Sentences with phrase «than a spiritual good»

Shared euphoria, seen in this context, is more than a spiritual good; it is a necessity for a fulfilling spiritual life.»

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While many entrepreneurs still come out of an ayahuasca experience with old habits and patterns intact, the entheogen is providing spiritual guidance to a group of capable individuals seeking to make the world a better place rather than focusing solely on profits.

However, sitting in a comfortable position and focusing on clearing your mind — even if it's for less than a minute — can help your mental clarity and spiritual well - being and set the stage for the day.

= > There is no necessity for the flood story to be anything more than a massive collection of spiritual truths that explain relationship between God and man, good and evil, life and death all in accordance with the plan of creation for the salvation of souls.

I FULLY believe in a creator and spiritual reality, but I think the GREAT creator, not the various imposters (Including the dieties of JEws, Muslims and Christians) who have fun watching us kill each other over theological syntax disagreements, has MUCH better things to do than have personal conversations with any of us, dumb blondes included.

Michael «As a gay man I appreciate there efforts and support, but I think putting up this sign isn't really the best way to get through to people, all it does is create more hate, intolerance, and separation, I am not a christian but I am very spiritual, and putting up this sign implies that all gay people are atheists which is the furthest thing from the truth, I have no problem with religion, I have a problem with those who use there religions to control and hate others, same applies with atheism, if you don't want to believe in anything than fine, just don't push your non beliefs on me.»

As a gay man I appreciate there efforts and support, but I think putting up this sign isn't really the best way to get through to people, all it does is create more hate, intolerance, and separation, I am not a christian but I am very spiritual, and putting up this sign implies that all gay people are atheists which is the furthest thing from the truth, I have no problem with religion, I have a problem with those who use there religions to control and hate others, same applies with atheism, if you don't want to believe in anything than fine, just don't push your non beliefs on me.

its not really atheism or religion that I have a problem with, its the hate, control, and fear that goes along with it that I have a problem with, you say that those who are spiritual are into new agey, crystal ball, stuff, see that's what I'm talking about, you assume to know what something is about when you don't understand something you naturally fear it, your self righteous clouds you, don't you get that by being narrow minded in your view towards things, you really act no better than religious fundamentalists, being spiritual is a lot more than just the new agey, think positive all the time that you think it is, its about being aware of who you are?

Ironically, the bullies often pretend to be super spiritual, more spiritual than everyone else, and of course they (claim they) know their Bible better and are closer to God.

To me this a better sign of spiritual maturity, than just to speak ones mind well.

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»!)

While our schools will need to be a lot better than they were, in terms of spiritual and intellectual power, thirty years ago, we will also need a theological formation much better than the nebulous waffle which has passed for formation in catechetics this last ten years.

The Austrian mystic, Baron von Hügel, understood spiritual dryness better than most religious writers have, and he gives some graphic illustrations as to what to do about it.

Worse than just the threat of «extinction», this threatens the eternal frustration of human nature - spiritual as well as physical death.

Not the least reason being that I've had better spiritual (grand sense) conversations with some of them than many of my Christian friends!

Making space by reducing your church activities could be better for your spiritual health in the long run, better than doing that Monday night Bible study everyone seems to be a part of.

Even though he says that the ancients held together the spiritual and the material better than we do, he insists that «cosmology can not become ontology» and that the «latest developments in speculative cosmology» are «quite simply irrelevant» as «interventions in philosophical debates.»

The child Lewis — an Ulster Protestant with the usual hostility towards papists — would have been amazed at the adult Lewis» thoroughly Catholic theology of pleasure: «There is no good in trying to be more spiritual than God.

When, in the course of his remarks, he intimated that some parts of the Scripture were more truth - containing than others and admonished his hearers to feed their souls upon the best of the spiritual food, James interrupted the Master, asking: «Would you be good enough, Master, to suggest to us how we may choose the better passages from the Scriptures for our personal edification?»

No one has said this better than John Ortberg, the pastor of Menlo Park Presbyterian Church: «The true indicator of spiritual well - being is growth in the ability to love God and people.

There were many ways to live, not simply one, the spiritual theory taught, all of them good, some of them better than others from one moment to the next.

It covers a wider area than the items just noted, for it includes not only such physical matters as rain or fair weather but such vital spiritual issues as the opening up of opportunities for personal enrichment or for service, the well - being of loved ones, the establishment of peace on earth.

In fairness to Niebuhr, he was a good deal more of an orthodox Christian than one might gather from the way some thinkers and activists selectively employed his elegantly framed «spiritual insights» for their own purposes.

Our society, indeed our churches and our seminaries, are populated with more than a few Simons, interested and interesting spiritual dilettantes for whom Jesus is mostly, well.

All religious texts have such incidents described or alluded to — take them all strictly in a literal sense and you end up being a fanatic and likely manipulated rather than being a truly spiritual being who imbibes the best that the religion is trying to teach.

If so, what makes it better or more spiritual than any other activity?

Nothing is more clear in the light of history than this: new political, economic and ecclesiastical machinery does not alone solve problems; it creates problems, and, above all, it puts a strain on moral foundations, on spiritual resources, that must successfully be met or the best - laid plans come down in ruin.

Some how it's felt that values, morals, virtues are not there in a secular world only faceless solid lifeless laws of men rather than what has been relayed by Holy books that calls for good deeds and reject bad deeds and to build a faithful societies, communities, nations since communications among nations or even among the nations of mixed cultures and beliefs... Laws or God and universe are to be prepared by some thing that is equivalent to UN but built on nations beliefs to achieve the code of understanding among nations but as can see now it is build on groundless bases if not of words of God to faiths... in addition to those non spiritual secular beliefs to make decisions of faith but at the moment the secular world make and take the decisions while the beliefs and faiths has to pay for it when it becomes a war between all faiths or religions outside your world, it would become back into your inside among the mixed culture and beliefs of the nation or nations under one country flag...!

The story doesn't present either spiritual style as better than the other; it presents a Savior who can love and use them both.

That this must be done has more than a spiritual necessity behind it, for there can be no lasting peace unless it is in considerable measure a just peace, and there can be no just peace unless its outlines are shaped, not by vengeance, but by a spirit of reconciliation and good will.

Anything less than spiritual transformation is a physical action which can be performed by the good and the wicked alike.

Such a group is religiously relevant only to the extent that a spiritual good rather than physical good (health, well - being) is at the center of the aspirations of its members.

It is clear that in the state capitalism of the socialist societies as well, the spiritual threat of money has not been solved, Money is abused in societies of both East and West, for purposes more «clandestine» than pornography or abortion.

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.

Unfortunately the whole article does not describe people who are actually spiritual anymore than those that decry religion are talking about good religious followers.

Peace and Ramadan Kareem to all Muslim Brothers and Sisters... Inshallah fasting from Monday Dawn to SunSet... Just wonder in Christians or non Religious have tried fasting as Muslims do... am sure with time they will adopt it as a system for the health benefits it holds health and body... it is told it helps the body to discharge and burn out the poisonous chemicals from our bodies other than controlling weights... Some say they can not because of smoking other for water or food... but other than that is controlling anger or bad mood of the empty stomach, controlling one's tongue from hurting any one, to control eyes from staring at desire... Above all those to a Muslim he is to Maintain Prayers and Quran Reciting which of course beside it being a spiritual matter it is meant the body exercise by the up's and down's of prayers... as well as training of tongue & lungs by the Quran Recitation... these beside Tasbih «Praise of Glorify» helps to control one's breathing..

If its conversions are merely glorified consumer manipulations; if its sacrificial giving might as well be mere gambling; if its spiritual exaltation is nothing more than mob hysteria,, can this be real New Testament religion?

Well, perhaps some say they are spiritual but not religious because it is somewhat better received by churchies than if we say that their god and church and everything they believe is one giant man - made power - grab delusional fantasy story that causes incredible suffering around the world.

Stories of long - term spiritual growth and fulfillment in church are, in many ways, similar to stories of long - term growth and fulfillment in marriage: what matters more than initial compatibility is long - term commitment to growing together, working through conflict, and learning as broken people to love other broken people well.

I consider simplicity as a spiritual way of life — if you stop working around the clock or worrying about being in debt or shopping compulsively, then you have time to try to be a better person rather than just an accumulator.

Thus when one of his disciples, the future Cardinal, Baronius, proved incapable of preaching on any subject other than the pains of hell, Philip refused to allow him to preach on spiritual subjects at all, and made him teach Church History instead (Baronius went on to become one of the greatest Catholic historians ever, as well as a candidate for Beatification).

I guess that's how religion works, and if those solutions help people then I can't say I'm against them, but it seems to me that the surest way to forgive someone is simply to really want to forgive them — you have to value your own mental / spiritual well - being more than your grudge against someone else.

Indeed, as we have tried to suggest in a limited fashion, there may be reasons to conclude that elements of Amoris Laetitia are better explained by reference to Pope Francis's personal characteristics than to the spiritual tradition to which he belongs.

He says we should concern ourselves more with the well - being of people like Larson and their spiritual growth than with the maintenance of our traditional ways of being church.

My certainty does NOT make me better or more spiritual than them.

In his sermon «Desire of the Soul in Spiritual Darkness ``, he bluntly claimed, «I think, when a man says, «I never doubt,» it is quite time for us to doubt him, it is quite time for us to begin to say, «Ah, poor soul, I am afraid you are not on the road at all, for if you were, you would see so many things in yourself, and so much glory in Christ more than you deserve, that you would be so much ashamed of yourself, as even to say, «It is too good to be true.»»

All the best spiritual writers of the Church place the sacraments at the top of the list of a foundation for the contemplative way, but few of us build higher on this rock than we find convenient.

Some of us do that better than others, and once he was appointed bishop and archbishop, he was released from his vow of poverty, but it is an essential goal in the life of a Jesuit, and most likely deeply embedded in his spiritual life.

They undoubtedly have no essential spiritual significance, and although their presence makes his conversion more memorable to the convert, it has never been proved that converts who show them are more persevering or fertile in good fruits than those whose change of heart has had less violent accompaniments.

Large numbers of people in the Church are always better than empty churches, but the real question is the intensity of spiritual devotion and of commitment of those within the Churches.