Sentences with phrase «in mystical ways»

We understand ourselves bound together in a mystical way, not by blood, but by water — the water of baptism.

This does become a spiritual issue but not in a mystical way.

Not exact matches

Of their very nature those blessed passivities which are my will to be, my inclination to be thus or thus, and the chances given me to attain to my own completion in the way I desire, all are charged with your influence — an influence which I shall come before long to see more clearly as the organizing force of your mystical Body.

Such texts imply that the invisible God is made visible through the incarnation in a concrete and not simply mystical or anagogical way — that those who saw Jesus in his earthly life also «saw» the first person of the Trinity.

On the face of it the passage is a mystical experience; but the way Alyosha got to it was by way of Father Zossima's putrefying body: he had to go through that experience of radical dissociation, accept it and take it with him, an experience fully described in the earlier part of Book VII, in order to come to the insight that «the silence of earth seemed to melt into the silence of the heavens.»

The stress on action over against teaching (the kerygmatic tradition) and religious experience (the mystical tradition) is significant, for it ties in directly with the way of the parables.

Rejoice with me Jesus paid my frightful price — Took me to Him — Into HIS Mystical Body — That we shared in life the same tormented cry; He had walked in His Way the same streets as I — Insane — I was never at a total loss; I KNEW the Blessed Mother choose my Cross In Her maternal love for me and for us all; THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION — Conceived In LOVE such a Holy Cross for me; Through Mary Jesus was someone I could serve — She knew it was the Cross that I deserved And so did I — for over a quarter of a century I stood with Her at Calvary — a wretched sentry With the Communion of Saints, and Blessed Kateri Till Easter came for mein life the same tormented cry; He had walked in His Way the same streets as I — Insane — I was never at a total loss; I KNEW the Blessed Mother choose my Cross In Her maternal love for me and for us all; THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION — Conceived In LOVE such a Holy Cross for me; Through Mary Jesus was someone I could serve — She knew it was the Cross that I deserved And so did I — for over a quarter of a century I stood with Her at Calvary — a wretched sentry With the Communion of Saints, and Blessed Kateri Till Easter came for mein His Way the same streets as I — Insane — I was never at a total loss; I KNEW the Blessed Mother choose my Cross In Her maternal love for me and for us all; THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION — Conceived In LOVE such a Holy Cross for me; Through Mary Jesus was someone I could serve — She knew it was the Cross that I deserved And so did I — for over a quarter of a century I stood with Her at Calvary — a wretched sentry With the Communion of Saints, and Blessed Kateri Till Easter came for meIn Her maternal love for me and for us all; THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION — Conceived In LOVE such a Holy Cross for me; Through Mary Jesus was someone I could serve — She knew it was the Cross that I deserved And so did I — for over a quarter of a century I stood with Her at Calvary — a wretched sentry With the Communion of Saints, and Blessed Kateri Till Easter came for meIn LOVE such a Holy Cross for me; Through Mary Jesus was someone I could serve — She knew it was the Cross that I deserved And so did I — for over a quarter of a century I stood with Her at Calvary — a wretched sentry With the Communion of Saints, and Blessed Kateri Till Easter came for me -

We have not created a comfortable peaceful world on adhering to mystical, unproven notions as if they are the «truth»... While rationality / logic in the way we understand it colloquially is never successful alone..

On the way he uncovers some treasures which have been underused in criticism, such as Tolkien's description of a mystical experience he had while attending a Forty Hours devotion, an experience that fed into his vision of angels and subsequent characterisation of the Elvish in LOTR.

David L. Miller, recently reviewing my book The Chickadees in The Christian Century (May 22), has suggested that, as in ancient Greece, «there are two paths in our time, alternative mythologies for a period of crisis: up and out (the rational, heroic, masculine way), and down and in (the mad, mystical, feminine way).»

F. C. Happold, for example, in his Religious Faith and Twentieth - Century Man, published in 1966, spoke of the mystical «as as a way out of the spiritual dilemma of modern man.»

It may also be a reference to a hardy variety plant which does not dry up in extreme dry summer but a plant that scurvies the summer and provide sustenance to life in hard times.54 In mystical Islam, the road to the stage of intimacy (uns) with God - for - us is reckoned to be lonely, for not many undertake this journey prior to death in a voluntary sort of wain extreme dry summer but a plant that scurvies the summer and provide sustenance to life in hard times.54 In mystical Islam, the road to the stage of intimacy (uns) with God - for - us is reckoned to be lonely, for not many undertake this journey prior to death in a voluntary sort of wain hard times.54 In mystical Islam, the road to the stage of intimacy (uns) with God - for - us is reckoned to be lonely, for not many undertake this journey prior to death in a voluntary sort of waIn mystical Islam, the road to the stage of intimacy (uns) with God - for - us is reckoned to be lonely, for not many undertake this journey prior to death in a voluntary sort of wain a voluntary sort of way.

How, therefore, can we find anew the power to name God in a mystical - prophetic way?

Cf. Buber's important Foreword to Pointing the Way, p. ix - x, in which he states that he has included «The Teaching of the Tao» in this collection because it belongs to that «mystical» «stage that I had to pass through before I could enter into an independent relationship with being.»

Their ways of doing this are most varied, ranging from a sense of acting in accordance with the «rightness in things» (as in much Chinese religion), through a mystical identification of the deepest self or atman with the cosmic reality or brahma (as in Hinduism), or a «blowing - out» of individual selfhood by sharing in the bliss of Nirvana (as in most varieties of Buddhism), to the sense of fellowship or communion with God found in our own Jewish - Christian religious tradition.

As we have argued previously, the revelation of mystery occurs also in the mystical, silent, and active ways of religion.

Will we affirm the sufficiency of Scripture — that the Bible is all we need for life and doctrine — or will we demand that God reveal himself to us in other ways, such as mystical raptures?»

The idea of Satan is something talked about frequently in Sunday School — largely because the concept of a mystical super villain is a good way to hold the attention of 7 - year - olds.

In a similar way the poet and mystical writer Kathleen Norris protests the removal of the fierce psalms of lament and imprecation from contemporary lectionaries.

On the contrary, it has been precisely those forms of religion believed in one way or another to be antithetical to a secular world, and so vulnerable to «the acids of modernity,» that have sprouted up everywhere and have grown at an astounding rate; namely, fundamentalist religion of every variety; ecstatic, charismatic religion; esoteric, cultic religion; mystical, otherworldly religion; religious sectarianism that «opts out» of society, its customs and its responsibilities — not to mention every possible variety of the occult.

The daughter is special, in a mystical sort of way, and appears to sense things before they happen.

The years go by and I become more and more aware of my pioneer lineage, I understand the pull west better, I feel suffocated without a bit of a space, without an early morning walk beside the yarrow patch, I need the north, and I need the west in a way that veers towards the mystical, which is just fine to a Holy Spirit adoring tongue talker like me.

Expressing as they do the different ways in which the Triune life of God flows into the soul, they both facilitate the mystical union with Christ in the power of the Spirit.

It is present in a liberal cult of Jesus and of «the Jesus way of life»; present also in mystical forms as the cultivation of personal companionship with the divine Christ.

Thus, in this book we have proposed that revelation comes not only through sacraments of hope, although this is the indispensable entry point of God's promise; it also enters into our awareness by way of the mystical, silent, and active sides of hope.

And Christ's mystical Body, which is the Church — His social body, if I might put it so — is the way in which the work of health - giving, whole - making, or Salvation, is carried on through the ages.

The experience of the first rite of passage for the women clergy I have talked with varies from the male experience in the following ways: The young woman is likely to have a similar inner experience of a mystical «call,» or in some other way feel led to make a conscious decision to train for the ministry.

The results echo faintly the stances taken by Puritans, Pietists and Wesleyans, who, in their own ways, were also in controversy with feudal societies and mystical speculations, and were simultaneously open to the dialogue between religion and science in an attempt to shape a new future.

In a section entitled «The Relativity of the Idea of God in Meister Eckhart» in the Psychological Types, Jung shows how a mystical way can concretely collapse the dogmatic distinction between «God» and the «soul.&raquIn a section entitled «The Relativity of the Idea of God in Meister Eckhart» in the Psychological Types, Jung shows how a mystical way can concretely collapse the dogmatic distinction between «God» and the «soul.&raquin Meister Eckhart» in the Psychological Types, Jung shows how a mystical way can concretely collapse the dogmatic distinction between «God» and the «soul.&raquin the Psychological Types, Jung shows how a mystical way can concretely collapse the dogmatic distinction between «God» and the «soul.»

Whether or not Jung may truly be identified as a Gnostic (and he has so identified himself on numerous occasions), there is nothing in what he describes as individuation that is not far more fully present in classical mystical ways of both the East and West.

Aldous Huxley once observed that there ought to be a way to talk about mystical experience in terms of biochemistry, psychology and theology.

The primary problem with the way communion is practiced in churches today that believe the Lord's Supper is a symbolic memorial is that we have adopted the practices of churches which think it is much more than a symbol but have stripped away most of the mystical significance of the elements.

In some ways Cage represents an attack on the whole Renaissance conception of self - consciousness, and an adoption of a kind of secular - mystical idea of self as an enemy that must be removed before one can delight in the world for its own sakIn some ways Cage represents an attack on the whole Renaissance conception of self - consciousness, and an adoption of a kind of secular - mystical idea of self as an enemy that must be removed before one can delight in the world for its own sakin the world for its own sake.

God, for our pantheists, is experienced in some vaguely mystical way as the absence of personal reality, as the losing of oneself in some kind of divine oceanic whole.

Al - Ghazali, the great mystical philosopher, in his book The Rescuer from Error gives a vivid account of the spiritual crisis he endured until, by the mercy of God, his way was enlightened and he regained the power to guide himself to the truth.

So, Armstrong explains that the fundamental experience of the Trinitarian God isn't personal at all, and that the mystical God absorbs himself (or herself) in some undifferentiated way to creation as a whole.

Instead of following the Greek - influenced idea of orthodoxy as right belief... the emerging community is helping us to rediscover the more Hebraic and mystical notion of the orthodox Christian as one who believes in the right way - that is, believing in a loving, sacrificial and Christlike manner.»

«2 Seeking the essence of Christianity, Troeltsch threaded his way between arguments for the knowledge of God by linguistic formulation and other arguments that discovered the path in mystical encounter.3 He located the bond between humanity and God in the cultic life of the community.

«My family meets every October at the Windsor Court Hotel it's a mystical place that makes you feel as if you have been whisked back in time to an ancient Castle, and from the moment you arrive the staff treats you as if you are Royalty... They are always looking for ways to make your stay is a little more magical».

There was just no way to prove that he was the best hitter in the postseason, too, not without another chance at this mystical, teeny sample of high - stress, meaningful games.

It was because of this image and because of the ease with which my mother seemed to nurse her children that I just didn't realize that breastfeeding doesn't always just «happen» in some magical or mystical way.

Just when you need it most, the right people will show up, with just the tools you'll need to support you and your journey in an almost mystical way.

But calling something woo - woo doesn't simply translate to «unknown» in a positively mystical, mysterious way.

o Demystifying kundalini o Exploration and experience of your central channel aka sushumna nadi o Understanding chakras as way to understand our tendencies o Balancing energy channels and polarities in body and mind (nadis) o Everyday application of dual / non-dual philosophies o The mystical endocrine system and how the glands relate to our chakras o The path from agni (fire) to tejas (radiance) to sri (seeing the world as beauty and bliss) o Healing techniques and worldview to support your transformation as you live in the real world o The power of yoga nidra

Small touches, like politely hanging up your mystical hammer on a coat rack or getting cell reception in another world, are a way of spoofing the impossible and diffusing the heavy reliance on suspension of disbelief.

The mystical gaze is mobilised again in The Way Back.

One night Daniel, the lonesome punching bag, befriends landlord Mr. Miyagi (Pat Morita) and is content to cut Bonsai Trees with him before figuring out that mystical old Japanese men can teach hopeless punks from Reseda the ways of the Shaolin in weeks flat.

There's Captain Jack Sparrow (Depp), doing his foppish, gay rock god as he Harold Lloyds his way out of an audience with the King and newly - minted (and freshly peg - legged) privateer Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) before reuniting with one - time flame Angelica (Ginger the Chicken Run chicken), who's in league with nefarious Blackbeard (Ian McShane) en route to the mystical Fountain of Youth.

Yes, Mustafa's / Gibran's treatises are mystical and confounding in that way, with seeming contradictions and stream - of - conscious metaphors tickling the mind.

Along the way the Dragon brothers will encounter 10 unique enemies (some with multiple skins like in Neon), and eventually face the gun - toting boss Willy and possibly another mystical threat or two.