Sentences with phrase «become pious»

I am continually amazed by the fact that something happens when one become pious.

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, the man who fasts develops strength of will because he decides not to eat or drink; he becomes more considerate of his fellowmen; he becomes pious and virtuous; his spirit is enlightened and his body becomes clean of sin.

Not exact matches

No pious, engaged young woman would want to learn that she is to become pregnant outside of marriage.

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.

All of this just adds to the problem of church becoming so fake and shallow all the while claiming they are so deep and 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.

The religious leaders (the Pharisees) have largely ceased to give an effective lead, and have become more and more absorbed in pious practices at the cost of the «weightier matters of the Law.»

If we claim to know what we do not know, our programs for reunion become nothing more than a pious version of the hubris of Babel.

According to the will of his father he was accepted by the Shi`as as their religious leader and became known as Imam Zain al - Abidin, the Ornament of the Pious.

This sight has produced consternation in many pious hearts who wonder what has happened to ministers to make them become fomenters of disorder.

The landlord who is a pious Christian becomes the enemy if you are on the side of the landless labourer.

My purpose is to recall, in a short preface, what took place between you and me in order to show the pious reader the argument and the content of the book, together with an example... It is now almost sixteen years since I became a monk, taking the vow without your knowledge and against your will.

Worse, the pious lamentation itself can often become a symbolic substitute for an effective critical method.

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 modern critical study of the gospels has made the historic Jesus no mere figment of the pious imagination, but a living figure who, at an historic moment in time, appeared in Palestine, lived his brief but tremendously significant life, and gave rise to a vigorous new religious movement that has in time become the most widespread of all the religions of the world.

When the issue became unearthing Jonathan - era sleaze, however, the priest's pious advice: forget the graft and move on!

The character development is excellent as we see Uhtred mature and Alfred become more pious.

What makes it easier to swallow is that the Jerry Maguire character is just asking to be a little better than the rotten character he realizes he has become and that he does not turn completely pious and unbelievable on us as he continues in the same line of work with just a little more care for others.

Synopsis: When God decides that mankind has become too sinful and must be wiped off the Earth, he chooses Noah (Russell Crowe), a pious man, for a great task... [MORE]

It is a hell of a plight, after all, as originally sketched in Victor Hugo's 1,400 - page historical novel: Sentenced to 19 years in jail for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his sister's family, the stolid, pious Valjean breaks parole upon his release and goes on to become a respectable small - town mayor under an assumed name.

Unfortunately for and as a result of her technological dabbling, she becomes as ostracised from the pious Nora tribe.

Escaping the sack of Rome in 1527, with their stomachs churning on the jewels they have swallowed, the courtesan Fiammetta and her dwarf companion, Bucino, head for Venice, the shimmering city born out of water to become a miracle of east - west trade: rich and rancid, pious and profitable, beautiful and squalid.

During the medieval period in Japan, the custom of kanjin, or the soliciting of contributions for pious purposes, became increasingly widespread as a means of raising funds for the construction or repair of Buddhist temples, Buddhist images, shrines, and so on.

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.