Sentences with phrase «life of the human spirit»

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I also hope and pray that some of these young people dedicate themselves to the truths of the faith and help guide human life into a revival of spirit and love as our Lord intended.

The German nation began as a metaphor of Schiller's ode to the spirit of human freedom and concluded with Hitler's spirit of life taking on a scale of unparalleled horror.

Now the Dynasau and Leviathan have to be subjugated to the God the Gardener, and the injured human coqunity and natural order have to be healed and revitalized, and the Spirit of the life must be filled so that there may be true justice, koininia, and shalom in the Garden.

In addition to painting an engaging picture of the saint who, in all his human frailty, followed Christ's example and died a martyr to charity, De Volder systematically addresses the debates over Damien's life and spirit.

Röpke locates wealth creation «not in «capital,» machine models, technical or organizational recipes or natural wealth, but in a spirit of order, foresight, combination, calculation, enterprise, human leadership and the freedom to shape life and things, also in citizenship, responsibility, loyalty to work, reliability, thrift and the urge to create, and in a civil middle class, providing the humus for all this» things, in short, which can neither be conjured up from the soil, nor imported.»

Human nature is brought into union and communion with Godhead as its proper environment — its principle of life and life more abundant — through the Self communication of God the Son by the power of the Holy Spirit.

In this world, so full of fictitious forms of freedom that destroy the environment and the human being, let us learn true freedom by the power of the Holy Spirit; to build the school of freedom; to show others by our lives that we are free and how beautiful it is to be truly free with the true freedom of God's children.»

As someone living in Asia and connected to people that advocate for the persecuted Church in this region, much of the church is undergoing revival on many level, both explicitly Spirit - led and implicitly Spirit - led (Human effort).

Because body, mind, and spirit are an indissoluble triad in the human personality, man deals with his physical needs in characteristically mental and spiritual ways, ordering his economic life according to rational canons and multiplying his demands beyond all limits in obedience to the infinite yearnings of the self - transcending spirit.

-- Those that need «power» (reaffirmation of their personal self - worth among billions of humans) go to a preacher that preaches the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, special «gifts of the spirit» just for the unique you, a purpose - driven life, or a progressive gospel that is «the answer for our times&rSpirit, special «gifts of the spirit» just for the unique you, a purpose - driven life, or a progressive gospel that is «the answer for our times&rspirit» just for the unique you, a purpose - driven life, or a progressive gospel that is «the answer for our times».

They are saying that not just humans but all creatures live by participating in the life of God, by partaking of his Spirit and breathing his breath.

The supernatural element in human life, whether it comes to us through conscience as human beings or through the Spirit as believers, is not to be located externally in the world of nature and social institutions (as for Taylor and MacIntyre), nor internally (as for the Romantics), but in the interaction of the individual with his world.

The doctrine that agape fulfils the human loves has a critical test in interpreting the sexual life, not because of the earthiness of sexual love, but because of its power to drive the spirit in seeming disregard of God or neighbour.

The other side of human nature, which in this life is inseparably linked with the body but without being identical with it, is variously called spirit, mind, consciousness, ego, psyche, soul, or personality.

Other methods may give «religious» experiences, but only Christianity insists that the life of the spirit must be expressed within the terms of the present human predicament.

And even if at the same time the connection between them is assumed, and symmetrical development is the shining goal, still the spirit is the guiding principle, and the life of the spirit is the true meaning of human existence.

The messiahship of Jesus is evidenced not only by the voice of the Spirit, but by his human life and death.

According to Christian faith, this inner life of the spirit is more vital to human nature than the body because it is here that our desires, hopes, aspirations, joys and sorrows, motives, and ideals are located.

At the peak of that unfolding equation, matter is gathered into ontological unity with directly created spirit to form human nature, which exists in direct and personal relationship to God who is the Living Environment of grace and providence for every human being and for mankind as a whole.

But no one could seriously read the essential message of the gospels or study the lives of the early Christians without seeing that living according to the plan of God calls for the highest courage, and makes the most strenuous demands on the human spirit.

For it is only when it is plainly seen that the great purpose is the building of the universal Kingdom of God, and that the object of human living is the development of the human spirit, that the irrelevance of such things as material success becomes apparent.

There is only one spirit that would say you are not forgiven and that is the antichrist spirit, the same spirit that led men to smash the face in of Jesus so that he no longer looked like a human being then stood back and watched his life drain away on a hot sunny day not realising that he was in fact watching the freedom of men in all its glory.

thats why we have to debate more and realize that our diferrences are just superficial misunderstanding, that to be united to a common belief in him can be logical and true only with the belief that we are evolving to attain a better relationship for all of us.Proven by science that all humans evolved from one parent, who evolved from lower forms of life, who evolved from pure energy through the big bang and guided by the spirit or conciousness of His Will.

Paul makes some qualifications concerning the adequacy of human judgment, even his own, in specific cases; but we see that commitment to the spirit of love as an alternative to legal obedience requires responsible living and the honouring of authentic forms of behaviour appropriate to the new life.

The widely held position that the spirit of the human died when Adam sinned is obviously an assumption derived from the fact that he continued to live to the age of 930 years after his original sin.

The Spirit was Jesus as Thought who received actualization in the form of a particular historical human kind, «a living being from clay».

Perhaps we can never manage perfectly such a juggling act, but we need to try — to think of human beings both as bodies, for whom the relentless succession of hours and days leads surely to the grave, and as God - aimed spirits, whose every moment is lived in the presence of the Eternal.

Furthermore, the Spirit is thereby set loose in the world to reconcile men and women with their God and to set up the conditions for a deeper and richer form of human life (CG 247 - 49).

«Such a theology,» he writes, «calls for a sensitivity that can respond creatively to vibrations coming from the depth of the human spirit outside the familiar realm of everyday life.»

But the God - aimed eternal spirit that is a human being longs for more than a greater quantity of this life.

As a colleague of mine recently wrote, a true church emerges when Christ's Spirit empowers human participation in the life of the triune God's and all living as Christ's disciples is lived as outgoing, self - giving love to others.

It is our hope that this new perspective will throw light on persistent human problems, and open the way to some new assessment of the forms which the spirit of love may be taking in contemporary life.

In the life of faith the Christian has come to find in the human spirit qualities which have a deathlessness about them.

Also in the face of the ecological disaster created by the modern ideas of total separation of humans from nature and of the unlimited technological exploitation of nature, it is proper for primal vision to demand, not an undifferentiated unity of God, humanity and nature or to go back to the traditional worship of nature - spirits, but to seek a spiritual framework of unity in which differentiation may go along with a relation of responsible participatory interaction between them, enabling the development of human community in accordance with the Divine purpose and with reverence for the community of life on earth and in harmony with nature's cycles to sustain and renew all life continuously.

It is just the «spiritual» man of today who suffers in a frightful fashion the old temptation of the human spirit, that is to say, that of objectifying the living accomplishment....

Thus to talk about «the spirit of man» was to say that human existence is not only a matter of mind and body, as we have represented this in our previous discussion, but is also a matter of relationship, in which there is an openness to, and a sharing in, the life of others.

The same spirit in modernization has, along with missions of service to universal humanity making human life richer and fuller, produced also a good deal of power - crusades for conquest which has found expression in technology being used in the service of colonialism and transnational and national economic exploitation, totalitarian statism and destruction of nature.

A satisfying sex life releases tension, renews tired spirits, and offsets the heartaches and failures of human existence.

Every human existence which is not conscious of itself as spirit, or conscious of itself before God as spirit, every human existence which is not thus grounded transparently in God but obscurely reposes or terminates in some abstract universality (state, nation, etc.), or in obscurity about itself takes its faculties merely as active powers, without in a deeper sense being conscious whence it has them, which regards itself as an inexplicable something which is to be understood from without — every such existence, whatever it accomplishes, though it be the most amazing exploit, whatever it explains, though it were the whole of existence, however intensely it enjoys life aesthetically — every such existence is after all despair.

The gift of the Spirit is the presence of divine life in humans, inspiring us to be more arid more god - like, loving one another and motivated towards love and social justice.

Man is in reality, many persons now tell us, a biological species, with a superficial adaptation to those artificial conditions of life which we call civilization; but under his skin, and beneath the thin top level of his inquiring, aggressive, clever mind, he is still what he has always been — an acquisitive, competitive, power - seeking, warring beast, with which the divine Spirit must still «strive,» even as at the beginning of human history.

But this was a dim and vague affair, presumably taken to be a way in which the «spirit» breathed into human life when God shaped the «dust of the earth,» as the legend in Genesis tells the story, would never be utterly destroyed — after all, it had been breathed by God and hence must be indestructible even if largely irrelevant to whatever the future, beyond death, held for men and women.

I have already mentioned the proposal of the Freudian, Herbert Marcuse, for a panerotic philosophy of life in which eros, agape, and thanatos (death) will all be integrated in the one self - expression of the human spirit.

Ah, so much is said about human want and misery — I seek to understand it, I have also had some acquaintance with it at close range; so much is said about wasted lives — but only that man's life is wasted who lived on, so deceived by the joys of life or by its sorrows that he never became eternally and decisively conscious of himself as spirit, as self, or (what is the same thing) never became aware and in the deepest sense received an impression of the fact that there is a God, and that he, he himself, his self, exists before this God, which gain of infinity is never attained except through despair.

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He said: «Williams arrived in our lives as an alien - but he ended up touching every element of the human spirit.

Bultmann, says Ogden, employs the terms myth and mythology in the sense of «a language objectifying the life of the gods,» or, as we might say, of objectifying the powers of Spirit into a supernaturalism, a super-history transcending or supervening our human history, thus forming a «double history.»

Jesus «in obedience accepted even death», 48 yet rose again to new life in the «harvest of the Spirit».49 Wherever Christians meet in the name of Jesus, his risen presence is there.50 Wherever Christians are inspired and strengthened for acts of mercy, love, goodwill in the promotion of social harmony and human welfare, the presence of the risen Christ is to be hailed.

A century later, we are living in the closing years of a pontificate that has, above all, taught Catholics not to be afraid» afraid of those who hate the Church so that we do not honestly contemplate the failings of our own past; afraid of the progress of science so that we needed to be reminded by the Pope «that faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth.»

Or, The Heidelberg Catechism states «That the Son of God from the beginning to the end of the world, gathers, defends, and preserves to himself by his Spirit and word, out of the whole human race, a church chosen to everlasting life, agreeing in true faith; and that I am and forever shall remain, a living member thereof.»