Sentences with phrase «describe as my soul»

With nothing to distract me I was left with only myself — not what I look like or who I think I am, but what I can only describe as my soul.

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In retrospect, she describes Jobs as «a visionary, a genius, a driven and infrequently tender soul, a father, and a Machiavellian mastermind.»

Rocker and NRA board member Ted Nugent used an appearance on the «The Joe Page Show» to describe the Parkland gun control activists as people who «have no soul.»

An atheist then can justly describe an encounter with a pod of whales, for example, as a spiritual experience while still understanding that he doesn't have an immortal soul.

Gayle King asked him about his music and how he would describe it, saying: «They've described your music as hip - hop, soul, R&B, with a little bit of gospel.

Of the historian Hugh Trevor - Roper's well - earned reputation for flippancy, Epstein reports that on his application for a fellowship to All Souls College in Oxford, the cocky petitioner described Rousseau's Confessions as «a lucid journal of a life so utterly degraded that it has been a bestseller in France ever since.»

So you should «nt be too sad for the billion + «lost souls» as you described them, gives more room in heaven for believers, like yourself!!

How do spiritual realities, such as the soul, fit into the world of matter described by physics, chemistry, and biology?

Describing its author's life up until his conversion to Christianity, the Confessions grounds Augustine's individual, mutable life in the unchanging nature of God: «I entered into the depths of my soul,... and with the eye of my soul, such as it was, I saw the Light that never changes casting its rays over the same eye of my soul, over my mind.»

Such names as these bring us to the mystical «union of the soul with God,» as this supreme experience in prayer has been described.

Hartshorne describes the soul - body analogy for the relationship of God and world as follows:

God... it doesn't * mean * in any way that it is the God as described in the bible (Judgement Day / sending souls to hell, e tc... There could be many different ways of this supposed God.

The body, described by Christian faith as an integral and permanent aspect of human being, must be explicitly cared for and enhanced by any ascetic practice that we accept as good for our souls.

When the Hindu identified himself with an undifferentiated reality beyond the experientially diversified soul, the various elements in the soul — its passions, appetites, hopes, fears, sense experience, and reason — were all indifferently there to be recognized, described, and ultimately experienced as so many mere psychic elements over against the true self.

Premised on the idea that the basic activity of life is the inescapable pursuit of what Hobbes called the «power after power that ceaseth only in death» — Alexis de Tocqueville would later describe it as «inquietude» or «restlessness» — the endless quest for fewer obstacles to self - fulfillment and greater power to actuate the ceaseless cravings of the human soul requires ever - accelerating forms of economic growth and pervasive consumption.

The author addresses this in her introduction, stressing that this work will focus instead on «those around her who would describe themselves as «lesser souls» compared to Therese, but who nevertheless put into practice her «Little Way», those who were part of her life, both in her family and in the monastery.

Aristotle described human being as a layered hierarchy of informed matter, the elements fusing together under the impress of a higher - level form to compose tissues, tissues serving as the proximate matter for a yet more complex organizing form at the level of organs, and organs bound into the active, dynamic organism by the yet higher form of soul.

Within the ancient Hebraic description nephesh was the lowest part of the total soul, with neshamah being described as the highest and closest to God.

The Hebrew nephesh has sometimes been translated as «soul», but it must be clearly understood that it described the whole living breathing being and was not a spiritual entity which survived a person's death.

The apparent implication was that grace is of little aid to man's struggles Niebuhr did not so limit the Cross, and he eventually repudiated this confusing terminology as inadequate to «describe the real sanctification that takes place in conversion when the soul turns from itself to God.

By the following century Lutheran theology had returned to the medieval tradition in which it was thought that the souls of the departed already live in blessedness with Christ in a bodiless condition, and where, for this reason, the significance of the general resurrection was considerably lessened.56 It was left to extremist Christian groups, such as the Anabaptists, to affirm the doctrine of soul - sleep and to describe human destiny solely in terms of a fleshly resurrection at the end - time.

The official teaching of the Church, described by Pius XII as fides catholica (Denzinger 2327), though not, strictly speaking, an actually defined doctrine, holds that the individual spiritual souls are directly created by God.

They have confused «immortality of the soul» with whatever may be intended by the biblical phrase «resurrection of the body»; while theologians have attempted, as we have already observed, when I described the older scheme which comprised the last things, to bring the two conceptions together in a fashion which will retain each of them and yet relate them so that a consistent pattern may be provided.

Giorgio La Pira, a leader of the Italian resistance, described Dalla Costa as «the soul of this «activity of love» aimed to save so many brothers;» and Father Cipriano Ricotti remembers being summoned to Dalla Costa's office: «The Archbishop asked me... if I believed that I could devote myself to helping Jews.

In Roman Catholicism, for example, one goes from the official condemnation of the «modernists» in an early part of this century to what might be appropriately described as the dominant position today, found in Pope Pius XII's Human generis (1950), which, concerning the relation between evolution and creation, accepts evolution yet insists on the special, «second» creation of the human soul.

Some speak in individual terms of the cultivation of the Christian life or the salvation of souls; others state their goal to be the building up of the corporate life of the Church or of some part of it; again the goal is defined as the «communication of the vital and redeeming doctrines of Scriptures,» or it is otherwise described by reference to the Bible as the ultimate source of all that is to be taught and preached.

Here the double movement in Abraham's soul is evident, as it was described in the foregoing discussion.

The Service of Holy Baptism, in the Book of Common Prayer, states this admirably when it requires that the sponsors in Baptism promise, on behalf of the child, that the newly baptized Christian shall «learn the Creed, the Lord's Prayer, and the Ten Commandments,» and describes these, among other things, as being that which «a Christian ought to know and believe to his soul's health.»

For the notion would not then have developed that reason is a sort of mental gadget that can be used by the individual or, as Hume described it, a «wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls.»

John of the Cross speaks of a wounding of the heart, shot through with the love of God, who is described as the «beloved» of the soul, constantly sought and longed for.

Plato once described philosophy as the soul's dialogue with itself.

Bloom in THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND describes sophisticated American students as being unmoved by love and death, moved only by music that imitates the mechanical rutting of animals, and having souls which are flat or unanimated by distinctively human eros.

In a tradition dating back to the early Church, all Christian souls have been described as being feminine.

In the first edition of his Critique of Pure Reason, Kant stresses the indispensability of this faculty in the synthesis of the sensible and the intellectual — a faculty he describes as «a blind but indispensable function of the soul, without which we should have no knowledge whatsoever» (CPR 112).

In that context, the world soul is described as the begotten product of the eternal Demiurge, but that context is mythical.

Epictetus described himself as a poor soul shackled to a corpse (Fragment 23).

He is described as suffering a crisis of vocation, but a better word for it may be the dark night of the soul.

As described in the book The Science of the Soul, many prominent scientists, such as Stephen Hawking, Erwin Schrodinger, Albert Einstein, William Provine, Charles Darwin, and others, have made written statements concluding that science can not explain free will as a natural phenomenoAs described in the book The Science of the Soul, many prominent scientists, such as Stephen Hawking, Erwin Schrodinger, Albert Einstein, William Provine, Charles Darwin, and others, have made written statements concluding that science can not explain free will as a natural phenomenoas Stephen Hawking, Erwin Schrodinger, Albert Einstein, William Provine, Charles Darwin, and others, have made written statements concluding that science can not explain free will as a natural phenomenoas a natural phenomenon.

Creatures with bodies as well as minds and souls were the crowning glory of God's creation described in Genesis.

Folks talk about the soul as a religious item — that it synonymous with religion — But religions don't really explain what a soul is — because they don't know — only a possible destination — Before you get all huffy, please consider where my concept comes from — I am no longer religious — I studied Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs for dozens of years, and determined a different design, for what the glyphs could portend — and found some interesting thought processes hidden within — including what the soul is — for instance: The Ankh symbol represents Life — the charcters for An and kh, I translate as an = thought and kh = soul — Thus Life = the thought of the soul — The soul as described by the AE, is a continuity between 2 or more enti - ties — including the enti - ty Environment — Our environment creates us — some name their environment as god — some believe there is a continuity with their environment — that is soul --

However, with the damaged set of relationships that results from original sin, when Christ comes into the world, He now experiences the pain of that wounded relationship between matter and spirit, body and soul, God and Man, as a profound agony of sorrow., perhaps nowhere more graphically described than in the sweat of blood (Luke 22:44).

The conservative methods were described by Roy Honeycutt, former president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, as «unholy forces» threatening to destroy cherished Baptist traditions of soul liberty and priesthood of the believer.

Gregory describes his own soul as being «knit to the soul of Origen,» as the soul of Jonathan was to that of David.

The resulting stew is best described as a sickeningly sweet, piping - hot milkshake, the memory of which is a dark blot upon my soul.

Hitting is the soul of hockey — «Take it out of the game, there's nothing left,» says Montreal Canadiens coach Alain Vigneault — and those on the receiving end often describe it as an out - of - body experience.

I would describe my garden as a place of nourishment and strength, for both the body and the soul.

I've mentioned in the past about the importance of filling the child's love cup (as Pam Leo puts it in her book Connection Parenting) or having Mind, Body & Soul time (as Amy McCready of Positive Parenting Solutions describes it).

Further describing the death of the late Emir and one time Senator and Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as a monumental loss to the country, Aregbesola prayed for the repose of the Emir's soul just as he also extended his «profound condolence to the immediate family, the government and the entire people of Niger State.

South Bronx Band Plays Last Show Even if you haven't heard of ESG, chances are you've heard of artists influenced by ESG: The Wu - Tang Clan, the Beastie Boys, and Gangstarr are reportedly among the hip - hop acts who have sampled the band, whose sound is described as something of a fusion of hip - hop, post-punk, and soul.

Cuomo described the stakes in this election as «the very soul of America.»