Sentences with phrase «own life of prayer»

«The life of prayer is nothing but a longing for God,» says West.

Paesius gave everything he had to churches, monasteries, and prisons, learned a trade to provide for his own needs, and devoted himself to a solitary life of prayer.

The leader of 1.2 billion Catholics around the globe will leave his seat at the ornate Apostolic Palace and retire to a former gardener's house at the Vatican to lead a life of prayer, likely removed entirely from public life.

-- or shall one, in want of any certainty, eschew the life of prayer entirely?

The Church must walk closely beside such couples, and families have a responsibility to encourage each other in their life of prayer and sacrifice.

«What is unique about the ITI is our philosophy of the students living here on campus, a distinctly beautiful and Catholic environment, a life of prayer, study and community — the three pillars of the ITI.

One thinks of Theresa with her comparison of the life of prayer to a medieval castle, of John of the Cross with his lovely story of the lover in the garden of cypresses, and of Meister Eckhart (the most abstract of them all) with his talk about a spark of deity that seems to become the very self of the person praying.

In the twentieth century, several religious teachers have stressed the interconnectedness of the life of prayer and contemplation and that of practical action.

Such matters can not only be disrupting in themselves, but when rebelled against in self - pity as they often are, can upset one's entire psychophysical balance including the life of prayer.

Indeed, we are perhaps in greater danger, because we think that our theorizing is the same as a true Christian life of prayer, faith, self - denial and humility.

Numerous critics have pronounced The Divine Milieu to be the only original Christian treatise on the interior life of prayer to be produced in the twentieth century.

From the time she wrote The Life of the Spirit and the Life of Today (based on her 1921 lectures at Oxford's Manchester College) until she died in 1941, her most constant theme was that of bringing in the kingdom through a balanced life of prayer and action.

Collected Papers of Evelyn Underhill contains two lectures on «The Parish Priest and the Life of Prayer» first given to the Worcester Diocesan Clergy Convention.

General Theological Seminary in New York City supports a Center for Christian Spirituality and continually provides courses that relate justice and economics to the life of prayer, discernment and stewardship.

Highly personal, however, as this authority is the experiences out of which it grows can also be affected by the participation of the lonely individual in the life of the whole Church, including its life of prayer.

Elsewhere the end is defined as the preaching of the gospel and the administration of the sacraments; or, again, as the development of the life of prayer and worship.

They are sustained by an inner life of prayer and by the vision of Christ and his Kingdom set forth in the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius.

We need to be living our faith to the full, with a personal life of prayer, a committed love for Christ and a deep devotion to Our Lady.

It was a Tradition embroiled in the life, loves and sins of all people everywhere and was strongly organisational, authoritative and liturgical (meaning that it catered in its acts and life of prayer for the mass of the people to whom it addressed itself).

I like to imagine the life of prayer as a long and winding path on which God calls us to journey.

Instead, he listened to the stranger, took him seriously and ultimately included him in the life of prayer.

The forms of prayer described below are offered as a possible next step in your life of prayer.

Another element in fashioning one's life of prayer is the inclusion of others.

On the other hand, the purpose of the classical disciplines of the life of prayer — such as postures, directing of thoughts, or devotional objects — is to provide what have proved in actual experience to be the most favorable conditions for real prayer.

His fear of vulnerability in his interpersonal life was also active in his life of prayer.

I knew I could help students explore many ways of praying, but could I teach them about a life of prayer?

While these may contain valuable suggestions, it remains as a task for every generation to discover new ways in which to deepen and to enrich the basic experiences which make up the creative life of prayer.

Although these holy people have much to teach us about prayer, I believe a life of prayer is available to all of us — young and old; alone and in the midst of family; working, retired, and unemployed.

Our longing will lead us to God, back to the life of prayer.

Such ideas are crude and confusing pictorial representations which do justice neither to the fundamental religious experiences nor to the realities of the life of prayer.

With all this information it may be time for you to fashion your own unique life of prayer.

The obstacles that stand in the way of our prayerful journeys are to be attended to, engaged, and included in the life of prayer.

As you think about and plan for your own life of prayer, be in prayer.

We are not at the beginning of the life of prayer, for we have been on this journey since birth.

After you have explored your own experience of prayer and discovered where you are in your life of prayer, you may wish to examine different forms of prayer with the possibility of learning a new way to pray.

In the recent years of teaching «Life of Prayer,» I have discovered the wisdom in the title.

I make a commitment to go on two retreats a year and see those times as integral to my life of prayer.

Writings about the early desert hermits tell of the seductress somehow finding her way to a solitary who leads a life of prayer and meditation.

It later explained, «While Islam and Christianity are both monotheistic, we believe there are fundamental differences between the two faiths, including what they teach about God's revelation to humanity, the nature of God, the path to salvation, and the life of prayer.»

The second consideration is that as the individual develops in his life of prayer, he will find that petition for material advantage is less and less a part of his asking, and that more and more he desires only that he may be conformed to God's Will, so that as Christ's Spirit is formed in him he is enabled to live as un autre Christ — that fine phrase which was so often used by French devotional writers in the seventeenth century.

The life of prayer that I have been offered by the Lord shows to me, in profound ways, that in Christ I can own the world and may make the world his own.»

Perhaps the Quakers as a denomination understand this life of prayer better than any others do since they are organized around the recognition of the divine presence within making them in effect a community that grounds itself in transition into life in the Spirit.

It will be strongly organisational, perceptive, and liturgical in the true sense of that word — catering in its acts and life of prayer for the mass of the people to whom it addresses itself.

My basic course was accepted, but the title was changed to «Life of Prayer.»

He sought to convince the Roman generals that they should not abandon their positions in order to retire from the field and return to Italy to dedicate themselves to lives of prayer.

While Islam and Christianity are both monotheistic, we believe there are fundamental differences between the two faiths, including what they teach about God's revelation to humanity, the nature of God, the path to salvation, and the life of prayer.

Her life of prayer was something between her and God - but she did know that she was meant to pass on certain information, such as that concerning the work that was to become the Foyers.

«Baptism seals every Christian into the life of prayer.

The virtues of the «religious» life — poverty, chastity and obedience — were the formal signs of the special life of prayer and dedication, but they had somehow ceased to be its raison d'etre.

To the parish priest of today, Pope Francis issues a call: to a deeper faith and life of prayer, to purity and holiness of life, to a trust in the call of the Father, and above all to a life of ceaseless sacrificial love and preaching» a service that is in turn rooted in prayer and holiness.