Example sentences of "desire for god " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as Paul the apostle had once written of being ‘ transported into the third heaven ’ in a mystical experience of God , so mother and son were united in their desire for God . |
| 2 | The Bible encourages in us the desire for God as the source of human happiness . |
| 3 | So the desire for God grows as self-will diminishes . |
| 4 | What should we do with our desire for God ? |
| 5 | For this to occur , we must first get rid of selfish desires , and replace them with desire for God . |
| 6 | Augustine recognizes that his desire for God is part of the way in which he has been made . |
| 7 | Many people trivialize their desire for God , and settle for something that is inferior . |
| 8 | Secondly , that our desire for God is distinct from our desires for created things . |
| 9 | Desire for God prepares us for delight in God . |
| 10 | They give flesh to our desire for God and become lived expressions of our life in God 's life . |
| 11 | Meditation is that process of mental digestion that gives rise to understanding which integrates the energies of mind and will in a desire for God which is prayer . |
| 12 | Each concentrates on the means and ends , preparation for , and fulfilment of , spiritual life , the first part dealing with the self-regulation necessary to release the desire for God from all impediment ; the second dealing more directly with contemplative experience . |
| 13 | This argument , however , is countered by drawing attention to the passage in Emendatio Vitae ( c.11 ) describing singular love : which shows that he conceived of an unlimited and thus , literally , unfulfilled desire for God . |
| 14 | As the definition of meditation developed in scope , so prayer came to denote not just intellectually formulated structures but a desire for God which sometimes rises to a direct consciousness of his presence . |
| 15 | It then argues that this very desire for God is God immanent in man 's being and shows how it may , in his particular case , come to inform all sides of his life which are reconciled as they are turned into fuel to feed the fire of love — itself lit in his desire for God . |
| 16 | It then argues that this very desire for God is God immanent in man 's being and shows how it may , in his particular case , come to inform all sides of his life which are reconciled as they are turned into fuel to feed the fire of love — itself lit in his desire for God . |
| 17 | The disciplines of active life in the sense of worldly help to others , or the necessity for study , are to be like " stikkes " laid on the burning coal that represents man 's innate desire for God and needs to be nourished if it is to provide full light and heat ( 35 – 9.397 – 449 ) . |
| 18 | Here in Mixed Life , a text that must be seen in relation to Scale 1 and Scale 2 , Hilton adumbrates the same progress in chapter fourteen : Following Augustinian theology , he locates the very essence of Christian life in the continual sustained desire for God — the only way in this life to perceive the nature of the love which joins God and man 's soul . |
| 19 | But one thing is common to all who follow the process of reforming in feeling : that is experience of the life of desire for God , freed from any earthly considerations , as an entry from the light of the world into a darkness in which things normally hidden from sight can gradually be discerned , and in which ultimately there grows a vision of a greater light . |
| 20 | In chapter twenty-four , when he identifies the desire for God which fuels the contemplative 's journey with Jesus , he uses language which echoes Matthew 's account of the Resurrection and comments : In the reformation of feeling the contemplative is moving beyond the love understood and expressed by means of the suffering involved in penance , to the fruit of the risen lord . |