Sentences with phrase «of a devotional»

My husband and I have a different kind of devotional life, this year.

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.

Yet hundreds of thousands of downhearted dieters look to this kind of devotional advice for redemption as assiduously as they have ever listened to Sunday sermons, and often with a great deal more desperation.

Yet in our time the form of devotional aid most widely used is probably The Upper Room, Today, Forward, or some other serial publication in pamphlet form.

If you want to study some heavy theology instead of another devotional book, say so!

As curator Alison Gingeras has noted, Rondinone's landscape works «are subjected to a ritualized time of production» as he likens «his practice to a series of devotional rituals» (Ugo Rondinone — zero built a nest in my navel, exh.

In the last century the production of devotional literature on various levels has been continuous.

(c) God's Letter to You — usually an extract from a piece of devotional writing, (d) a blank page for Your Letter to God.

Yet thirty years ago a new broom swept away much of this devotional life.

Believing Hindus today may be roughly divided into two general groups: those who accept the philosophy of nondualism (or neo-Vedanta, as it is sometimes called), and a far larger group of a devotional nature, who are often of a more orthodox type.

The training takes place in a yoga - ashram where the students comprehend the yoga essence in its four aspects: hatha yoga (yoga of the eight steps), karma yoga (yoga of selfless activity), bhakti - yoga (yogas of devotional service) and jnana — yoga (yoga of knowledge).

When she's not teaching political theory or finishing her dissertation she's studying yoga philosophy, and sharing her love of devotional yoga on the mat.

mp4 video format)- A Homework Task The topic of the lesson focusses on the following part of the specification: Buddhist Practices and Forms of Worship • The role and significance of different forms of worship including: - Meditation - Chanting - Puja and devotional ritual - Mantra - Malas - Offerings • The significance of worship in the temple • The significance of worship in the home • The purpose of devotional ritual • The relationship between devotional worship and the aim of ending dukkha.

The first book in the new series of devotionals for fiction lovers, 21 Days of Grace: Stories that Celebrate God's Unconditional Love, released this month.

The second stage in the development of this form of devotional theism is the wedding of the Bhagavata religion and Sankhya philosophy.

Today, just as in the early and medieval church, part of the devotional appeal of relics, particularly those of great saints, lies in the possibility of miraculous cures (Acts 19:12), either through their instrumentality, or on the occasion of their close proximity.

In making this abridgement of a devotional work by Kuyper first published in the U.S. in 1918, James Schaap, professor of literature at Dordt College in Iowa, has adapted Kuyper's daily meditations by trying «to deliver the essential Kuyper to the ordinary people he respected.»

What remains little known, however, is the depth of his devotional writings.

For men who find themselves on the outskirts of a devotional life, the spiritual values of wilderness offer wellsprings to replenish faith.

Even very sympathetic Protestants think of it as a kind of devotional optional extra.

The use of a devotional manual can be very helpful.

We defer to one another to allow for a diversity of devotional styles.

For free, you can use my Advent series of devotionals as a family — it includes scripture for the Sunday family table readings.

The writer of a devotional book I read more than forty years ago — a book whose author and title I have forgotten — made an interesting point about the Holy Spirit.

Would it be surprising if a Buddhist tendered the same sort of devotional regard toward the salvific person of the bodhisattva that Christians give to Jesus?

In thinking about how I felt like a big, fat loser when I missed one of my devotional times or ate a second cookie, I was struck with how much self - condemnation was swirling around my brain.

In a way Westerners living thousands of miles away could never know, he learned that Islam was more than a creed or a set of devotional practices.

It belongs in a discussion of the devotional life and the methodology of Christian nurture.

The best plan is either a consecutive reading in one book a few verses at a time, or the passage for the day indicated in some form of devotional guide.

But philosophy is both his primary vocation and the foundation of his devotional writing.

He's pretty private about his spiritual life, but here are a few of the devotionals that, knowing what I know about the President, were likely to be among his favorites:

Before the drastic pruning back of devotional life in the Church, the name of Teresa Higginson was commonplace in England, especially in the North - West.

An elaborate tract by Newman presented the beauty of the complete system of the Latin Offices — No. 75, «On the Roman Breviary as Embodying the Substance of the Devotional Services of the Church Catholic.»

The attractiveness of those Hours of Prayer, which the ordinary priest of the Latin rite has sometimes felt to be a burden rather than a joy, was one of the factors which led many of the Tractarian group to an increasing appreciation of the devotional treasures preserved in the Roman Communion.

She is also the author of a devotional.

Start small and invest thirty minutes a week together, being inspired and communicating with the help of these devotionals.

Exquisite religious frescoes decorate the walls, incense drifts in the air, and every now and then it is possible to hear the sound of devotional plainsong.

Anyone who identifies him exclusively with his later color studies will find an unexpectedly varied artist here: a photographer of Aztec ruins (the Alberses adored Mexico, making more than a dozen trips), a furniture designer, a carver of bouncy curlicue - patterned woodcuts, and a collagist who could infuse the lift of devotional art into an arrangement of dried leaves.

It is a record of a devotional, patient form of looking, translated into a painterly process of responding, accruing, and removing.