Sentences with phrase «communion with a god»

It is not being holy and righteous, it is about being able to examine oneself spiritually and truthfully to see if there is any sin that prevents them from having that communion with God in their life.

In the saints, whose lives aim at eternal communion with God and with fellow human beings, Taylor identifies practical reasoners par excellence.

Seventh and finally, the song of redemptive hope, of the resurrection of the body; of our bodies that encompass the stuff of the creation of which we are part; of our bodies that participate in the body of Christ that is the Church, and therefore anticipate, already now, that perfect communion with God for which the whole creation waits with eager longing.

The love poetry of this period of Indian literature is characterized by a deep longing for communion with God.13 The other side of the reaction against the rise of Shankara's Advaita Vedantic thought was a more philosophic one.

It was the original intention of God that every human pleasure - including sex - should be governed by the soul, which in turn was meant to be in peace and communion with God.

But, in the biblical narrative, the spirit of the individual lives on in heaven in communion with God and others or eternally separated from the Creator.

Suarez, for example, argued that just as language and symbol are natural to humanity, so the sacraments are appropriate as means of communion with God.

The human nature we all inherit from them was damaged and deprived of inner communion with God's grace.

If our lives are rooted in a continual communion with God, then every person's life, no matter how mundane, is elevated to sacred heights — including a suburban mom's, the office worker's, and the EPA attorney's.

Being immortal walking in communion with God would lead one to believe man was in spirit form.

He alone of all the creatures was addressed as «you»: he was created for communion with God.

Heaven is defined by communion with God, Hell is defined by His absence.

He belongs to our race, sharing our propensities and temptations, bearing our human responsibilities and enduring our human weakness; yet in him the sin of Everyman, the inward - looking self - centeredness which bars the way to communion with God because it tries to establish and justify itself over against God, is overcome.

At the center of all true prayer lies spiritual communion with God.

A blueprint would do nothing to draw us into communion with God and with one another.

Eating and drinking is primal communion with God.

For most persons bedtime, in spite of fatigue, is a time of greater relaxation and leisure, and thus offers more opportunity for unhurried communion with God.

This is a sacrificial meal, a ritual meal, in which we enjoy communion with God.

Whether it was a psalmist praying on his bed at night (Psalm 63:5 - 6) or Jesus going into his chamber and shutting the door, (Cf. Matthew 6:6) communion with God was the privilege of sincerely seeking souls anywhere and at any time.

Without the Fall of man, without the original sin of Adam and Eve, Christ's sacrifice, His sacred deed, would have been to draw together the whole of humanity into a relationship of full communion with God in one act of joyful recognition and adoration.

Intimate, interior, spiritual communion with God flourished in association with the temple ritual; it found there encouragement and inspiration; it even used the sacrificial system as a trellis to grow upon.

He is the source of our perfection through union and communion with God, which is why, following the disaster of the Fall, the burden of redeeming the shattered economy of grace falls on his shoulders.

Adam, created by God and in communion with God, is free; he is not subject to any kind of necessity.

God has gifted us with a free will, but it is only in communion with God that we have the discernment to choose correctly between good and evil.

It is a gift to the world from those who know that they are both summoned and sent, and so have communion with a God who is doing something new.

«The dignity of man rests above all on the fact that he is called to communion with God.

But there are natural consequences to our disobedience, one of which is broken fellowship and communion with God, which may reveal itself in our inability to pray.

These were joyful celebrations of communion with God.

Moreover, Christians believe that Christ is the only way for any human being, in any time or place, to be saved and brought to final communion with God.

Both can be combined only by saying that man is exposed to the influence of divine grace, which offers him communion with God, whether he accepts it or not.

Our communion with God in the Eucharist is a foretaste of the heavenly banquet.

But on this foundation it sets a temporary superstructure of cultic apparatus for mediating covenant communion with God; and this apparatus the New Testament replaces with the new and better covenant (that is, the better version of God's one gracious covenant) which is founded on better promises and maintained by the sacrifice and intercession of Jesus Christ, the better and greater high priest.

To the contrary, «because the Christian God is not a lonely God, but rather a communion of three persons... communion with this God is at once also communion with those others who have entrusted themselves in faith to the same God.»

It presents first an analysis of man's communion with God («communion in God»), including a review of the main types of cultic activity (sacrifice, mystery, prayer) and of religious attitudes (mystery and revelation on the divine side, adoration and edification on the human side).

Their ways of doing this are most varied, ranging from a sense of acting in accordance with the «rightness in things» (as in much Chinese religion), through a mystical identification of the deepest self or atman with the cosmic reality or brahma (as in Hinduism), or a «blowing - out» of individual selfhood by sharing in the bliss of Nirvana (as in most varieties of Buddhism), to the sense of fellowship or communion with God found in our own Jewish - Christian religious tradition.

Each step of the journey involves deeper communion with God, and by the end of it, we discover that we have encountered him thousands of times along the way.

«Like angels» simply means in perfect communion with God.

They do not see the transformation of every physical limitation as a guarantee, or even as necessary for fulfilling our human potential, and they construe healing in a holistic sense, as the inclusion of all people, regardless of bodily or mental function, in communion with God.

Furthermore, it is unthinkable that the glimmerings of communion with God, the beginnings of life in relationship with God, can be so ephemeral in their importance that death can altogether finish the bearer of them.

This means that partaking sacramentally will not guarantee to the divorced and remarried like me communion with God.

Though he prefers the older word «piety» — with its deep rootage in Roman history and Calvinist theology — J. I. Packer offers a succinct positive definition of Christian spirituality as an «enquiry into the whole Christian enterprise of pursuing, achieving, and cultivating communion with God, which includes both public worship and private devotion, and the results of these in actual Christian life.»

But in this created world, in unity and unbroken communion with God, Adam does not give a name to his wife.

This must be nurtured through instruction and example, lest rejection of God in the lifestyle of the baptized set up an internal dichotomy that is the opposite to communion with God.

Without limbo, those foetuses presumably would no longer be denied communion with God.»

With that said, I think they do want the general belief in God, a general sense that goodness orders the universe, that love and peace and joy are all good things, that human rights actually matter, and that we can experience some sort of mystical communion with God / the universe / whatever through spirituality.

Nor will it be by minimizing the personal devotion of the faithful Christian believer who in the privacy of his chamber seeks to enter into communion with his God and there find strength to live throughout the days of his life as one whose will is conformed to the Will of the Father.

Love seeking a response means communion with God and man.

Worship, as a characteristic action of man the religious animal, consists in the offering of self to God and the returning gift of enhanced life, in communion with God, for man.

Sin breaks communion with God and man, and man with man.

It was extraordinary to see such a great and fine mind in such calm and simple communion with God.