And I want to write something around, like a Hindu thriller, which will be clearly religious, but not Christian, and I don't feel I can put my books in Christian fiction because they're not kind of edifying of Jesus. (thecreativepenn.com)
As a cinematic experience, it's about as edifying as spending 90 minutes looking over the titular character's old photos; and when the credits roll and the lights go up, Bettie remains a blank Page. (philonfilm.net)
The author of the Ephesians is not talking about some future horizon so much as the actual and present means for edifying, for «building up» the Church; so that she can preach the fullness of Christ's message of salvation and so serve the holiness of its members. (faith.org.uk)