Sentences with phrase «as saintliness»

Administrative ability, as well as saintliness, now loomed larger in episcopal appointments.

Not exact matches

According to the Qur» an they have no special distinction which gives them any sort of saintliness or supernatural ability such as the authority to intercede or remit sins.

«Saint Michael Harrington,» as neoconservative apologist Michael Novak has called him, has some of the qualities of saintliness.

The third stage is the first step toward saintliness, the stage in which Allah reveals truth to man by inspiration, as is pointed out in the seventh and eighth verses of the ninety - first Surah of the Qur» an.

Unless the Infinite is represented in finite form, unless the Word becomes flesh over and over again, though only as oral preaching, unless the risen Christ manifests himself in the visible forms of individual saintliness and communal authority there is no human relation to the Infinite and Transcendent.

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.

Of course the wealthy members of the church gave up their property for the common good, but voluntarily as an offering, not in order to gain especial saintliness.

Yet he was magnificently adapted to the larger environment of history; and so far as any saint's example is a leaven of righteousness in the world, and draws it in the direction of more prevalent habits of saintliness, he is a success, no matter what his immediate bad fortune may be.

What I then propose to do is, briefly stated, to test saintliness by common sense, to use human standards to help us decide how far the religious life commends itself as an ideal kind of human activity.

They offer more of Todd's saintliness (as conscientious wrestling coach, father, and mourner), a glimpse at Sonja's mothering and an explanation for Thomas Haden Church's character lack of a family.

Which when you think about it is exactly the same as «half - evil», assuming the other half of Arnas is made of saintliness.

I'd also leave room to consider vanity and inexperience as alternatives to lack of «saintliness» for explaining presenters who present one - sided reports.