Sentences with phrase «sacred powers of»

The talisman turns to be one of the keys to legendary gates that protect the source of the sacred powers of Art, Love, Strength, Will, Talent and Knowledge.

; nor (ii) why Christians believe they are monotheistic, given that they believe in god, the devil, guardian angels, the holy spirit, Jesus, many demons in hell, the Virgin Mary, the angel Gabriel, thousands of saints, all of whom apparently make Earthly appearances periodically, and all of whom inhabit their various life - after - death lands (limbo, purgatory, heaven, hell) with magic - sacred powers of some kind.

For thousands of years, the traditional people in India have known the sacred power of foods from the holy cow, especially the power of colostrum for its qualities of energizing and giving well being.

The sacred power of the Triforce was one of the reasons of major conflict, leading to an era of a chaos.

Not exact matches

It's no coincidence that the era in which Nike was at the height of its cultural power was also the one in which the Niketown retail experience verged on the sacred.

«It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow, consumer - hell type situation as not only meaningful, but sacred, on fire with the same force that made the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down,» he said.

When the Magi offer him gold, which indicates a king, we are invited to lessen the tribute we offer to the power structures to which we belong and on which we depend; when they offer him frankincense, which indicates a priest, we are invited to tiptoe out from under the delusions of our sacred canopies, to be drawn into the jagged - edged sacrifice of presence that this Priest will carry out; and when they offer him myrrh, which indicates a prophet's death, the Magi invite our hearts to lighten as death loses its hold over our drives and desires.

As is made clear by the inscription above the mosaic, and as was undoubtedly understood by the gentle Edward himself, the power to which the Saint King is here depicted as kneeling, is not one of political dominion but of gentleness — the power of powerlessness: WE HAVE BEEN REDEEMED BY YOUR SACRED BLOOD.

I needed to see her create SheLoves with my own eyes to know how sacred it is for women to tell their stories, to own their anointing, to come alongside of each other with power and laughter and vulnerability.

In the midst of the awful realm of powers, and of the sacred realm of laws, the aesthetic creative impulse is building unawares a third joyous realm of play and of appearance, in which it releases mankind from all the shackles of circumstance and frees him from everything that may be called constraint, whether physical or moral.

The result was that faith became a complete vacuum to be filled by revelation — by the power of the sacred alone.

To treat any item in the universe, including status quo power arrangements and «understandings» of God, as in some way «absolute» or inherently «sacred» is idolatry.

At the sacred mountain, whither he had fled in desperate need of spiritual reinforcement, Elijah faced first a strong wind, then an earthquake, and then a fire, but in these outward shows of physical power God was not present.

Wahhabism soon gathered sufficient military power not only to capture Mecca and Medina, but to take over the whole of Arabia and move into Iraq, where it captured and partially destroyed the mosque in Karbala, so sacred to the Shi'ites.

We spoke of how grateful we were to be learning with our theological «elders» that the sacred spirit of life can be experienced as the power moving us in the making of justice with compassion and of peace with justice.

«To speak of God's Kingdom,» says Wright, «is thus to invoke God as the sovereign one who has the right, the duty, and the power to deal appropriately with evil in the world, in Israel, and in human beings, and thereupon to remake the world, Israel, and human beings... When full allowance is made for the striking differences of genre and emphasis within scripture, we may propose that Israel's sacred writings were the place where, and the means by which, Israel discovered again and again who the true God was, and how his Kingdom - purposes were being taken forward... Through scripture, God was equipping his people to serve his purposes.»

When all of existence is discovered to be sacred and one's life is viewed as a trust to be invested in enhancing human values, motive - power for significant involvement is created.

Essentially, you have sold a sacred and Biblical message of compassion, forgiveness, and salvation in exchange for Republican political power.

In both northern California's recent Gasquette - Orleans Road Supreme Court ruling of 1988 and South Dakota's 1983 court ruling on Bear Butte, indigenous peoples lost protection of and access to sacred sites which in their view have for centuries held life - giving power and meaning.

It has seemed incredible that human beings endowed with any power of reason should hypnotize themselves with doctrines of «national honor» or «sacred right» and pursue mass murder to exhaustion or ruin.»

The sacred writings of all the great religions have the power, in unusual degree, of stimulating the kinds of universal experiences which we described in Part Two.

Not an outward temple, but the inward shrine of man's personality with all its possibilities and powers is seen to be infinitely sacred.

A body of sacred writings gains authority through its demonstrated power of bringing to expression the dominant and enduring attitudes characteristic of the religious group.

The shift of the seat of existence from the unconscious to the conscious estranged the self from the sacred power, and the triumph of the rational consciousness over the mythical broke also the power of the sacred.

Among the Hebrews the mythical was ethicized and personalized so that the power of the sacred remained overwhelmingly present.

Mythical man lived in a universe of sacred meanings and powers.

At the point of the transition toward this ethicizing and personalizing, the power of the sacred remained overwhelmingly present.

Manifestation is a showing of the sacred; the sacred is manifested in the Greek mysteries, but always with power.

Isn't that where you think certain thoughts and a being that created the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies (each with billions of stars, planets etc.) about 13,700,000,000 years ago uses its magic powers (or «sacred powers» to the extent you see a difference) to read your mind.

@pockets: So, what scares you is that someone who believes everyone on Earth was created for a reason, and who believes that all live is sacred, is given the power to choose whether or not to bring about the extinction of the human race.

Writes Rollins: «The words of the Bible, wonderful as they often are, must not be allowed to stand in for God's majestic Word, as if the words and phrases have been conferred with some sacred status and the phonetic patterns given divine power.

America occupies the position today of imperial Rome in stabilizing the world, and Kaplan recommends a sacred canon of literature to guide leaders who wield such power: Livy, Sun Tzu, Thucydides.

Alcoholics Anonymous, being «spiritual, not religious,» doesn't use the Bible at all; rather it uses another sacred text, the inspired Word of God as expressed through Bill Wilson, the Big Book... Unlike the Oxford Group, which claimed salvation and redemption by Jesus through the Oxford Group, AA proclaims «recovery» by one s «Higher Power» through the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous (Ken Ragge, The Real AA: Behind the Myth of 12 - Step Recovery [AZ: Sharp Press, 1998], pp. 82 - 83).

While modern science, history, geology, biology, and physics have failed to convince you of the deep inanity of your silly faith, some priest doing magic hand signals over grocery store bread and wine is enough to convince you it is thereby transformed into the flesh and blood of Jesus, because of the priest's magic powers (or «sacred powers» if you prefer the more euphemistic term).

In sustaining and becoming ourselves in relation, we are giving birth to more of this same sacred power who needs us, her friends, to bring her to life and help nourish her life on the earth.

Seven years later, following on the heels of Rita Nakashima Brock's initiating of the theme of «erotic power,» 14 Heyward observed that «to speak of the erotic or of God is to speak of power in right relation,» 15 defining «erotic» as «the sacred / godly basis of our capacity to participate in mutually empowering relationships.»

In primitive man, sheer power may well have been dominant in his conception of the meaning of the sacred.

While modern science, history, geology, biology, and physics have failed to convince you of the deep inanity of your silly faith, some priest doing magic hand signals over bread and wine is enough to convince you it is thereby transformed into the flesh and blood of Jesus because of the priest's magic powers (or «sacred powers» to the extent you see a difference).

Christian liturgy, like other forms of sacred rituals, is «an efficacious performance that invokes the presence and action of powers which, without the ritual, would not be present or active at that time and place.»

Corruption inevitably kicks in so that, in the long run, only the faces at the top have changed and the power of love has not replaced the love of power which is the ultimate transformational solution to the ills of human society that sacred activism always sought.

Faith is the power to tap into the sacred reality of God's tangible presence and dynamism.

The power of the order of hierarchs spreads throughout the entire company and works the special mysteries of its own hierarchy through all the sacred orders.

The rites are images of the power of the divinity, by which the hierarchs perfect the holiest of symbols and all the sacred ranks.

These charges are over the top and are an example of Church and State working far to chummy to secure power (the most appropriate response the Church should have would be to weep at the violation of their sacred moment and invite the band to stay for the rest of the liturgy).

We can enter into a sacred fellowship of God and men where the kingdom of God is a real power among us.

Jesus is the eschatological Teacher, who upon the foundation of the sacred Jewish Law but with special commandments (relating to poverty and obedience) and with divine power leads his followers to the gates of the Kingdom of God; he is now exalted at the right hand of God, and is soon to come on the clouds of heaven» as the judge of all mankind.

A faith that names Jesus either as the Son of God or as the prophet of God must be a backward movement to a disincarnate and primordial form of Spirit, a movement annulling the events of the Incarnation and the Crucifixion by resurrecting Jesus either in the form of the exalted Lord or as the proclaimer of an already distant and alien majesty of God: hence an orthodox and priestly Christianity is inevitably grounded in the sacred authority and power of the past.

On the one side was the utter ruin of the old, sustaining sacred places and customs with which their faith in God had been identified, and on the other side was the competition of the brilliant gods of Babylon, who, according to ancient theory, had proved their reality and power by the ascendency of their people.

Thus, sexuality was to be seen not as a mysterious sacred power, but rather as part of human life to be used responsibly in gratitude to its creator.

Regarding the Curia, the Second Vatican Council taught as follows: «In exercising supreme, full, and immediate power in the universal Church, the Roman pontiff makes use of the departments of the Roman Curia which, therefore, perform their duties in his name and with his authority for the good of the churches and in the service of the sacred pastors» (Christus Dominus, 9).