Sentences with phrase «edifying story»

That was where Mom first started polishing The Tragic and Edifying Story of Wavonna Quinn.

They are surprised when I tell them that that was an edifying story fabricated by «Parson» Mason Weems.

But here we may reasonably suspect a certain amount of embroidery, the more so since Matthew has also an edifying story about the traitor's remorse and grisly end — a story, by the way, inconsistent with another account of his death which is found in the Acts of the Apostles, not to mention a third divergent account which we know to have been handed down traditionally in the early church.

Not exact matches

Upon this assumption the whole story becomes not only innocuous, but edifying.

Will stories like this edify your children?

The story of the nun, Dame Morel, in the reform of Port Royal, who was ready to give up all of her luxuries but one — all but the key to her little private garden — is the story of men everywhere whom Kierkegaard sought to lay hold of in these Edifying Addresses.

Nothing should be more edifying than the story of the heads of the church or vicars of Jesus Christ.

Probably it was felt that no touching up of the story itself could make such a wholly disreputable character edifying!

Here we have no other version to help us reconstruct the original form of the parable, but the task is not difficult, since the tradition has sought to make the parable edifying by means of additions at the conclusion rather than by allegorizing the story itself.

It also involves the least convincing and least edifying of the miracle stories.

(If you're looking for a blogger who could turn this story into something poetic and edifying, set to inspirational music, Ann Voskamp's your girl.)

For the religious mind capable of going deeply into something beyond the sense perception, these symbols - the cross and the lotus - must be telling painful stories as well edifying ones, crying out in despair as well as in hope.

A good title that deserves a chance, despite its oddities probably due to the original development team, swallowed by debt and afflicted by a not edifying work story.

The result is a doc that's both edifying and absorbing, detailing an American success story gone awry.

• Rosemary Hines never fails to craft a story that both glorifies God and edifies the reader.

We decided to grab a sample of the Daily Star (although a wide range of more edifying titles are on offer) and it works well enough offering up full colour, zoomable pages, with an overview to dive to the page you want, and links to the «text only» stories, which to be fair on the Daily Star were rather sparse.

To drive his point home, he illustrates it with an edifying war story.