Sentences with phrase «earthly matters»

Diseases, particularly physical diseases are earthly matters with earthly causes and earthly cures.

Christians are only seeking «heavenly things» and think that earthly matters do not concern them and have no bearing on their salvation, because these things have become exclusively secular and human.

By means of them, earthly matter communicates supernatural life in a manner analogous to the Incarnation itself.

In the mid-1970s, Sheikh Zayed, the founder of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), was preoccupied with such earthly matters as building his young nation when a series of meetings at his palace with several Apollo astronauts turned his gaze to the heavens.

But this man, despite his devoutness, thought very modern, so that he strictly distinguished between matters of religion, in which someone calls on God, and the earthly matters, in which someone asks for help at earthly bodies.

Mythology and alternative narratives of the land similarly emerge through a study of the topographies of imagined landscapes, coupled with an engagement with corporeal, earthly matter — carbon and water — the material that undergirds and sustains it all.