Sentences with phrase «spent in contemplation»

The religious world also values cathedrals, scriptural study, and time spent in contemplation.

Not exact matches

It sounds crazy, but I spent three days at St. Bernard Abbey in Cullman, Alabama as part of my «biblical womanhood» project last year, and it was one of the most meaningful times of prayer and contemplation I've ever experienced.

The second and third will draw on the semester she spent teaching silent contemplation to young black criminals in a Boston jail.

My comment about avoiding the contemplation of the motivations of Satan was meant in comparison to spending time on studying more uplifting concepts, not avoiding understanding the enemy.

It's important for me to spend time in contemplation, discovery, and in practice, learning what I purpose or intend when I am afforded that sacred public space.

Of course I also spend time taking pictures of the beautiful world, spending time with my wife, reading books or magazines, playing video games, enjoying a great meal, engaging in citizen scientist projects, spending time in thought or contemplation about the universe or our planet, or in other words generally loving and enjoying life!

This soldier refused to spend time in quiet contemplation (like everyone else who is not Christan) thus showing open contempt for all the other soldiers.

They normally spend the time in contemplation, or opt out of the ceremony.

[10] The Christian life, in short, is construed as mainly a life spent actively preparing by disciplined loving for a future fulfillment of our humanity in a perfect contemplation of the unchanging God.

Later tradition held that Mara, the Buddhist Satan, appeared to the enlightened one after the latter spent the first seven days in silent contemplation.

Given the importance of their next three matches, Roma did what they always do pre-match: spent the entire week in quiet contemplation... wait, what's that?

Magnani spends most of his time just walking in contemplation and trading words with his father's ex-mistress (Alida Valli) and three closest friends (they are now elderly but still intimidating).

Our group spends the night in hammocks atop the city in quiet contemplation.

And beneath all this tactical contemplation is that constant desire to toss everything into one epic turn, spending every gem in the name of glorious blood and guts.

Idris Khan is not afraid of spending time in contemplation of difficult subjects.

You could spend all week, or maybe all months, involving yourself in the contemplation of any of these installations, with their vulgar neon clouds, polished rocks, strewn rugs, bundles of firewood wrapped in porn photos, Indian dream catchers, cowboy hats, porcelain burros and mules; junked but functioning auto electronics, blatting out top - 40 radio, and hundreds of categories of other things.

Spending as much time in contemplation of the studies as with the paintings, I was determined to enter the mindset of Boyd, deciphering the annotations (mostly notes on color names) and following the steps in the mixing of the tones that wound up on the canvas.

«I don't work 9 to 5,» he said, acknowledging that he spent long periods in contemplation before putting mark to paper or canvas and then creating in a frenzy.

The group will then spend some time in quiet contemplation while participating in seasonal volunteer work and taking a peaceful stroll of the farm.

I spent some time this week in quiet contemplation... about some changes in intellectual property policy that could show up as a trend in 2009 now that innovator pharmas have started investing in generics and Asia is turning a serious eye toward innovation.