Sentences with phrase «in the spiritual sense of»

«Perfection» in the spiritual sense of many religious Traditions does not mean without flaws, it means that we are where we are meant to be in the present moment.

Not exact matches

This «no,» grounded in Hobbes, has tended increasingly to a policy of exclusion of religion, causing a flattening of human life and a sense of spiritual emptiness.

When we recognize our place in an immensity of light - years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual... The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.»

Moreover, it is a truth accessible to reason unaided by divine revelation that human beings have a spiritual nature, in the sense of being rational and free and having a soul that is not reducible to matter.

Meanwhile, it behooves humanity to gain the spiritual sense of Jesus» marvelous words, I am the Way, the Truth and the Life» in their science and prove their utility and beauty now.

belief: 1: acceptance by the mind that something is true or real, often underpinned by an emotional or spiritual sense of certainty 2: confidence that somebody or something is good or will be effective 3: something that somebody believes in: a statement, principle, or doctrine that a person or group accepts as true

b. it made any sense to speak of a temporal dimension in a spiritual realm.

That's not to say that Atheists couldn't be in awe of the beauty and wonder in this world and the universe, they absolutely can be (and they should be if they have any form of empathy and sense of wonder) but they can never consider themselves to be at all «spiritual» because that instantaneously makes them no longer atheist!

Jesus is spoken of as the second Adam, reversing in his physical death humanity's spiritual death — so there is a sense that the fall is also being undone in Jesus, but that this is coming into fruition gradually, in the sense that the kingdom of God coming both has come and is coming — so a gradual progression away from the curse of the fall should actually be the expectation.

Maximus the Confessor interprets this event as a moment in which the disciples passed from flesh to spirit because «having both their bodily and spiritual senses purified, they were taught the spiritual meanings of the mysteries that were shown to them.»

Only the force of a reality outside himself — in the form of a sudden rain shower — can restore his spiritual sense:

Because I think that any spiritual discipline can be taken and emptied of its purpose of connecting us in a very real sense physically, spiritually, emotionally and mentally to our God.

Choose a destination that has meaning to you in your spiritual journey and make a day or a weekend of it, and focus on an experience that will engage all of your senses.

Although the Holy Roman Empire had been in decline since the late Middle Ages, and it had faded also as an agreed - upon interpretation of history, it was not until the French Revolution that the spiritual framework it provided — and without which Europe could not have been formed — would shatter in a formal sense.

In the early 1520s, Luther's preaching against the power of the Roman Catholic Church served as a rallying cry, helping give these peasant revolts a higher sense of purpose, and providing them with a language of spiritual and political critique.

, but I believe there is a need to remain vigilant, in the sense of being discerning and aware of spiritual environments / spiritual forces at work in a certain person / situation.

To make sense of Kasper's statement, we may have to assume that he used the term «spiritual communion with Christ» to mean the state of being already properly disposed to receive Christ in sacramental Communion.

And elsewhere he wrote: «It seems to me that the point of origin of this invasion and envelopment of my being was the rapidly increasing importance which the sense of God's will was assuming in my spiritual life.»

Critics would argue that this repeated «filling» only makes sense in the light of the spiritual fruit that should follow, however.

In accordance with the longstanding tradition of sobornost, a «spiritual community of many jointly living people,» many Russians believe that they can only fully acquire a sense of meaning and purpose as a people, not as separate individuals.

Perhaps in reaction to this loss of a sense of the transcendent and of the spiritual, new movements took flight.

It resonates with a sense of the spiritulal in its discussion of liturgy, ritual, spiritual stages, repentance and deification combined with a love of icons and art including mosaic, architecture and sculpture.

Three - quarters of evangelicals feel a deep sense of spiritual peace at least once a week, up from 68 percent in 2007.

Community, tradition, connect to family and neighbors as well as a sense of national community in many societies (although many atheist societies are evidence that the spiritual component is not needed) are wrapped up in a religious ident.ity.

It is the man and the woman to whom the act remains, each time, as fresh and beautiful, as it was the first time, who are able to sustain and perpetuate their first sense of its glory in the midst of the sober or bleak or sordid realities of day to day life, and who can feel, afresh each time, a boundless gratitude for each other and for this blessed source of sweetness and strength — it is they who are the truly «virgin», the truly pure and chaste; and (on the Humanist hypothesis) it is they who are the remnant selected by grace to be the true and spiritual seed of the risen Christ.33

There is a complex interplay, therefore, between «spiritual virginity» and the exterior state, in the sense that each is the necessary complement of the other and neither is sufficient on its own.

Only when personality has emerged from the social mass into a high status of its own, as possessing spiritual value and possibility, can the sense of failure, in falling short of personality's promise, become acute.

The sense that spiritual renewal in the West will come from a rediscovery of the mystic heart of religion is not new.

Fasting in the sense of living with a bare minimum of nourishment would be practically inevitable in the wilderness of Judea for one absorbed in solitary spiritual struggle.

Intoxicated by their lust for gold, they ceased to see the people standing in their way; lulled by an overpowering sense of their own Christianity, they drew no boundary between their economic and spiritual exploits; infected with their own technological and military prowess, they couldn't even imagine that they needed a cure.

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.»

With the greater apprehension of that presence comes the dawning through «spiritual sense» (a term Eddy adapted from her «New Light» Puritan heritage) of what life in Christ even now can include.

«When we recognize our place in an immensity of light ‐ years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual.»

Many involved in Christian healing share the Christian Scientists» belief in spiritual healing as an integral part of a living Christianity, and they share the renewed sense of God's presence that issues from healing.

Ironically, this sense of a downward spiral into pastoral mediocrity has been occurring at a time when laypeople are expressing interest in the spiritual life at a new level, and are searching for ways to connect their yearnings with a way of faithful living.

Being disinterested, in the sense of not measuring one's own success by the spiritual success of those we are discipling is a good thing; but disinterested is not the same as dispassionate.

The principal types of petition are for a sense of God's presence, for spiritual and moral help, for material goods, for changes in external events, for the recovery of health.

with all and full respect; You know that your used name is dear to my heart, for having been a believer in God the Creator of the whole Universe he has all the beautiful names that we know or do not know, I believe that God starched his hand to mankind in love, sending among them his prophets and messengers to warn and guide to righteous, am not told to force belief or religion upon people of any faith or of non faith, am a mere reminder and Warner to my self and whom my want to know and judge their senses life is a spiritual challenge, life is a maze and only if make use of the heavenly codes that could be found in All Scriptures of God that was relaid upon mankind from prophets & messengers from Adam to Noah to Abrahim to Musa to Issa to Muhammed which many obviously seem to Ignore!!

«Christianity,» says Sanneh, «came into Africa equally as fulfillment and challenge, but in either case as reinforcement of the religious worldview of Africans concerning spiritual and divine agency, the sacramental sense of community, the ties between the living and the dead, the potency of dreams, prayers and invocations.»

As to the atheist your being at such the advanced stage in spiritual development you are ripe in time for turning the senses inward / thus knowing one's true self I can only repeat your at further state in your spiritual development you believing meditation the next port of call upon your human journey leading to enlightenment.

But I have heard in those gatherings enough expressions of spiritual thirst to sense that for many others the desert and mountain provide wellsprings for both prayer and retreat.

For he can help us to get some spiritual distance on our cultural situation; he can increase our awareness of those aspects of our modern consciousness which cut the heart out of our Christian experience, and so help to free us from them; he can help engender in us a sense of humor about ourselves which comes from taking a less contemporary and more eternal perspective — a perspective in which our love of God, our gratefulness to Christ and our concern for our neighbor will have a chance to grow.

Prayer but a shortened version of meditation that having come over the many centuries / as the art of true prayer in meditation was lost / where the focus of reality had turned to the external based on ideas belief / rather than practical spiritual experience of one turning the senses inward / thus knowing / not believing.

For Underhill the spiritual life was a life «soaked» by a sense of God's reality and claim, where «all we do comes from the centre in which we are anchored in God.»

On PC search put (words of peace) on site find a large selection of videos where Prem talks of turning one's senses inwards in a unfolding of spiritual self / / bringing a clarity of understanding via practical spiritual experience's / in knowing the power of creation.

Woody L. Davis, «Men and the Church: what keeps them out and what brings them in Journal of the Academy for Evangelism; Martin Pable, The quest for the male soul (Notre Dame IN: Ave Maria Press, 1996), writes: «Ian Harris's research on men's spirituality turned up a striking statistic: 86 % of the respondents to his questionnaire said that their spiritual beliefs gave them a sense of mission», pp 96, 9in Journal of the Academy for Evangelism; Martin Pable, The quest for the male soul (Notre Dame IN: Ave Maria Press, 1996), writes: «Ian Harris's research on men's spirituality turned up a striking statistic: 86 % of the respondents to his questionnaire said that their spiritual beliefs gave them a sense of mission», pp 96, 9IN: Ave Maria Press, 1996), writes: «Ian Harris's research on men's spirituality turned up a striking statistic: 86 % of the respondents to his questionnaire said that their spiritual beliefs gave them a sense of mission», pp 96, 97.

The sense of living within a dependable structure — the laws of nature, the principles of the psychological and spiritual life, the requirements of life in society.

Jesus practiced the genuine spiritual life according all matter and material sense with all its sin, sickness and death as nothing in contradistinction to the Life, Truth and Love, of Spirit.

Alas, many of those who would style themselves devout Christians are in fact believers in the Manichean rejection of the world as not only temporal and in the obvious sense ephemeral but also as evil and without spiritual worth.

Here are three typical answers: «He is as much a necessity to my spiritual existence as the elements of pure air are to my physical system»; «If I were convinced that there is no God, I fear a sense of loneliness would become intolerable»; «As for any repose, or ability to face life and death with composure, any incentive to be perfect in things hidden from outsiders, any exhilaration in living and trying to do my best — I can not conceive it without the idea of God.»