| We undertake this not in homage to convention or tradition, but in service to the principles of a unitive and harmonious existence. |
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| There was no dichotomy between a social and a spiritual gospel to these men who held a unitive concept of truth. |
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| She lived and wishes to continue to live the pontifical desideratum with the theological note of the unitive force of the Church. |
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| The unitive and procreative ends of marriage may not be artificially separated. |
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| Hindu mysticism in its various forms identifies the unitive as antithetical to the material world. |
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| Special difficulties are presented by cases of cooperation in the sin of a spouse who voluntarily renders the unitive act infecund. |
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| Unlike the Hindu traditions, the Daoist mysticism of China locates the unitive in the perceptible world. |
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| The path to the unitive state, the mystics tell us, includes purgation, an encounter with the transforming love of God that cleanses and purifies us. |
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| In a curious way, therefore, the figure of Jesus Christ has become both a unitive and divisive element in Christendom. |
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| It is the intention to be unified within your own being and to hold that unitive consciousness in your interactions with others. |
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| The Hebrew allegiance to the Lord played a stronger unitive influence on the Hebrew slaves than sheer nationalism. |
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| The call of Moses may be interpreted as his firm realization of the main unitive factor among the Hebrew slaves: their allegiance to the Lord. |
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| Yet the unitive understanding of the structure of marriage is not exclusively religious. |
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| The thoroughgoing mesh of visionary experience and unitive ideology in Daoism makes it impractical to restrict the term mystical to unitive experiences while treating visions as a separate category. |
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| The writings of the Pseudo-Dionysius also popularized the threefold division of the mystical life into purgative, illuminative, and unitive stages. |
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| It is the deep unitive purpose of the two genders, man and woman, that proves to be the optimal environment for nurturing offspring and anchoring family, which is the basis of society. |
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| Parliament can best act to support marriage by recognizing that it is intended for both the individual benefit and public welfare through its unitive and procreative elements. |
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| Contemplation, for Clare, leads to a will decided to identify itself, up to a unitive embrace, with the Lord in poverty and in humiliation, which she discovered in Him, thanks to contemplation. |
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| Parental respect for life and the mystery of procreation will spare the child or young person from the false idea that the two dimensions of the conjugal act, unitive and procreative, can be separated at will. |
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| Definitions that emphasize unitive ideologies are able to include Daoism but exempt shamanism from consideration, even though many Daoist visions are variants of shamanic soul flights. |
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| At some point in their spiritual journey, the reader moves into what these same spiritual masters call the illuminative and unitive ways. |
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| The Church's teaching on the unitive and procreative aspects of conjugal love is mirrored by the process of conception itself. |
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| This is evident in the acknowledgment that sexual intimacy can have a solely unitive purpose. |
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| In response, the authors propose a unitive sexual morality that reflects both historical and theological truths. |
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| Scholars reading it may regard it as an unalphabetical but well-indexed minidictionary or encyclopedia of modern missions and unitive efforts. |
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| It was unitive in that it directly asked each person to go beyond that which separates him or her from other people. |
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| Thus, the range of contraceptive options deemed permissible is wider then it would be if sexual relations were intended to always combine procreative and unitive purposes. |
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