Sentences with phrase «rather than the spiritual»

Research at the University of Liege in Belgium suggests they may come down to biological rather than spiritual factors.

When one goes to a concert [or reads a book or even watches television] to relax after a busy day, the result can be a mild drowsiness - in itself pleasurable enough - rather than any spiritual uplift.

The Sadducees were a loose confederation of wealthy and powerful men, who took a secular — pragmatic, rather than a spiritual — ideological stance with regard to the Jewish nation and its spirituality.

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.

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

Our economic system, he wrote, encourages acquisitive rather than spiritual instincts.

Instead they acted like political hacks rather than spiritual authorities, doubling down on the invective and serving up to the American public an even deeper draught of petty partisanship.

Be on guard though, that you're not listening to your physical, human nature rather than your spiritual nature.

He then adds that we claim spiritual progress rather than spiritual perfection.

We claim spiritual progress rather than spiritual perfection.»

There is nothing clearer in the message of Jesus than his indictment of acquisitiveness, and the putting of one's trust in material rather than spiritual goods.

That expression may seem too strong — but only if we think the mystical is the exceptional rather than a spiritual experience that belongs to the essence of religion and remains accessible to all believers.

On the other hand, the minister is described as a pastoral director rather than a spiritual director.

Integrity — wholeness rather than dis - integration, honesty rather than the most fervently desired «will to believe», and peace rather than spiritual, emotional, and mental gymnastics and contortions finally won out.

The basis of the illusion is that our neighbors are our competitors rather than our spiritual brethren, and that our adversaries are external.

I think what we need to strike a balance is the overly polishing of the building of worship (with emphasis on the word, «overly»), for we certainly want to have decent worship centers, but focusing too much on the physical building activities rather than the spiritual building is what makes it too earthly and lacking of the eternity perspective.

The problem is that the anti-abortion and anti-gay marriage people advocate a legal solution to the problem, rather than a spiritual one, and that is fundamentally not a Christian approach to the problem.

While Christians often mention Zolli as an example of an observant Jew who found Christ, some Jewish scholars contend that Zolli's conversion was a result of having been ostracized by the Jewish community following the Holocaust, rather than a spiritual awakening»

still packs a potent punch, but its power comes from a more emotional place rather than spiritual.

The colonial overlords — first the Portuguese and then the Dutch — viewed it with an eye to practical rather than spiritual considerations: the coastal promontory was the ideal place for a fortress, where mounted artillery could be directed toward the threat posed by hostile warships.

Not exact matches

Rather than throwing all issues of spirituality out of the door at work, it would be beneficial to us all if we could freely flow and be connected in our jobs, not only on a mechanical, flesh - y level, but also on a spiritual level.

While many entrepreneurs still come out of an ayahuasca experience with old habits and patterns intact, the entheogen is providing spiritual guidance to a group of capable individuals seeking to make the world a better place rather than focusing solely on profits.

Just because something is termed spiritual, and most things that are termed that are dealing with the relative plane rather than the absolute, doesn't mean its truth.in the spiritual realm.

«The Hispanic community, however, is not immune from the nation's growing secularism, which concerns all religions, as church attendance seems less important to people,» Walsh continued, «and people move from religion to religion and declare themselves spiritual rather than religiously affiliated.»

Rather than looking at corporate work as the evil scourge of the earth (though you certainly want to make sure your personal values align with an organization's corporate values), riding the elevator to the 11th floor every day may be exactly where God needs you to develop your spiritual character, your gifts and to reach those who are broken, empty and living without knowing their Savior.

«See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ.»

Church becomes the place where a few spiritual leaders minister to the less able masses, rather than all believers mutually edifying one another.

In such a time, appeals to the spiritual greatness of the Russian nation may be an essential witness to the Gospel rather than a capitulation to the powers that be.

Or even «hierarchical» religion... I must say that the «hierarchy» in my tradition has been the main instrument protecting me from spiritual abuse, rather than afflicting it.

@ lionlylamb: per rightly dividing the word... the video below is what Paul was talking about (focusing on Christ), not philosophical abstractions... «See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ.»

* is really the SUBJECT OF theology rather than an actual spiritual reality or entity.

If «morality is a civil matter rather than an ecclesiastical one», then why refer to the spiritual / religion / bible at all in moral matters?

Maybe this once - a-priest-now-a-professor might want to think about searching for spiritual guidance himself rather than arguing over some scholarly interpretation of the Bible.

Strong belief in God or in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual apprehension rather than proof.»

It has multiple meanings 1) complete trust or confidence 2) strong belief in a religion based on spiritual apprehension rather than proof 3) a system of religious belief

Here, the salvation is of the spiritual kind, rather than the salvation from physical enemies, because of the mention of sins in Luke 1:77.

In particular, Meier insists that the theophany must be excluded from all attempts to understand the event, since it is a later Christian invention rather than a surviving memory of some actual spiritual experience of Jesus.

But rather than reaching the universal by a kind of inductive procedure, the implicit becomes explicit as a mental or spiritual component required for intelligibility of the individual and implicitly included within it.

Like the majority of AA's his «spiritual awakening» is of the type which William James called the «educational variety,» rather than the «hot flash» type such as was experienced by Bill W.

Unlike Hollywood, the Christian media does have a spiritual directive to tell the whole truth, rather than alter a story to fit the preferences of an intended audience.

I suspect that he might affirm that what is resurrected is the spiritual body of which Paul spoke rather than the fleshly one.

There are those who think that a major shift in human consciousness is taking place, one aspect of which is an emphasis on spiritual experience rather than intellectual truths about religion.

It would need firsthand knowledge of an entirely pagan country to say for certain that these impressive spiritual qualities are growing spontaneously, rather than being the delayed action of many years of unconscious Christian absorption.

Far from being lazy, I find that being «spiritual but not religious» (SBNR) forces me to stand on my own two feet, be self - accountable, and to think for myself, and to boldly question everything, rather than hiding behind a religion and it's dogma.

Elsewhere Paul lays less emphasis on the element of continuity, or rather, perhaps, he expresses it somewhat differently, finding the continuity between this life and the next in our «selves» rather than in any organic link between the physical body and the spiritual body.

What complicates the acquiring of skill in this role is the resourcing already in place for the pastor as psychological counselor rather than as spiritual guide.

Either way, it is a shame to study the spiritual genius of the plays for such a purpose rather than for identifying the truths revealed for pure appreciation and enlightenment.

It is true that spiritual aridity is widespread in many sectors of our society, but if we look more closely we will see that rather than a dearth there is a superabundance of competing visions.

When used indiscriminately, these instruments can block rather than facilitate the emotional and spiritual growth of persons.

The practical and professional emphasis in the seminary has been in the direction of administration, social work, and ecclesiastical machinery rather than the practical discipline of the spiritual life.