Sentences with phrase «even pious»

Even pious Christians seldom have embraced the «turn the other cheek» idea, nor did they typically kill homosexual men on the spot as is called for by the Bible.

When you stand on nothing (or plagiarized work not your own), even the pious fall eventually.

They will not of course explicitly contest that even the pious Christian who holds fast unconditionally to the instructions of the Gospel and of the Church can still raise innumerable questions regarding public and private life, of very considerable importance, yet can not expect to get answers to them directly from the Church.

There was work to be done, lots of it, and a formal study of the virtues could seem, during this euphoric, world - changing moment in history, a time - wasting enterprise or even a pious form of self - indulgence.

However, it does seem that Francis had a very positive influence on the conduct of the Sultan, in that he behaved with considerable moderation in his future dealings with the Christians, and there is even a pious legend to the effect that he was converted on his deathbed to Christianity.

Not exact matches

You are completely incapable of even the slightest bit of empathy, and merely think the more pious you seem, and the more assertions you make that means your right.

I will no longer temper my understanding of truth in order to pretend that I have even a tiny smidgen of respect for the appalling negativity that continues to emanate from religious circles where the church has for centuries conveniently perfumed its ongoing prejudices against blacks, Jews, women and homosexual persons with what it assumes is «high - sounding, pious rhetoric.»

You can continue to spew out your immoral doctrine until you die, that doesn't make it true, and that doesn't make you any more pious even though you really want to feel better than everyone else because of it.

Yet there was another side of Duke Ellington, pious and even prim.

Even if we are relatively pious, it would be hard to keep a straight face if — on our way home from church, for example — we were beset by an itinerant preacher like John who wanted us to «repent.»

Its ritual absolutes and rules look legalistic, rubric - mad today: but they spoke with a sure confidence of the sacramentality of life, the rootedness of the sacred not in pious feelings of «spirituality,» not in our heads or even exclusively our hearts, but in the gritty and messy realities of life, birth, death, water and stone and fire, bread and wine.»

I do hear your points that you think I have not seen the need for warning of danger, that you believe I think of it as «unChristian» to talk about such things, and that you may even believe that my comments are akin to protecting evil deeds and harming the innocent, using the bible as a proof texting weapon to that end and contributing to a problem of church becoming fake and shallow while claiming to be deep and pious.

God does not send manna from heaven for the mere wishing, not even when it is very fervent and pious wishing.

Even so, on biblical and pious grounds, some Christians challenged the doctrine of divine impassibility.

Truth be told, even if we presuppose the truth of atheism, the problem with Hume's argument is that it does not allow us to explain why stories or miracles are invented, as presumably is the case with Islam or Mormonism, as well as many pious legends of the medieval Church.

This can happen even in the midst of a pious community.

I've read much of what you've written over the years, and this is the very best — thoughtful, provocative, and even (as one reviewer put it) pious.

Instead of giving a pious or even profound answer, he seems to brush aside the question.

And this might motivate us to get to Mass whenever we can: certainly in our parishes every Sunday, but perhaps also at a weekday Mass on an evening after work or with the pious few in a school chapel or classroom.

We hear these things from pious politicians every day and are likely desensitized to them, but even momentary consideration reveals them to be un-American to the core.

-- yet its depiction of God, hidden under pious varnish, is reduced to «extravagant strangeness» and «a raging Yahweh out of control even by himself.»

Sometimes, it is even in the millions in a pious Catholic area.

Yes Jesus lived, ate and drank with the shunned, but he also spent allot of time in the synagogues even if it was just for the sake of upsetting the pious.

In Buddhism particularly, we can discern a growing tendency to absolutize the significance of the master's person: he became divine in the «northern» schools; pious believers even multiplied his person ad infinitum.

The Governor who received the Olubadan - in - Council led by the Balogun of Ibadanland, High Chief Saliu Adetunji in company of the leadership of the Central Council of Ibadan Indigenes (CCII) and sons and daughters of the late monarch at his office where he was formally informed about the death of the late monarch said that even if he the monarch had lived for another 100 years, his death would still have been painful to him and indeed, the sons and daughters of Ibadanland, considering what he called his exemplary, pious and disciplined life.

Not even Blanchett and Rush — two of the finest actors working today, or Morton — who stirs me to impure thoughts even as a supposedly pious figure, or Owen — who almost makes a pair of puffy pants look butch, can drag «The Golden Age» out of the morass in which Kapur has sunk it.

It's Easter and Alexander makes plans for a celebration to end his pious fast even as Della Rovere's assassin ascends to the position of the Pope's taster; Lucrezia's lover asks for her hand in marriage but her father dismisses him and his request; Juan's wild behavior threatens the life of Lucrezia's child, forcing Cesare to make a chilling decision about his brother.

He presides over Major Knox (Stephen Spinella), a drunken vet shanghaied into human medicine, pious and meek Private Toffler (Jeremy Davies), ever - stoned Private Cleaves (David Arquette) and gung - ho soldier Private Reich (Neal McDonough), whose enthusiasm is played at a pitch more worthy of Blackadder than even the light absurdity that settles over John Ford pictures with similar setups.

This despite — and partly because of — outward appearances belying its status as a movie at all: Chalk outlines stand in for traditional sets, designating walls, fences, rosebushes, even the dog, Moses, of the titular locale, a pious community (is there any other kind in von Trierland?)

In this repressively pious society where gold is worshipped second only to God, to be different is a threat to the moral fabric of society, and not even a man as rich as Johannes is safe.

Therefore, to be pious and reverent is the surest path to true freedom as a perfect god will give perfect laws to prevent all manner of slavery, tyranny and moral wantonness, even if we do not understand why they are good laws at times.

This is true even of the pious brethren who carry the gospel to foreign parts

She is a conservative and very pious Muslima who didn't even know how babies were made before we became engaged and I realised this, and exlained the facts if life to her before we went any further towards marriage.