Sentences with phrase «with sacred powers»

Opening: «Kamakura: Realism and Spirituality in the Sculpture of Japan» at Asia Society A survey of sculptures from Japan's Kamakura period (dating from 1185 to 1333), this exhibition brings together a group of unique realist icons imbued with sacred powers.

Perhaps it even meant a less sophisticated view in the sense that reason did not dare to deal with the sacred power.

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«It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow, consumer - hell type situation as not only meaningful, but sacred, on fire with the same force that made the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down,» he said.

I needed to see her create SheLoves with my own eyes to know how sacred it is for women to tell their stories, to own their anointing, to come alongside of each other with power and laughter and vulnerability.

We spoke of how grateful we were to be learning with our theological «elders» that the sacred spirit of life can be experienced as the power moving us in the making of justice with compassion and of peace with justice.

«To speak of God's Kingdom,» says Wright, «is thus to invoke God as the sovereign one who has the right, the duty, and the power to deal appropriately with evil in the world, in Israel, and in human beings, and thereupon to remake the world, Israel, and human beings... When full allowance is made for the striking differences of genre and emphasis within scripture, we may propose that Israel's sacred writings were the place where, and the means by which, Israel discovered again and again who the true God was, and how his Kingdom - purposes were being taken forward... Through scripture, God was equipping his people to serve his purposes.»

It has seemed incredible that human beings endowed with any power of reason should hypnotize themselves with doctrines of «national honor» or «sacred right» and pursue mass murder to exhaustion or ruin.»

Not an outward temple, but the inward shrine of man's personality with all its possibilities and powers is seen to be infinitely sacred.

This sacred power was bound up with the unconscious and with its products in consciousness.

Images are truly filled with spiritual meaning and power; they are integrated into the sacred world, but belong to reality, to this human world.

Manifestation is a showing of the sacred; the sacred is manifested in the Greek mysteries, but always with power.

Isn't that where you think certain thoughts and a being that created the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies (each with billions of stars, planets etc.) about 13,700,000,000 years ago uses its magic powers (or «sacred powers» to the extent you see a difference) to read your mind.

Writes Rollins: «The words of the Bible, wonderful as they often are, must not be allowed to stand in for God's majestic Word, as if the words and phrases have been conferred with some sacred status and the phonetic patterns given divine power.

; nor (ii) why Christians believe they are monotheistic, given that they believe in god, the devil, guardian angels, the holy spirit, Jesus, many demons in hell, the Virgin Mary, the angel Gabriel, thousands of saints, all of whom apparently make Earthly appearances periodically, and all of whom inhabit their various life - after - death lands (limbo, purgatory, heaven, hell) with magic - sacred powers of some kind.

The biblical Word has a sacred character when it succeeds in evoking religious awareness with unique power and clarity.

Jesus is the eschatological Teacher, who upon the foundation of the sacred Jewish Law but with special commandments (relating to poverty and obedience) and with divine power leads his followers to the gates of the Kingdom of God; he is now exalted at the right hand of God, and is soon to come on the clouds of heaven» as the judge of all mankind.

On the one side was the utter ruin of the old, sustaining sacred places and customs with which their faith in God had been identified, and on the other side was the competition of the brilliant gods of Babylon, who, according to ancient theory, had proved their reality and power by the ascendency of their people.

Regarding the Curia, the Second Vatican Council taught as follows: «In exercising supreme, full, and immediate power in the universal Church, the Roman pontiff makes use of the departments of the Roman Curia which, therefore, perform their duties in his name and with his authority for the good of the churches and in the service of the sacred pastors» (Christus Dominus, 9).

As Maggi Cage explains it in Woman of Power, «The sacred act of creating has to do not only with creating, but with destroying as well.»

On the one hand, reliable understanding of sacred texts requires some sense of the context in which their statements were originally uttered: «Because of their ignorance about hyssop many people, unaware of its power to cleanse the lungs or even (so it is said) to split rocks with its roots, in spite of its low and humble habit, are quite unable to discover why it is said, «You will purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean» (Ps.

Primarily, therefore, the «man» and «son of man» of Psalm 8 is also the king, whose sacred office endows him with the resources of divine power not just over his human subjects but over all other creatures within his domain; and it is only his sins which cause this power to be withheld.

By the strength of his own person and the power of his own commitment to Yahweh, he returns again, descending the sacred mountain with the new tables of the covenant - law in his hands; and he does not know — tradition elsewhere insists that «the man Moses was very meek, more than all men that were on the face of the earth» (Num.

Most believers give lip - service to the transforming power of God, but don't mess with their sacred systems!!

This act is prayer, by which term I understand no vain exercise of words, no mere repetition of certain sacred formulæ, but the very movement itself of the soul, putting itself in a personal relation of contact with the mysterious power of which it feels the presence — it may be even before it has a name by which to call it.

Pentecostalism transforms the individual not only through the experience of belonging to a community and through direct contact with the sacred — experiences which other religions offer that are capable of restoring dignity to an individual, offering him power, courage, and «lawfulness» — but also through experiences that help poor people adapt better to modern society.

This is an ancient self - affirmation ritual I learned from my Ayurveda teacher, Acharya Shunya (who grew up in a family of Vedic sages who have been practicing this sacred ritual for thousands of years), to connect with that great, indwelling soul power that resides in each and every one of us.

They'll learn about the hidden metabolic powers of relaxation, quality food, pleasure, awareness, rhythm, a positive inner story, and a deeper relationship with the sacred.

You'll learn about the hidden metabolic powers of relaxation, quality food, pleasure, awareness, breathing, meal timing, a positive inner story, and a deeper relationship with the sacred.

You'll learn about the hidden metabolic powers of relaxation, quality food, pleasure, awareness, rhythm, a positive inner story, and a deeper relationship with the sacred.

The idea that books can be beneficial dates back to ancient Greece, where libraries were considered sacred structures with curative powers.

Native Americans honored these noble creatures for their sacred power and considered it «walking in tune with the Great Mother.»

Amulets for strength and invincibility use mainly the picture of Garuda combines with sacred characters, since as said earlier, Garuda is the personification of power, and it is hoped that his power will strengthen the user of the amulet.

The story goes that a sacred sceptre, imbued with incredible powers, slumbered safely within the walls of Castle Trodain for many years.

He also knew, I think, that if his best paintings were to be hung together with subtlety and care, then that space would be a sacred, hushed space, a place of rare, painterly, concentrated power.

An ancient Egyptian panel from the sarcophagus of the scribe Menna will present viewers with one example of how people have ascribed sacred and mythical powers to animals.

The exhibition also includes First Aid: Homage to Joseph Beuys (1969 — 2017), a display of first - aid cabinets containing miniature phials filled with water taken from holy wells and streams, which references both Beuys's ability to endow ordinary materials with sacred values and the potential healing power of art.

The source objects, sacred tools for accessing truth and knowledge on a cosmological level, provide Gates an opportunity to continue his practice - spanning interrogation into questions of power and access, cultural heritage and historical burdens, and the intertwining of ascetics with aesthetics.