Sentences with phrase «christian saintliness»

(The «enthusiasm of humanity» may lead to a life which coalesces in many respects with that of Christian saintliness.

In Christian saintliness this power is always personified as God; but abstract moral ideals, civic or patriotic utopias, or inner visions of holiness or right may also be felt as the true lords and enlargers of our life, in ways which I described in the lecture on the Reality of the Unseen.

The Liberal theologian of England and America is described with commendation by Dean Inge in the closing chapter of his Types of Christian Saintliness: «His «authority» is the best available judgment of civilized humanity which is the Liberal's Great Church.

Not exact matches

(«It will be found,» says Dr. W.R. Inge [in his lectures on Christian Mysticism, London, 1899, p. 326], «that men of preeminent saintliness agree very closely in what they tell us.

It is difficult not to admire Leigh's boldness in giving the Christian virtues of selfless generosity, charitable goodwill and quiet passivity to a backstreet abortionist, but by presenting Vera with an almost cartoonlike saintliness from start to finish, Leigh misses an opportunity to engage seriously with the moral complexity of the abortion issue — and some viewers will be left longing for Vera to be a shadier, more difficult figure, like the protagonist of Leigh's far more confronting «Naked» (1993).