Sentences with phrase «great spiritual person»

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Most people today who seek to attain greater psychological health or spiritual depth look elsewhere than Jesus.

The culture of consumerism and the chase for material symbols of wealth and security have sometimes come to be dominant; the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment in many has slowly begun to degenerate into empty and sterile ritualism; the legitimate thirst for education has often become perverted into an obsessive drive to acquire with the greatest speed the formal diplomas necessary to gain entry to jobs offering the easiest opportunities to make the quickest rupees; political statesmanship in some areas has begun to depreciate into an opportunities race for power and position; the spirit of SEVA (Service) to the nation has intermittently begun to be suffocated in many, by the abuse of discretions, sometimes mediated by a bloated bureaucracy itself enmeshed in a vast network of multiplying paper and self - proliferating regulations; menacingly many good and decent people even in public life, have come to be corroded by a culture of demanding corruption; and some potentially creative lawyers, have begun to take perverted pride in mere «cleverness», rendering themselves vulnerable to the prejudice that they are a parasitic obstruction in the pursuit of substantive justice.

There is great spiritual truth in Jewish feasts like the Passover meal, and so the only people who would not want to observe them are people who don't care about spiritual truth.

I don't believe God selects one group of people to spread the message, or even has rules to gain entrance into the great spiritual theme park called «Heaven» (another uncertainty — but I understand the notion).

As he says: «Never before has the need been so great for the people of God to provide spiritual and truly fraternal support for persons who experience differing degrees of same - sex attraction or gender uncertainty.»

A great spiritual guide once notified his charges that if any persons wished to make doing the whole will of God the aim of their lives, he would be willing to counsel with them as long and as often as they liked.

With his careful choice of very beautiful line drawings and colour plates of icons, Hart demonstrates that the spiritual life of the person who paints icons is of great significance.

I think if more people allowed themselves to be led by the Spirit, we might see the end to a great deal of the needs around as us God's children pour out their resources in love and compassion for those who have spiritual, physical and emotional needs.

She invites her readers into Christian practices that heighten both the spiritual and relational dimensions of time, so that we may live with greater authenticity as people created in God's image — with an awareness of time as a gift rather than a burden thrust upon us by our daily planners, and with a sense of being «attuned to the active presence of God.»

Spiritual zeal like Peter, divine knowledge like Paul, wisdom like Solomon's, a cute face and great style — all in one person.

Not sure i am convinced because how do you explain the verse an eye for an eye in the old testament there have always been consequences for wrong doing and stiill are for sin.If we believe the word then that word is from God not satan.As far as satan is concerned he uses violence as his tools of trade he works on our fears and is limited to robbing stealing and destroying he does nt have anything else.Violence confirms to us that there is a spiritual battle going on both on the earthly plane and in the heavenlys and the battle is over souls.The verse the kingdon of heaven is expanding and violent people take it by force is referring to that spiritual battle and as satan uses violence to expand his dominion so does God use violence to counter him.So what does he mean by that term for me i think it is saying that the the force of evil that satan uses or violence is overcome by a greater violence or force a more powerful one that being the Love of Christ.Through the cross we see that clearly portrayed and in our lives that very same battle is still happening right now for dominion be clear if we walk in the flkesh satan will have dominion over us but if we walk according to the spirit and abide in Christ we have freedom from our old nature.and satan.He can oppose us but he wont be able to influence us if we are in Christ.

So throughout his writings, and in a great variety of ways, he elaborated his concept of the individual, of the person who is free to grow in Christian love, hope, joy and peace because he or she is not a spiritual slave to social context.

Another part of why many people are spiritual but not religious is that although they believe in a power greater than themselves, they are actually comfortable not knowing exactly what that power is.

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.

Along that path a person can adopt a particular spiritual path which is neither right or wrong but fulfills the person's spiritual needs to their greatest and highest good.

Calling Crimea an inseparable part of Russia, President Vladimir Putin declared that Vladimir the Great's «spiritual feat of adopting Orthodoxy predetermined the overall basis of the culture, civilization, and human values that unite the peoples of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus.»

i have the great good fortune to work in a non-profit world where working for conservation allows me to fulfill many spiritual interests and directions - supporting a threatened species and involving different people in that process.

«My conversations with Paula, who I adore, (are) a great reminder to me that you are willing to listen to spiritual counsel from people who you know and you trust,» Huckabee told Trump.

The greatest danger of all spiritual gifts is that some people think their gift is a gift everyone should have.

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.

As she tells it, it was her grandmother's «spiritual obsession» and frightening talk of hell that drove her away from the church as a girl: «By the time I was in high school I grew contemptuous of religion and the people I knew who practiced it, although I took great pains to hide this development from Grandmother....

Never before has the need been so great for the people of God to provide spiritual and truly fraternal support for persons who experience differing degrees of same - sex attraction or gender uncertainty.

Some people feel too angry and / or guilty about their intense, unconscious dependency needs to be able to come to the great spiritual breast of the church.

Paradoxically, this process frustrates the spiritual desires of many modern secular people, who are unsatisfied with thin consumerism and wish to participate in something greater than themselves.

But the biblical narrative, the great critic Erich Auerbach wrote, depicted «something which neither the poets nor the historians of antiquity ever set out to portray: the birth of a spiritual movement in the depths of the common people, from within the everyday occurrences of contemporary life.»

Shira, The meme «God hates pagans and apostates» is definitely biblical, which testifies to the reality that individually and collectively all People of the Book [and other Religious Traditions] are capable of greater or lesser spiritual understanding and mature actions.

Perhaps a third is how Christ is to be understood in a world in which many people, including Christians, view the Dalai Lama as a great spiritual leader.

Can congregations exhibit greater intentionality and focus on personal spiritual growth, and yet call and invite people into communities of memory and hope that have deep theological significance?

@lonely Lamb YOU KNOW DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 28:15 ~ 68 THAT IS TALKING ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE»S NOT EUROPEANS OK VERSES 68 I WILL SEND YOU BACK IN CHAINS IN SHIP»S TO EGYPT LOOK AT WASHINGTON DC WHATS THE LARGEST MONUMENT IN WASHINGTON DC LET ME TAKE A GUESS THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT THAT IS FROM THE FIRST EGYPT IN NORTH AFRICA AND USA IS A SPIRITUAL EGYPT LOOK SLAVERY LASTED FROM 1511 TOO 1808 WITH THE GREAT TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE FROM WEST AFRICA

The views of a visiting pope, respected by Catholics and many non-Catholics alike as a moral and spiritual leader of great prominence, will not make persons now unconcerned about global warming suddenly begin to grow concerned, nor even make skeptics of religious freedom begin to take its claims more seriously.

So far as the earlier portions of the Old Testament are concerned, this is true, but the much more considerable truth is that, starting with tribal religion, as all early peoples did, the Jews through their prophetic souls made one of the greatest contributions ever made in the spiritual history of man, by blazing the trail out from religion as merely a national cult to religion as also a profound, inward, personal experience.

Even if you do not believe the Bible is inspired by God certainly you acknowledge the Bible contains great spiritual truths as well as common sense foundations for relationships between people.

How are you investing it to accomplish the greatest spiritual good for the greatest number of people?

Therefore, I hope it encourages people to reinstitute this important spiritual practice and retrieve this great tradition of reading together.

But then, through the help of a spiritual director I am forever indebted to, I began to realize that even with all my faults and weaknesses, I am a wonderful human being and a great person.

I don't think it's so much about the levites being paid for their service it's about us doing what's right toward Pastors that must feed and tend to the flock of GOD if GOD has called them.JESUS even said in luke 10:7 that the laborers are worthy of their wages.In luke 8 1 - 4 it's says even JESUS HIMSELF recieved financial support from the women who ministered to him with their possessions.Now most people today would say he should have been ashamed of taking money from those poor women but JESUS accepted their support and they was blessed for sowing onto the LORD»S work.1 Corinthains 9:1 - 15 says dint muzzle the ox while it tread out the grain was GOD talking about oxes no he was talking about those who labor in the ministry.Who goes to war at their own expense.Or who goes to war but pay for their clothes, guns, etc.No one because the goverment if that country provide these things because of the soilders service.Who plants a vineyard and don't eat from it.Who tends a flock and don't drink the milk of it.I think it's just spiritual sense to support a pastor that's teaching you the word, casting out devils, laying hands and healing is manifesting in people lived, going to hospitails, prisons, and house calls to pray for the sick and shut in, going to graduations and funnerals, praying and fasting for himself and the flock.I think a person who think a pastor shouldn't be paid for their service either don't know they need to be paid and need to be taught or they are demonic in their thinking and either hate GOD, PASTORS, AND GOD»S PEOPLE.Why do nt you hear people saying anything against the dope dealers, strip clubs, dope houses, liquor stores, etc.It's only when people give into the LORD»S work that evil minded or misinformed people have a problem with it.No sir we don't have to use the old testament to show that we should support out pastors.You don't use the law, love tells me to support the pastor.Under the new testament LOVE is the greatest of all.Love for GOD and man.If GOD asked for 10 percent under the law to support the levites who didn't have all the responsibilities of Pastor today.Church rent, gas for vans of thd church, insurance fir the church and church vehicles, feeding and clothing the poor, light, gas, and water bill, mantience on the church or vehicles, not to mention the Pastor own house, cars, children, insurance, etc.If would be foolish for one to think that a pastor should take care if his house and GODS HOUSE without people supporting the work of the KINGDOM OF GOD.If we love GOD we are going to support HIS KINGDOM and HIS PASTOR.If under the law GOD asked for 10 percent how much should we give under the LOVE COVENANT?Example I love my wife and if I had 300 dollars I would surley give her more that 10 percent which would be 30 dollars because I love her.The law says you must give LOVE says I chose to give because I love GOD and man.Again we don't have to use the law just love and spiritual sense because hate and a carnal senses will not understand.Now I have given you scriptures please do the same when you respond not your opinion.Please respond right away I await your answer.GOD BLESS.

But these authorities should realise, he said, as he got into his stride, that they stood in greater spiritual danger than the people they excommunicated.

Finally, the fact that 38 % of young people said they did not believe in a God or greater spiritual power, compared with 44 % who did, should not be taken at face value.

Twenty - five per cent of young people said they believed in God, 19 % believed in a non-Godlike «spiritual greater power» and 38 % were atheists who didn't believe in any greater spiritual power.

Tap back into my faith; I am a spiritual, idealistic person and denying that was not serving me; I am more balance when I can believe in something greater than myself.

I will often ask people, if there was something you could do that every great sage and spiritual leader throughout history have done, it would not cost you any money and it has a significant impact on your overall health and vitality, would you do it?»

The good news however is that many people claim to find inward peace and great improvement in emotional health as a result of daily heart - felt meditation and spiritual communion with a Higher Power.

We primarily seek to help others come into greater balance and wholeness through life coaching and spiritual guidance, in - person and remote energy healing sessions, and through our diverse programme of energy healing courses, workshops and retreats.

I am a very spiritual person with a great sense of humor.

I am a lovng, and spiritual woman with a great desire to see all the destinies of the First Nations peoples realized.

These three people are forever bonded as both equals and (unrelated) generations of a greater spiritual family.

The tale of Lt. Dunbar's spiritual journey from disenchanted Civil War soldier to revered member of the Great Plains Sioux tribe is one that admirably forgoes demonization of the country's original inhabitants in favor of a compassionate portrait of indigenous people attempting to survive the encroaching hordes of American settlers.

Personal and passionate, Giovanni's short narrative talks about the sacred songs first sung by slaves, tracing how people in bondage created the great spirituals to tell their stories, and what the songs (presented in full at the end of the book) still mean to us today.

But above all, our FOTAS volunteers are caring, generous people who express extraordinary acts of kindness, and scientists now know what the great spiritual masters have known for centuries: that acts of kindness promote happiness and a sense of well - being.

We begin at the Aboriginal Cultural Centre with a guided tour around this sacred site, which holds great spiritual significance to local Anangu people.