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1 Fwd,2| witness to the tremendous spiritual strength and security that
2 Fwd,5| that they have the same spiritual capacities and capabilities
3 Fwd,5| collections of Sayings of the Spiritual Mothers containing the wisdom
4 Fwd,5| grandmother, a mother, a sister, a spiritual mother or sister or daughter,
5 Fwd,6| studied Church history in your spiritual search but have not looked
6 Fwd,6| Catholics and Protestants, their spiritual genesis lies in Rome — i.e.,
7 Fwd,6| negative experiences and great spiritual suffering in this neo-pagan
8 Fwd,6| have also had to feel the spiritual bankruptcy that exists in
9 1,1 | Apostles — and to a rich spiritual tradition that reaches far
10 1,1 | pretensions not only to spiritual, but also to temporal authority,
11 1,1 | were representatives of spiritual pride. No greater spiritual
12 1,1 | spiritual pride. No greater spiritual pride can be imagined than
13 1,1 | it impedes his negating spiritual activity. This is the withholding
14 1,1 | political act, but rather purely spiritual. He states:~ ~This murder
15 1,1 | secularization and modernization of spiritual life. Fr. Sava goes on to
16 2,20| Christians and causes a spiritual separation from them. Obedience
17 2,20| has been the reason for spiritual and moral falls. Moreover,
18 2,20| direct consequences in the spiritual life, because the whole
19 2,22| superior to the former; and 3) spiritual. The elder adds that “according
20 2,22| Scripture is of the highest spiritual advancement and in need
21 2,24| traditional icons of intense spiritual beauty that lead the viewer
22 2,35| is the Body of Christ, a spiritual organism whose Head is Christ.
23 3,5 | into heresy, this limited spiritual prerogative — whatever it
24 3,5 | Church's assertion, the spiritual center of Christianity was
25 4,12| mere esthetics. It must be spiritual.~(2) Icons instruct the
26 4,12| receive a vision of the spiritual world, for icons are windows
27 4,12| serve as a reminder of the spiritual realm and as a means of
28 4,12| contemplation of the divine and spiritual” [p. 32].~ ~Metropolitan
29 4,12| another, higher world, the spiritual world. Not only should Raphael'
30 4,12| and psychophysical to the spiritual realm. Thus, the icon is
31 4,12| dispersed soul of man on spiritual perfection, on the divine,
32 4,12| those who have achieved spiritual beauty. Icons incite the
33 4,12| from the material to the spiritual, from the symbol to the
34 4,12| the beauty of holiness, of spiritual perfection, and feels grateful
35 4,12| icons as idols, but as the spiritual image of the one to whom
36 4,12| cruel sorrows, passions and spiritual darkness; that if touching
37 4,12| is, icons of the solemn, spiritual and hieratic style that
38 4,12| humanity. Through their spiritual expression, these traditional
39 4,12| decor became the norm, while spiritual beauty was reduced to something
40 4,12| expression is carnal, not spiritual. The tradition to honor
41 4,12| iconography, with its unsurpassed spiritual beauty, has commanded such
42 4,12| of the importance of the spiritual life, thus sanctifying and
43 4,15| they felt that anything spiritual must necessarily be non-material.
44 4,16| creation — material as well as spiritual — is to be redeemed and
45 4,19| Constantine Copronymus, to the spiritual ancestor of Luther and Calvin.
46 5,4 | without reason that the spiritual writers have set forth an
47 5,4 | ascetics they entered into spiritual warfare with the devil and
48 5,4 | had a central place in the spiritual outlook of early Christians,
49 5,4 | preserve the essence of the spiritual life and live a genuine
50 5,4 | became lifelong martyrs in spiritual warfare against the passions
51 5,4 | preserving the same outpouring of spiritual gifts which distinguished
52 5,4 | of attaining the highest spiritual life. The aim of monasticism
53 5,4 | attainment of moral and spiritual strength) for the salvation
54 5,4 | himself a monastic of high spiritual caliber and one whose remains
55 5,7 | whose rare and God-given spiritual discernment and insight
56 5,7 | doctrinal dissertation The Spiritual Fathers in the Ancient Eastern
57 5,7 | physical eyes, elders have spiritual eyes before which the human
58 5,7 | came to them. In the lofty spiritual gaze of elders, the boundaries
59 5,7 | aside, and they saw the spiritual meaning of present and future
60 5,7 | because of their simplicity, spiritual immaturity, heedlessness
61 5,7 | to people of the highest spiritual labors who have a pure heart.
62 5,7 | probation and have come to know spiritual warfare from experience,
63 5,7 | received the gift of... giving spiritual direction to those who come
64 5,7 | In Russia, elders were spiritual guides for thousands of
65 5,7 | ministry flourished when the spiritual life in the Church was high,
66 5,7 | many has grown cold and spiritual impoverishment prevails,
67 5,7 | Heaven for a disciple or spiritual child. To think otherwise
68 5,8 | the world; there was only spiritual pleasure, only joy. After
69 6,7 | in both the political and spiritual life of Western Europe.
70 6,8 | laity; the need to create a spiritual elite by the separation
71 6,17| cause of history is always spiritual. As Hieromonk Seraphim Rose
72 6,17| done, because this is a spiritual thing. Even though it is
73 6,17| from the devil, it is on a spiritual level, and that is where
74 6,17| Great Schism, that is, the spiritual cause, was the temptation
75 6,17| of Eden. Therein lies the spiritual level where the history
76 6,18| Silvester I and his successors spiritual primacy over all other patriarchs
77 6,18| honors. To supremacy in spiritual matters was added temporal
78 7,14| our aid by giving us the spiritual explanation of Scriptures.~
79 7,14| same gift, according to his spiritual stature. To the degree that
80 7,14| the understanding of the spiritual meaning of Scriptures.~
81 7,14| received the gift of the spiritual explanation of the Scriptures.
82 7,14| the Church's treasury of spiritual wisdom. To this day, all
83 7,14| that the Fathers have a spiritual wisdom that we lack, and
84 7,14| these two stages of their spiritual life, the metropolitan continues,
85 7,14| wisdom, became as ‘perfect spiritual men’ (The Truth of Our Faith,
86 7,14| He goes on to call it a spiritual egalitarian-ism that is
87 7,14| Western writer leads one to spiritual enjoyment and self-satisfaction.
88 7,15| serves as a pattern for the spiritual dependency that the Orthodox
89 7,17| massive importance on the spiritual life of mankind.~ Under
90 7,20| people gain a vision of the spiritual world. Because icons are
91 7,21| people could discern their spiritual instability, distinguish
92 9,3 | taken to mean a share in the spiritual attributes of the Creator.
93 9,3 | depends on the direction of spiritual abilities. This requires
94 9,15| beings are subject to these spiritual effects of the ancestral
95 9,23| reason we meekly confess our spiritual weakness at the end of the
96 9,26| recluses patterned their spiritual struggle on the monastic
97 9,27| s words sum up the whole spiritual tradition of the Orthodox
98 9,28| gather within themselves spiritual fruits. Among these gifts,
99 9,29| in his writings that the spiritual life has three stages: purification,
100 9,29| our inner sickness, our spiritual life ends up in an empty
101 9,39| and become clothed in a spiritual body. Then the sanctity
102 9,39| creation — not only the spiritual world, but the material
103 10,3 | his Creator and less of a spiritual influence on others. For
104 10,5 | of the Church “certainly spiritual and mystical”?~ The Orthodox
105 10,5 | Orthodox idea of the Church is spiritual and mystical in the sense
106 10,14| One of Elder Nektary's spiritual children then inquired: “
107 10,15| would be tantamount to its spiritual death, yet, according to
108 10,16| giving to them special spiritual gifts and a special authority.
109 10,16| teaching as the guardian of her spiritual virginity — that is, inner
110 10,16| diocese is completely pure, spiritual, and independent of the
111 10,20| they are not deprived of spiritual nearness to those who remain
112 10,21| will be given us in our spiritual needs and in our sorrows.~
113 10,21| too. The saints are our spiritual brothers and sisters, mothers
114 10,21| their writings. Thus the spiritual vision of the saints in
115 10,23| between people or their spiritual closeness, and they are
116 10,28| from earth to Heaven, the spiritual gaze of Christians has been
117 10,29| that:~ ~The Church is our spiritual Home. As with one's own
118 11,1 | perceiving the beauty in the spiritual world and expressing that
119 11,1 | highest point in all phases of spiritual culture. By that time all
120 11,3 | Protestants may well be deeply spiritual, but nevertheless they have
121 11,4 | simple speech cannot. The spiritual life of the Church is therefore
122 11,4 | contrition-evoking sobriety and spiritual serenity which completely
123 11,4 | with the sober, hieratic, spiritual character of the Christian
124 11,4 | architectural concepts and spiritual practices of the Orthodox
125 Ep | search of lightening of their spiritual sufferings, but everywhere
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