Sentences with phrase «spiritual feelings in»

i was raised lutheran, but though i enjoyed the communal feeling of the church i found no spiritual feeling in it.

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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.»

While Geoff was able to offer some comfort to the men, and was assisted by the padre in their final hours, he felt ill - equipped to deal with their spiritual needs.

When we recognize our place in an immensity of light - years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual... The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.»

... The child doesn't have to struggle to get himself in a good position for having a relationship with God; he doesn't have to craft ingenious ways of explaining his position to Jesus; he doesn't have to create a pretty face for himself; he doesn't have to achieve any state of spiritual feeling or intellectual understanding.

During college, I remember a few semesters when I hit a long stretch of strictly online services, and I just started to feel disconnected and lonely in my spiritual walk.

Although they are urged to attend Mass and make a «spiritual communion,» being barred from full participation in the sacraments no doubt feels like excommunication to many.

One thing is certain to a pastor: the only parishioners fighting the old battles are old themselves, their felt banners frayed and their guitar strings broken, while a young battalion is rising, with no animus against the atrophied adolescence of their parents, and only eager to engage a real spiritual combat in a culture of death.

They also remembered the spiritual power of the [civil rights] meetings,» especially the singing, with a passion and feeling rooted in the black church.

One likely «scenario» is that people with mental illness gravitate toward spiritual paths that are less rule driven (not to mention less likely to treat them as outcasts due to the societal stigma of mental illness) in order to feel supported.

And I have felt the many ways Jesus reaches out his hand to catch me — in the love of family and friends, the sustenance of spiritual practice, the bonds of community and the moments of unexplainable peace in the midst of the struggle and the failure.

Spiritual Gifts in the Workplace Many believers feel motivated to serve God wholeheartedly in church services and religious activities but lack passion about their daily work in the world.

In a fractured and mobile and hyper customized and individualized globalized world, intentional community — plain old church — feels like a radical act of faith and sometimes like a spiritual discipline.

When asked about his religious or spiritual views, Seeger replied: «I feel most spiritual when I'm out in the woods.

And because of that you'll find the articles in RELEVANT ask questions a lot of others won't, which is something we feel is vital to our spiritual growth.

You feel deadness in prayer, deadness in reading the Word, deadness in hearing the truth, deadness in desires after the Lord, deadness to everything holy, spiritual, heavenly and divine?

So do three - quarters of historically black Protestants: 73 percent reported feeling a deep spiritual well - being at least once a week in 2014, compared with 65 percent in 2007.

Tracey Rowland, in Catholic World Report's «round table» discussion (not reported in its print edition) argues that the Pope is affirming that «When cultures no longer serve the deepest needs of human nature and actually narrow the spiritual horizons of people, people don't know who they are and feel depressed.

But at the same time that I was learning to engage with God as a hungry, growing young Christian, the realization dawned on me like a dead weight sinking in my stomach that no amount of spiritual growth seemed to have any effect on my sexual preference... There was nothing, it felt, chosen or intentional about my being gay.

Three - quarters of evangelicals feel a deep sense of spiritual peace at least once a week, up from 68 percent in 2007.

It is the man and the woman to whom the act remains, each time, as fresh and beautiful, as it was the first time, who are able to sustain and perpetuate their first sense of its glory in the midst of the sober or bleak or sordid realities of day to day life, and who can feel, afresh each time, a boundless gratitude for each other and for this blessed source of sweetness and strength — it is they who are the truly «virgin», the truly pure and chaste; and (on the Humanist hypothesis) it is they who are the remnant selected by grace to be the true and spiritual seed of the risen Christ.33

«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.»

All in all, I think this Bible study shows that men are interested in spiritual things, but they feel most comfortable receiving and talking about them in a manly way.

The number of adults who regularly feel spiritual peace and well - being is up from 52 percent in 2007 to 59 percent in 2014 (margin of error for all Americans: ± 0.6 %), and evangelicals are no exception.

As an aside, I personally feel that organized religion is becoming increasingly inconsequential, insignificant, and is demonstrating that it's nothing more spiritual than «big business», giving nothing in return for the billions of dollars it takes from the masses.

After awhile, some of them will recognize that you, in effect, are their wise counsel, their friend, their spiritual mentor, the one to whom they can pour out their heart, the one who is there when they're feeling lost.

In future films, Woody says, he wants to deal with faith and spiritual values as Ingmar Bergman does — maybe through a drama but also again through the (more difficult, he feels) serious - comical film.

Suffice to say I feel confident in saying I have no idea if there is anything spiritual that exists or not, or if there is what it is.

So you finally resolve to say what feels like the most spiritual and helpful thing you can come up with in the moment: «I'll be praying for you.»

«When we recognize our place in an immensity of light ‐ years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual.»

Adnama Satan uses external circumstances to direct our steps he knows that if we walk according to the flesh we come under his authority for the flesh is weak and he manipulates by keeping christians in bondage to sin through lust or whatever sin the christian is weak in.He can also fire into our minds evil thoughts to make us feel condemned or guilty these are fiery darts they are not ours and we need to stand on the word to rebuke them by faith.If we have given our lives to Christ then we belong to Christ so if we walk in accordance to the spirit the enemy has not power to effect us either internally or externally that is not to say that he can not manipulate situations and circumstances to his advantage that is why we need to be alert and pray against the work that he does we are in a spiritual battle but we have overcome in Christ so fear not brentnz

If this is true, then the passage in 1 Corinthians 12 about spiritual gifts and the unity of the Body makes me feel a lot better.

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.

But there is a greater microscope called the spiritual realm that magnifies everything that you feel and sense in this world.

But I am too, and those of us who do not pray in tongues or with spiritual prayer languages often get concerned about what we hear from those who do, that we are not truly using all of our emotions and feelings to communicate with God, and that we are missing out on a true spiritual connection with Him, and so on.

Extremely sensitive, gifted and dedicated, she felt tremendous pressure to «be the Indian» in a spiritual sense; this finally contributed to a emotional breakdown.

But it is undeniable that the same kind of spiritual rhetoric and understanding of faith allowed Christians in America to oppress others for hundreds of years on the one hand, while feeling spiritually righteous or justified on the other.

Even though I had become an atheist, I was still having strange spiritual experiences where I would walk around the college and suddenly feel like I was in touch with the universe.

You don't know what that person is feeling about God in that moment, and imposing your beliefs, even if it's just quoting scripture, can cause anger, confusion and long - term spiritual baggage.

In effect he was saying that faith is an opiate, that men drug themselves with it, become sleepy, complacent and comfortable through the use of it, and that their main object in going to church is to be sprayed once more with spiritual cocaine so that they may feel less acutely the ills of life and the miseries of meIn effect he was saying that faith is an opiate, that men drug themselves with it, become sleepy, complacent and comfortable through the use of it, and that their main object in going to church is to be sprayed once more with spiritual cocaine so that they may feel less acutely the ills of life and the miseries of mein going to church is to be sprayed once more with spiritual cocaine so that they may feel less acutely the ills of life and the miseries of men.

Some how it's felt that values, morals, virtues are not there in a secular world only faceless solid lifeless laws of men rather than what has been relayed by Holy books that calls for good deeds and reject bad deeds and to build a faithful societies, communities, nations since communications among nations or even among the nations of mixed cultures and beliefs... Laws or God and universe are to be prepared by some thing that is equivalent to UN but built on nations beliefs to achieve the code of understanding among nations but as can see now it is build on groundless bases if not of words of God to faiths... in addition to those non spiritual secular beliefs to make decisions of faith but at the moment the secular world make and take the decisions while the beliefs and faiths has to pay for it when it becomes a war between all faiths or religions outside your world, it would become back into your inside among the mixed culture and beliefs of the nation or nations under one country flag...!

As we see the growth of a progressive spiritual vision, the more rigid elements will feel threatened as they lose social ground and dig in their heels, becoming more aggressive.

I actually feel unethical if I earn any money in spiritual service.

Not being particularly Aristotelian in my understanding of the soul, I feel no great need (or desire) to guard the metaphysical and moral partition between sensitive and rational natures, or between animal and spiritual souls.

I find my mere existence here, no matter how it happened, truly beautiful and feel almost something spiritual in this sentiment.

In the face of this twofold spectacle — a world which reveals a grave state of spiritual poverty and the Church of Christ, which is still so vibrant with vitality — we... have felt immediately the urgency of the duty to call our sons together to give the Church the possibility to contribute more efficaciously to the solution of the problems of the modern age.

I am spiritual, I feel awe in the face of this unimaginable large universe and amazingly varied planet, but I don't believe in god.

However, Podles has a solid case that the aftereffect of the Western medieval «bridal» devotional current is a significant contributor to the discomfort a large number of men nowadays feel in investing themselves in spiritual movements or even church itself.

(Spiritual Renewal Through Personal Groups, p. 201) The kind of participation which produces emotional involvement is based on the awareness that one's feelings and opinions are recognized, valued, and taken into account in group decisions.

However, in spiritual existence, man objectified and experienced responsibility for his basic self - centeredness of feeling.