Sentences with phrase «called deeper life»

It is not about developing a so - called deeper life.

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I have a personal deep love for books and invested my entire life in building a platform for people who love books or write books called Reader's Legacy.

Most of all though, he carries with him a «deep - rooted appreciation for the opportunity to serve a higher purpose» as he lives out his calling.

«They do their inventory right so it's deep, with lots of categories and styles, but not so wide in terms of colors that you can't decide what to carry,» says Greg Rowe, co-owner of two small Genuine Neighborhood Shoppes — both called Life According to Jake — in Gatlinburg and Knoxville, Tennessee.

Celibacy is a high and difficult calling, and to live it well requires deep inner transformation.

My college classmate overstated the case: God does not call us to stop thinking or to risk our lives and welfare pointlessly But my classmate may have seen something of what my son Sean demonstrated: a sense of safety so deep that we can be, for a time, beyond anxiety.

Tarwater fights the call and comes to fulfill it only by way of the tortuous route of slowly realizing the shallowness of Rayber's rationalistic secularism and his own deep allegiance to and need for «the bread of life.»

We actually have very unique moments of living in what Hargrave calls our «peace cycle,» where our actions emanate from the deepest truths we know about ourselves.

But precisely because we are not self - contained ready - made entities which can be conceived equally well as being near to you or remote from you; precisely because in us the self - subsistent individual who is united to you grows only insofar as the union itself grows, that union whereby we are given more and more completely to you: I beg you, Lord, in the name of all that is most vital in my being, to hearken to the desire of this thing that I dare to call my soul even though I realize more and more every day how much greater it is than myself, and, to slake my thirst for life, draw me — through the successive zones of your deepest substance — into the secret recesses of your inmost heart.

When Catherine first began to sense Christ calling her to a deeper life in Him, she turned to Scripture.

But I am convinced that in and through the diversity there is a common spirit, a deeper underlying passion — I would call it a passion for life — that could come to expression.

I want you to know Amanda is a woman of valor because she bravely and willingly followed God on this most painful journey; that this valor comes through in her relationships because she calls us to dig deeper and live larger and love with abandon.

In this way we fulfill the deeper intention of the law, that is, we find life in the way of life to which God calls us.

You can not deny there is more than the simple materialistic side of life and to limit oneself usually has a deep reason that is often lodged in sin as Christians would call it.

Church growth, if it is to have integrity, must be a by - product when the church is true to its deepest calling to be the body through which the infinite mystery of God is confronted and all life is freed from bondage and expanded to its fullness.

First, one realizes that the deepest level of one's life — what in Zen is called the «true self» — is always here - and - now.

You have Christian faith when these basic attitudes are consciously and pre-eminently drawn from, based on, or focused by the teachings and example of Jesus whom we call the Christ or the body of the faithful that we call the Church, and when there is a deep commitment to living out these basic attitudes in your life.

I call a great character one who by his actions and attitudes satisfies the claim of situations out of deep readiness to respond with his whole life, and in such a way that the sum of his actions and attitudes expresses at the same time the unity of his being in its willingness to accept responsibility.

The deepest truths and values in life can not be reached by intellectual speculation alone — what Shelley called the «owl - winged faculty of calculation.»

To be able to offer grown children a place to visit that is a happy refuge populated by people called grandparents is one of life's deepest dimensions.

We, who love them and are forgotten, may have by analogy some deeper apprehension of the life of the loving but unremembered God who, if religious thinkers such as Abraham Heschel or the «process» theologians are correct, calls out to each one of us, «Forget me not.»

The discussion of the nature and relevance of the Christian faith therefore always plays some part in bringing us into encounter with that deepest reality in life we call God.

And then we live out our lives and our callings, the seasons and roles, the challenges and the victories, the healing and the mourning, from a deep well of love and freedom and wholeness — because we are.

but the most important part is the belief that we are all connected on a deeper level and that our bodies are just instruments helping us charter through this plethora of interactions (between the like) called «life» More like Buddhism with out Budha.

Every conscientious politician discovers what T. V. Smith has called the deepest theoretical discrepancy in life, that between private conscience and public convenience.2 We must support injustice and profit from special privilege in order to possess power which may make it possible for us to do some relative good.

Those who are called to follow Jesus will never aspire, in their private lives, to a piety that goes deeper than the daily confession, «God, have mercy on me a sinner.»

However, to say that some people are born gay, with orientation rarely, if ever, being altered, and that these people are not often suited to celibacy the way some are called, and yet they are forced to liev celibate lives has deep theological implications.

The call for a simpler and more intentional, sustainable and meaningful way of life continues to find a deep resonance.

The so - called Tridentine rite, of course, far from being «medieval» has roots deep in pre-medieval antiquity (it is in any case a strange view of history in which the Counter-Reformation took place in the middle ages), and is a living manifestation of the Newmanian principle of development, wherebya process of continuous change is inevitable if the essence of the Church's faith is to remain the same: for, as The Catholic Herald pointed out in its admirable leader, the reforms of Pope St Pius V, enshrined in the Missal of 1570, itself containing ancient elements, «were inspired by the Council of Trent.

The solemnity of this moment is measured by the spiritual questions we have and tempered by the hope that the perceived reality of God may here find the resonance that is deep within us, «deep calling unto deep,» breaking us open to new life and obedience in the gospel.

For everything has the potential of calling forth in us a deeper response to our life in God.

For me, as a lesbian Catholic with no discernible call to monastic life, the absence within the Christian churches of a deep understanding of the human need for vocation is glaringly obvious.

In their recent book, Heroism and the Christian Life, Brian Hook and Russell Reno have noted how Vergil's poem, certainly one of the formative epics of our culture, compels us to ponder what is the deepest problem in the idea of a vocation — namely, whether obedience to a divine summons diminishes or enhances the one who has been called.

This is the key to deep involvement in the life to which priests are called.

However, if, upon the end of our lives, I believed in Jesus and you didn't, You my friend, are in deep trouble, slain before the Throne of God, sent for complete destruction in a real place called HELL.»

I would say that evangelicals need a deeper conversion to the truth, which is central to the Wesleyan call to the sanctified life.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

There sin is a deep, inward defilement; goodness is an interior fountain of spiritual quality; penitence concerns what a man is behind what he does; and the desire for a good life calls out the prayer for spiritual rebirth,

I agree with you Tim, the premise of the article leads one to believe that because LDS has a big accredited university with deep theological minds and some leader of a big Christian seminary, again a deep theological mind, head knowledge not heart knowledge, that Mormonism should be recognized as a stream of Christianity.How Mormons differ is how they relate to Christ and the Holy Spirit.Only people who have encountered Jesus and thus a changed life, can be called an evangelical.Mormnism is man made religion.The Holy Spirit always points people to Jesus, not another man - Joseph Smith.Great moral people, who do lots of good and build beautiful tabernacles, but then again the Pharisees did too.

Strikingly, Vanier calls attention to both the deep communion that Jesus offers us and Jesus» own vulnerability when he grieves for his dead friend Lazarus (who Vanier suggests may have had a learning disability since unusually for the time he lived with his two sisters), and when Jesus is personally wounded by broken communion and the betrayal of Judas.

What I see amongst Christians, especially those like David who seem to desire what I used to call «The Deeper Life» (when I was a believer), is this constant inner struggle to be something more (even if that «something more» is actually something less).

Christianity places our conduct in this life on earth in its gigantic setting of infinity and eternity, and by opening our eyes to this vast spiritual vision it calls out our deepest spiritual energies.

Each of us is unique and autonomous; yet at the deepest level of our beings, we all are interrelated in a great interdependent network of living things within which we are called to live with sensitivity and caring.

The quest for Christian unity is a call to a new life, to lifelong metanoia, and to conversion in the deepest sense.

The ideal response of faith so movingly portrayed in Genesis 22 is Israel's deepest confession of her own calling — to be ready to suffer the loss of her own historical life in response to the Word and at the same time maintain her faith in the Word's declared purpose to bless the world through her.

Of course it was, the deepest meaning of what a Christian calls the Grace of God is a life within that bursts out in charity, joy, peace, patience, sweetness, purity.

To the parish priest of today, Pope Francis issues a call: to a deeper faith and life of prayer, to purity and holiness of life, to a trust in the call of the Father, and above all to a life of ceaseless sacrificial love and preaching» a service that is in turn rooted in prayer and holiness.

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