Sentences with phrase «life of the spirit»

With new life of the Spirit pulsating through the Churches, revivalism poured outward through home and foreign missions as well as a vast number of societies for benevolence and reform, not forgetting that the message was for all of life.

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.

Thus the new life of the Spirit pulsating through the Churches was released by revivalism and poured through home and foreign missions and a vast number of societies for benevolence and reform.

A complete legend usually includes an account of the two most significant events in a saint's life, his birth in the flesh, and his birth into the full life of the spirit on the day of his death, together with an account of the miracles performed by him during his life and posthumously at his tomb.

The spirit is in fact the only thing that matters; the particular actions of the body and forms of worship are only more or less useful tools to discover the true life of the spirit, and once that is found they can — and should — be cast aside.

However, unless that vision is rooted in the sacramental and liturgical realities it proclaims, and in a personal life of the spirit, and unless that formation is translated into action in the moral and social life of the individuals and group, there will be little or no harvest.

Of all the themes in Evelyn Underhill's work, none is more important than «continuing incarnation»: offering one's life as the channel for God's continuing work on earth by weaving together the inner and outer life of the spirit.

Their purpose was to seek the authentic life of the Spirit.

As a thinking being, it is possible for me to suppress and quell in my consciousness every movement of self - assertion, every notion and opinion that is merely mine, every desire that belongs to me as this particular Self, and to become the pure medium of a thought that is universal — in one word, to live no more my own life, but let my consciousness be possessed and suffused by the Infinite and Eternal life of spirit.

If Christ is the end of the law (Rom.10: 4), if we have been discharged from the law to serve, not under the old written code but in the new life of the Spirit (Rom.7: 6), then all of these Old Testament sexual mores come under the authority of the Spirit.

It can not flee into asceticism nor seek refuge again in the inner life of the spirit.

Morally, and in terms of the life of the spirit, it requires the greatest sacrifice possible.

Still others are exploring the life of the spirit within a denomination and...

There are, of course, many different agencies keeping up different phases of what we have defined as the life of the spirit, but they are not sufficient, even when taken all together, for they do not give the dynamic of an organized faith.

For most of the Islamists, though, the movement has little to do with worship or the life of the spirit.

It is the radical privatizing, subjectivizing, and infantilizing of the life of the spirit.

For instance, the idealists believed that the life of the spirit was possible only because they regarded man as essentially spirit.

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.

This, however, is to impoverish attempts to bring spiritual and moral values to bear on both national and world society, because practical action needs to flow from the life of the spirit.

Paul's attention to the life of the spirit is not taken as a «fulfillment» but at best as a distraction, at worst a distortion.

From the time she wrote The Life of the Spirit and the Life of Today (based on her 1921 lectures at Oxford's Manchester College) until she died in 1941, her most constant theme was that of bringing in the kingdom through a balanced life of prayer and action.

We'll do this, or we'll miss the coming revival, in which the life of the spirit, so controversial and hurtful to a polarized public discourse, takes refuge in the shadow of the song.

Similarly, the man who does not keep to the One direction as far as he is able may have «the life of the spirit, in all freedom and fruitfulness, all standing and status — existence there is none for him without it.»

The facts seem to be that the Church has all but given up its historic sense that the life of the spirit is nurtured by the life of the mind.

Through this participation we enter the life of the Spirit.

Black writers know what it means for the flesh to be despised, and know that there is no life of the spirit without the body and community.

She declared in The Life of the Spirit and the Life of Today (E. P. Dutton, 1923) that society would be enhanced «if the civil wars of civilized man could cease and be replaced by that other mental fight, for the upbuilding of Jerusalem.»

We shall then be ready to consider the positive implications of this theological perspective in which the creative and the redemptive work of God are affirmed together, for Christian ethics, for Christian politics, and for the life of the spirit when the Christian commitment becomes a way of meeting both life and death.

In the second place, there is abundant evidence that growth in the life of the spirit brings new temptations with it.

As a Dominican friar, Pepler edited Blackfriars and The Life of the Spirit, and he was warden of the Dominican Conference Center, Spode House, Sta ordshire, from 1953 - 1981.

Fear will choke out the life of the Spirit in us.

I assume that, through birth and early nurture or through more mature experience, we have been called into the membership of the Christian community, that in some measure we know and share in the life of the Spirit, which gives the community its character.

Are we just grazing the surface, dabbling in the life of the spirit, half - heartedly dipping into the struggle for a just and humane world?

Now it must be recognized that, indispensable as the concerns for the moral and reasonable life are in themselves, their bent of interest when exclusively pursued, tends to magnify the will to security at the expense of the life of the spirit.

For the rigidity of the law it substituted the life of the spirit; it scorned the cautious wisdom of the sage to bless the trusting faith of a child; from the beauty of the flesh it turned to the beauty of holiness; it regarded man as a prodigal son and a lost sheep, lost but for the grace of the Divine Shepherd.»

It would also amount to the beginning of the story of the life of the Spirit in the group as a group in process of becoming the body of Christ.

It is ultimately the life of the Spirit in the church that protects faith against encrustation in «timeless truths» that can only negate spiritual progress.