Sentences with phrase «as pious»

The superb support cast includes alums Stephen Colbert as a pious history teacher and Greg Hollimon as Principal Blackman, who masks his own avarice with unflappable dignity.

Smith renders Omalu as a pious, if quirky, genius, one who talks to cadavers and decorates the rearview mirror of his Mercedes with a cross.

One of the most acclaimed entries in the influential series «Six Moral Tales,» Rohmer's film features Jean - Louis Trintignant as a pious Catholic engineer whose rigid ethical standards are challenged when he unwittingly spends the night at the apartment of a bold, brunette divorcée.

Nivolo, as the pious husband, caught between flesh and spirit and searching for answers he can't find in the Torah, tears at the heart.

Dovid feels the same pressure to be devout, to serve as a pious example to the community.

During their long years in opposition, they liked to posture as the pious party, the people who could be trusted to tell it straight.

Add to this the often saccharine depiction of martyrs in Christian art and legend, and one has a situation in which martyrdom is seen as a pious, quaint idea from an earlier age.

Bonhoeffer warns the confessant against regarding confession as a pious work, for «confession as a pious work is an invention of the devil.

This also means that our faith must be understood as commitment to work for the purposes of God and not as a pious hope for the next life.

The idea that bishops are pastors who have a responsibility for the soul welfare also of politicians, the idea that bishops are to help also politicians to form their consciences in accord with their professed beliefs» such ideas are dismissed as a pious guise for partisan power plays.

And if you will here stop and ask yourself why you are not as pious as the primitive Christians were, your own heart will tell you that it is neither through ignorance nor inability, but purely because you never thoroughly intended it.

His words of praise to Jesus (3:2) should not be dismissed as pious flattery, though they do of course fall far short of Jesus» true meaning.

In the years 1956 - 57 he wrote a number of journalistic essays which were published in 1958 as Pious and Secular America.

They continued to live as pious Jews, to frequent the Temple and to keep the Law, but knew themselves to be also set apart as true believers.

Mother is pictured as pious and dutiful, an angel on a domestic hearth that is still being hacked from the forest.

He worked hard to get them on the side of the Third Reich so he could present himself to the nation as a pious Christian.

As the pious above chant of the God begotten of Light, the unfaithful faithful call out in ragged whispers their own stories of Inquisitions, of lost political battles at important councils of faith, of unjust executions in the name of the Christ and of excommunications to shore up power.

As a pious Catholic, he still believes himself married to the woman who left him eight years before, but he has nonetheless been «deprived of the loyalties which should have sustained him.»

It seems unlikely that the work was ever meant to have been taken seriously by Christians; instead, its purpose was to offer further conjectural details about the life of Christ as a pious entertainment, part of a larger body of Pilate literature.

I watched as my pious relatives sat by my 42 year old sister's death bed telling her about Jesus.

Not exact matches

While working as a laborer in this program of infrastructure development, Saeed becomes pious and joins a social justice mosque; Nadia becomes a lesbian and moves to Mykonos.

For example, Tyerman frequently notes that religious motives or pious idealism played roles in the Crusades but only as a qualifier to subsequent descriptions of political and economic motives.

It is far past the time that modernists such as yourself exit the doors and go find a good protestant Church to hang out with your girlfriends at, and leave the pious and devout followers of the faith to represent it.

Just what is the nature of the work required of us if we are to treat the first commandment as indeed the first and not as a merely pious addendum to the second?

This alienation is reflected in the existential uncertainties of a man as deeply pious as Samuel Johnson; or it can be seen in Mary Margaret Alacoque, immersed in a cloistered religious life.

I grew up in a tradition where some of these outward spiritual exercises were rejected because we didn't want to come across as too pious or overly spiritual or legalistic.

But our pious Catholic lady from central casting will speak of Evangelicals as one might speak of a great athlete, or the unicorn.

Turkey has a ministry of waqfs, as a part of the government; some of the Arab countries have governmental departments which are concerned with the administration of religious endowments; but in most countries almsgiving in goods or money is a voluntary gift either to individuals or to pious foundations.

Without recognition of the Creator, without some apprehension of a good over-all purpose for all human beings in whatever stage of development they may be, to consider all other men as our brothers is no more than a pious phrase.

He reminds us that as Mother of God she was a real person — not just a pious idea — and that we need our relationship with her to grow as she helps us to know her Son.

So I see prayer as a tool to help focus our energies using themes from the bible but that ultimately we'd grow and progress into other forms that did nt require speech as a show of how pious we are — thats the danger of prayer imho that we can be doing it for ulterior motives and end up like the Pharisee who said thank God I am not like the sinners.

My mother, Marguerite Haughton Hartshorne, was the daughter of a pious and scholarly Episcopal minister whom I recall as a gentle and sweet grandfather.

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.

She wouldn't have attracted nearly as much scepticism and pious horror by doing so, and many people would have been sympathetic; in private, at least.

The pious legend of Holmes as the progressive «Yankee from Olympus» whose jurisprudence prefigured the New Deal is a hoax perpetrated by a clique led by Felix Frankfurter and Harold Laski.

thinks, that the Tigris and the Euphrates have not a common source, that the Dead Sea had been in existence long before human beings came to live in Palestine, instead of originating in historical times, and so on... We are able to comprehend this as the naive conception of the men of old, but we can not regard belief in the literal truth of such accounts as an essential of religious conviction... And every one who perceives the peculiar poetic charm of these old legends must feel irritated by the barbarian — for there are pious barbarians — who thinks he is putting the true value upon these narratives only when he treats them as prose and history.

There Joseph seems unaware of God and perhaps more than a little self - centered, but here he presents himself as a mature and pious young man.

My contention is that this places Ivan's sensibility much nearer to the authentic vision of the New Testament than are many of the more pious and conventional forms of Christian conviction today The gospel of the ancient church was always one of rebellion against those principalities and powers — death chief among them — that enslave and torment creation; nowhere does the New Testament rationalize evil or accord it necessity or treat it as part of the necessary fabric of God's world.

«The liberal - democratic mind, just as the mind of any true communist, feels an inner compulsion to manifest its pious loyalty to the doctrine.

Further, Johnson defines «religious» as «pious; disposed to the duties of religion» and «teaching religion,» with «to teach» taking such definitions as «to instruct; to inform» and «to deliver any doctrine or art, or words to be learned.»

to «The Church as Mission,» they have come very close to gagging the lowbrows altogether from ever saying anything to anybody about Jesus Christ unless it is passive, pious, and programmed in advance.

For instance, when these characteristics are perceived as exhibited in an individual enduringly and in a sense in which these are understood to affect the world around in a favorable fashion — either in an objective sense of effecting something concrete outside such a person [like effecting healing, foretelling, acting as medium in a non-rational manner or simply doing good or saying good to help the people selflessly], exhibiting personal traits, conditions and states which are known to be «abnormal» [like going into trances, hearing voices, seeing visions, or just the simple unconventional behavior, which proceed from such an individual's horizon to affect, influence, impact others» horizons]-- or is subjectively perceived to be extra-ordinary — such an individual is said to be godly, god - bearing, pious or saintly.

We find extensive use of this kind of Divine attribute in the Torah and the books of the prophets, as well as in the praises offered by the prophets and the pious.

One result is the lavish style of conspicuous consumption that dominates such institutions as Oral Roberts University and the Christian Broadcasting Network, where it has become normative doctrine that the pious will prosper.

But as our friend Bob Cheeks reminds us, Founderism is a noble and pious inclination that almost all American conservatives share in common.

Some miracle reports — especially the most exaggerated ones — must surely be taken as nothing more than products of the pious imagination.

Let a child be physically maimed for life by a birth injury, or spiritually maimed by having to grow up in hunger and fear as in war - torn lands, or in squalor and crime as in our own slums; and then when the natural consequences appear, not a few pious Christians will say that God in his inscrutable providence willed it to be this way.

To me it appears to be a sub-human one, for it is based on the notion that human enquiry about the implications of what is proposed in faith, as well as the honest effort to see what is really being asserted, is to be replaced by little more than pious credulity.

See just how many Christians who pretend to be pious get left behind and are surprised as to why lol!

Strauss must know that this strategy is quixotic, since as soon as he says we must be open to the excellence of philosophy and to the obedience of the pious, he has made it impossible not to wonder how these dispositions can be integrated, or at least held together in the same soul.