Not even Weil herself could subsist on the thin broth
of pure spirit; in 1943, not yet thirty - five, she died of tuberculosis aggravated by self - starvation, an eerie presentiment of today's Europe wasting away from infertility and anomie.
As against all Manichean or dualistic philosophies, as also against all those religions which offer escape from the world into an ethereal realm
of pure spirit, Christianity has denied that the world of things is evil.
Instead of fleeing the impurity of the mundane world for a supernal region
of pure spirit, Rabbi Soloveitchik's «halakhic man» attempts to bring the sanctity and purity of the transcendent realm into the material world.
The Old Testament reflects not at all Platonic teaching about the soul as imprisoned in the flesh and escaping at death to the realm
of pure spirit, but rather Egyptian teaching, with its hope of a physical resurrection.
Neo-Platonism held, among other things, that the most perfect being was the least physical, and had the least to do with the physical; that the way of salvation necessarily leads from the body, from the earthly - historical, to a realm
of pure spirit.
And then there is the place
of pure spirit where things are done as you. . .
Not exact matches
It starts with a passion for
Pure Barre, personal drive, and an entrepreneurial
spirit and becomes a reality with the continued support from our amazing community
of studio owners.
Amy: Every time I traveled out
of town I would look to take class at the local
Pure Barre because it is so fun to visit different studios, and I've always had an entrepreneurial
spirit.
a) that the bible is an imperfect human representation
of gods word b) that the bible is a mixture
of mythology and divine inspiration c) that the bible was created in a way that people would understand at the time and intended to be updated d) that a
pure message was corrupted intentionally by evil humans or
spirits
Pure Life's curriculum relies heavily on Paul's Letter to the Galatians, which stresses that if one lives «by the
Spirit,» he will not «gratify the desires
of the flesh.»
Long the poster child
of pure Gothic, he is revealed in Ethan Anthony's work as the possessor
of an imagination that displayed the Christian
spirit in a myriad
of expressions.
John Milton echoes these lines in Book 1
of Paradise Lost, when he requests inspiration from «chiefly Thou O
Spirit, that dost prefer / Before all other Temples th» upright heart and
pure.»
We are commanded to work out our salvation, maintain good works, endure to the end, stay connected to the Vine, continue to obey God, walk in the
Spirit, sow to the
Spirit, overcome the world, keep ourselves
pure, be doers
of the word n not just hearers only to be eternally saved.
This way
of thinking ought to mean that
pure spirit - to -
spirit communication was the original ideal for men as well as for angels.
as representing the seat
of sin, some at once suspect the influence
of Hellenism, with its immaterial,
pure spirit on one side and its material, sinful flesh on the other.
For Altizer,
pure transcendence is a symbolic image
of primordial
Spirit, while
pure immanence is the symbolic equivalent
of the Kingdom
of God.26 Therefore, Altizer's «eternal death» is not a literal death as fallen man knows it; rather, it is the same as
pure immanence — the totality
of flesh.
Let others, fulfilling a function more august than mine, proclaim your splendours as
pure Spirit; as for me, dominated as I am by a vocation which springs from the inmost fibres
of my being, I have no desire, I have no ability, to proclaim anything except the innumerable prolongations
of your incarnate Being in the world
of matter; I can preach only the mystery
of your flesh, you the Soul shining forth though all that surrounds us.
Such civil righteousness is not the same as spiritual righteousness, namely, the true
pure love which only the Holy
Spirit can work in human hearts against the impulses
of the flesh.
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.
It is because
of the Holy
Spirit that we can meet with God, and know we stand
pure and right before Him.
We see here a principle which runs through the entire history
of love; the forms which express the
spirit of love do not arise like some
pure fountain from love alone.
First, there is the doctrine, especially as interpreted by Paul, that the
spirit of love is the fulfilment
of all righteousness, conjoined with a conception
of the new life in Christ as committed to specific patterns
of pure and responsible living.
Two «seed «in «the «
Spirit predestinarian Baptists claimed that Christ and his elect ones were born
of the
pure seed
of the woman, while the non «elect reprobates were doomed because they had within them the seed
of the serpent.
And We gave Jesus, the Son
of Mary, clear proofs, and We supported him with the
Pure Spirit.
Indeed, it is You who is Knower
of the unseen» (109)[The Day] when Allah will say, «O Jesus, Son
of Mary, remember My favor upon you and upon your mother when I supported you with the
Pure Spirit and you spoke to the people in the cradle and in maturity; and [remember] when I taught you writing and wisdom and the Torah and the Gospel; and when you designed from clay [what was] like the form
of a bird with My permission, then you breathed into it, and it became a bird with My permission; and you healed the blind and the leper with My permission; and when you brought forth the dead with My permission; and when I restrained the Children
of Israel from [killing] you when you came to them with clear proofs and those who disbelieved among them said, «This is not but obvious magic.»
However by getting a
spirit of dedication we can find out what
pure observation
of one's thoughtprocess means.
There is no lust in christ but just an infinite source
of the love
of the
spirit that's
pure and delightful.Marriage itself is a concession to the weakness
of our present being.God designed woman as the companion
of man with complimentary attributes.I could justify all kinds
of sin through the fact that I'm bonded to them.we were slaves
of sin as Paul tells us.I couldn't come out
of sin with all my efforts Jeremy.We have a sinful nature.But, Sin never provides life because the
spirit of god is love and life to us.When I cried out to God to save me from this nature, God did by his grace.Now, I detest sin having tasted love
of christ.
If sheep get lost when they wander away, it can hardly be the
spirit of inquiry or adventure that is reprehensible in itself, but rather the ambiguous mixing
of this
spirit with impulsive immediacy instead
of planning, with distrust
of the shepherd but fear to come out and say so, and with a rationalization that one's motives are wholly
pure and innocent.
The Qur» anic language
of the form -
spirit is used with reference to the cosmic becoming
of al - khalq in Ibn» Arabi.38 The point is that al - khalq as
pure thought
of the worlds to be [SP] receives its being as the actualized worlds in the same way as Jesus came into being.
Christian theologians might learn to theologize creatively about thc Holy
Spirit by consulting a tradition like
pure - land Buddhism, in which this sort
of thinking seems to have been going on for more than two millennia.
For Santayana neither the
pure being
of essence, nor the activity
of the physical world, with its generation
of spirit, calls for such an explanation.
He is a God who shares his
Spirit to whoever asks for it out
of their
pure heart.
God the Holy
Spirit — The spiritual state
of being and acting in
pure love (and / or peace, harmony, wisdom, knowledge — insert your favorite divine adjective here)
A genuine philosophy
of history regarding the beginning8
of genuinely human history, and a genuine theology
of the experience
of man's own existence as a fallen one which can not have been so «in the beginning», would show that where it is a question
of the history
of the
spirit, the
pure beginning in reality already possesses in its dawn - like innocence and simplicity, what is to ensue from it, and that consequently the theological picture
of man in the beginning as it was traditionally painted and as it in part belongs to the Church's dogma, expresses much more reality and truth than a superficial person might at first admit.
I wonder if perhaps some children are so
pure of heart because they are not tainted by sin that they are able to hear angels, the Holy
Spirit and God easier than others.
Remember the Father
of Heaven is a
Pure Spirit and Judges none.
But in the case
of Ahriman, the evil
spirit, this choice takes place in
pure paradox since in choosing he acknowledges himself precisely as the evil.
In the light
of this, the «cleansed» temple becomes itself a symbol
of the new order, in which there is no distinction
of Jew and Gentile, but a united people
of God offers him a
pure worship «in
spirit and in truth» (as John puts it elsewhere).
Without the development
of a further power, any form
of spirit present in
pure perception would be subject also to the same laws governing matter.
The Phenomenology
of Spirit is the work in which Hegel first fully realized his most fundamental and original thinking, one centered in a radically new philosophical method
of pure dialectical negation (Aufhebung), a negation which is negation, preservation, and transcendence simultaneously, and which is the deepest driving power not only
of consciousness and history but
of absolute
Spirit itself.
The name
of the Holy
Spirit himself as «gift» is after all bestowed not only to denote a
pure one - way gratuity, but also because the
Spirit expresses the infinitely realized exchange between Father and Son.
«17 Now one may find something less than the
pure spirit of love here but there is also disclosed a valuable element in human nature which a Christian ethic ought to respect and enlist, not relegate to a place wholly outside the Kingdom.
One group believed that the
spirit of love is itself a
pure and unique method for dealing with all evil; hence the Christian ethic is one which expresses this
spirit persuasively, intelligently, in all situations, and withdraws from all methods and means which resort to something which is other than the
spirit of love.
Gandhi was a man who in many ways reflected a
pure spirit compared with Jesus who was filled with or completely 100 % the internal image
of God.
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.
And the dénouement
of José Zorilla's glutinously pious (and still popular) Don Juan Tenorio (1844)-- in which Juan is saved from hell at the last moment by the
pure spirit of the one woman he truly loved — is a particularly unfortunate encore on the part
of Goethe's Eternal Feminine.
These errors are like those made when a nation is defined either institutionally as state, or as
pure community by reference only to national «
spirit» or a «way
of life.»
One
of the marks
of the presence
of the Holy
Spirit is the acknowledgement by fallible men that the
pure love
of God can not be claimed for any human community, even the Church.
As the human nature
of Christ is the perfect image, in the Son
of Man,
of our own identity and holiness, our wholeness in body and soul through God, so in the order
of the spiritual soul, the Divine Being itself, as
pure and perfect
spirit, is the mirror image
of our spiritual perfection, now and unto the beatific vision.
I still call myself a feminist, but not before calling myself a worshipper
of God with a
pure and humble
spirit.