Sentences with phrase «powerful spirits of»

The powerful spirit of this place will never leave you.

While his early surrealist / cubist meets Afro / Aztec 3D output could be described as benign, sometimes erotic, some of the larger pieces of the immediate post-war years, emote a similar, powerful spirit of stark pain and horror as expressed in Picasso's 1937 «Guernica» and Jacob Epstein's far earlier, pre-WW1 sculpture, «Rock Drill», 1913 - 14.

Dumas highlights the free and powerful spirit of these animals in very intimate settings.

Not exact matches

In a similar spirit, in a widely - shared piece on progressive callout culture, Freddie DeBoer warned the left that «the prohibition against ever telling anyone to be friendlier and more forgiving is so powerful and calcified it's a permanent feature of today's progressivism.»

I have experienced the power of the holy spirit who is sovereign and all powerful.

He refused to believe that Vatican II, the ecumenical council he had experienced as a powerful work of the Holy Spirit, could only lead to permanent incoherence and division in Catholicism; and by providing an authoritative interpretation of the Council, John Paul II's pontificate energized the living parts of the Church and made Vatican II the launch platform for the new evangelization and for the Church's rediscovery of itself as a missionary enterprise.

He has worked powerful miracles down through the ages through people who claim to receive their power from the spirits of the dead.

A strange political critter appears in the dream as well, one that's not the puppet of pollsters and the powerful, but a leader with the heart and Spirit of God.

Or, maybe we are taking this too far... — More importantly, the power in us collectively, the resurrection power of God, the Holy Spirit, the full Word of God, is much more powerful than words confined by the human constraints of ink and paper.

If Christians could come to see that we can not understand the saving work of God within us, the incarnation of God in the world, the presence of the Holy Spirit, or the character of the Christian life apart from a doctrine of mutual indwelling that is irreconcilable with atomistic individualism and all its works, we could have powerful leverage to liberate us from oppressive canalizations of thought and practice.

Hbr 4:12 For the word of God [is] quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and [is] a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

In the words of Henri de Lubac, the distinguished theologian and historian of early Christian exegesis: «The conversion of the Old Testament to the New or of the letter of scripture to its spirit can only be explained and justified, in its radicality, by the all - powerful and unprecedented intervention of Him who is himself at once the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last....

It's the spirit of history, we are to suppose, speaking powerful, courageous words, giving birth to a new human consciousness.

Further, the spirit world is a powerful reality in Africa... Such a cosmology calls for a Christology that consciously deals with the relation of Christ to God, the relation of Christ to the spirit world and how the Christ, in the context of the belief in spirits stands in relation to Africans in their dependence on God.32

This is primarily because it has proven to be a powerful aid in the effort to avoid dealing with works of art or literature as products of the human spirit: aesthetic objects that move us with their intricately wrought beauty, humor, and insight.

«For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two - edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

And ye will not come to me that ye might have life (John 5:39 - 40) For the word oof God is quick (living) and powerful and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of SOUL and SPIRIT 9not one in the same).

It is this fact which, as in the early church so now, has been a powerful force in moving people toward the acceptance of the second part of the argument, namely, that there must be an authoritative church which will adjudicate finally, absolutely, and even infallibly on which interpretations should be seen as resulting from the Spirit's illumination and which should not.

she converted to Catholicism not Christianity and she says she converted because the morals fit her own not because she believes in the trinity... I believe the 10 commandments are a good set of guidelines for the world but I still do not believe in an all powerful being in charge of our «souls»... (if she had converted to Jehovahs witness she would not be saved since to them the holy spirit is a force not part of god thus its blasphemy)..

The cross of Christ was not meant to provide a means of forgiveness for a humanity that is universally condemned for the sins they could not avoid if they had wanted to (doctrine of Original Sin) but God gave his Son as a graphic and powerful demonstration that God forgives any and all, and invites everyone into the Kingdom of God wherein a person is given the Holy Spirit to help overcome and be free from sin.

Not sure i am convinced because how do you explain the verse an eye for an eye in the old testament there have always been consequences for wrong doing and stiill are for sin.If we believe the word then that word is from God not satan.As far as satan is concerned he uses violence as his tools of trade he works on our fears and is limited to robbing stealing and destroying he does nt have anything else.Violence confirms to us that there is a spiritual battle going on both on the earthly plane and in the heavenlys and the battle is over souls.The verse the kingdon of heaven is expanding and violent people take it by force is referring to that spiritual battle and as satan uses violence to expand his dominion so does God use violence to counter him.So what does he mean by that term for me i think it is saying that the the force of evil that satan uses or violence is overcome by a greater violence or force a more powerful one that being the Love of Christ.Through the cross we see that clearly portrayed and in our lives that very same battle is still happening right now for dominion be clear if we walk in the flkesh satan will have dominion over us but if we walk according to the spirit and abide in Christ we have freedom from our old nature.and satan.He can oppose us but he wont be able to influence us if we are in Christ.

That's why He invites us to live, not in a spirit of fear, but in His Spirit — with love that is more powerful than violence, with forgiveness that is more powerful thanspirit of fear, but in His Spirit — with love that is more powerful than violence, with forgiveness that is more powerful thanSpirit — with love that is more powerful than violence, with forgiveness that is more powerful than hate.

Missionaries» new religious devices, Bible, baptism etc., were perceived by some of the Malayarayans as powerful guarantee against evil spirits.

Missionary descriptions speak of «worship» of spirits and devils, «demolatory,» «devil - dancing,» etc. 11 Whether worship or propitiation, it is evident that Malayarayans were seeking to control the ill - effects of spirits» disfavour or preventing these spirits from taking complete control of their life.12 Access to powerful spirits was the key to the world of the supernatural.

The joining of bodies and spirits is powerful therapy for our loneliness and inner isolation.

Economics, the abode of the will to profit, and State, the abode of the will to be powerful, share in life as long as they share in the spirit.

The claim of Christians is therefore validated only in so far as it is really true that they possess a unique and powerful treasure - house (the Gospel) from which new life (the Holy Spirit) is available for the healing, restoring, and recreating of sick, delinquent, and perishing men.

After all, history, and even recent history, knows instances where a powerful personality, temporarily and for particular ends, has come to embody in himself the spirit and purpose of a whole nation, and has been spontaneously recognized as its representative, in a more than formal sense.

A great and powerful Church, rich in the fruits of the Spirit, dedicated to God's will in every aspect of life, it sought through its holy experiment to develop a nation and a Church that would guide people according to God's holy laws.

I would go even further, as I'm sure Pike and Stringfellow would 50 years later, that even these terms, including God, Jesus, and the implied Spirit, are powerful symbols that must be continually re-examined and re-articulated for the sake of the contemporary mind.

Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

«For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.»

Among mankind there have been those who have had a purity of spirit, a joyous heart, a strong soul, a powerful mind, and a close tie to the supernatural world which have enabled them to maintain a continuous relationship with the Almighty Power.

When we turn to the book of Acts, we see that the reason the early church was so powerful was certainly because the spirit was at work in them, but at work in them to do what?

The teachings of the Qur» an are universal, addressed to all people throughout the world regardless of their origins and revealed to mankind to enlighten man's spirit, to purify his morals, to unify his society, and to replace the domination by the powerful with justice and fraternity.

So profound and real was this spirit, so much more powerful than anything humankind could establish, so highly personal in its impact, that the early church was convinced that here, in this enthusiasm of which its members were so conscious, was an operation of the Spirit of whom the prophets had spoken in the older Ispirit, so much more powerful than anything humankind could establish, so highly personal in its impact, that the early church was convinced that here, in this enthusiasm of which its members were so conscious, was an operation of the Spirit of whom the prophets had spoken in the older ISpirit of whom the prophets had spoken in the older Israel.

So instead of God being called a bully, we say his judgements are indisputable, unchangeable and everlasting; he is better than us, high and lifted up, all powerful and holy; he is disappointed or sorrowful or angry about our sin; he constantly convicts us by the Holy Spirit; he sends us suffering in order to teach us, discipline us and inevitably bring us in line with his ways; and he threatens us with exclusion from him and his group now or forever in Hell unless we repent and straighten up.

It is a tribute to the power of this feeling that Melville — who almost alone among mid-nineteenth century men of letters in America pierced through the general moral optimism of the expansive spirit of the time, revealing in powerful fictional characters the ambiguities, the tensions, and the dark depths of evil and delusion — that Melville should have written these sentences.

His criticisms of the technological mindset are powerful and convincing, and his calls for a spirit of «waiting» and «harkening» chime with a biblical view of man in relation to God, allowing post-Christians to evoke a theological sensibility without appealing to theology.

The American bishops did much better: while also making the matter optional, they offered a powerful and sympathetic discussion of the religious reasons for the old observance and urged American Catholics to continue the practice as a gesture of solidarity with, and gratitude for, the passion of Christ, as an act of fidelity to the Christian past, and to help «preserve a saving and necessary difference from the spirit of the world.»

But more powerful are the film's visual embodiments of the idea that «the Spirit acts upon the body» to irradiate it, making it «more beautiful than it is»; for, Mary asks, «what is flesh alone?»

But the theology of compromise once known as «the spirit of Vatican II» (as opposed to its reality), though not much talked about these days, is still as powerful as ever it was.

Yet, he himself is so powerful that he can't relate to us without the use of his spirit or angels because we would be turned into ash if we saw him.

The temptations which assail the spirit of a minister are subtle but powerful, and few fully resist them.

We as Christians not powerless but powerful through the Lord but those who would deny its power and yet teach the Gospel are actually mislead and the Bible teaches is really the spirit of the anti christ.

First humble yourself as a man who was created not by your own ability but of a more Powerful, Ordained and Predestined Spirit that has not yet entered into the heart and mind of Men to understand... Pray a fervent Prayer (be as serious and sincere as you know how to be, and without the sarcasm.

To a degree but always with the principal of God as benevolent all powerful perfectly loving and of justice who shows himself to be in service of humanity in Jesus and with a Spirit of strength, love and sound mind.

The statement» but always with the principal of God as benevolent all powerful perfectly loving and of justice who shows himself to be in service of humanity in Jesus and with a Spirit of strength, love and sound mind» is an extremely subjective statement itself.

But today's liberalism encourages a very powerful culture of dismissal and denunciation that undermines the liberal spirit.

Hitler showed them that history does not go the way of the spirit but the way of power, and if a people is powerful enough, it can kill with impunity as many millions of another people as it wants to kill.