1 Even in literature, the highest and most spiritual art, the forms are often confused.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContextHighlight In Chapter 5 2 This evening we shall consider for a few moments the nature of the spiritual torments of hell.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContextHighlight In Chapter 3 3 He held open the heavy hall door and gave his hand as if already to a companion in the spiritual life.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContextHighlight In Chapter 4 4 For this reason mortal sin is punished in hell by two different forms of punishment, physical and spiritual.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContextHighlight In Chapter 3 5 Every part of his day, divided by what he regarded now as the duties of his station in life, circled about its own centre of spiritual energy.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContextHighlight In Chapter 4 6 Gradually, as his soul was enriched with spiritual knowledge, he saw the whole world forming one vast symmetrical expression of God's power and love.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContextHighlight In Chapter 4 7 Now of all these spiritual pains by far the greatest is the pain of loss, so great, in fact, that in itself it is a torment greater than all the others.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContextHighlight In Chapter 3 8 Your catechism tells you that the sacrament of Holy Orders is one of those which can be received only once because it imprints on the soul an indelible spiritual mark which can never be effaced.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContextHighlight In Chapter 4 9 His actual reception of the eucharist did not bring him the same dissolving moments of virginal self-surrender as did those spiritual communions made by him sometimes at the close of some visit to the Blessed Sacrament.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContextHighlight In Chapter 4 10 Yet he believed that at some future stage of his spiritual progress this difficulty would be removed when his sinful soul had been raised up from its weakness and enlightened by the Third Person of the Most Blessed Trinity.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContextHighlight In Chapter 4 11 But he had been forewarned of the dangers of spiritual exaltation and did not allow himself to desist from even the least or lowliest devotion, striving also by constant mortification to undo the sinful past rather than to achieve a saintliness fraught with peril.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContextHighlight In Chapter 4 12 To merge his life in the common tide of other lives was harder for him than any fasting or prayer and it was his constant failure to do this to his own satisfaction which caused in his soul at last a sensation of spiritual dryness together with a growth of doubts and scruples.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContextHighlight In Chapter 4 13 Just as every sense is afflicted with a fitting torment, so is every spiritual faculty; the fancy with horrible images, the sensitive faculty with alternate longing and rage, the mind and understanding with an interior darkness more terrible even than the exterior darkness which reigns in that dreadful prison.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContextHighlight In Chapter 3 14 The instant wherein that supreme quality of beauty, the clear radiance of the esthetic image, is apprehended luminously by the mind which has been arrested by its wholeness and fascinated by its harmony is the luminous silent stasis of esthetic pleasure, a spiritual state very like to that cardiac condition which the Italian physiologist Luigi Galvani, using a phrase almost as beautiful as Shelley's, called the enchantment of the heart.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContextHighlight In Chapter 5