Sentences with phrase «great religious feeling»

He is a religious man, practising his faith, but not given to great religious feeling or exceptional spiritual experiences.

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I wrote, «Feeling great after confession is probably the most widespread experience in Catholicism, a religion not founded on religious experience as such.»

Feeling great after confession is probably the most widespread experience in Catholicism, a religion not founded on religious experience as such.»

I feel that the religious excitement that is supposed to come to people who meditate on the flame of a single dark candle in an otherwise dark room was no greater than the pleasure I felt when I looked down a gun - sight and become very close to my own mind and consciousness.

The fusion of physical and conceptual feelings in religious experience both presupposes a range and depth of relationships in the data of the feelings and also effects a greater intensity or relational extensionality in the physical feelings of the individual.

Religious experience, particularly is expressed in the great religions, exhibits a deep feeling for the tension between the personal and the nonpersonal element in the encounter between God and man.

On the contrary, I feel that there must be a void in the lives of religious people to feel that they need to force themselves to keep believing in these silly myths in order to have a reason to do good things and be good people... that it's not enough for them to be «good» for the sake of goodness, for the sake of our society and our world... that they must believe that there is to be some great reward for themselves or some great punishment after death in order to motivate them to be good.

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.

In full repudiation of the power and mystic realism of symbols, a writer in Deuteronomy argues that even in the personal presence of their God, manifest in the great theophany on Sinai, no physical form was apparent, but only an invisible presence felt in power and in religious perception:

The former — religious experience — need not be highly articulated nor even highly conscious of God as God; it may be vague, diffused, and unformed, yet also a deliverance of what it feels like to be dependent upon a reality greater than anything human or natural.

I agree with you, it really does need to stop, we need to respect each other's beliefs and non-beliefs, but I feel what the Atheists are doing these days (though I see them just as fanatical as the religious side) has a great deal of positive effects.

What is exciting about religion in art as expressed in painting is the endless evocation of profound human feelings and the interaction of those feelings with great religious symbols and themes.

A great many internal and external portents (political and social upheaval, moral and religious unease) have caused us all to feel, more or less confusedly, that something tremendous is at present taking place in the world.

You may consider «something greater than ourselves» to be a bit too religious sounding, and I might agree because I'm not a fan of feeling like we need religious language, but that puts me more in the Dirac camp than the Einstein camp.

And one of the marks of a healthy conscience is an awareness of one's own limitations, a desire to test one's beliefs in a larger arena, to draw from the best that a religious tradition has to offer, to feel that one is not isolated and alone in the face of great moral perplexities.

One of the marks of a healthy conscience is an awareness of one's own limitations, a desire to test one's beliefs in a larger arena, to draw from the best that a religious tradition has to offer, to feel that one is not isolated and alone in the face of great moral perplexities.

Just as Schleiermacher's Speeches on the Christian Religion to Its Cultured Despisers (1799) won great renown in Germany, so too James» Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) convinced many of Christianity's utility inside industrial civilization, where feelings were being crushed on the assembly line.

It is my own belief that the explanation for the enormous sale of Honest to God is simply that great numbers of men and women who wish to be both modern and Christian found in that book a presentation of Christianity which on the one hand they felt was absolutely honest and which on the other hand (and for the first time) opened to them the basic meaning of what we may style «the religious question»: what man is, what his world is like, how one can find significance and dignity for living, and the like.

Divorce is hard and a good therapist, life coach, dating coach, religious counselor, spiritual healer, EFT practitioner, EMDR psychotherapist, or whatever kind of help you feel comfortable with is a great idea.

Psychological research has found that religious people feel great about themselves, with a tendency toward higher social self - esteem and better psychological adjustment than non-believers.

Yes, you fight waves of enemies wearing Eden's Gate gear that spout religious texts at you, but it felt only pushed forward so that I would be able to experience my next great scene with one of the members of the family.