Sentences with phrase «devout souls»

Had not the sacrificial system itself, therefore, been adaptable to spiritual uses, so that devout souls could find in it ever deepening meanings, the religion of Israel would never have reached the heights that it attained.

In only two Old Testament passages does the phrase «holy Spirit» occur: once, in a late psalm where a devout soul prays,

Nothing in the world of either science or philosophy need cause any uneasiness in the devout soul.

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Johnson was a sincere moralist and a devout Anglican and could give no more credit to Hume's rejection of the reality of values and of God and the soul than he could to Bishop Berkeley's denial of the reality of matter.

Christian love is the life - blood of the new Fox series The Exorcist, in which devout Catholic characters grapple with demonic forces, putting at risk their lives and even their souls.

Nothing will so enlarge the intellect, nothing so magnify the whole soul of man, as a devout, earnest, continued investigation of the great subject of the Deity.

I know nothing which can so comfort the soul; so calm the swelling billows of sorrow and grief; so speak peace to the winds of trial, as a devout musing upon the subject of the Godhead.

Although a devout Christian, the writer of that letter had undoubtedly felt the influence of hellenizing thought that was dominant in the civilization of which he was a part; and that kind of thought made just such a distinction between soul and body.

The more I experience pregnancy and birth in all its mess and glory, loss and life, the more I uncover the devout links between how we as women experience birth and how the Holy Spirit often «gives birth» in our souls.

And the Great Contraption shall be built by His humble children who dwell upon the earth upon which lays the tainted sand onto which the writing about the Great Contraption shall be written by Him... (10:15 - 21) And so shall the Great Contraption serve the humble children and transport them to all corners of the world in half the time of the fastest contemporary propeller - driven aircraft, thus shall the need no longer be great for the consumption of the foul in - flight meal, nor the mingling with the wicked air hostess in her offensive garment which does reveal the calfs of her shapely, comely and smooth white legs and nubile curvaceous buttocks which call as like a siren to the very soul of a devout man, and her breasts.

The more I experienced pregnancy and birth in all its mess and glory, loss and life, the more I uncovered the devout parallels between how women experience birth and how the Holy Spirit often «gives birth» in our souls.

The socially prominent couple lived on Wall Street and attended Trinity Episcopal Church, where Elizabeth's faith increased, thanks to her spiritual director, the Rev. John Hobart, and her devout sister - in - law, Rebecca Seton, whom she regarded as her «soul - friend» and confidante.

His wife (Jennifer Connelly), however, is a devout Christian, and he spends the movie twisting his soul in knots to please her and everyone else.