Sentences with phrase «into spiritual persons»

First, last, and all the time, Paul's interest thus was in moral reclamation, not psychology, in salvation, not metaphysics, and his aim was the transformation of men, with their natural faculties of body, mind, and emotion, into spiritual persons.

Not exact matches

«When crises drive people into the arms of God,» Porter notes, «they embrace Him for the insurance as well as the spiritual solace.»

The biggest publishing news of recent years has been Everyday Saints (literally translated, Unholy Holy People), in which Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov), head of Sretensky Monastery and reputed spiritual counselor to President Putin, offers a series of vignettes about his journey from Marxist atheism into Orthodox monasticism.

If you don't have discernment be careful how you assess someone who is seeing into the spiritual realm and things about a persons character that you can not see.

All new members write out and submit (for discussion with a staff person) a personal plan for spiritual growth, specifying how they intend to build the values of discipleship into their lives.

My own father, a person of the highest moral character and integrity was accused of being shady by my abuser because he tried to find us alternative housing when my abuser (although court ordered to pay the mortgage) willfully and vindictively drove it into foreclosure and the kids and I homeless, while he went off and bought he and his spiritual wife a new home.

Before this, the Alister Hardy Institute in Oxford had attempted to find a scientific basis for the spiritual being «hard wired» into people.

So, when we eat Christ's flesh physically and spiritually, the food is so powerful that it transforms us into itself and out of fleshly, sinful mortal [s] makes spiritual, holy, living [persons].»

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.

I had put a lot of time and energy into this person's growth for some very good reasons... serious spiritual abuse for one.

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).

I find, on the contrary, that it is much more difficult today for the knowing person to approach God from history, from the spiritual side of the world, and from morals; for there we encounter the suffering and evil in the world, which it is difficult to bring into harmony with an all «merciful and almighty God.

I'd love for people to feel permission to actually go there — to lean into their doubts, lean into their questions, lean into the places of pain and grief or shifting — instead of leading a life of spiritual or intellectual dishonesty and pretending it's all fine.

«A parent must respect the spiritual person of his child, and approach it with reverence, for that too looks the Father in the face and has an audience with Him into which no earthly parent can enter even if he dared to desire it.»

People fill the TV Churches and send millions of dollars because they prey on your spiritual weakness and your guilt, so you try to buy your way into heaven and appear righteous.

There are so many pastors using the law to try and whip people into spiritual shape, that's it's hellish.

Oh... and another thing... as an explanation: I like forming relationships with people who are journeying, processing, and growing into their own spiritual independence.

and like lnivig stones be yourselves built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people, that you may declare the wonderful deeds of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

I would love to hear about some non-abusive church relationships that helped your grow into a stronger more spiritual mature and independent person.

Even though we preach grace from the pulpit — that we're all messy, broken, sinful, spiritual high maintenance people — that doesn't always get into our bloodstream.

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.»

John Westerhoff in his Building God's People in a Materialistic Society (Seabury, 1983), after making the standard distinction between fundamental, systematic and practical theology, further differentiates practical theology into the liturgical, moral, spiritual, pastoral and catechetical.

We have to learn how to be friends... intimacy with God is developed through intentional spiritual practices and habits... Such habits form us into people of virtue capable of living as the friends of God we are created to be,» Makant says.

Thus, even those people whom social pressures and individual circumstances have not steered into homosexuality are now tempted by appeals to their animal natures, which are not differentiated from their spiritual natures in our contemporary society.

Don't fall into that trap Jeremy Myers — this other person who wrote two chapters of similar stuff to you might simply be getting affected by the same authors you have, the same spiritual climate, the same Holy Spirit.

I believe this practice, however, is the most basic and fundamental spiritual practice, and when a person learns to live life with God, this allows God to speak into their mind, and work in their life in ways that lead to other spiritual practices.

«These are the truths we all know and have known since childhood catechism,» he says in effect, «but see what it means really to believe them; see what sort of person they should be fashioning us into, and fashioning us into from the inside; see what spiritual reality we should be expressing in our inner person and living out in our daily lives.»

Here the theological understanding of human being as person - in - community must help develop the incorporation into modernity of certain traditional cultural values in the pre-modern spiritual vision.

We must develop a view of personhood that takes into account the emotional, relational, symbolic, and even spiritual capacities of the person.

People pray and study for yourself, and let the true spiritual leadership that God has sent help train, educate, and develop you into mature sons and daughters of His Kingdom!!!

The fact of God indwelling us through His Holy Spirit is going to make a change in our lives and will have much relevance to everyday life so I don't know where you get the idea that «if we accept that the Kingdom is now a «spiritual» Kingdom only, then that leads to the situation where the Kingdom becomes a religious idea that has little relevance to everyday life, very interesting to theologians, pulpiteers and pew audiences, but no dynamic to transform people into action».

I suggest that if we accept that the Kingdom is now a «spiritual» Kingdom only, then that leads to the situation where the Kingdom becomes a religious idea that has little relevance to everyday life, very interesting to theologians, pulpiteers and pew audiences, but no dynamic to transform people into action.

Republicans should be happy to learn this Truth that has brought America to the state of Light for Obama to pick on it.One thing good about American Democracy is it is «truly participating» and lasting with lessons for others to follow in modernity to tap blue horizons of life.Those blue horizons just do not end in economics that has many minds to tap the financial barometer of the country self educative in working of its affluent class and ordinary class both domestically and internationally relating to perfection with budgeting of money in economic plans that have been existing and are in the process to move charismatically with a tide over where bipartisan element also comes into play well integrated to test the mettle of the top leader of the country who has to stand over the continuous democratic element evolving of the country both in economic as well as inherently in spiritual terms for the good of the people at large mixing with the culture of exchange that has humanity behind it to survive??

LOL, you think all people who are spiritual but not religious never ponder bigger questions such as how the universe came into existence or why it exists at all?

To the other... rest easy in knowing that I think being spiritual is a joke as well; but that is because I am an Atheist so I find Religious people even more amusing I don't need fear of an invisible angry old man to scare me into being a good person; I do good things because I am a good person and don't need an instruction manual.

People trusted the church with their spiritual growth and they were made into slaves.

It's all rather simple, really... «spiritual but not religious» in its own labeling, gives its adherents permission to judge and divide people into groups — spiritual people — those are the good guys, and religious people — those are the bad guys.

Religion is a farce used to exploit the teachings of truly spiritual people like Jesus Buddha and Mohammed, by control freaks to lead the weak minded into serving them.

The objective of traditional spiritual direction is to guide persons into an appreciation of what God is already doing for them.

There is indeed in baptism the assurance of forgiveness of sins to those who repent; but above all, and chiefly, there is the guarantee of spiritual strength to live as Christ's man or woman and the grafting of the new believer into the body of Christ's church, which is «the blessed company of all faithful people.»

For now I'm accepting my own personal challenge to teach in a way that is not coercive or oppressive, but encourages people to happily recognize their own spiritual condition and to willingly move deeper into a life of love.

If you want to begin to know which people Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther or John Calvin looked up to as spiritual guides, Augustine is the first person to study, and his compelling narrative, Confessions, is the best place to start to look into his life.

For one thing fasting can make you feel the hunger of poor people and get you into deeper spiritual levels.

Danielle Strickland is perhaps the last person you would expect to dive so deeply into TWD lore to uncover the spiritual message.

He argued that if the sufferings of two billion people in Vietnam, South Africa and other places excited the imagination and compassion of the church, how much more should the spiritual sufferings of two thousand millions move her to bring multitudes of them out of darkness into God's wonderful light.

The religious institutions which formed such people and continued to claim their loyalty took public responsibility in this sense for granted, The churches preached a gospel which supported responsible lives without needing to draw their members deeply into esoteric spiritual disciplines or arcane theological issues.

She tries to say something along the lines of people have some innate desire for spiritual fulfillment (which I could buy into, if one clearly defines what they mean), but never provides any supporting information as to how this is true and, particularly, how does this have to do with her god in the first place.

If Rachael Jean would learn to rightly divide the word of truth putting scripture in its proper context Rachael Jean would know that when a person is saved they are baptized into the body of Christ and indwelt and sealed by the Holy Spirit unto the day of redemption which is when we get our new spiritual bodies.

Instead of bringing spiritual freedom and the realisation of a spiritual goal, as all sound religion should, fundamentalism imprisons people into such a rigid system of belief that they find it difficult to free themselves.

Instead when a person marries... he takes his sexual desire, and he does the same thing with it that we must all do with all our physical desires if we would make them means of worship — 1) he brings it into conformity to God's word; 2) he subordinates it to a higher pattern of love and care; 3) he transposes the music of physical pleasure into the music of spiritual worship, 4) he listens for the echoes of God's goodness in every nerve; 5) he seeks to double his pleasure by making her joy his joy; and 6) he gives thanks to God from the bottom of his heart because he knows and he feels that he never deserved one minute of this pleasure.