Sentences with phrase «degrees upon sin»

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According to what he calls the «first degree of humility,» which is the lowest degree necessary to attain salvation, it is incumbent upon the Christian «to obey the law of God our Lord in all things, so that not even were I made lord of all creation, or to save my life here on earth, would I consent to violate a commandment, whether divine or human, that binds me under pain of mortal sin» (Spiritual Exercises # 165).

My short answer to this question is that, whenever we come upon portraits of God that, to one degree or another, fall beneath the beautiful, non-violent portrait we are given in the crucified Christ, we should assume that the revelatory content of these portraits is, to this degree, not found on the surface of the portrait itself, but in what faith can discern happening beneath the surface as it beholds God stooping to bear the sin if his people.

«Non-lawyers» have been second - class citizens in most law firms almost from the day of their founding, and all the C - Suite titles bestowed upon «non-lawyer» professionals can never entirely forgive their original sin of lacking a law degree.