Sentences with phrase «than a spiritual discipline»

Recently, I wrote on the Neue justice blog about how charity ought to be more than a spiritual discipline; it ought to be a way of life.

Not exact matches

The practical and professional emphasis in the seminary has been in the direction of administration, social work, and ecclesiastical machinery rather than the practical discipline of the spiritual life.

It has taken some time for seminaries to comprehend Underhill's ideas, and many have not yet done more than present a course on prayer, monasticism or spiritual discipline once every few years.

More than venting, remembering or reflecting, journaling can be used as a powerful spiritual discipline.

At its best, this new concern with the spiritual life reflects a laudable desire to make Christian faith a matter of the heart no less than the head, a discipline of devotional practices rather than a repetition of doctrinal propositions.

Somehow, many Christians have come to believe continuing a lifeless spiritual discipline is more important than finding new ways to experience a life - giving God.

What we seek is a situation in which we so combine scientific and technical skill with moral and spiritual discipline that the products of human genius shall be used for the welfare of the human race rather than their harm and destruction.

In a society that flaunts sex (its pleasures more than its serious hazards, problems and spiritual values) in all the media, makes it difficult for the young to avoid unwanted pregnancy, and does little to help them with the most difficult of all problems of self - discipline, we tell young persons that they are murderers if they resort to abortion.

Its textual notes are focused on spiritual disciplines, rather than an interpretive commentary on the text.

I am an easy going lady, cool, calm, loving, caring, kind, humble, honest, generous, discipline, mostly God fearing and i am more interesting in spiritual happiness than material gain.

I am an easy going lady, cool, calm, very kind, humble, honest, generous, discipline, mostly God fearing and i am more interesting in spiritual happiness than material gain.

I am an easygoing person, caring, loving, cool, calm, kind, generous, faithful, honest, discipline, humble, God fearing and I'm more interested in spiritual happiness than material gain.

I am an easygoing person, caring, loving, cool, calm, kind, generous, faithful, honest, discipline, humble, God fearing and im more interested in spiritual happiness than material gain.

In an era when depression was understood less as a clinical illness than as a spiritual failing, the idea that depression could be tamed with discipline must have been appealing.