but also the Paul who was the creator of Christian theology, a theology which if only in Paul is a purely and consistently apocalyptic theology, and Paul's realization of the ultimate polarity or dichotomy of consciousness is an apocalyptic realization, one reflecting an apocalyptic dichotomy between old aeon and new aeon, or flesh (sarx) and Spirit (pneuma).

While Paul's thought is by no means always clear, and perhaps from letter to letter not always exactly the same, it is nevertheless certain that his concept of resurrection can be clearly distinguished from that of the traditional «bodily resurrection».27 Paul does not speak in terms of the «same body» but rather in terms of a new body, whether it be a «spiritual body», 28 «the likeness of the heavenly man», 29 «a house not made by human hands, eternal and in heaven», 30 or, a «new body put on» over the old.31 In using various figures of speech to distinguish between the present body of flesh and blood and the future resurrection body, he seems to be thinking of both bodies as the externals which clothe the spirit and without which we should «find ourselves naked».32 But he freely confesses that the «earthly frame that houses us today ’33 may, like the seed, and man of dust, be destroyed, but the «heavenly habitation», which the believer longs to put on, is already waiting in the heavenly realm, for it is eternal by nature.

Paul was once again expounding the best thought of his people when he distinguished between Israel after the flesh and after the spirit.

Here, Paul, is extraordinarily important, for he is our first purely apocalyptic thinker, and so far as we now know the first ancient thinker fully to draw forth the subject of consciousness, an «I» or subject which he could know as a dichotomous subject, a subject wholly divided or doubled between an old «I» of «flesh» (sarx) and a new «I» of Spirit (pneuma).

OOO — SPIRITUAL BATTLE — spiritual warfare is the cosmic war of good versus evil: its battles are fought daily between God and Satan; between the Christian Church and the world system ruled by our spiritual enemy; and within every child of God, between the Holy Spirit and the lusts of the carnal flesh.

Over and over, he drew the distinction between the desires of the flesh and the desires of the Spirit.

The key to John's achievement is the tension between»... unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you» (6:53) and «It is the spirit that gives life, the flesh is of no avail» (6:63).

But «Chappie» doesn't stop there, digging into notions of nature versus nurture and the bonds between the spirit and the flesh, as well as sci - fi staples like corporate greed and the privatisation of power.

But Chappie doesn't stop there, digging into notions of nature versus nurture and the bonds between the spirit and the flesh, as well as sci - fi staples like corporate greed and the privatization of power.