Coupled with
this deep spiritual joy is a more superficial (and no doubt more transitory) source of consolation.
Not exact matches
I have a fairly
deep spiritual practice in general, but this year with all the craziness, with all the angst in the world around us, with the challenges that are had, it really deepens the need to be present, and the
joy that comes from being more deeply present.
There would be certain consequences that come with the act of procreation, namely, a
deeper union between the couple: «
spiritual and sacramental love,
joy of possession, and the fulfilment of human, complementary vocation in one flesh, all taken up to God», [5] as well as a natural organic pleasure such as accompanies the proper functioning of other humanacts (like eating and drinking).
We seek God with a real
spiritual hunger and from a positive
joy in goodness lived that engenders existential peace and prompts a recognition that seeks
deeper knowledge, higher perfection and greater communion in love.
In any
deep and truly
spiritual love, it is the personality, and its quality, which is the object of the loving and the centre of the sheer
joy in the possession of that loving of another.
As one who is labeled
spiritual, philosophical, «
deep», and all the rest of the ten thousand descriptions meant (sometimes) to pigeon hole, define, and limit, it is a
joy to read of your efforts and your thoughts.
Perhaps God's consistent failure to come through with the blessings he prayed for — deliverance from sin,
spiritual joy to replace his
deep unhappiness — was evidence that God did not exist after all.