Sentence examples for contemplating god from inspiring English sources

Contemplating God, she wrote to priests in Rome asking them to draw what they thought He looked like.

She spends part of her vacation contemplating God, imagining a benevolent female being who, if Alice were in charge, would live in the ocean and be named Junonia.

An actor, Tom McCamus, plays a melancholy Bach, with pipe, contemplating God, death, his children, his patron Prince Leopold and other matters.

Mr. Dreyfus and Mr. Kelly admire Dante's focus on the saving power of various forms of desire, but find that his ultimate emphasis on the overwhelming bliss of contemplating God "makes all other earthly joys irrelevant".

Typical is the Christian mystic Jan Ruysbroeck who wrote that emptying oneself is but a prelude to the mystical life of contemplating God through an act of Divine grace (Zaehner, 1961, 170 71).

While observing atheists meditating or "contemplating God," Dr. Newberg did not observe any of the brain activity in the frontal lobe that he observed in religious people.

Indeed, the more one contemplates God, the more mysterious God becomes.

If you contemplate God long enough, something surprising happens in the brain.

"This frees their minds to contemplate God and pray for others," writes Reese.

It is one of those moments, all too rare, that causes you to contemplate God.

For the past fifteen years I have investigated the neural mechanisms of spirituality with the same fervor that a minister contemplates God.