Sentences with phrase «with spiritual longing»

In conversation with fellow L.A. resident Alex Israel, the Norwegian artist - photographer explains how he infuses an ironic critique with spiritual longing and suspended, surreal ambiguity.

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Speaking of such investors, their spiritual leader, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK - B) CEO Warren Buffett, may be on the verge of unwinding a very long - term shareholding — that with Graham Holdings (NYSE: GHC), formerly the Washington Post Co..

I will no longer discuss with them or listen to them tell me how homosexuality is «an abomination to God,» about how homosexuality is a «chosen lifestyle,» or about how through prayer and «spiritual counseling» homosexual persons can be «cured.»

I know that I see elements of divine around me in things and in ways that others don't, including other religious people... And as long as different religions and even sects constantly argue about what god truly is, and as long as they come up with different asnwers, then I have to say that the spiritual elements of our universe simply manifest differently for different folks, including not at all for some... as with those who label themselves as athiest...

Oh, we all know their bodies are out in the cemetery, but as long as we have that altar and all that goes with it, these people in a very real, spiritual sense are still with us.

I gave up long ago responding because the cheerleading squad who often responds, brands you as a dissident & beneath their intellectual or spiritual superiority to respond with respect or open mind.

Only by offering our «spiritual worship» and sufferings can we be united with Him on the cross and bring back to this country with its long Christian heritage, a society worthy of man and of our martyrs.

A great spiritual guide once notified his charges that if any persons wished to make doing the whole will of God the aim of their lives, he would be willing to counsel with them as long and as often as they liked.

Long - range planning for preaching can be assisted by formulating an annual grid listing the months of the year along one side and three sets of factors along the other: (1) human factors (personal and public) relating to the seasons of the year beginning with spring; (2) congregational factors relating to the church life cycle usually beginning in September; (3) theological factors relating to the Christian Year, to lectionary selections or lectia continua, and to spiritual and theological themes needed by the church in its life and mission beginning with Advent.

This passage recounts the story of the angels who long ago «did not keep their positions» in the spiritual realm, but left that which was natural for them to cohabit with women (Genesis 6:1 - 4).

It has always struck me as noteworthy that the Jews, who had wrestled with Genesis 800 years longer than Christians had, never found it necessary to speak of — much less found a spiritual theology on — original sin.

While the deafening voice of the market place drives us to get rich, get smart, get beautiful, advance, achieve, buy, the still small voice of a spiritual life delights in long walks in the woods, regular periods of silence, and hearty meals with friends.

The long struggle over whether a conversion experience was essential for church membership was an argument over whether the unconverted could share in the covenant relation with the converted and attain at least some of the worldly and spiritual advantages of church membership.

The moral and spiritual contributions of the Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Canaanites, or even Egyptians — at their height so preponderant in power and influence as compared with little Israel — have been negligible in the long run.

The pastor gave a long preamble about how they're trying to facilitate a better way for people to get their questions / problems addressed and then ended with the statement that problems «always boil down to issues with spiritual authority».

The non-Catholic Churches can still tolerate this withering of spiritual life longer than we can, because with a married clergy, and only a few Religious Orders, the ordained minister can retreat within his own hearth at home, and draw around him a congregation to his own way of thinking.

No longer repudiated as a spiritual ancestor of Nazism (a charge that was quite unfair to begin with), he is now made to legitimate every variant of political correctness on the left; one can imagine his discomfort if news of this reaches him in whatever sector of the hereafter is reserved for bad philosophers.

«Spiritual but not religious» is just something people call themselves when they don't really believe in God or anything spiritual, but are open to the concept, as long as it doesn't include the commitment and sacrifice associated with organized Spiritual but not religious» is just something people call themselves when they don't really believe in God or anything spiritual, but are open to the concept, as long as it doesn't include the commitment and sacrifice associated with organized spiritual, but are open to the concept, as long as it doesn't include the commitment and sacrifice associated with organized religion.

In the creation of the world through long evolutionary processes, God has made man «in his own image» — that is, with spiritual qualities akin to those of God.

And that God's dear people will no longer be obsessed with spiritual and religious things to the point of division.

In South India, where I teach as often as possible, the racks at the front of the bookstores are no longer filled, as they were a scant decade ago, with volumes dedicated to the preservation of village life, or to the intellectual, cultural or social history of South Asia, or to the writings of spiritual and political leaders calling the people to overcome imperialism and colonialism.

They are no longer satisfied with the mere observance of the outward form of their religion but are looking for spiritual and moral guidance in Islam compatible with modern civilization.

Long known for his soulful worship ballads, Crowder's latest album finds the singer grappling with honest spiritual struggles, while further experimenting with big anthems and Southern rock - inspired songwriting, with hints of gospel, Americana and even blues.

After years of participating in a comfortable faith tradition, many find themselves in a spiritual wilderness, feeling disillusioned with church, longing for more freedom and less religion in their lives.

In its essence this «instinct» is more spiritual than physical; in the Christian understanding it corresponds to the natural desire for forming an exclusive life - long partnership with a spouse.

In its effort to take the high road of spiritual insearch, theology abolished its own need for theology as such, since it would no longer have truck with scholarly precision or strict rules of interpretation.

Rules and regulations only holdup for so long especially when confronted with needs and desires and of course spiritual blindness.

I gave up on organized religion a long time ago because True Faith does not include the need for someone else to tell me how to have a spiritual relationship with the Divine in all of us....

They originated long before, with the earliest blues and jazz artists of the early 20th century, and those folks got their stuff from the spirituals of slaves.

Mankind has always believed in the spiritual world, every fairy tale ever written (or told orally before the written word) only serves to show our deep longing to reconnect with something that has been lost.

For spiritual communion is by no means merely an act of longing for the reception of the Lord under the sacramental signs; much deeper, and more properly, it is the act of prayer of a living and understanding faith, by which it enters into living communication and communion with Christ, the eternal and living Truth.

The real goal of a new science will be to expand our reality so that spiritual truths are acceptable, along with many other subjective experiences that science has long dismissed as unreliable.

They've discovered the things that actually bring happiness are long - term loving relationships, strong social connections, the opportunity to pursue meaningful work, a sense of optimism and openness to new experiences, as well as a spiritual belief or identification with an issue or idea larger than oneself.

Evangelical,» It is the result of a long spiritual journey coupled with personal experience that I have come to be a Christian.»

Adults, busy with longer work hours and longer commutes, ran the danger of delegating too much to the youthworker, whose job is surely not to take over the spiritual development of the young but simply to contribute to it.

He longed to be personally close to his spiritual superior and mentor, and to share events with him.

Louv believes «in the last 30 years, children of the digital age have become increasingly alienated from the natural world, with disastrous implications, not only for their physical fitness, but also for their long - term mental and spiritual heath.»

With small children, it's hard to find time to meditate, do spiritual reading, or any of the other morning practices long prescribed by spiritual practitioners.

In a study of 50 people with advanced lung cancer, those judged to have high «spiritual faith» responded better to chemotherapy and survived longer

Be Here Now, with its unmistakable indigo cover and brown - paper - bag pages has long been a gateway book for quitting your job and going on a spiritual quest.

Research has shown that people with a strong spiritual or religious conviction often live longer and have a better quality of life.

After visiting our website you will no longer consider a healthy person to be one with a six pack set of abs, but instead one who can achieve true physical, mental, spiritual, and environmental health.

It's too long of a story to explain in detail here, but the short - short version is that it was Perfect Health Diet + rethinking what a reasonable portion size looks like + accepting that spiritual warfare really does come into play with getting healthy + learning to depend on a good jog for an energy boost.

In fact, the dominant images associated with yoga today are not images of spiritual leaders in India meditating (a more accurate image of yoga's long history).

The gathering is offered with the intention of offering insight and inspiration for nourishing one's inner longing for spiritual truth and for living with an open heart.

A long term course of action includes emotional and spiritual health along with the physical body.

Although R&R is crucial to physical, emotional, and spiritual health — and although I'm all for spending a day or two vegging out on a chaise lounge with a margarita and potato chips — I also know that I feel horrible... I'm talking HORRIBLE... When I let my physical fitness and nutrition slide for too long.

I'm a joyful, honest, loving, spiritual person who wants a long - term relationship with the same sort of person.

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