Sentences with phrase «lord zealous»

Suddenly it became clear that: Lord Zealous was out to convert «the scholar.»

Yet I know that to say the wrong thing at any point will mean that all the logic and history can summon will go out my Gothic Window into the quadrangle, and Lord Zealous will slam the door.

The question made sense, given the damages we see in the eyes of Lord Zealous, the corpses of Jonestown, the streets of Iran.

Lord Zealous, they tell us, has caught that spirit better than have the namby - pamby compromisers in mainline religion.

Lord Zealous, it turns out, will talk to me because she sees me as a professor, a scholar, a relative neutral.

Though I don't want to let go of any insights from the social sciences, all this «nothing but» leaves me a bit edgy, and Lord Zealous has seized on my restlessness: There is a hint of a taunt behind her slightly glazed smile as she keeps reminding me that my community is devoted to scholarship; the history of religion.

Lord Zealous is correct; I as a historian of religion and — is she rubbing it in as she draws out the third syllable?

Luke 14:26, a passage tempered a bit in Matthew 10:37 («He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me»), had been a forbidding problem for almost 2,000 years before the master of Lord Zealous called her to follow.

I am not a Lord Zealous for utopianism.

As we converse on a gray afternoon in my campus study, I learn that she will not read or even open mail from her parents because they can not bring themselves to address her as «Lord Zealous.»

Lord Zealous was right, and every historian of religion knows it: the idea of putting oneself under a master, of feeling absolute and even fanatic about the cause, is an old one in religion.

Not exact matches

This state of readiness is described as «holiness and godliness,» being «zealous to be found by God without spot or blemish, and at peace,» and growing «in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.»

Hence to procure the glory of God and the salvation of all these, the Church, mindful of the Lord's command to «preach the Gospel to every creature» (Mk 16:16) takes zealous care to foster the missions.

Do not let your heart envy sinners, but always be zealous for the fear of the Lord.