Sentences with phrase «spiritual renewal»

They were aware of the need for spiritual renewal within the church, but they sought to promote reform from within.

Thus students who take his increasingly popular seminar on spiritual renewal begin by writing about their own embarrassing moments.

I think many of us who encounter spiritual renewal and religious vitality experience this difficulty.

What's more exciting is that the arc of history bends toward spiritual renewal.

Rieff warned then that authentic spiritual renewal in Catholicism was liable to be confused with the therapeutic ethic, turning the spiritual prudence of pilgrims into the lifestyle ambitions of tourists.

If anyone chooses to read the miracle stories of the gospels as pictorial symbols of the power of spiritual renewal which the first Christians found in their encounter with Jesus, without raising the question whether it all happened just like that, he is not far from the intention of John at least, and possibly of the others.

Spiritual renewal comes in unexpected ways.

And does not the balance of Scripture indicate that success in evangelism springs from spiritual renewal?

A neognosticism from the secular sphere and a warmed - over Neoplatonism from the Constantinian religious era threaten to torpedo authentic efforts at spiritual renewal.

Standish began introducing silence into the congregation because he was convinced that spiritual renewal starts not with «big» programming, but with listening to God's word, meditating on scripture and discerning God's will.

Writing under the watchful eye of the prison censor, these reflections are a stirring indictment of the Marxist - Leninist state and a call to personal and national spiritual renewal.

Because spiritual renewal is wonderful as long as it occurs within acceptable, usually mainline, channels and does not threaten my understanding of God.

«There are clear and unmistakable signs of the new birth, and also of a deep and powerful spiritual renewal», the article read.

Spiritual renewal today depends on awakening to the power of the gospel to transform persons through the Church.

He recommends a combination of Sunday worship and play with a regular rhythm of disciplined spiritual renewal during the week.

I would repeat the heartfelt plea that I made to America's Catholics during my Pastoral Visit: We can only move forward if we turn our gaze together to Christ and thus embrace that true spiritual renewal desired by the Council...

While some praise Promise Keepers as «a shining hope of male spiritual renewal,» others criticize it as sexist and homophobic, an outburst of the Religious Right with an ulterior political agenda.

The intention here is simply to make the assertion, I trust not unwelcome, that the time has come for a profound spiritual renewal of the priesthood.

Despite his great admiration for Ahad Ha'Am, however, Hertzberg is required in theological terms to admit that Ahad Ha'Am's agnosticism is an inadequate foundation for the Jewish moral and spiritual renewal Zionism should bring.

If we want spiritual renewal, if we want the Church to break out in blossom, rather than be a trivial memory, we need to put back the cross.

The story of black American spiritual renewal and voyages to Africa isn't a new one; entire movements and styles, from Black Zionism in the 19th century to the kente cloth durags I grew up seeing in Irvington, New Jersey, were born of this idea.

Dr Fayemi, in a goodwill message signed by his Special Assistant on Media, Mr. Olayinka Oyebode, said the Eid el - Kabir festival also offers another opportunity for sober reflection, soul searching and spiritual renewal which Allah demands from the faithful.

There was spiritual renewal in other Catholic countries.

It was the last stage of a process of spiritual renewal begun by John Wesley in 18th - century England and developed in the United States throughout the 19th century by the Holiness Movement.

«We eagerly await the visit of Pope Francis, which no doubt will be an occasion of spiritual renewal for our laity, religious and clergy as well as a strengthening of Christian family life.»

To the young parish community I joined in Klin, it was clear that the spiritual renewal of Russia would require de - Sovietization.

Every trace of guilt departed and I experienced a spiritual renewal, knowing that I was forgiven and that I had experienced the living God.

In responding to a question about obstacles to revival, Keller said that one of the biggest threats to spiritual renewal, particularly among young adults is sexual activity.

The current interest in the office is a healthy development at a time when all manner of phenomena go under the guise of spiritual renewal.

Since the mid-seventies, Charlene Spretnak says, a movement of spiritual renewal that honors nature, the female and the body has flourished.

That meeting sparked Catalano's spiritual renewal and participation in campus Christian fellowship.

As he writes, «I'm talking about a national reckoning that would lead to spiritual renewal.»

The abbey has been restored and to the many pilgrims who visit it each year, Iona is a centre of spiritual renewal.

The sense that spiritual renewal in the West will come from a rediscovery of the mystic heart of religion is not new.

Kathleen Heasman says of evangelicals in the latter half of the 19th century: «By the mid-century it had become an accepted fact... that those who had experienced some spiritual renewal should straightway take part in the various efforts which were being made to help the less fortunate in the community.»

In fact this psalm discounts sacrificial burnt offerings in favour of spiritual renewal.

What is common to nearly every spiritual renewal movement in history?

A spiritual renewal requires that we practice some of the detachment that Neoplatonists are so fond of preaching about: in this case, a detachment from the dualisms and Neoplatonic flights of Augustine's spirituality.

There will be no spiritual renewal without going back to pre-Augustiflian sources, especially to Jewish, biblical thinking.

The spiritual renewal of our communities, their missionary activity, their service to society, and their quest for visible unity are, we are confident, indivisible aspects of the Holy Spirit's work in our day.

As you know, I've slowly been letting go of religion and going through a spiritual renewal and I have more peace than ever.