spiritual decay

"But I'd rather pay that price than the price of spiritual decay.

-for signs of spiritual decay, none were ever observed.

For Damon, it is an attempt "to outline the spiritual decay of mankind in the course of history."

Church leaders traveled around the territory, expressing their concern about signs of spiritual decay and calling for repentance.

In time you will transform that spiritual decay and it will lessen, but often it gets too much to bear.

You must break the Vatican chains, which throw you into the abyss of error, darkness and spiritual decay.

"2 Current Films In the area of film, the moral and spiritual decay of our culture is equally pervasive.

Mr. McDonell writes best about the precise dynamics of class, loneliness and spiritual decay.

His inaugural address, delivered on the Acropolis, exhibits both profound classical scholarship and high enthusiasm despite the material and spiritual decay of his times.

And the passion with which the surviving English monks defended their past and resisted change must have seemed to him simply a final proof of mental and spiritual decay.

Spiritual Decay (Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA)

Mr. Jenkins sees the exclusionary, cultlike inwardness of the grail kingdom, like a Yale secret society, as a symptom of spiritual decay, not an emblem of purity.

During his school days, he glimpsed a beautiful woman and revered her as an ideal (named for Dante's Beatrice) that he used to pull himself out of a moral and spiritual decay.

In 1928 Norman Grubb reported to the Inter-Varsity Fellowship (IVF) in Britain of the spiritual decay happening at Canadian universities.

Both use humour in their bitter description of the spiritual decay of the South Wales Valleys, where the heavy industries of iron and steel and coal have disappeared, to be replaced by high-technology industrial parks.

To the Editor: I disagree with David Richards's reading of Samuel Beckett's plays, which are metaphorical displays of spiritual decay [ "Counting Down to the Year 2000," June 27 ] .

"Angels in America: Millennium Approaches," a play by Tony Kushner that explores the AIDS epidemic as a metaphor for spiritual decay in the 1980's, won the Pulitzer Prize for drama yesterday.

In this environment of spiritual nadir, a few prophets (such as Abraham, Moses, the Old Testament Prophets, and Christ) are given to extraordinary spiritual insight, born of the spiritual decay in the dying civilization.

Just as he and Mother intended, the Mage City continued to draw inward even as it expanded its territory, isolating itself not only from the Otherfolk, but also from all outside human contact, wallowing in its own spiritual decay.

While far from Gibbonesque in scope or tone, Mr. Cahill's book strikes some Gibbonesque themes, especially that of spiritual decay, the gradual loss of vigor, the onset of a static, effete, imitative and self-satisfied Roman world.

Announcing to the world that "the era of unforgiving judgments is approaching", Papadima accused Sburătorul of having engineered "spiritual decay" within a modernist "invasion", and hoped that, like the intrusion of "foreign capital" on the local market, such ideas would be reversed.

The nationalist unrest that shook the southern republics of Azerbaijan and Armenia in the last two weeks was a powerful reminder that for all the talk of economic and spiritual decay in the Soviet Union, ethnic instability may be the greatest long-term threat to the future of the country.

The festival debuted at Station 4 in St. Paul, MN in June 2007 featuring bands Doro, Vainglory, Earthen, The Ottoman Empire (now known as Luna Mortis), Visideon, Spiritual Decay, and Sirens of Titan.

But if what I have said by the light of a new candle is true - and who can doubt it?- then even the elderly beeches and majestic old oaks of a remembered Forest of Dean are not capable of withstanding the fungoid of stress or the vegetable odours of spiritual decay.