Sentences with phrase «for spiritual feelings»
Sometimes, though, I longed for an outlet for spiritual feelings harbored deep inside.
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Some felt compelled to ask for spiritual advice.
If you really feel the need for spiritual community, might I suggest the Unitarians.
Over incarnations, if one leads a moral life and chooses a spiritual path that he feels is right for him, he is sure to find God.
... The child doesn't have to struggle to get himself in a good position for having a relationship with God; he doesn't have to craft ingenious ways of explaining his position to Jesus; he doesn't have to create a pretty face for himself; he doesn't have to achieve any state of spiritual feeling or intellectual understanding.
We joined this church about 4 years ago because we felt we needed a good base and spiritual learning for our son.
At this one point history was felt to disclose once again something of the compelling spiritual significance which it had possessed for the prophets, though at a lower level of intensity.
I tihnk the reason so many people are throughing defintions is because everyone feels they get to define «spiritual» for themselves.
It is the man and the woman to whom the act remains, each time, as fresh and beautiful, as it was the first time, who are able to sustain and perpetuate their first sense of its glory in the midst of the sober or bleak or sordid realities of day to day life, and who can feel, afresh each time, a boundless gratitude for each other and for this blessed source of sweetness and strength — it is they who are the truly «virgin», the truly pure and chaste; and (on the Humanist hypothesis) it is they who are the remnant selected by grace to be the true and spiritual seed of the risen Christ.33
«I'm a very ordinary person and not «spiritual,»» she said, «but I feel like the Lord spoke to me through Psalm 37, «Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; do not fret when people succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes.»
I'd love for people to feel permission to actually go there — to lean into their doubts, lean into their questions, lean into the places of pain and grief or shifting — instead of leading a life of spiritual or intellectual dishonesty and pretending it's all fine.
The number of adults who regularly feel spiritual peace and well - being is up from 52 percent in 2007 to 59 percent in 2014 (margin of error for all Americans: ± 0.6 %), and evangelicals are no exception.
As an aside, I personally feel that organized religion is becoming increasingly inconsequential, insignificant, and is demonstrating that it's nothing more spiritual than «big business», giving nothing in return for the billions of dollars it takes from the masses.
I realize that, to begin with, most Protestant clergy will feel they are only posing as spiritual guides, since most of them were never trained for that function.
The undeniable fact that Jesus loves ALL mankind seems to be lost upon many who profess to follow Him, while the fact that He came to deliver us from the bondage of «natural» desires, those carnal impulses which contradict the spiritual nature for which we were created, seems lost on many others without regard to any principles of character which conflict with the principle «if it feels good, it must be right».
Last week I wrote a post on spiritual refugees (people who have left the church and experience feelings of spiritual homelessness) and spiritually displaced persons (those who are still within the church and experience it as unhealthy for them but feel trapped at the same time).
Ed's search for a spiritual connection can really be felt through songs such as «Where Fishes Go.»
So you finally resolve to say what feels like the most spiritual and helpful thing you can come up with in the moment: «I'll be praying for you.»
Adnama Satan uses external circumstances to direct our steps he knows that if we walk according to the flesh we come under his authority for the flesh is weak and he manipulates by keeping christians in bondage to sin through lust or whatever sin the christian is weak in.He can also fire into our minds evil thoughts to make us feel condemned or guilty these are fiery darts they are not ours and we need to stand on the word to rebuke them by faith.If we have given our lives to Christ then we belong to Christ so if we walk in accordance to the spirit the enemy has not power to effect us either internally or externally that is not to say that he can not manipulate situations and circumstances to his advantage that is why we need to be alert and pray against the work that he does we are in a spiritual battle but we have overcome in Christ so fear not brentnz
While the religion of authority may impart a present feeling of settled security, you pay for such a transient satisfaction the price of the loss of your spiritual freedom and religious liberty.
As for anyone who can not seem to understand the difference between a natural feeling and a spiritual feeling, then that's a person who's never had one...
But it is undeniable that the same kind of spiritual rhetoric and understanding of faith allowed Christians in America to oppress others for hundreds of years on the one hand, while feeling spiritually righteous or justified on the other.
Alcohol is no match for my my love and warm hot cold spirit spiritual feelings that I give everyday.
Some how it's felt that values, morals, virtues are not there in a secular world only faceless solid lifeless laws of men rather than what has been relayed by Holy books that calls for good deeds and reject bad deeds and to build a faithful societies, communities, nations since communications among nations or even among the nations of mixed cultures and beliefs... Laws or God and universe are to be prepared by some thing that is equivalent to UN but built on nations beliefs to achieve the code of understanding among nations but as can see now it is build on groundless bases if not of words of God to faiths... in addition to those non spiritual secular beliefs to make decisions of faith but at the moment the secular world make and take the decisions while the beliefs and faiths has to pay for it when it becomes a war between all faiths or religions outside your world, it would become back into your inside among the mixed culture and beliefs of the nation or nations under one country flag...!
I don't feel sorry for you one bit, instead I take your mental, emotional, social, spiritual heath as an example to encourage me.
However, in spiritual existence, man objectified and experienced responsibility for his basic self - centeredness of feeling.
Take them one at a time, spending as much time as you need to discuss thoroughly the issues and feelings that arise: «The ideas and issues which excite me most are...;» «The things that are most worth living for right now are...;» «I feel the most joy (pain, hope, lonely, together) when...;» «What I really believe about God is...;» «I feel closest to (most distant from) God when...;» «I get spiritually high when...;» «The beliefs that mean the most to me now are...;» «The beliefs from my childhood which no longer make sense are...;» «Life has the least (the most) meaning for me when...;» «I feel closest to you (most distant from you) spiritually when...;» «The way I really feel about the church is...;» «I'd like to do the following, to enjoy more spiritual sharing...;» «To enrich the spiritual life of our family, I'd like to..
If it feels good it must be bad for (the real eternal spiritual) you.
Now I answer with: «Not religious, just spiritual...» Religion is a way for people to dump their sad feelings and fosters a form of belief that our problems are greater than ourselves and that we are incapable of fixing them.
For those folks that consider themselves «spiritual but not religious» (please note, this question does NOT apply to Christians that feel spiritual, but do nt like Church insti tutions).
In the argument for the spiritual efficacy of drugs, much is made of feeling or failing to feel God's presence.
There will be freedom to come and go as people feel appropriate for their own spiritual journeys.
People who are spiritual but religious are describing how they feel about life, they are not proclaiming they have the answers, and good for them.
If you're settling in areas that you ultimately feel uncomfortable settling in, whether it's spiritual discipline or lifestyle differences, that's a recipe for resentment.
Recently, as I have been dragging myself to go to church for my wife; I have felt Extreme spiritual resistance for going.
Sometimes Holy Week feels like a time to make up for a yearlong bout of spiritual procrastination in the same manner we start flossing hours prior to our dentist appointment.
Thanks for helping me feel less «alone» in this oftentimes complicated spiritual journey.
For one thing fasting can make you feel the hunger of poor people and get you into deeper spiritual levels.
Happy are those who feel their spiritual need for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
Initially they will feel the crisis posed by in the global market, but Asian religions will be great reservoirs of spiritual energy for the life and struggle of the Asian people.
These, I feel, are significant questions that need to be asked if we have any concern at all for the future of the church, spiritual communities, or any community for that matter.
What need is there for the spiritual, if one can feel renewed simply from eating chocolate?
As Fr Bertram suggests, those who have never felt drawn to the «contemplative» spiritual tradition may find Newman's work especially helpful - but in truth, there is something in these pages for everyone to treasure.
After years of participating in a comfortable faith tradition, many find themselves in a spiritual wilderness, feeling disillusioned with church, longing for more freedom and less religion in their lives.
The need for a sense of spiritual intimacy includes the need for a sense of «at - homeness» in the universe, and a deeply experienced feeling of what Erik Erikson calls «basic trust.»
Our group preamble is «this group of A.A. attempts to maintain a tradition of free expression, and conduct a meeting where alcoholics may feel free to express any doubts or disbeliefs they may have, and to share their own personal form of spiritual experience, their search for it, or their rejection of it.
Satan attacks me in my thoughts day and night and he makesit so i can barely eat i pray to the lord and he consoles me god is REAL i used to e a drug dealer the most violent and disruptive of men and one night i came under attack from satan and felt like satan was makeing me into someone im not putting thoughts in my head of death suicide and sexual immorality then i read the wqordof god and everything felt better when i read the Book «The Advocate» spiritual warfare is real and god can save you from satans tourment do nt let Satan claim the rights to your soul i had trouble believing in god for years my mind worked in science and fact but the fact is that God is real and living and when you leave this earth you Will face Judgement
It happens a lot because for the first time in their spiritual lives they may feel like they finally have permission to be honest about the actual state of their union.
Instead when a person marries... he takes his sexual desire, and he does the same thing with it that we must all do with all our physical desires if we would make them means of worship — 1) he brings it into conformity to God's word; 2) he subordinates it to a higher pattern of love and care; 3) he transposes the music of physical pleasure into the music of spiritual worship, 4) he listens for the echoes of God's goodness in every nerve; 5) he seeks to double his pleasure by making her joy his joy; and 6) he gives thanks to God from the bottom of his heart because he knows and he feels that he never deserved one minute of this pleasure.
In Walking on Water, Madeleine L'Engle said, «I've long since stopped feeling guilty about taking beingtime; it's something we all need for our spiritual health, and often we don't take enough of it.»