Sentences with phrase «religious feeling»

I'm sorry, but someone having religious feelings about something that is not your god is in no way proof that your god exists.

When I recorded that song I will admit to having a strong religious feeling.

But there is a third stage of religious experience which belongs to all of them, even though it is rarely found in a pure form: I shall call it cosmic religious feeling.

What are the dangers of a religious posture that ignores the arena of one's natural worldly existence, concentrating exclusively on religious feeling and contemplation?

The subset that had had a near - death experience reported more self - awareness, more social awareness, and more religious feelings than the others.

It's very cool and convenient that every one of users share the same religious feelings.

I can not recall a researcher ever discussing the cosmic religious feeling.

The dating services themselves also have a more religious feel to them by offering such unique features as prayer forums.

The delay has been built up over time due to Annie's illness and eventual death as well the deep religious feelings of his wife Emma who at this points thinks that when they die, they will be separated from each other for eternity.

God is not to be perceived as an abstract remote deity insensitive to the deepest religious feelings which grow out of experiences of pain, suffering, death, and human agony.

This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.

The scientists» religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.

and similar attempts among the Jewish and Islamic communities and world bodies, have, through their interfaith work, created a new ethos for addressing issues when religious feelings are brought out in conflicting situations.

Why do religious feeling and contemplation not suffice?

That nostalgia is all intertwined with evangelical memory, so that the nostalgia has a vague religious feeling about it.

Masaccio is an artist of profound religious feeling.

They are interpretative and inductive operations, operations after the fact, consequent upon religious feeling, not coordinate with it, not independent of what it ascertains.

Religious feelings maybe, but how many people have had «god experiences» that are credibly witnessed, authenticated and of public record?

A 2012 law criminalized «offending religious feelings» in Russia, but few were prosecuted.

Read the Bible regularly, hang out with Christians, pray a lot, let a gifted speaker feed you what he believes every Sunday morning, sing songs proven to inspire religious feels, and partake of their rituals.

So should we take the tendency for certain people to get religious feelings about Apple as evidence for the legitimacy of claims that Steve Jobs is god?

Consider, for example, how sex enters into religious feeling, and how the religious community must reckon with the sexual dynamics in pious emotion.

And Marx was hopeful that as man more fully mastered his environment and destiny, residual religious feelings would wither away.

Later, in Reflections on America, Maritain wrote: «The Founding Fathers were neither metaphysicians nor theologians, but their philosophy of life, and their political philosophy, their notion of natural law and of human rights, were permeated with concepts worked out by Christian reason and backed up by an unshakeable religious feeling.»

The sects which have stressed the doctrine of the Spirit as a release for ecstatic forms of worship may rightly rebuke a staid and too decorous Christianity in which the springs of religious feeling remain untapped.

But what you've done is use religion as a hook and if you use the hook for long enough it becomes part of the reality of the problem, and that's the huge danger in places where religious feeling runs high.»

So accustomed are all of us to conceive the church as an assortment of either consciously planned programs or irrational religious feelings that illustrations of symbolic interaction are necessary to warm us to the notion that congregations have cultures as well as activities, policies, and emotions.

The commandments concretize religiosity, ground it in real life, channel religious feeling, provide restraint against desire, and regulate one's interactions with one's surroundings.

Once the chain of religious conformity is broken, and the children of non-believers raise non-believing children of their own, it's very difficult to revive or instill religious feelings because they're unnecessary in today's world.

cit., p. 141 f.) Without kavanah no service of God (abadah) has any value, for right moral action is dependent on the intensity of inner religious feeling.

He is a religious man, practising his faith, but not given to great religious feeling or exceptional spiritual experiences.

Marston shoots these services with a calm, steady camera that captures, but never surrenders to, an atmosphere charged with intense religious feeling.

For a more circumspect look at war, read Blood Rites, which explores the uniquely religious feelings humans bring to war.

Porter drew inspiration from his domestic life, once noting to a student: «I think... that a strong religious feeling requires a strong sense of matter - of - fact.»

«It's almost like I'm looking to excavate religious feeling from the most unlikely vessels,» Coates told me.

It's an almost religious feeling of re-birth.

Politicians often lie about their true religious feelings to appease the religious ones.

«This is a genuinely religious feeling and has nothing to do with mysticism.»