Sentences with phrase «of acedia»

It's a spy thriller that Alfred Lord Tennyson would've written — the very filmic representation of acedia.

These three characteristics of our culture — interior restlessness, excessive curiosity and instability of purpose — are described in classical moral theology as the offspring of acedia.

In the state of acedia, Snell explains, one «abhors what God has given, namely, reality and its limits of order.»

Not exact matches

'» In acedia, all being is treated «as something to possess and discard,» and the slothful «violate the integrity of any and every thing.»

On a recent trip across America, what surprised me most was the number of people - over 200 in one city, 80 to 150 elsewhere - who wanted to discuss this odd word, «acedia.»

The main barrier to the revival of Catholic writing and the rapprochement of faith and the arts is despair, or perhaps more accurately acedia, a torpid indifference among precisely those people who could change the situation — Catholic artists and intellectuals.

There isn't anything striking or clanging about the arrival, never an announcement or a grand entrance, it's always more of a day - after - day - after - day insipid stupidity that takes over, thick oatmeal quicksand instead of a wallop of despair, acedia is a bit slower, a creep of a thing.

The work of my hands and my body pauses any existential crisis, the daily work of living redeems, and I feel the acedia fading with each day of right choices, one after another, each step of pushing back the darkness with fabric softener, veggies, backyard camping, laughter seeking, and newly - white bookcases in the fading sun.

There isn't anything striking or clanging about the arrival, never an announcement or a grand entrance, it's always more of a day - after - day - after - day insipid stupidity that takes over, thick oatmeal quicksand instead of a wallop of despair, acedia is a bit...

And I realise, yes, yes, I am.I've been happy for months and months now, even years now, so it's not just a fluke.It's no longer me fighting for a few days of happy in the midst of a lot of exhaustionand acedia and work and tiredness and overwhelmed - ness.

It's probably the prairie kid thing, combined with the evangelical - mutt thing, but when acedia slinks into my soul, spreading into every corner of my life with an ooze, when my mind is fuzzy and apathetic, when I'm listless and worn out, burned out, on religion and parenting and marriage and family and everything about my life, I get to the daily, methodical, healing goodness of real work.

When confronted by sorrow, acedia tells us to retreat to our comfort zones where we don't have to get too involved in the suffering of others.

If we retain a stance of awe toward creation, and ultimately the Creator, we are immune to acedia's advances.

This widespread sense that we have lost our prospects reflects a bad trade of confident teleology for acedia.

It's an expansion on several ideas within it — namely about acedia (the spiritual cousin of depression).

It helps to know that this moral failing was originally conceived of as acedia, an outmoded term that conveys both alienation and tedium, tinged with self - contempt.

That certain sense of Tennyson bleeds into the overgrown post-apocalyptic landscape, all torpid acedia in its human ruins and in a tree - bound ape village that represents a sort of circular hopelessness.