Sentences with phrase «freedom of spirit»

The portrait is psychologically true: the perennial tension between the animal ecstasies of the flesh, which bind one to unthinking material necessity, and the rational freedom of the spirit, which is always striving to subdue the brute.

The true freedom of the Spirit is not found in the isolated, autonomous person who finds self - affirmation in individualism.

The theme of the God - man confronting Satan himself and defeating him expresses the liberation which comes when the paralysis of fear is broken and freedom of the spirit becomes a present possibility.

Since it has arrived and Jesus has accepted it totally and in complete freedom of spirit, then the reign of sin and death over humanity instigated by the malice of the Devil is doomed.

It needed an extraordinary freedom of spirit, a prodigy of free faith... to see God beneath the appearance of a bondsman, and when Simon Peter said to Jesus, «Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God,» he made an act of freedom.

’28 Agape creates that freedom of spirit which transcends all self - justification.

As a result of the absolute freedom of spirit, thought, and movement that they are given, all three children grow into fascinating, if rather eccentric, characters in their own right.

In response to the building he said; «I think it's an extraordinary feeling that the building gives which is of -LSB-...] freedom of spirit -LSB-...] it somehow affords us a view onto what has always been there but maybe we've never seen.»

The foreword and introduction tell the reader that in this book they will find real hope in the aftermath of abortion, a sympathetic ear, the offer of real forgiveness and a barely hoped - for freedom of spirit.

We see the freedom of the Spirit moving in ways we can not predict, we see the nurturing power of the Spirit bringing order out of chaos and renewing the face of the earth, and the «energies» of the Spirit working within and inspiring human beings in their universal longing for and seeking after truth, peace and justice.

The soul that is no longer intent on possessing things finds a freedom of spirit, and curiously «those whose joy is unpossessive of things rejoice in them all as though they possessed them all» (Ascent of Mount Carmel).

Moral and rational good, expressive of man's ideal aspects and thus characteristic of this human dimension, stands under the judgment of a sensitivity more consonant with the freedom of spirit, a structure of sensitivity and grace transcending man's level.

The freedom of the spirit is maintained so long as the meaning of ethical action is kept as response to the love of God rather than simply as obedience to law.

Such issues as slavery, the status of women, and political freedom, the virtues of scientific honesty and integrity, the freedom of the spirit in worship, all such ethical concerns which have grown in significance throughout Christian history are in part at least implicit in the new life, but they are not explicit, and the reason for that must be sought in the historical situation into which the Gospel came.

«She lets it be known that man does not live by bread alone, that she is awakened to the truth that the freedom of spirit is far more essential than the abundance of financial aid.

The freedom of the spirit is manifest in the postulational method, and the necessity of bodily existence is shown in the rigor of deductive inference.

But moral freedom is freedom to rebel against the moral claim, and freedom of the spirit is freedom to rebel against God.

Though he emphasized the freedom of the Spirit - illuminated Word, his insistence on correct doctrine often appeared even to his followers to preclude any positive regard for theological freedom, difference or diversity.

So I can perceive that it requires strength and energy and freedom of spirit to make the infinite movements of resignation, I can also perceive that it is feasible.

It is the will to love, but only in the freedom of the spirit.

I wanted to write about Pentecost because I speak in tongues, and I love the words and freedom of the Spirit, and I believe in fire descending and the birth and rebirth of the Church and scarlet geraniums.

I promise that if you continue on this journey, you will arrive at a place where you do see the Bible as the Bible, but with a peace of mind and freedom of spirit you've never experienced before.

The freedom of spirit is the freedom of God as the ultimate form - giving and life - giving reality.

The freedom of man is also the freedom of spirit, but within the conditions of finite existence.

Unfortunately, this idea of the freedom of the Spirit is frequently used to justify the divisions in the Chilean Pentecostal fold.

The freedom of the spirit is interior to faith.

The fact that they have not reduced the manifestations of the Spirit to a single expression (such as glossolalia, in mainstream Pentecostalism) has allowed Chilean Pentecostalism to develop a clear vision of the freedom of the Spirit.

One may ask: what is this faith if it is not explicitly for faith in Jesus Christ or for the freedom of the spirit?

Secondly, martyrdom should be understood in relation to the freedom of the spirit.

In the second period, it was speaking on behalf of the freedom of the spirit or conscience.

Thus, we see a claim which makes sense of all the martyrdoms of our time: Martyrs today no longer die explicitly for Jesus Christ nor for the freedom of the Spirit as was the case in the first two periods we had considered, but they die for human justice, i.e., an urgent new action is needed to defend those who are overwhelmed by the weight of totalitarianism.

In my personal practice, through painting, drawing, photography and video, I strive to capture energy of being in some way and by capturing the beauty of natural energy I feel I can express a freedom of spirit.

What is perhaps most captivating is the way in which these years provided an important time for Iannone to begin to play and express a freedom of spirit that became intrinsic to her visual language, ultimately beginning the path towards her encapsulating theme of ecstatic love.