Sentences with phrase «purpose of all spiritual nature»

Created in the image and likeness of God, principally in the soul, he yearns for more; he yearns for the soul's trueenvironment which is the love and knowledge of God, for the goal and purpose of all spiritual nature is to rest in God.

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So a fundamental part of education is to expose such hidden or explicit purposes and presuppositions and critically examine them and transform them to a conscious commitment to a world - view which sees nature, humanity and cosmos within an organic life system working within an ultimate framework of a spiritual movement of self - determining selves towards a community of justice and love.

Also in the face of the ecological disaster created by the modern ideas of total separation of humans from nature and of the unlimited technological exploitation of nature, it is proper for primal vision to demand, not an undifferentiated unity of God, humanity and nature or to go back to the traditional worship of nature - spirits, but to seek a spiritual framework of unity in which differentiation may go along with a relation of responsible participatory interaction between them, enabling the development of human community in accordance with the Divine purpose and with reverence for the community of life on earth and in harmony with nature's cycles to sustain and renew all life continuously.

It may be insight into the divine mysteries, the nature of Ultimate Reality, and of the laws governing the existence of the cosmos, of society, and of individual lives; or the gift of restoring into wholeness broken physical or spiritual health; or the ability to develop, by teaching and in other ways, the hidden possibilities in one's fellow men, and to give direction and purpose to their lives.

Second, growth counseling involves a variety of growth - stimulating methods to help people use more of their potentialities by (1) developing better communication with self, others, nature, and God — the four basic relationships within which all growth occurs; (2) developing new skills of relating in mutually - affirming, mutually - fulfilling ways; (3) growing by making constructive decisions and taking responsible action; (4) using the growth possibilities inherent in each life stage; (5) learning to use the pain and problems of unexpected crises as growth opportunities; (6) learning better methods of spiritual growth — the maturing of one's personal faith, working values, sense of purpose, peak experiences, and awareness of really belonging in the universe.

The 1985 Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith Instruction on Respect for Human Life states, «By virtue of its substantial union with a spiritual soul, the human body can not be... evaluated in the same way as the body of animals... The natural moral law expresses and lays down the purposes, rights and duties which are based upon the bodily and spiritual nature of the human person.»