Sentences with phrase «spiritual side of life»

As the American novelist Edmund White has succinctly phrased it: «The spiritual side of life, to be sure, is diminished by jokes... Humor is the enemy of lyric beauty and sadism (Jean Genet is never funny), but their friend - or at least their willing accomplice — is wan humor, weak jokes, old gags, tired one - liners.

If you are a spiritual person, and have a passion for helping others find the spiritual side of life, then earning a spiritual coach certification will put you in a position to become a spiritual life coach.

Therefore, we should focus primarily on the spiritual side of life.

Not exact matches

More than 95 % of all people in the U.S. have a balanced view that includes acknowledging the spiritual and physical side of life.

I find golf's spiritual side rests in the fact that it calls the player to have a tremendous level of integrity at the smallest, smallest level of their life.

A bright young student raised in a tradition of conservative Evangelical pietism, Mouw recalls that his pastors «often viewed the intellectual life against the background of a cosmic spiritual battle in which the human intellect, especially as it aligns itself with the cause of the academy, is inevitably on the wrong side of the struggle.»

But on the spiritual side, he is always quitting something in pursuit of becoming a «new creation» — snipping out parts of life that have stopped being necessary ways of loving people.

The spiritual side represents the Tree of Life.

Long - range planning for preaching can be assisted by formulating an annual grid listing the months of the year along one side and three sets of factors along the other: (1) human factors (personal and public) relating to the seasons of the year beginning with spring; (2) congregational factors relating to the church life cycle usually beginning in September; (3) theological factors relating to the Christian Year, to lectionary selections or lectia continua, and to spiritual and theological themes needed by the church in its life and mission beginning with Advent.

Wilken sees the Pietists as recovering concerns for the spiritual life, the affections, and the love of God from the «partial and one - sided» feature of the Lutheran Reformation's «brilliant vision.»

Second, generally, when people draw the progress of the spiritual life, they put a cross on the left side, and heaven on the right side, and a squiggly line between the two that goes up and down, hopefully trending upward.

All of them emphasized the superiority of the spiritual and the necessity of suppressing, controlling, or denying the material side of life.

Can we lose that salvation i believe so if we totally turn away from him by rejecting the conviction of the holy spirit in our lives.I say that because as a new christian i accepted Christ into my life and the holy spirit was convicting me to surrender my heart to him as Lord and i was resisting him i would not surrender to him fully and so he gave me a choice to either accept him or reject him.I believe he gives everyone the chance to make that commitment as Lord of there life.When we make that deeper commitment and follow him he will continue to perfect us through his holy spirit so that we conform to his image.By the way i knew that if i rejected him at that point that was it he would never bother me again i would have been eternally lost the thought was terrifying at the time.There was definitely a spiritual battle being fought over me i was very aware i needed to decide which side i was on.Thankfully i chose the winning one.brentnz

Even more important, it created a tendency in American Christianity which received expression in later years through a marked emphasis on the spiritual and ideal side of life over against the material and the actual.

I then turned on my side to go to sleep again, and immediately felt a consciousness of a presence in the room, and singular to state, it was not the consciousness of a live person, but of a spiritual presence.

If, abstracting altogether from the question of their value for the future spiritual life of the individual, we take them on their psychological side exclusively, so many peculiarities in them remind us of what we find outside of conversion that we are tempted to class them along with other automatisms, and to suspect that what makes the difference between a sudden and a gradual convert is not necessarily the presence of divine miracle in the care of one and of something less divine in that of the other, but rather a simple psychological peculiarity, the fact, namely, that in the recipient of the more instantaneous grace we have one of those Subjects who are in possession of a large region in which mental work can go on subliminally, and from which invasive experiences, abruptly upsetting the equilibrium of the primary consciousness, may come.

So, I tucked my chin, pulled up my spiritual bootstraps, and endured the never - ending journey towards a Life I would never experience this side of eternity.

«You know the flip side of nonnegotiables is his emotional life, meaning his spiritual development, and really recognizing his soul and all his faults and sometimes working out of what feels like a traditional parent - child relationship.

I can't even imagine what that must feel like... to go through the physical, emotional, and spiritual stress of carrying and delivering a child, but then to be immediately separated and have to go back to «life as normal» — post-partum depression, side effects, symptoms, etc. — I just don't have words.

We went on to discuss the unexpectedly spiritual side of film that is bold, frank, and direct about sex, as well as Hunt's prolific life on the other side of the camera.

This last hurrah offers everything you'd expect from an adventurer who started life as Indiana Jones's spiritual understudy and grew to be a contemporary of equal - standing — ancient antiquity acquisitions, swashbuckling violence and the biggest set - piece moments this side of Señor Spielbergo.

Before the sister house in Chicago was carefully disassembled, Gates and his collaborators from the musical ensemble Black Monks of Mississippi — an improvisational group that combines black spiritual music with the blues and Eastern chanting traditions — recorded a series of twelve songs and performances in the South Side home, which was later screened in Kassel and accompanied there by another set of live performances by the Monks.