Sentences with phrase «spiritual teachings of»

I am not speaking of outer culture, which is rapidly changing, but inner culture of the Upanishads, the Vedas, the Tao te Ching, the Bhagavad Gita, as well as the the modern evolutionary spiritual teachings of Asia.

It is a gift to be exposed to the spiritual teachings of Deepak and his featured speakers, and, it is wonderful to be amongst people focused on living the teachings as well.»

The Purnam System is deeply connected to the spiritual teachings of the yogic system of nonviolence, self - improvement, meditation, and connecting to one's highest self (soul).

AA suggests a program of 12 steps that include elements found in the spiritual teachings of many faiths.

The faith that Minoo believes in, teaches that all these religions come from the same source, all the spiritual teachings of these religions are in alignment!

The Second Vatican Council wasn't about us, but about Christ's call, lovingly offered, to fulfill our potential on his terms, in and through the moral and spiritual teaching of his Church.

And thus do they pervert and distort the Scriptures, making them the guide to slavish details of the daily life and an authority in things nonspiritual instead of appealing to the sacred writings as the repository of the moral wisdom, religious inspiration, and the spiritual teaching of the God - knowing men of other generations.»

Not exact matches

Experience has taught me that silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a votary of truth.

She guides individuals, groups, and seminars with her one - of - a-kind Spiritual Counseling, teaching «The Success Principles» and coaching business and individuals to get to their next level.

The institutional church is so often like Satan... longing to be worshipped and obeyed; teaching that obedience to one scripture is more important than balancing them all; luring us to abuse our power to make a difficult path chosen by God into a simple solution of no new spiritual growth (Matt 4).

I was raised in a church setting where it was taught that extravagant faith was the key to unlocking God's power in your own life, that you too could become a giant of spiritual power.

For the consecrated life (as John Paul II taught in the 1996 apostolic exhortation Vita Consecrata) is the spiritual engine of the Church, in which the energies of evangelism are refined and shared in a great exchange of gifts by which the entire Church, the bride of Christ, strives for union with her divine spouse.

he taught in an underground seminary, worked with associates in the intelligence services for the overthrow of Hitler, helped Jews get out of the country, and kept up a steady correspondence with friends on questions spiritual, theological, and ethical.

We need not address the emotional or spiritual causes of our sadness to have the cloud of depression lift; we need not question the way we teach our children before we can rid them of attention deficit disorder.»

It has been a place of rotten teaching, spiritual coercion and dishonesty, and of judgement, and as such a place of real damage and pain to me and many of my friends.

Maximus the Confessor interprets this event as a moment in which the disciples passed from flesh to spirit because «having both their bodily and spiritual senses purified, they were taught the spiritual meanings of the mysteries that were shown to them.»

I have some serious problems with some fundamental theological beliefs taught by Martin Luther, but I also appreciate his many brilliant spiritual insights, not the least of which is «Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel.»

When people read, comprehend, then apply Jesus» spiritual teachings to their lives they produce righteous decisions to their output of thinking / beliefs, writings and actions.

Gods judgment rest upon all the corporate and local churches temples, tabernacles, TV evangelists, ministries and congregations ever for all their false teachings and deeds, and God does not want any of His people to suffer the spiritual plagues which are being brought upon them.

The Catholic Church is the historical and spiritual heir to the Roman Empire, not the teachings of Christ, and the President of Peru is, with all due respect, a flatulent nitwit.

I'm not sure I agree with you on this one, David... Wouldn't teaching about tithing (or, if you prefer, giving) be like teaching about prayer, fasting, confession, Bible study, etc., under the umbrella of other spiritual disciplines?

It wasn't easy, back at the last «church», we were taught some stuff, how to defend our man of God against critics, we were warned if we walk away of the spiritual covering (the man of God) we would die.

We know that Jesus» employment of the parable was his most widely used method of teaching spiritual truth.

A friend of mine who teaches on the collegiate level recently told me, «I don't meet any young adults who've grown up in the church lacking at least one story of spiritual abuse.»

Thus Jesus» teaching is that an heir or child of God who is alive in Christ can indeed experience spiritual death if he / she sows to a lifestyle of unrepentant sin.

The followers» improper understanding of spiritual authority is based in the unexamined acceptance of the teaching of the person they follow.

Her book, The Spiritual Lives of Young African Americans, explores what this population can teach the wider body of believers about integrating faith and activism.

I also believe that for many of us who look to the teachings of Christ for spiritual guidance that we would do well to find more time in our crazy lives to read and ponder His words (myself included).

Could the average Catholic teacher in the UK give a reasoned account of the teaching that each of us has «a spiritual soul as well as a body», and that the soul is «irreducible to the merely material», to our scientifically aware but deeply secularised young people?

«Sophia Institute is a non-profit institution that seeks to nurture the spiritual, moral, and cultural life of souls and to spread the Gospel of Christ in conformity with the authentic teachings of the Roman Catholic Church.»

No way to know the exact route for sure, but it is noteworthy that a lot of that exact Prophet - Priest - King teaching comes right from the theology of Derek Prince — one of the four originators of the heretical Shepherding Movement — but amping up his hyper - authority structure for fathers in the family and applying it to the elders in the spiritual family.

In the 1518 tract, Luther lays out an idea that is central to all Lutheran teaching: There are two kinds of righteousness, civil and spiritual.

In the main tradition of Christian teaching the Amalekites are taken to be a symbol for the «spiritual hosts of wickedness» with which we are to contend d outrance.

They schooled me according to a black folk tradition that taught that trouble doesn't last always, that the weak can gain victory over the strong (given the right planning), that God is at the helm of human history and that the best standard of excellence is a spiritual relation to life obtained in one's prayerful relation to God.

I came out of an abusive church situation, and very close after the realization that I'd been spiritually abused came the realization that as a leader in that system, I too had been a spiritual abuser, repeating the pattern that had been taught to me.

Back in November 1977 the co-founder of Faith Movement wrote, as editor of this magazine, «There will be no traditional priesthood left in Europe in ten years time, among the younger clergy, unless a start is urgently made to teach priests the full faith, the full spiritual heritage of the Church, and the full content of the life of Christ in the traditional image of the priest of the Western Patriarchate, the priesthood of the Latin rite, which is the priesthood of the fullness of Peter and Paul.»

To return to the public schools, a less controversial but still a focal matter is the teaching of moral and spiritual values.

Through the sufferings of your incarnate life reveal to us, and then teach us to harness jealously for you, the spiritual power of matter.

Sorry that you weren't taught Jesus» spiritual truth how to be the best that He wants ALL of us to be.

We will be faithful to the Great Commission of the Church by proclaiming Christ's work and teachings, confident that these will produce profound spiritual and social impact.

The teaching that men are to be the «spiritual leaders» of their homes is found nowhere in Scripture, and yet I — along with far too many young evangelical women — spent hours upon hours fretting over this in college, worrying I'd never find a guy who was more knowledgeable about the Bible than I, who was always more emotionally connected to God than I, who was better at leading in the church than I, and who consistently exhibited more faithfulness and wisdom than I. (In fact, under this paradigm, I came to see many of my gifts as liabilities, impediments to settling down with a good «spiritual leader»!)

As for Job, the book of Job reveals a spiritual truth that most teachers do not know or teach.

Wonderful teacher... get out your Bible and start reading... this guy is a wolf in sheep's clothing leading millions to an eternity in hell... the prosperity gospel he teaches is contrary to the teachings of Christ... Christ talked about abundance in life but he was speaking of spiritual abundance not material things... Scripture and Christ said in this life you will have trouble... Christ suffered in this life as did each of his Apostles... open your eyes before it is too late for you.

As I considered the teachings of the Christian Religion, I was also seriously studying the wisdom of the Zen Buddhist spiritual tradition.

Children taught all major religions are part of God's progressive revelation to mankind, but that each person should accept a religion not because it was the faith of their parents but because he or she independently searched, researched, reflected, studied, thought, meditated, etc, and came to their own spiritual belief.

The factors of chief importance in the development of this theology were: (a) the Old Testament — and Judaism --(b) the tradition of religious thought in the Hellenistic world, (c) the earliest Christian experience of Christ and conviction about his person, mission, and nature — this soon became the tradition of the faith or the «true doctrine» — and (d) the living, continuous, ongoing experience of Christ — only in theory to be distinguished from the preceding — in worship, in preaching, in teaching, in open proclamation and confession, as the manifestation of the present Spiritual Christ within his church.

The spiritual view of life, therefore, repudiates nationalism for nationalism is earth - rooted and is opposed to the principle of movement which is one of the fundamentals of Islamic teachings.

Many American Christians, though, have a special talent for elevating the blandest and most morally nugatory aspects of social and economic life to the status of positive spiritual goods, essentially laudable, and somehow all of a piece with the teachings of Christ.

The vibrant American Church became fractious: Many priests and religious abandoned their spiritual callings for the world; some theologians dispensed with their obligations to work with the Magisterium; evangelization suffered; loyalty to Church teaching was rejected in favor of a misguided notion of «conscience;» and dogma and truth were repudiated.

Many also use 1 Corinthians 2:12 - 13 to defend Inspiration, which talks about expressing spiritual truths with spiritual words taught not by human wisdom, but by the Spirit of God.