Sentences with phrase «in meditating on»

The painter and mixed - media artist finds glory in meditating on details of natural Western flora, as he does in Burst, a recent painting that hones in on a cactus.

It is in accord with what we know of ourselves in meditating on our existence and with what we know through observation about the world in which we live.

There is no need to dwell constantly on mortality; healthy recognition of the reality does not require us to spend much of our time in meditating on the subject.

(Example: «I have had much comfort lately in meditating on the passages which show the personality of the Holy Ghost, and his distinctness from the Father and the Son.

It involves studying the holy truths and meditating on the impurity of the passions: in meditating on friendliness — in order to destroy hate; in meditating on dependent origination — to disperse error; and, finally, in studying all the teachings concerned with the nature of things.

Thus, in meditating on the gospel accounts of Christ's interaction with Pontius Pilate, my focus in recent years has been on Pilate's role as....

In it he meditates on the fascinating phenomenon of self - deception, and lists a variety of ways we manage our beliefs to avoid the unpleasant consequences of truth.

Not exact matches

Meditate in a quiet, dark room or just focus on your breathing.

«Literally, it was an amazing moment last week when we were in the office and he said, «I really need to go meditate in order to be in a place to make good decisions right now,»» Huffington said at the iCONIC conference in New York City on Wednesday.

Simmons's new app, which is available for free in the App Store, focuses on mantra - based meditation, which involves meditating to a repetitive phrase or sound.

«From Thanksgiving through December, use that mind - body connection you find during your 55 minutes at the barre each day to meditate on one thing you're thankful for in your life.»

«Literally, it was an amazing moment last week when we were in the office and he said, «I really need to go meditate in order to be in a place to make good decisions right now,»» says Huffington, speaking at the iCONIC conference in New York City on Wednesday.

This is where faith comes in, we must hide the Word of God in our hearts and meditate on it day and night.

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We have a special monthly service called Space in which we look at various types of works of art (or copies of them) and meditate and reflect on them.

Then it is no longer necessary to meditate on those things I think I should do because they quasi pop up in my mind whenever He wants.

In addition to studying her work and meditating on her prayers, learn about her life.

The confusion on the Assembly floor in Vancouver reflected the fact that Christians have not been enabled to think theologically about the religious faith of their neighbors, as believing and praying (or meditating) people with a spiritual history and tradition of their own.

Blair writes that he advised the three to gather in a synagogue and meditate on the question of why Jews were so universally disliked.

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So, the thinking goes, if we could simply memorize, meditate on and proclaim that there is one race then maybe we'll be well on our way to the multi-ethnic, multi-cultural «pot luck» in the sky.

The conversations that John remembered, meditated on, recorded for others, are a reminder that Jesus wanted to be with his friends in a community of mutual love.

For what do we long for when we read the Beatitudes, when we meditate on the words of Christ through lectio divina, when we join with Christians past and present to pray the hours, when we climb Teresa of Avila's «Interior Castle,» when we raise our hands in worship, when we eat the bread and drink the wine, when we walk the labyrinths, when like David we see that the night sky declares the glory of God, when we study the Bible in Hebrew and Greek, when we connect with a glorious line from Wendell Berry or Frederick Buechner, or Annie Dillard?

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.

Islamic culture has been affected by the cultural, social, and political conditions in which it existed and by the challenge which the Muslims faced, a challenge which stimulated them to meditate on their Faith and to present it in its genuine form, free of alien interpolations.

They have closed their eyes and bowed their heads in church before, but it lent a certain excitement to meditating knowing that in a moment a bird would land on your shoulder, and wondering which one it might be.

«If you don't read the Bible daily, and don't memorize the Bible in part, and don't linger over the Bible, and don't meditate on it and remember it, if you don't steep your mind in it, the best you can hope for is a weak Christian life.

Think of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes seeking enlightenment in an opium trance; of Dorothy Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey meditating on a folio of Dante; or Agatha Christie's quiet Miss Marple hearing confessions at the tea table.

As Don Whitney wrote in his book, Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life, «When we meditate on Scripture, it colors our thinking about God, about God's ways and His world, and about ourselves.»

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Psalm 1 reminds us that those who delight in the law of the Lord, meditating on it day and night, are happy, blessed and fruitful.

Christians are told that we should draw close to god in prayer, pray earnestly, incessantly, petitioning god, meditating on his word and ways and so I would engage in intense prayer to experience this closeness, union and oneness with god only to eventually discover that this process was altering my brain chemistry.

One conquers the latter by meditating on the dangers to which one is exposed, by despising pleasure, and by keeping in mind the career of the Buddha, from its beginning in the humblest existence to its culmination in the highest knowledge.

I have always found it very strange that these who call themselves successors of the apostles, I mean some poor men — preachers of humility and repentance — should possess great wealth, wallow in luxery, and fill posts more proper to satisfy the vanity of the age and the ostentation of the great than to occupy men who must meditate on the nothingness of human life and on the quest for salvation.

Metz meditates at length on the apocalyptic consciousness in its contrast with the dominant modern one, which he calls evolutionary.

After meditating on it for some time, I finally came up with this image of me floating in a vast sea.

You do this by opening your heart in prayer for discernment BEFORE you open your Bible and take the time to meditate on your reading BEFORE you speak to your pastor or pick up a commentary or Bible study manual.

He goes on to say that,»... we meditated together for many days, fasting but joyful in the divine and always mindful of odor.»

The Bible is Inspired of God, but in order to understand that you have to know the truth by reading and meditating on what you read.

Reading that thing is NOT easy... thats why it stays in the closet and collects dust... i'd rather meditate and be present in the moment... its all we have anyway... The problem is we are taking SOO much time to discus what is going to happen when we die, that we don't take time to focus on how to live in THIS VERY MOMENT...

I wakened before dawn and shouted; I hoped in thy words; my eyes were wakeful before the watches of the night, to meditate on thy sayings (Ps.

We must indeed emphasise and meditate on the humanity of Christ, not in competition with his Divinity, but as the very means of our relationship with him as our God and Saviour.

In this short but thought - provoking article he meditates on the dialogue at the beginning of the Preface to the Eucharistic prayer.

Those were precisely the words he was meditating on when be had his experience in the tower.

To «abide» means to remain in and not depart from, and this we do as we ask Him to satisfy us in the morning with His steadfast love that we may rejoice and be glad all our days (Psalm 90:14), fixing our eyes on Jesus, who is Himself the very Word of God on which we meditate and build the foundation of our lives as a rock enduring the storms (Matthew 7:24 - 27).

In fact, read all four Gospel accounts of the birth of Jesus Christ and meditate on the truth that He was born to die.

For the past few days I have been meditating on this recording in scripture and I came across this posting in the process.

Venerating the mans blood so that people have something to come and visit and meditate on, is not the first act of sin the church committed in using John Paul's blood, because the worship of him when he was alive (if thats what it is) is where the sin began.

Gospel passages are meditated on through the medium of role play — from the woman caught in adultery, when Jesus bends down and looks straight into the eyes of the (self --RRB- condemned woman and says: «Who condemns you?

Assured of the assistance of the Holy Spirit this Tradition, under the guidance of the Magisterium, in former times recognised the canonical writings of the Word of God and has never ceased to meditate on them and search their meaning.