Sentences with phrase «than spiritual»

No where does the bible promise prosperity or riches other than spiritual wealth.

He then adds that we claim spiritual progress rather than spiritual perfection.

But I suspect that many clergy face the same temptation to view the church more as a business than a spiritual community.

It has garnered a great deal of popularity in recent years, and is often practiced for health and relaxation rather than spiritual awareness.

We are assuming that spiritual «unemployment» — a life without faith or prayer — is more pleasant than spiritual service.

In this picture above I see a stronger desire for temporal rather than spiritual power.

However, along the way through the many years the social concerns and needs became more paramount than their spiritual development, the very anchor that sustained them and brought them hope.

The character is less a warrior than a spiritual and magical authority.

Unfortunately, some of the sequences are more laughable than spiritual.

Presented as more whimsical than spiritual, the idea of parents in the afterlife watching their children grow was still a comforting thought.

Other than the spiritual disappointment, this was a quick fun read.

Were we created as Other or did we become Other through the exercise of free will and following the human thought process rather than the Spiritual?

But while the film shows more promise than its spiritual predecessor in the early stages, its overdependence on the love story between its two leads prevents «Beautiful Creatures» from distinguishing itself as anything other than an unfortunate «Twilight» wannabe.

These are all genuine reservations we have about the GT2 RS, but none of them can hide the fact that the car's a true monster with a loveable personality, and also nothing less than the spiritual rebirth of the heavily turbocharged 911.

«I have never in my life had a more powerful experience than that spiritual moment when the spirit of Christ testified to me that the Book of Mormon is true,» Larry Echo Hawk told the audience, which stretched back through the spacious sanctuary and into a gymnasium in the rear.

People have needs other than spiritual needs.

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

Roof muses that those of us writing and debating the issue at the time seemed more concerned about the survival of our institutions than the spiritual health of people.

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

It may seem lazy to draw such comparisons, but «Beautiful Creatures» is about as close to a «Twilight» clone that Hollywood has produced, trading vampires and werewolves for witches, and although the film shows more promise than its spiritual predecessor in the early stages, its overdependence on the main love story prevents «Beautiful Creatures» from distinguishing itself as anything other than a «Twilight» wannabe.

Sometimes the political conversion experience on the way to Washington seems even more dramatic than the spiritual conversion of the biblical Paul on the way to Damascus.

Research at the University of Liege in Belgium suggests they may come down to biological rather than spiritual factors.

That can be fruitless exercise, more like a new year's resolution than a spiritual exercise.

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.

But for many Jews salvation is more a matter of what happens to the people of Israel as a whole in concrete history than the spiritual attainments of individual Jews.

It reads more like poetry than spiritual memoir genre (which makes sense since Wiman is a poet).

But most of us only think of ourselves as human beings having a spiritual experience rather than spiritual beings having a human experience and our behavior is therefore based on the fear of the end of material existence rather than the love that arises from the recognition of an eternal present.

When one goes to a concert [or reads a book or even watches television] to relax after a busy day, the result can be a mild drowsiness - in itself pleasurable enough - rather than any spiritual uplift.

But God is showing me prayer is an intimate soul conversation to be loved and known, rather than a spiritual transaction to be made better.

In other words, you're incapable of understanding the «truth» of their doctrines because you're working with a sinful, carnal mind, rather than a spiritual one.

Sounds more like a stupid vicious brat than a spiritual genius.

As a young man Edward himself was understandably reluctant to accept this at first, but the synthetic and developmental power of the ideas, and their great value in vindicating the orthodox Catholic faith and re-evangelising modern, young minds was for him, and remains for others, their recommendation, rather than any spiritual claim as such, which must be left to the Church to judge.

Much of what passes for Christianity today can be called nothing less than spiritual insanity.

At first their churchgoing was more social than spiritual, but before long they were regulars — Kenyon was church treasurer for more than a decade.

Based on your post's claims, ExA, I'm far more concerned about your education than your spiritual beliefs.

It is people like you who wud rather be religious than spiritual!

«Unison singing... is less of a musical than a spiritual matter.

I think what we need to strike a balance is the overly polishing of the building of worship (with emphasis on the word, «overly»), for we certainly want to have decent worship centers, but focusing too much on the physical building activities rather than the spiritual building is what makes it too earthly and lacking of the eternity perspective.