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Example sentences for "unspiritual"

Lexicographically close words:
unspeakable; unspeakably; unspecialized; unspecified; unspent; unspoiled; unspoilt; unspoken; unsportsmanlike; unspotted
  1. In opposition to these unspiritual proceedings the period of the Easter festivals was begun three weeks earlier with the 10th Sunday before Easter (Septuagesima).

  2. God, ensured the complete realisation of Israel’s vocation, even though the unspiritual mass of the people finally rejected the offered redemption.

  3. We must remember what gross, unspiritual notions of the Messiah they had, and then we are prepared to feel how strangely unlike His whole past conduct Jesus' action now was.

  4. The process by which Jesus gradually unveils His full character to this woman, so unspiritual and unsusceptible as she appeared at first sight to be, is interesting and instructive.

  5. The priests' service under the Old Covenant was very unspiritual service.

  6. We must think of these in detail, if we wish to give the word its meaning; we must think of them in contrast with the unspiritual nature, if we wish to give it any edge.

  7. No one would think of denying that men who let machines get the better of them, either in their minds or their bodies, in any walk of life, grow unspiritual and mechanical.

  8. His position is that an unspiritual worship implies an unspiritual deity, and that such service as was performed at the ordinary sanctuaries could by no possibility be regarded as rendered to the true God who spoke through the prophets.

  9. The unspiritual character of the Messiah's attitude is made yet more apparent as the history draws to a close.

  10. Passages which are too grotesque and too unspiritual to be edifying when read to a mixed congregation are nevertheless full of instruction, and throw most valuable light both on the Old and on the New Testament.

  11. The unspiritual man rejects the things of the Spirit of God, and cannot attain to the knowledge of them, because they are spiritually judged.

  12. For so long as jealousy and strife continue among you, can it be denied that you are unspiritual and are living and acting like mere men of the world?

  13. For in thought, as the identity of itself and of Being, mind knows itself as the truly actual, so that for mind in thought, the unspiritual and material is brought down to being mere things, to the negative of mind.

  14. But if it remain where it is, that is the unspiritual point of view; to remain fixed in this second standpoint in this dead far-away historic distance, is to reject the Spirit.

  15. We may thus call this the mind which thinks at the right time, first of the one, and then of the other; it is spirit, but an unspiritual consciousness.

  16. It was this which produced the unspiritual excitement at Thessalonica, and which the Apostle wished to contradict.

  17. Could anything show more clearly the unspiritual tendencies of the human mind in its conceptions of God, and of the kind of worship He should receive?

  18. The use of the images implied an unspiritual or superstitious state of mind; or at least a mind more disposed to follow its own fancies as to the way of worshipping God than to have a severe and strict regard to the rule of God.

  19. To think of God as one who has a will and purpose of His own, and who will never give His countenance to any undertaking that does not agree with that will and purpose, is very hard for the unspiritual man.

  20. Yet it was this unworldly but godly Samuel that had delivered them from the bitter yoke of the Philistines, and it was this handsome but unspiritual Saul that was to bring them again into bondage to their ancient foes.

  21. Surely there is a “practical importance” in the Unitarian controversy, if it warns men against these notions of substitution, these unspiritual views of Heaven and Christ.

  22. How could they go on in their unspiritual imaginations, when the Captain of their Salvation stood constantly before their eyes, a crucified man, and a risen immortal?

  23. How dark, how confused, how unspiritual their views, how low their faith, how easily upset by the storms of persecution!

  24. How should this thought check and rebuke every worldly feeling and unworthy purpose, and enshrine us, in the midst of a forgetful and unspiritual world, with an atmosphere of heavenly peace.

  25. But, in many cases, it is the narrowness of our nature, the chaos of our unspiritual passions, the barren formalism of our conventions that they assail.

  26. In a narrow and unspiritual fashion the Jews of the Restoration observed the covenant of external ordinances; so that, in a certain sense, the Law was fulfilled before the new Kingdom of God was inaugurated.

  27. Extremes meet; and an unspiritual Quaker, for instance, is at bottom of the same way of thinking as an unspiritual Roman Catholic.

  28. She told him as clearly as she could the reason why she could not become his wife, and to his unspiritual judgment it seemed a petty cause.

  29. They were nearly all young, with thoughtless, unspiritual faces, but they sang the sentiments of discipline and sorrow.

  30. The one, the untrue, must be brought as a sacrifice; to wit, the unspiritual one.

  31. Their unspirituality sets Jews forever apart from Christians; for the spiritual man is incomprehensible to the unspiritual, as the unspiritual is contemptible to the spiritual.

  32. The spiritual haughtiness of the servants and subjects of the State has fine penalties against unspiritual "exuberance.

  33. On Mars they have long since passed beyond and above this purely human, unspiritual and unholy rule.

  34. In their unspiritual and ignorant state they supposed and believed that the bodies in the other world would be similar to those in this, and therefore subject to similar effects from heat and fire.

  35. For, no thoughtful observer fails to perceive that an earthly, and unspiritual mode of thought and feeling is the prevalent one among men.

  36. Shortly after there appeared at an aperture in the upper portion of the cupboard a face which looked utterly unspiritual and precisely like that of the medium, only with some white drapery thrown over the head.

  37. She was the large woman of the simple earth, welded by the dark, unspiritual flame.

  38. Brooding on it, she closed her heart to her unspiritual husband.

  39. He had yielded to the unspiritual seduction of filling All Souls by emptying other men's churches.

  40. It could mean nothing to Walter in his yet unspiritual state.

  41. In all ages of the world the unspiritual are the majority,--the spiritual the exceptions.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unspiritual" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.