(Matthew 23:9) This had to be
meant in a spiritual sense since we all have earthly fathers, while our heavenly Father is a spirit to be worshiped in spirit and truth.
What does that mean in terms of the physical practice, and what does
it mean in a spiritual sense?
Not exact matches
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.»
I didn't
mean accountability
in a negative
sense... it was more like «back - up», checking things out, having a
spiritual director, someone who is able to offer advice (which may
mean questioning and challenging on occasion).
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.
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.
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.
But others (and yours had the
sense of this without really saying it directly) seem to use it to
mean a time of
spiritual drought (unrelated to other occurances
in one's life).
«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.
Creative coping with this
spiritual crisis requires enlivening one's functional faith, increasing one's moments of transcendence, renewing the
sense of
meaning in one's life, and increasing the awareness of one's loving connectedness with the Spirit of the universe.
For it is one thing to suggest that the life of learning will always be
in some
sense dependent upon the exercise of
spiritual virtues
in however attenuated a form, quite another to imagine that the universities will turn to the practice of those
spiritual disciplines, such as prayer, that give such virtues
meaning and strength.
When it comes to
spiritual growth, first one must define what one
means by
spiritual, which some posters have done here, albeit
in a somewhat nebulous fashion, or perhaps my
senses are too dull to pick up your exact
meaning as some of the words you use have such broad semantics
in various contexts.
A law which properly has only this
meaning: to release man from the world, to separate him from any interest
in an independent cultural development, and to humble him
in obedience to the transcendent power of God — of a God, whose image is not
in any
sense determined by the conception that man has of his own highest
spiritual life.
That is to say, they are not isolated
in time but become part of a homogeneous series, bearing witness to the same certitude about the efficacy of
spiritual means in improving corrupted social and political situations with their
sense of compassion for the universal.
In view of the ambiguity of the meaning of baptism in the Indian inter-religious and political context referred above, the question of giving to the unbaptised Christ - bhakts in other religious communities a sense of full belonging to the spiritual fellowship of the church including participation in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper needs exploratio
In view of the ambiguity of the
meaning of baptism
in the Indian inter-religious and political context referred above, the question of giving to the unbaptised Christ - bhakts in other religious communities a sense of full belonging to the spiritual fellowship of the church including participation in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper needs exploratio
in the Indian inter-religious and political context referred above, the question of giving to the unbaptised Christ - bhakts
in other religious communities a sense of full belonging to the spiritual fellowship of the church including participation in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper needs exploratio
in other religious communities a
sense of full belonging to the
spiritual fellowship of the church including participation
in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper needs exploratio
in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper needs exploration.
Now this undoubtedly
means that the altar
in question was up
in the front of the temple, but one can perhaps catch a
spiritual sense too.
-- but one that seemed to encompass the kind of books we wanted to offer: fantastical fiction with a
sense of the magical and
spiritual, written with a literary sensibility, by which we
mean fiction with a love of language and an awareness of its place
in the literary canon.
A heightened
sense of self - importance, an almost
spiritual persistent belief
in your own greatness, is just part of what it
means to be an author.
In both of his best - known books — Concerning the Spiritual in Art (1912) and Point and Line to Plane (1926)-- he displays a remarkable ability to reconcile the redemptive power of art's «inner pulsations,» meant to be experienced «with all one's senses» and exacting diagrams of the formal effect of different colors, shapes and lines, each of which he felt had a distinct soun
In both of his best - known books — Concerning the
Spiritual in Art (1912) and Point and Line to Plane (1926)-- he displays a remarkable ability to reconcile the redemptive power of art's «inner pulsations,» meant to be experienced «with all one's senses» and exacting diagrams of the formal effect of different colors, shapes and lines, each of which he felt had a distinct soun
in Art (1912) and Point and Line to Plane (1926)-- he displays a remarkable ability to reconcile the redemptive power of art's «inner pulsations,»
meant to be experienced «with all one's
senses» and exacting diagrams of the formal effect of different colors, shapes and lines, each of which he felt had a distinct sound.
As you read through the devotions each day, you will: Become a great lover by learning to love God first Develop the essential disciplines of a lasting relationship Focus on the important things
in life Discover a
sense of
spiritual purpose and
meaning Understand that grace is not just for «beginners» — it is for you, every day Whether you are dating seriously or engaged to be married, these daily personal devotions and weekly couple's devotions will help you discover the way to lifelong love.
In the
spiritual sense «I see you» for the Na» vi
means «understand» or «comprehend» you with an open heart and mind.