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A-Z: General definitions: Spiritual discipline
Definition
Devotional religious practices or exercises undertaken for personal spiritual development. The disciplines include worship, prayer, meditation and fasting.
The quality or actions of the religious life of a person; the practical expression of their spirituality. In literature, writing which may enhance a person's religious faith or life.
1. Doing homage and giving honour and respect, especially to God. Acts of devotion. Human response to the perceived presence of the divine.
2. The part of the Christian liturgy usually consisting of sung material and prayers of thanksgiving.
Communication, either aloud or in the heart, with God.
Christian devotional practice in which a verse of the Bible or some aspect of the Christian life is held in prayerful and focused thought, until some deeper aspect of its reality manifests itself.
Going without any food (and sometimes drink) for a specified period.
