Sentences with phrase «of sense of»

But as we attempt to understand the character of Christian existence in the primitive community, the decisive point is that the personal God was known as inwardly present without loss of the sense of responsible personhood.

Out of a sense of duty, guilt, or habit, persons continue in such groups, cluttering their schedules with a plethora of meetings.

The man and woman faced each other land spoke of their pain and failure, and of the seemingly inexorable nature of their separation; of loneliness and the need to learn new ways of relating; and of the sense of death, which both were experiencing.

Jon Bloom, author and co-founder of Desiring God, writes that «the lack of a sense of desperation for God» is deadly.

The flowering and transformation of Greek culture in Socrates continued the dominance of the sense of order but heightened the implicit tension.

The lower voids convey an impression of dark depth that deprives the visitor of any sense of cyclical renewal, any sense that the water will return.

No wonder the stories in the Sunday school «libraries» of early midwestern villages were full of a sense of indomitable progress and hope.

And so a person's mental health problems become masked and exacerbated by all the theological explanations about god and prayer on account of the sense of awe which a person feels regarding these matters.

The central and decisive fact in the appearance of Jesus was the renewal of the sense of the present immediacy of God.

A notable result of this is the prevalence among church people of moralism and the absence of a sense of dependence on forgiveness.

The most terrible consequence of the eclipse is the silence of God — the loss of the sense of God's nearness.

There is too little room in the heterosexual box for either spouse in a marriage to develop fully her or his capacities for loving humanity and God out of a sense of self as both strong and gentle, confident and vulnerable, assertive and receptive, equally able to lead and to follow.

The result of two centuries of Biblical criticism, as this has affected the thought of the Church, has not been an impairment of the power of the Scriptures but it has been an increase of the sense of the communal character of the book.

The result was the neglect of important recent products of civilization and the loss of a sense of contemporary relevance.

For this fading out of the sense of sin and consequently of the need of repentance and divine forgiveness, many factors are responsible.

Wallerstein gives an example of this sense of priority from her own life.

In the twentieth century, such research has relied almost exclusively on perception in the mode of presentational immediacy, that is, on quantified sense data devoid of a sense of past inheritance and thus devoid of meaning, emotion or purpose.

Rightly understood, it is the expression in social terms, first, of the fundamental plurality of existence, and second, of the awareness of dominant values, and third, of the sense of dependence which such awareness inspires.

However, it will not do for religious leaders to lay the fading of a sense of sin entirely to the influence of the secular community.

Yet I wonder whether Christian worship at times in emphasizing the love of God and Jesus» closeness to his followers may lose something of the sense of divine holiness.

By concentrating on one activity they miss the sense of the whole, which is a major source of the sense of meaning and purpose in work.

In the present volume there are repeated and sometimes moving narratives of a sense of «coming home» upon joining the homosexual community, much as Cardinal Newman and other converts have written about «coming home» when they joined the Roman Catholic Church.

James does not suppress his nature out of reverence for the Almighty but out of a sense of social propriety, conventionality, and a virtually aesthetic conception of how he wishes to appear to others and to himself.

The modern tendency to deconstruct and demythologize religion has deprived it of its rich myths, symbols and rituals — and of a sense of the sacred imbued in the ordinary.

For, is not the recognition of thorough cultural relativity the abandonment of the sense of reality?

A distant relative of mine from the Deep South as a child refused to step outside his family's car parked on a Cincinnati street out of a sense of bestrangement, fear, and contempt for the residents of that (border) northern city.

My dog shows me affection but it listen to me not out of a sense of mo - ra - ls but because it wants a reward or to avoid pun - is - hm - ent.

No reference to God is necessary to account for the magnificence of «King Lear» — Plato's account of divine inspiration does not speak to our age, not only because nothing in our experience resonates to the vibration set up by Plato's account, but also because our experience finds the Platonic account demeaning, destructive of a sense of both human responsibility and the openendedness of human achievement.

I have realized that and it really blows my mind to even get a bit of a sense of how his Love wins all!

If the christian version of god is real, he must have one hell of a sense of humor.

I simply feel as if it has been a rare privilege to live here for the time we have had, and that I ought to pay some tribute to the place before leaving, out of some sense of honor or natural piety.

The great issues of our time are moral: the uses of power; wealth and poverty; human rights; the moral quality and character of society; loss of the sense of the common good in tandem with the pampering of private interests; domestic violence; outrageous legal and medical costs in a system of maldistributed services; unprecedented developments in biotechnologies which portend good but risk evil; the violation of public trust by high elected officials and their appointees; the growing militarization of many societies; continued racism; the persistence of hunger and malnutrition; a still exploding population in societies hard put to increase jobs and resources; abortion; euthanasia; care for the environment; the claims of future generations.

Perhaps, but part of the sense of «anticipate» is that the event is regarded as in the future.

The idea of progress comes out of the sense of imperfection, as does the idea of God as transcendent.

But while physics has been the most formidable source of this sense of depth, developments in other areas of modern thought have also contributed to the new ethos.

Schleiermacher accepted that there are other mediators of this sense of absolute dependence.

While this change may be viewed as moral progress, it is probably due, in part, to the evaporation of the sense of sin, guilt, and retributive justice, all of which are essential to biblical religion and Catholic faith.

This is part and parcel of the loss of our sense of reverence lot persons.

To the spiritually sensitive person, this loss of a sense of divine companionship is an acutely unhappy experience.

I studied sciences at university partly out of a sense of delight and fascination, and a deep sense of intellectual inquisitiveness.

Their appeal to love, their partial adoption of the thought of Krishna, their repudiation of nationalism in favor of a sense of common humanity and universal understanding, are all laudable.

A church is where people grow, worship and serve God out of a sense of opportunity, not obligation.

Moreover, the poignancy of the sense of public guilt was reflected in private self - accusation, and the issue is seen in such prayers as the psalmist's confession of deep - seated sinfulness,

Perhaps in reaction to this loss of a sense of the transcendent and of the spiritual, new movements took flight.

But I realize I would only be going out of some sense of religious obligation so I back away again.

It is because their clergy really had been given an apparently well - founded hope that they would be able to «cross the Tiber» with their people (possibly under provisions made by Pope John Paul for the reception of whole Anglican parishes in America): and because of the sense of massive betrayal they felt when some of our bishops confronted Cardinal Hume, who had originally been inclined to respond positively, and forced him to back down.

They may, however, feel less of a sense of personal security than they once did with mom on the home front — but this situation is prevalent within society In general and certainly helps ministers and their families to understand the problems others face.

Recovery of the sense of God's action in other «commonly called sacraments» is essential.

This involves the cultivation of a sense of closeness to God, experience of the Spirit, and intimacy with Christ.

He will have both strength, resulting from tested convictions, and daring, because of a sense of security in relation to the possibilities of life.