Sentences with phrase «spiritual needs of the people»

Transcendental Meditation must be credited with rightly discerning the contemporary spiritual needs of persons and responding to them.

Ministers, priests, and rabbis who receive the benefits of this continuing education will return to their communities to serve the emotional, social, and spiritual needs of their people with deepening understanding and responsiveness.

(CNN)- Andreas Widmer knew two men - one who was pope and one who would succeed him - who despite their immense responsibilities were keen to the spiritual needs of the people around them.

These developments, though not directly political, have the potential to change China by addressing some of the most fundamental material, emotional, and spiritual needs of its people.

«We have an open forum to serve God in meeting the spiritual needs of the people, not only the physical,» he said.

I share the enthusiasm of his conclusion: «The church counseling centers, in attempting to meet the mental and spiritual needs of people, seem to be the best way, organizationally, to make this aspect of the ministry available to people who need it.»

For far too long, the church has thought that it is our responsibility to meet the spiritual needs of people, while it is the government's job to meet the physical needs of people.

After all, if we only seek to meet the spiritual needs of people, we have fallen into the ancient trap of dualism (mentioned above), thinking that it is only the spiritual aspects of life that matter.

Churches should address the spiritual needs of people who are receiving help elsewhere, but that help should complement appropriate therapeutic intervention, not replace it.

To use the whole - person approach that considers the emotional, physical, social, intellectual and spiritual needs of each person.