Sentences with phrase «spiritual places in»

Exploring the psychological and spiritual places in landscapes, famous landscape artists continue to push the limits of the genre.

If you want to experience one of the most spiritual places in the world, then travel to Tikal, Guatemala!

Good science has nothing to say about God or about humanity's spiritual place in the universe.

Not exact matches

Employees loyal to Newman viewed Hollender with suspicion — leading Hollender to hire a New Age consultant to come in and take a «spiritual inventory» of the place.

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.»

Lewis wanted to illustrate that his character found spiritual fulfillment not by progressing to a far - off land to be freed from a heavy burden — but in the fulfillment of a longing that could take place only in the Christianity he previously rejected.

It seems like saying «I'm spiritual» means «I'm interested in the place and relations of humans in the universe».

After the devastating losses of the Civil War, people were searching for comfort and found it in a book called «The Gates Ajar,» which depicted Heaven as a place where people led normal lives in their «spiritual bodies,» with houses, families, and regular activities.

Or, more likely in my humble opinion, Jesus was using a well known situation in that place and time to make a spiritual point.

I would guess that any one who professes to «believe in God»; but places their hope for transforming individuals and society in a political ideology either has had very poor theological / spiritual formation or has a formal theological belief system about God or no first hand experience of God.

I've had similar but here is not the time or place to share... but one day I may, on our new website Bless you... you're not alone in this spiritual journey, Syl.

One place to see easily the variety of theological norms coming into play is in Wesley's Plain Account of Christian Perfection, perhaps both the key text for those who wished to sustain continuity with the spiritual experience of classical Wesleyanism and a source of much controversy with outsiders who found the key doctrine of the Wesleyan tradition offensive.

Healing is spiritual warfare... For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

To be present among [the least of these] is to encounter what the Celtic saints called «thin spaces,» places or moments in time in which the veil separating heaven and earth, the spiritual and the material, becomes almost transparent.

We are blessed with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ (Ephesians 1: 3) Some of these blessing include:

Third, even when traditionally religious forms of human life seem to fade in some contexts, new and alternative forms of life often appear in their place that engage the sacred, spiritual, transcendent, and liturgical needs of human beings.

Of course, the great new dispensation will occur in that fabulous place imaged in the spiritual songs as «heaven» where God reigns supremely and with justice.

They are searching for spiritual formation and communal belonging and finding them in places that church folks might consider unlikely.

At the same time as its sustaining spiritual forces have collapsed, a growing decline in its ethnicity is also taking place.

We can see there is a coherence between the idea that the religiosity of mankind is a function of our mental architecture, and the idea that the human mind with its spiritual soul is made for union with God in the first place.

Nothing but such madness will do battle with malignant power and «spiritual wickedness in high places.»

A point of communion is the practice, discipline or place in which the Spirit has created special access to the spiritual nourishment and manna needed for each season.

Pentecostals combine a Wesleyan optimism of grace, grounded in spiritual encounters, with a premillennial perspective that places the consummation of the kingdom fully in the hands of God.

Dreams, for example, were given a high place as media of divine revelation; (Genesis 20:3; 26:24 - 25; 28:10 - 16; 31:24; 37:5; 41:1; 46:1 - 4; Judges 7:13 - 15; I Kings 3:5 - 15 etc.) omens were trusted, such as the first word to be uttered at an expected meeting, (I Samuel 14:8 - 15) or a chance action regarded as a sign, (Genesis 24:12 - 14) or wind in the mulberry - trees taken as Yahweh's command to join battle; (II Samuel 5:22 - 24) and, in general, dealing with the superhuman world suggested nothing so simple and spiritual as private communion in prayer, but rather a whole array of magical techniques and, from the modern point of view, incredible superstitions.

Celibacy is not simply the absence of sex but a spiritual discipline, by which we learn to place God, sex, and Christian community in the right perspective and understand the value of controlling sexual desires.

For this reason, all human communication takes place in a way that respects this spiritual and material composition.

There are those who think that a major shift in human consciousness is taking place, one aspect of which is an emphasis on spiritual experience rather than intellectual truths about religion.

Finding one's place in the fullness of this kind of spiritual community is a matter of what Whyte labeled for another realm «give and take... movement and color... walking quickly [and] walking slowly.»

This submission to grace also takes place in our dedication to the spiritual life.

Interests in God as useful to achieving personal wholeness, even of the most «spiritual» sort, and interests in God as necessary for social justice and emancipation, even the most urgent cases, will be under pressure to surrender pride of place to apparently irrelevant» interests in God that take the form of joy in and celebration of the odd ways God is present, for their own sake.

But as we have shown in the previous chapter, religious belief in which a spiritual belief can take place is an evolutionary dimension of reality.

The Good Place is careful to remain secular, but it operates on a spiritual idea: Something implicit in our nature compels us to serve others, even when serving others is painful.

For in a spiritual sense, place is not something external, to which a slave might come against his will when the overseer uses his scourge.

Some churches I know pay for a spiritual director or a counselor for their pastors, not because they think their pastors are screwed up, but because they want to make sure there is healthy support in place since ministry can be brutal.

Lotze, in placing emphasis upon the disclosure of the spiritual reality in its effects, cut a path between a mechanistic science and an abstract metaphysics and thus was more immediately available to the religiously motivated mind of the period, say from 1880 to the early nineteen twenties.

Rather, it follows the flawed efforts of terrified people who, out of faith and love, willingly «wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places» (Eph.

What complicates the acquiring of skill in this role is the resourcing already in place for the pastor as psychological counselor rather than as spiritual guide.

I'm grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

In Mantel's case, the pressure placed on her in childhood to accept a false, uncomfortable father and to «disappear» her real father affects her whole spiritual lifIn Mantel's case, the pressure placed on her in childhood to accept a false, uncomfortable father and to «disappear» her real father affects her whole spiritual lifin childhood to accept a false, uncomfortable father and to «disappear» her real father affects her whole spiritual life.

Thank you so much for this website, O most sacred heart of Jesus I place all my trust in you, I have been praying to cast away these evil spirits from me, they are the ones who cause bad thoughts to enter your spiritual body.

One of his core themes is the right place of the affections in the spiritual life.

From Ryan Lizza's enlightening profile in The New Yorker, I learned that Michele Bachmann's influences include spiritual and political mentors who preach the literal «inerrancy» of the Bible, who warn Christians to be suspicious of ideas that come from non-Christians, who believe homosexuality is an «abomination,» who portray the pre-Civil War South as a pretty nice place for slaves and who advocate «Dominionism,» the view that Christians and only Christians should preside over earthly institutions.

Billy Graham is one of the most spiritual men of our time... I do nt think you will have to worry about beng there when all things come to pass... i do nt think you will be in the same place... I commend him for supporting Chic fil a they have a right to stand by what they believe... they are not saying they will discrimnate or hate gays they just do nt support them..

«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.»

Eliade affirms that it exists not only in places like «rural Romania, but is also to be found in India, in the Mediterranean religion, in Negro spirituals...» It injects solidarity among the suffering masses whoever they are and wherever they happen to live.

One such church is the One World Spiritual Center in Marietta, Georgia, where the community extended an invitation to Boys Scout troops soon to lose their meeting place.

So you're right, this is all spiritual warfare that is taking place for satan to «keep» the nonbelievers, and create doubt in Gods love and the salvation through Jesus Christ.

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places Eph 6:12; Matt 10:28.

The revelers in Plato's Symposium insist on placing their drinking squarely in a moral framework; they regard drinking as a personal decision made with regard for physical, moral and spiritual welfare.

While the deafening voice of the market place drives us to get rich, get smart, get beautiful, advance, achieve, buy, the still small voice of a spiritual life delights in long walks in the woods, regular periods of silence, and hearty meals with friends.