Sentences with phrase «other than spiritual»

Other than the spiritual disappointment, this was a quick fun read.

Other than the spiritual element, what makes tantric sex different from Western sex and separate from the sexual culture in countries like the U.S.?

People have needs other than spiritual needs.

Not exact matches

I FULLY believe in a creator and spiritual reality, but I think the GREAT creator, not the various imposters (Including the dieties of JEws, Muslims and Christians) who have fun watching us kill each other over theological syntax disagreements, has MUCH better things to do than have personal conversations with any of us, dumb blondes included.

So we said, «Let's dig a little deeper into ourselves, and into the political, spiritual climate to find topics to write about other than things at the top of your head.»

@fimeilleur actually i can back up the claims i make both personally and historically, one example Abraham, Machpelah (actual location of his tomb and remains along with 5 others in Israel right where they are supposed to be) Kedorlaomer king of Elam, (defeated by Abraham and recently discovered) it is said Abraham believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness.More than that Abraham saw God and spoke with Him, not the god you are on about that men use to justify their evil intent, but the God who has created all things, the God that no one especially you can not contain.Ignorance is your choice but that will not negate the existence of God in any way.No one that i am aware of has all the answers at this point regarding spiritual things, evolution or evilution there are areas God has not yet revealed to mankind but every day more is discovered.I find it amazing that God is big enough to share discovery even with those who would reject Him.

Michael «As a gay man I appreciate there efforts and support, but I think putting up this sign isn't really the best way to get through to people, all it does is create more hate, intolerance, and separation, I am not a christian but I am very spiritual, and putting up this sign implies that all gay people are atheists which is the furthest thing from the truth, I have no problem with religion, I have a problem with those who use there religions to control and hate others, same applies with atheism, if you don't want to believe in anything than fine, just don't push your non beliefs on me.»

I believe that is that is the truth Theo is trying to speak of but he is also trying to tie in some spiritual truths or universal constants that we have no evidence other than religious persons word for it.

As a gay man I appreciate there efforts and support, but I think putting up this sign isn't really the best way to get through to people, all it does is create more hate, intolerance, and separation, I am not a christian but I am very spiritual, and putting up this sign implies that all gay people are atheists which is the furthest thing from the truth, I have no problem with religion, I have a problem with those who use there religions to control and hate others, same applies with atheism, if you don't want to believe in anything than fine, just don't push your non beliefs on me.

But I can not see that the Shoah is derived from any spiritual history other than that of modern neo-paganism.

I didn't catch how this makes the Hebrew bible unique or more inspired than all other religious / spiritual texts, but it doesn't matter, the message is what matters.

Now as the soul is more excellent than the body, and admits of far greater joy, so this spiritual union brings in more astonishing delights and ravishments than any other marriage relationship is capable of.

The Lucan text is addressed to a more cultivated public than the other synoptic gospels; the Johannine Gospel, too, is a highly intellectual text, combining the spiritual, symbolic, and factual.

I have no dog in this fight other than the same overwhelming urge to confront the abusers and seek an end to spiritual manipulation and abuse.

The star which the world is awaiting though it does not as yet know its name, though it can not as yet appreciate exactly its transcendence, can not even distinguish the most spiritual, the most divine of its rays: this star can not be other than that very Christ in whom we hope.

«First we affirm that we desire to follow Scripture alone as a rule of faith and religion, without mixing it with any other things which might be devised by the opinion of men apart from the Word of God, and without wishing to accept for our spiritual government any other doctrine than what is conveyed to us by the same Word without addition to diminution, according to the command of our Lord.»

Many pastors who try to control the thinking and behavior of others with the concept of «spiritual fatherhood» are more concerned with their own position of power and prominence than they are with the spiritual wellbeing of other people.

Jeremy before the Gospel was preached in New Zealand my people the maori people already had many gods and lived under there own type of spiritual law.They had rituals to keep themselves holy or pure but was by works.They also believed that there was one supreme God who was above all other Gods and his name was eo.So when the Missionaries came they understood the message of a supreme God and the way to know him was through his son over 60 % of maori people accepted the Gospel.It was bigger revival than the welsh revival in terms of percentage of population the welsh revival was only 10 % of the population of wales and that was considered a large revival in its day the new zealand revival was in the years 1820 - 1840.

Whilst some chaplaincies are strong, orthodox and excellently cater for varying spiritual appetites, others are less than inclusive, dominated by one form of worship.

In other words, you're incapable of understanding the «truth» of their doctrines because you're working with a sinful, carnal mind, rather than a spiritual one.

Life, for the early Church, was spiritual warfare; and no baptized Christian could doubt how great a transformation — of the self and the world — it was to consent to serve no other god than Him whom Christ revealed.

Life is a journey of question marks, and that's more relevant to faith and spiritual life than it is to almost any other aspect of life.

When did becoming a professional clergy become a vocation, rather than a spiritual quest of serving others as Christ served?

The idea of a spiritual, unseen world is fundamentally no different than scientific curiosity about parallel universes or other dimensions.

When, in the course of his remarks, he intimated that some parts of the Scripture were more truth - containing than others and admonished his hearers to feed their souls upon the best of the spiritual food, James interrupted the Master, asking: «Would you be good enough, Master, to suggest to us how we may choose the better passages from the Scriptures for our personal edification?»

There were many ways to live, not simply one, the spiritual theory taught, all of them good, some of them better than others from one moment to the next.

To be entirely honest, a part of me really wants your new endeavour to fail if for no other reason than my fear that if it succeeds it might start a trend that infects other spiritual online communities with this idea that such communities can be treated as commodities to be bought and sold.

This does not make them more intelligent than others, it just means they think differently on the topic of spiritual faith and religion.

Looking back on that experience I honestly don't think it was a spiritual event any more than many other events are (though I believe all events have a spiritual counterpart just as there are different physical levels of the universe way can overlay on any given system)

If so, what makes it better or more spiritual than any other activity?

Sure, these people know Tony professionally, but none of them have been in an intimate relationship with Tony (other than his «spiritual wife»).

The story doesn't present either spiritual style as better than the other; it presents a Savior who can love and use them both.

Our spiritual family is no different than our earthly family, yet why do we give up, hang our head in disappointment and walk the other way at the first sighting of flaws and inadequacies?

He will continue to be ordained by the institution and will, if he is faithful to it, have as much authority as the institution he represents has; spiritual authority is as necessary to him as to ministers of every other type; he is not less under the authority of Scriptures or less representative of it than the preacher; but his relation to all these authorities is different.

It is a jungle out there, and it is no less true about spiritual life than any other aspect of life.

In fact, we might see Eid Al Ahda and Rosh Hashanah as far more advanced than the rest of the world precisely because these holidays call to consciousness this repressed but real tendency to pass on the pain that was done to us onto our children, and to remind us that the great spiritual leader Abraham was able to NOT DO IT, thereby giving us the message that we too need not sacrifice our children either actually by supporting the war machine or symbolically by passing onto them various other forms of hurt, oppression and cruelty.

I have since noticed that people on a spiritual path of intention rather than religion pay far more attention to how they manifest in their lives an ethic which affirms life, how they behave in terms of respecting the sacredness of the Earth and others in it.

The problem is that organized religion is as much political animal as any other human convention involving more than 2 people, and spiritual, thinking individuals are intelligent enough to know that churches / mosques / community reprogramming centers actually have very little to do with what one actually believes...

Being spiritual does mean believing in a higher power than yourself and others.

Peace and Ramadan Kareem to all Muslim Brothers and Sisters... Inshallah fasting from Monday Dawn to SunSet... Just wonder in Christians or non Religious have tried fasting as Muslims do... am sure with time they will adopt it as a system for the health benefits it holds health and body... it is told it helps the body to discharge and burn out the poisonous chemicals from our bodies other than controlling weights... Some say they can not because of smoking other for water or food... but other than that is controlling anger or bad mood of the empty stomach, controlling one's tongue from hurting any one, to control eyes from staring at desire... Above all those to a Muslim he is to Maintain Prayers and Quran Reciting which of course beside it being a spiritual matter it is meant the body exercise by the up's and down's of prayers... as well as training of tongue & lungs by the Quran Recitation... these beside Tasbih «Praise of Glorify» helps to control one's breathing..

I was just throwing some other spiritual or supernatural questions out other than just ragging on Christians (which becomes rather boring after a while)

Jennifer Fulwiler talked about her spiritual autobiography, Something Other Than God: How I Passionately Sought Happiness and Accidentally Found It.

Those in the spiritual - but - not - religious camp are peddling the notion that by being independent - by choosing an «individual relationship» to some concept of «higher power», energy, oneness or something - or - other - they are in a deeper, more profound relationship than one that is coerced via a large institution like a church.

The «spiritual but not religious group» is more ethical, more intelligent, more grounded, more environmental, more peace - oriented, more open - minded than any other group I've come across.

However, I am more spiritual than religions, as Spirituality is a relationship with a higher power, whereas Religion is a man made construct to tell others how to worship a specific version of God

In other words, these young people aren't that much different from other spiritual seekers almost everywhere who, consciously or not, cleave to a faith that demands rather than accommodates.

But it is misleading because it is a question about whether or not there are purely spiritual beings other than God.

There continued to be some diversity of opinion on the exact nature of the resurrection body, and although all wanted to affirm the essential continuity of the person, by referring to the «same body», some allowed more room than others for some kind of spiritual transformation of the body.

Stories of long - term spiritual growth and fulfillment in church are, in many ways, similar to stories of long - term growth and fulfillment in marriage: what matters more than initial compatibility is long - term commitment to growing together, working through conflict, and learning as broken people to love other broken people well.

«It is entirely neutral on the question of immortality, or on the existence of purely spiritual beings other than God.»