Sentences with phrase «less than the spiritual»

Anything less than spiritual transformation is a physical action which can be performed by the good and the wicked alike.

Much of what passes for Christianity today can be called nothing less than spiritual insanity.

Never, ever settle for anything less than the spiritual and moral grandeur that the grace of God makes possible in your life: That was John Paul II's challenge.

As much as we learned and continue to learn in the course of making Tramontane, this was nothing less than a spiritual journey, one of self - discovery and awareness, one where the Sundance Institute has always been present to guide us at every stage.

These are all genuine reservations we have about the GT2 RS, but none of them can hide the fact that the car's a true monster with a loveable personality, and also nothing less than the spiritual rebirth of the heavily turbocharged 911.

Not exact matches

However, sitting in a comfortable position and focusing on clearing your mind — even if it's for less than a minute — can help your mental clarity and spiritual well - being and set the stage for the day.

«The Hispanic community, however, is not immune from the nation's growing secularism, which concerns all religions, as church attendance seems less important to people,» Walsh continued, «and people move from religion to religion and declare themselves spiritual rather than religiously affiliated.»

Church becomes the place where a few spiritual leaders minister to the less able masses, rather than all believers mutually edifying one another.

To suggest that total voluntary exclusion and participation in an individual's self selected religious practices and spiritual life is somehow politically incorrect or wrong, or making it a target of criticism or political point, is nothing less than a display of ignorance and disregard for individual rights.

Already there are many thousands of present - day parents who were brought up with no religious faith and few standards, and they have had almost nothing, and sometimes less than nothing of spiritual value, to pass on to their children.

Repressive moralism is a product of the dualistic Greek mind, which tended to denigrate the physical and material as less worthy than the nonphysical or spiritual.

I don't know if the «spiritual but not religious» crowd annoy me more or less than your average Christian.

Whilst some chaplaincies are strong, orthodox and excellently cater for varying spiritual appetites, others are less than inclusive, dominated by one form of worship.

Considered in this light, Mantel's mother's sins, which set Mantel at odds with the Church, may have been less important for her spiritual development than the loss of her father, which estranged her from God himself.

Elsewhere Paul lays less emphasis on the element of continuity, or rather, perhaps, he expresses it somewhat differently, finding the continuity between this life and the next in our «selves» rather than in any organic link between the physical body and the spiritual body.

It has always struck me as noteworthy that the Jews, who had wrestled with Genesis 800 years longer than Christians had, never found it necessary to speak of — much less found a spiritual theology on — original sin.

If this trace of a trend among solid thinkers develops further, the books that result may also be a leaven for those who seek a meaningful spiritual way of life but often have to settle for something that is less than substantial.

In the end, he suspects, «we are likely to find the One for whom we long less in the clouds of spiritual heights than far down the mountain in the soulful depths — in the mundane particularities, the fierce complexities, the simple pleasures of everyday life.»

Benedict's own later theological conservatism owed less to any kind of ideology, I think, than to his allergic reaction to what he saw as a lack of intellectual robustness and spiritual seriousness in the seminaries where he taught.

People who go through a divorce are not worse or less spiritual than any of us.

As the gospel writers make clear, Jesus returned to mountain and desert throughout his ministry for the explicit purpose of prayer.3 Down the centuries — from Desert Fathers to monastic communities to contemporary pilgrims — the wilderness has proved less a place of bewilderment than a setting to get one's spiritual bearings.

The first chronicles Joe's spiritual awakening and his education at life's less than gentle hands.

He will continue to be ordained by the institution and will, if he is faithful to it, have as much authority as the institution he represents has; spiritual authority is as necessary to him as to ministers of every other type; he is not less under the authority of Scriptures or less representative of it than the preacher; but his relation to all these authorities is different.

It is a jungle out there, and it is no less true about spiritual life than any other aspect of life.

At its best, this new concern with the spiritual life reflects a laudable desire to make Christian faith a matter of the heart no less than the head, a discipline of devotional practices rather than a repetition of doctrinal propositions.

Jesus followers who are unchurched talk about spiritual matters half as much as most practicing Christians, and four times less than evangelicals.

I generally put this down to very religious people (who have been raised with the concept that God is personally invested in them and is a central force in their life) experiencing the thought of a person without a religious belief system as being close to someone soul-less: without morals and without any fear of punishment (hell), so obviously less trustworthy than religious people who have a spiritual Big Brother and religious community watching their every move.

Christian faith is so much faith and so little sight that its adherents are always seeking for some demonstration which will prove to themselves and others that it is true, though the demonstration is bound to be somewhat beside the point — like most miracles — proving not truth but utility, and exhibiting a power which may be that of God, but may also be that of faith itself, or of spiritual forces somewhat less than divine.

A heyschast shift in evangelicalism, into the depths of spiritual silence instead of out into imagined political glory, would be less a retreat back into Fundamentalism than a maturation of the movement in an hour of exceptional need.

When it is less than this, confirmation rituals are a mockery of the spiritual capacity and hunger of teens to find a way of life that is an alternative to the nihilistic ways of «the world.»

The same Directory also speaks of the spiritual climate in which alone there can be a successful ecumenical reception: «The life of faith and the prayer of faith, no less than reflection on the doctrine of faith, enter «into this process of reception, by which the whole Church, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit... makes her own the fruits of a dialogue, in a process of listening, of testing, of judging and of living.»

Raised a Roman Catholic, Walsch was strongly interested in spiritual questions, though he had deep reservations about «religious» people, who seemed to him to be less joyful and more judgmental and angry than others.

Ancient Gnostic Christians were a large and influential branch of the early Church who believed that the physical world was a lower, less perfect creation than the high, pure spiritual world.

Since today's focus is on spiritual abuse, which many are less familiar with than, say, sexual abuse, I encourage you to check out this week's synchroblog on the topic, hosted by Hannah, Joy, Shaney, and Elora.

They undoubtedly have no essential spiritual significance, and although their presence makes his conversion more memorable to the convert, it has never been proved that converts who show them are more persevering or fertile in good fruits than those whose change of heart has had less violent accompaniments.

But is the art of Michelangelo or Rembrandt less spiritual than that of Kandinsky or De Kooning?

Dillenberger seems to assume that representational art is less spiritual than abstract art since it depicts objects and is therefore less mysterious.

I've seen people fake all sorts of things (they have admitted to it afterwards) because they didn't want to appear less spiritual than those around them.

«The body,» he continues, «would thus be, not the cause of our thinking, but merely a condition restrictive thereof, and, although essential to our sensuous and animal consciousness, it may be regarded as an impeder of our pure spiritual life.8 And in a recent book of great suggestiveness and power, less well - known as yet than it deserves, — I mean» Riddles of the Sphinx,» by Mr. F. C. S. Schiller of Oxford, late of Cornell University, — the transmission - theory is defended at some length.9

The Scriptures are covered in examples of spiritual leaders who were born to moms and dads that were deemed in some way «less than.»

Both have the same foe in mind, more or less, who is more of a pitiable fool than an enemy: the skeptic whose overconfident rational reductionism ultimately fails to take the spiritual dimension into account.

The spiritual realm is more «stark» and substantial than the skeptics can imagine, less polluted by «subtle shapes and shades,» and therefore also less «treacherous and unreliable.»

«Unison singing... is less of a musical than a spiritual matter.

For in its spiritual meaning asceticism stands for nothing less than for the essence of the twice - born philosophy.

Eventually, anything less than complete zealotry is considered a mark of spiritual failure.

Nourished intellectually by John Henry Newman and Christopher Dawson, Briel has aimed at nothing less than creating, in twenty - first - century circumstances, the «idea of a university» that animated his two English intellectual and spiritual heroes.

I heartily agree with J. Bottum's opinion that T. S. Eliot's religious verse can be less than satisfactory as a handbook of the Christian spiritual journey («What T. S. Eliot Almost Believed,» August / September)....

x) Orthodox (Advaita) Vedanta realizes that substantial pluralism is at best less true than substantial monism; but it fails, in my opinion, to see that the radical pluralism of actual entities and the radical monism of God or Nirvana (however one distinguishes these) are the two poles of the real problem, not the ordinary substantial pluralism of common sense, a compromise which bars the path to the highest ethical and spiritual insight.

To sit or kneel day - dreaming for thirty or sixty minutes is less likely to lead to spiritual power than a few minutes of vital fellowship.

Its spiritual value is no less if we regard it as entirely imaginary rather than historical.