Thus reasoned the enemies of Pietism, who claimed as heartily as any of their contemporaries that they were strict adherents of truth and warm supporters of spiritual life.
The contrast between mere worldly and spiritual life, between the living and dead members of the Church, was practically abolished, though there still remained a theoretical distinction between the visible and invisible Church.
The return of spiritual life to the German church is indicated by other useful agencies than those immediately connected with humanitarian and missionary work.
As a consequence the prayers found in them are particularly noteworthy, revealing some of the deepest things of the writer's spiritual life.
It is assumed to be the natural and inevitable expression of spiritual life.
Resurrection is the birth of the individual to spiritual life, through the gift of the Holy Spirit bestowed through the Manifestation of God.
For by Baptism men are regenerated unto the spiritual life.
For the power of the sacraments is in the causing of grace which is the principle of spiritual life in the soul.
Wherefore, just as the essence of the soul, from which man has his natural life, is perfected by grace from which the soul derives spiritual life; so the natural power of the soul is perfected by a spiritual power, which is a character.
Therefore, without this sacrament man cannot have the health of spiritual life.
Grace to believe that no circumstances in which GOD has placed me can hinder my spiritual life.
Never to allow myself to make any change in my spiritual life during a time of desolation.
But the supreme folly of any man's spiritual lifeis to try thus to run himself into the mold of any other man's experience.
Professor Gilbert Murray, thinking primarily in a realm outside religion altogether, chastises this cheap and superficial claim of advance in spiritual life: "As to Progress, it is no doubt a real fact.
In connection with this sublime principle of spiritual life, there is no place in the Bible where such words as “by means of the holy sacraments” are to be found.
What is the relation between preaching the Gospel and a proper devout performance of general Christian service, implied in true conversion and progress in spiritual life?
Spiritual life, we infer, is not bound and confined by space-considerations in the same way as the life of earth.
In my view they are but crude attempts at a practical realisation of the essential truth that it is possible by a right disposition of our own minds to draw energy from an environing world of spiritual life.
The ordinary emotions of authorship have little place in the experience, when one remembers that what he says will be either a means of spiritual life, or an occasion of spiritual death.
Spiritual life, when in full play, is bliss ineffable.
I believe the infusion of spiritual life in the soul of man is always an instantaneous act, though a long time may and often does elapse before he actually knows that he is quickened into newness of life.
In addition to this, he must be renewed in the spirit of his mind, and a spiritual life must be breathed into him by the power of the Divine Spirit.
I mean the regenerating power of the Divine Spirit, creating anew the human soul, and infusing into it spiritual life.
These are the unmistakeable signs of spiritual life.
It is thus that insinuating, overspreading, domineering cares quench both hope and holiness: they hinder the simple, tender, confiding look unto Jesus which is necessary to the increase or maintenance of spiritual life.
As Christ our Lord is tenderly careful of spiritual life when it is feeble, and cherishes it into strength, we should sternly stamp out evil while it is yet young in our own hearts, lest it spread like a fire.
These rendings, however, are most precious as the means of opening a way whereby the elements of spiritual life conveyed by the word and the Spirit may reach their destination.
Such men are unspeakably dangerous to those who have made but little progress in spiritual life.
For there is no standing still in spiritual life, any more than in the natural life.
In the Christianity of the full-grown spiritual man, sacraments and everything external must be used only as pictorial helps and symbolic suggestions for the furtherance of spiritual life.
You may learn the whole Bible by heart and speak to any point in divinity according to text and letter, and yet know {246} nothing of God or of spiritual life.
And with all our books of theology and treatises on spiritual life, we are almost obliged to say that "all is less than nothing and vanity.
Thoughts seem to go almost instinctively from the cold weather to the apparent state ofspiritual life in the congregations of which I have been a very unwilling member (i.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spiritual life" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
