Sentences with phrase «says spiritual people»

Science says spiritual people of all sorts are more likely to have happier brains, healthier bodies, and longer lifespans.

Not exact matches

«People who have financial means get the chance to have the moral, ethical and spiritual debates about which method to choose,» said Dawn Vander Kolk, an Illinois hospice social worker.

Of course if you aren't a spiritual person than it will be difficult to see your work as a sacred offering and because business is about making up your own rules, I would say... choose to see your business in whatever way works for you!

Thurman says that as people in business, «we should take heart because, although a lot of people who consider themselves progressive and spiritual feel like business is something very lowly, that it's about just making money, the vocation of business can be extraordinarily honorable and has the ability to make a long - lasting positive impact on our society and world at large.»

«What once was a retail center where people bought things is now a spiritual center where the most important thing in life is offered free,» says senior pastor Jay Dennis.

Though what you say, may stereotype some actual people in the «church» today, I think most people attend out of love for their God and spiritual nourishment.

So that Krauthammer is precisely correct when he says that the question of whether some being is a person can be «restated in theological terms» as whether he has a spiritual soul.

In a statement, Pope Francis said: «At a time when our human family is beset by grave humanitarian crises demanding far - sighted and united political responses, I pray that your decisions will be guided by the rich spiritual and ethical values that have shaped the history of the American people and your nation's commitment to the advancement of human dignity and freedom worldwide.

To paraphrase him, I'd say: «That if I was ever sick in the hospital, if I was ever dying, that the last person I would ever want to see is some Harvard Divinity School professor wanting to talk to me about faith or the depth of his spiritual life.»

You said,»... that chaplain could serve in the «pastoral» (i.e., spiritual) needs of a person about to meet his or her Maker.»

Most people who are saying these comments probably aren't even that religious, definitely not spiritual people.

And I'm not saying other highly spiritual people haven't come along besides him.

I know that I see elements of divine around me in things and in ways that others don't, including other religious people... And as long as different religions and even sects constantly argue about what god truly is, and as long as they come up with different asnwers, then I have to say that the spiritual elements of our universe simply manifest differently for different folks, including not at all for some... as with those who label themselves as athiest...

Similarly, M. Scott Peck in the stages of spirituality delineated in his book A Different Drum, says that if people reach the later stage of spirituality, they begin to realize that, mysteriously and paradoxically, there is truth to be found in the earlier stages of their spiritual lives.

I understand if they will only recognize one person as the legal spouse, but to say that a person can not have more than one «spiritual» partner is absurd!

BillyD said: «Without arbitrarily labeling as mass mental illness, how do explain the personally experiential, spiritual revelations of countless people throughout the centuries, many by people previously not convinced by the faith of others?»

Are you saying that as long as a person is «spiritual» in their own way, that all ways will lead to Christ?

how on earth is that racist??? Saying that a human person looks like an actor portraying a spiritual being.

If god loved people unconditionally then he wouldn't torture people in fire for all eternity because they don't say a magic spell to cause a spiritual energy to cleanse an invisible and undetectable disease (sin).

I can't say that enough to all of the people here (and including myself) who have experienced abuse: physical, emotional, sexual or spiritual.

The study, published in the January edition of the British Journal of Psychiatry, says spiritual but not religious people, as opposed to people who are religious, agnostic or atheist, were more likely to develop a «mental disorder,» «be dependent on drugs» and «have abnormal eating attitudes,» like bulimia and anorexia.

As he says: «Never before has the need been so great for the people of God to provide spiritual and truly fraternal support for persons who experience differing degrees of same - sex attraction or gender uncertainty.»

Despite this split, the group still represents people with the same spiritual beliefs, said Stetzer, who recently worked with the National Association of Evangelicals to create a new definition of «evangelical.»

well fishon, if i may, i would say that on a blog that is basically known for helping people who have experienced spiritual abuse... it is best to be gentle, which you don't seem to be able to do.

«I'm a very ordinary person and not «spiritual,»» she said, «but I feel like the Lord spoke to me through Psalm 37, «Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; do not fret when people succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes.»

After telling stories of knowing several gay and lesbian congregants during his time as a pastor, he said, «I know a lot of people who are gay and lesbian and they seem to have as good a spiritual life as I do.

This sounds very noble and extremely spiritual, but Paul is saying he wants to go to hell for the sake of the Jewish people.

This sounds very noble and extremely spiritual, but Paul isn't saying he wants to go to hell for the sake of the Jewish people.

In more specific ways the spiritual influence of group involvement was also apparent: of the people currently involved, 90 percent claimed they were better able to forgive others, 79 percent said they had been enabled to share their faith with others outside the group, 78 percent felt closer to God and 66 percent had experienced answers to prayer.

No one has said this better than John Ortberg, the pastor of Menlo Park Presbyterian Church: «The true indicator of spiritual well - being is growth in the ability to love God and people.

People who use the technology must not only be carefully trained — and untrained counselors don't need machines in order to harm people — but they also should consider the view of Arthur Gladman, a psychiatrist who says that anyone who uses biofeedback must be aware of its tremendous spiritual potential for self - transformPeople who use the technology must not only be carefully trained — and untrained counselors don't need machines in order to harm people — but they also should consider the view of Arthur Gladman, a psychiatrist who says that anyone who uses biofeedback must be aware of its tremendous spiritual potential for self - transformpeople — but they also should consider the view of Arthur Gladman, a psychiatrist who says that anyone who uses biofeedback must be aware of its tremendous spiritual potential for self - transformation.

(You yourself have called people to stand up and say «no» to spiritual abuse; yet I doubt that you would say that that act is incompatible with love for the abuser.)

We have to learn how to be friends... intimacy with God is developed through intentional spiritual practices and habits... Such habits form us into people of virtue capable of living as the friends of God we are created to be,» Makant says.

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.

You might argue that they failed to follow God well, or even that they deliberately forwarded their own agendas in the name of God, but I don't see how they «excommunicated Christ», they did not lead their people saying that their spiritual authorities (the Church) would no longer be advising their governing authorities (the State)-- quite the opposite.

But I think there's another side to what a lot of people really mean when they say, «I'm spiritual but not religious.»

So it might work for YOU to say that religious people are insincerely spiritual people (which I think is what you're saying — am I correct?)

When Paul says that the «soulish» man can not receive the things of the Spirit of God, he is simply saying that the soul of a person, by itself, with only imagination, memory, reason, and emotions to guide it, can not grasp spiritual truth.

My church had succumbed to writer Richard Rohr's prediction, «When the church is no longer teaching the people how to pray, we could almost say it will have lost its reason for existence,» Yet in the congregations I have visited, silence, meditation and contemplation were commonplace, and many new members testified to the spiritual attraction of prayer.

«These are the truths we all know and have known since childhood catechism,» he says in effect, «but see what it means really to believe them; see what sort of person they should be fashioning us into, and fashioning us into from the inside; see what spiritual reality we should be expressing in our inner person and living out in our daily lives.»

He says it's not so much that young people are any less spiritual today, but the main ideals of Sikhism get masked by the complexities of the contemporary world.

There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I am bought and sold; for them I will go to prison, if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of meeting - houses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots; and the thousandfold Relief Societies; — though I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold,» is what Emerson would say, Brigitte.

Jesus» primary message, he said, wasn't about getting people to heaven, but liberating people here and now from oppression - racial, economic and spiritual.

«It's painful because these pastors are trusted spiritual leaders who are speaking to people not only in their congregations but also on television,» he said.

«Jesus» primary message, he said, wasn't about getting people to heaven, but liberating people here and now from oppression — racial, economic and spiritual.»

«I do think a spiritual and transcendent change is required for people to be free from addiction,» he says.

Our concern is not with these, but rather to state simply that the reality of the presence of Christ in the Holy Communion is a given fact of two thousand years of Christian experience, and that Christian worship as it has historically developed has found that in the partaking of the consecrated bread and wine, as Christ commanded, His «spiritual body and blood» — which is to say, the reality of His life, divine and human, in a uniquely intimate and genuine way — have been received as His presence has been known and his person adored.

It was one of his sayings that a person's spiritual state and personality was revealed in the very expression of their face.

The theme of this Sophia Picture reminds me of a passage in the Dharmapada that says,» If you can not find a suitable companion to walk with on the spiritual path, then walk alone»... if it's clear that the people you are with, are not going to walk a path of love, justice and humility, then walk alone.

It'd be a little less obvious — the contempt and the hate -, if these people just said they were «spiritual» but they were afraid to do that, because a lot of people consider themselves spiritual — a lot of people that they wanted to reject and not be inclusive with — so they had to make this whole bratty phrase up «spiritual BUT NOT religious»