Sentences with phrase «even saints»

And even though the inevitable corruption (that type of money turns even the saints into black - marketers) eventually rot everything all through the nineties the attempt by BCCI (India's cricket governing body) to better market the game was very well balanced with grass - root level development and had helped to create an ecosystem where children from backgrounds that could never dream of playing even for their state team can now aspire to be an international cricketer.

And now we meet Paul's question: If we are all involved in the sin of humankind and even saints are sinners too, if godly perfection does indeed totally escape us, and if our only hope lies in the sheer unmerited grace of God, then isn't the whole Christian view of human existence reducible to some pathetic farce?

Even the saints feel it; indeed, in their struggles they feel it more than most of us.

Even the saints and mystics, though able «to apprehend The point of intersection of the timeless With time» («The Dry Salvages,» V) must return periodically to a time - bound world — a world determined by time past and time future.

Indeed, even her saints are nothing other than sinners reconciled through Christ's grace.

But those that say that even the saints of Yahweh will always be sinners, and that their purification will only be fully had when we get to heaven, undercut the gospel covenant.

They have the father, the son, Holy Spirit, satan, all sorts of angels and demons,, even saints who perform miracles from the grave.

Deny any of those and you can still be a fine human being — even a saint, like Camus — but not a Christian.

Even your Saint Arsene.

Options include items that attach to collars, like flowers and even Saint Bernard - style rescue barrels, said Welker.

Other dogs with a high purchase price include pure - bred German Shepherds, Golden Retrievers, the Irish Wolfhound, Portuguese Water Dogs, and even Saint Bernards.

Breeds such as the Great Dane or even the Saint Bernard tend to only live to 10 years while the Siberian Husky, a somewhat smaller dog than the giants can live to about 12 to 14 years.

Even Saint Louis is accessible.

Not exact matches

Yet Kim Kardashian: Hollywood is still going strong, thanks in large part to the celebrity's own creative direction: She approves every visual, character, and storyline on the app, and even alerts Glu Mobile to «new additions to the family,» i.e., the birth of her daughter, Saint West, last December.

The party starts the evening of April 30, known as Walpurgis Night, a traditional spring festival named for Saint Walburga.

The Times - Picayune in New Orleans stopped daily delivery, and even Warren Buffett, patron saint of newspapers, shuttered one of his holdings.

SAINT ANDREWS, N.B. — Even with the Canadian dollar and energy prices at rock - bottom levels, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau remains convinced that his long - promised, big - budget infrastructure investment will be the answer to all short - and long - term ills.

Honestly, people who hate religion speak of him in glowing terms and they even assume he would tolerate gays today because they revere him as a saint.

Anyway, if we're missing ideological (or whatever you want to call it) diversity we sure have lots of all the other kinds, including, I'm sure, plenty of sinners like me, and even, I would be willing to bet, a few saints.

I ask this for three reasons: 1) Warfield begins the chapter with Edward Gibbon's conversion to Catholicism, which was related to Gibbon's belief in the continuation of the miraculous; 2) he spends several pages in the same chapter critiquing another famous convert to Catholicism, John Henry Newman, noting what he sees as Newman's shift toward the miraculous; 3) even though he knows that Gregory of Nyssa, Athanasius, and Jerome all wrote about saints in which the miraculous was prominent, he still makes the claim that these «saints» lives» follow other Christian romances and thus represent an infusion of Heathenism into the church.

Therefore, even if one has not (yet) been excommunicated, one can not both be at variance with the law of the land and, in good conscience, claim to be a Latter - day Saint (the prefered reference to a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints, «saint» being used by us in the Bibilical sense of the word, meaning «member» or «believer&raqSaint (the prefered reference to a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints, «saint» being used by us in the Bibilical sense of the word, meaning «member» or «believer&raqsaint» being used by us in the Bibilical sense of the word, meaning «member» or «believer»).

Even my late sainted mother - in - law, a devout Catholic, said that she would line them all up and «cut off their equipment!»

I'm sure that was an innocent oversight because everyone knows that coffee is a requirement at any gathering of the saints — or even those who are not so saintly.

Even St. Augustine, the Saint whose writings had great influence on the Reformers did not oppose nature to Grace, but was a synergist in the Apostolic and Patristic Tradition:

I point this out because even if JPII has been beatified sooner and may be canonized sooner than people in the past, it doesn't mean that he actually becomes a saint sooner, or gets any sort of «preferential treatment» from God.

anything else, even the daintiest theology, that divides people into sinners and saints goes against the spirit.

Alexander III, following the ancient tradition of the Church declared that «After a lawfully accorded consent affecting the present, it is allowed to one of the parties, even against the will of the other, to choose a monastery (just as certain saints have been called from marriage), provided that carnal intercourse shall not have taken place between them; and it is allowed to the one who is left to proceed to a second marriage» (III Decretal., xxxii, 2).

It was a real Body of Christ, even though a mixed Body of saints and sinners, and according to Article VII of the Augsburg Confession it will endure forever.

A thousand years ago — or even twenty - five years ago — the roster of canonized saints was severely circumscribed.

Following tradition and a practice recommended by saints, I can join my spirit to the body and blood of Christ by lifting up to God my desire for Holy Communion even when I don't consume a consecrated host.

It is even said that when such «saints» die they should have distinctive tombs, high domed, and lighted at night; that one should seek their blessings, offer them pledges, and bow before them.

Even highly educated people, persons who are otherwise skeptical of religion in general, are devoted admirers of saints and believe literally in the miracles ascribed to them.

Maybe the church in Ireland should spend a little LESS time worrying about what happened to some 884 - year - old body part (which I'm sure didn't even belong to the saint they claim it did!)

God became man at Christmas to redeem and share in the lives of saints and sinners alike - even «high - level sinners,» Francis said.

Even when life after death was a very vague hope, held by only a few, scornfully denied by some, supposed to affect only a selected group of saints and sinners, (E.g., Daniel 12:2.)

Whatever the future holds for Chesterton's cause, his greatest legacy isn't about being a brilliant intellectual, or an immortal man of letters, or even a possible saint.

Nor the angels, saints in heaven and even the son of God doesn't know the exact time of his return, Only the Heavenly Father.

Even worse, we might one day find out that praying to saints is exactly the same as worshiping a golden calf - it is blasphemy to believe that anyone other than God hears our prayers, according to the Bible.

Even the Old Testament saints, who never heard the gospel as we have, will enjoy eternity with God because of what Jesus did for sinners.

It could be your mother, your sister, your wife, your best friend, your Sunday school teacher from long ago, a pastor, a mentor, a saint from centuries past, or even a woman you met for only a few minutes but whose presence changed you.

Commenting about the doubts Mother Teresa experienced, Gumpel asked, «Do not these researchers understand that periods of doubt, and even severe trials of faith, have affected some of the Church's greatest saints — St. John of the Cross, Therese of Lisieux — and that persevering and overcoming them is considered one of the signs of sanctity?»

Collections for poor saints (widows, orphans, crippled etc.) 1Co 16:1 - 2 Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye.

Just keep praying, fasting, and reading your BIBLE and i will see all the saints on WED @ chick fillet Romans chapter 1 verse 26 thru 28 26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

But for Christians who think this consitutes «persecution», I might suggest you read more about the lives and deaths of the saints of old, or the plight of Christians in China and many countries even today.

You didn't even attempt to try to tell me why Saint Nicolas never existed or why miracles are not any more real than magic.

They do not give us so much in the way of personal inspiration — not even much positive statement of the faith which, Jude says, «was once for all delivered to the saints.»

Although those contemporary theologies which stress the persistence of sin even in the best Christians have a note of truth which rightly challenges complacency about the redeemed life, it is also true that there are Christian saints who attain to a very high measure of the God - centered faith and love portrayed by Jesus.

Almost all similar statements are indebted to White; they even cite the same examples: grief over the destruction of the sacred groves; respect for Saint Francis of Assisi.

When one looks at the most beautiful or historically important buildings in the World, they tend to be religious monuments — the pyramids of Egypt and Mesoamerica, the great cathedrals of Europe, Spilt Blood and St. Isaacs in Saint Petersburg, the Greek and Roman temples, the Taj Mahal, the Wots of Asia, even the modern Mormon temples in Salt Lake City and the like.

How ironic that such a peaceful mantra would actually serve to cause even more grief and suffering (let me point at the middle east for example, KKK, slavery in the U.S. (to some extent), Holocaust and other forms of religious persecution, and finally the manipulation of peasants to fill up the coffers of child molesting Popes... which makes modern politicians of this day look like a Saint).