Sentences with phrase «exhortations which»

He hears in church a great many platitudes and familiar moral exhortations which do not move him much, with now and then a sermon which gives great comfort and support to the inner life.

The exhortation which I quoted in full had several significant references to the Bible and to the Holy Scriptures.

There is an equally large, if not still greater, amount of paraklesis, of the kind of exhortation which is a kind of Christian pep - talk.

Law firm management on this issues frequently amounts of an occasional exhortation which produces an intermittent sputter of activity.

Not exact matches

For the consecrated life (as John Paul II taught in the 1996 apostolic exhortation Vita Consecrata) is the spiritual engine of the Church, in which the energies of evangelism are refined and shared in a great exchange of gifts by which the entire Church, the bride of Christ, strives for union with her divine spouse.

Like, for example, the recent apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia, the meaning of which seems to have the College of Cardinals currently at odds.

But no matter where you stand on the Institutional, organized, house, or Hot tub Gathering you can not deny that Gods word... (which hasn't been sited here) Declares that the Gathering of ourselves shouldn't be forsaken Heb, 10:25 not a guilt trip, control tactic etc. but instruction and exhortation from The Word of God.

Non-religious interpretation is not just an invitation to the self - sufficient world of Marx, but an exhortation to take responsibility of the reality of this world, the norm and standard of which is Jesus Christ himself.

The Vatican issued the English translation of «Evangelii,» which is known officially as an apostolic exhortation and unofficially as a pep talk to the worlds 1.5 billion Catholics.

In that this exhortation to deeds of love is sanctioned by an appeal to the eschatological judgment, at which Jesus appears as Son of Man and judge, however, the lure toward love is bracketed by an implicit recognition of its confessional context.

The passage itself embodies a strongly christological thrust in the phrase «you did it to me,» which makes Jesus in some sense the referent of all the deeds of mercy done in the world.3 More importantly, Matthew attaches the pericope to a series of exhortations obviously intended to encourage the Christian community to persevere until the final judgment; 4 thus the deeds of mercy inculcated are direct responses to the Christian proclamation (7:794).

Matthew reports next (5:16) a sentence of exhortation, which points the moral of the saying about salt and light: «Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.»

To be well preached they ought not merely to be exhortations to pray — which most of the hearers have heard many times — nor should they consist mainly of stories of remarkable answers to prayer in which apparently God was persuaded to manage affairs according to the petitioner's request.

Which is why, I am certain, Christ included the next exhortation at the end of verse 28.

The idea comes in part from St John Paul's apostolic exhortation Familiaris Consortio, in which the pope indicated that as human persons we know, love and accomplish moral goodness in stages of growth.

John Paul II wrote in the apostolic exhortation Christifideles Laici: «The common outcry, which is justly made on behalf of human rights — for example, the right to health, to home, to work, to family, to culture — is false and illusory if the right to life, the most basic and fundamental right and the condition of all other personal rights, is notdefended with maximum determination.»

Exhortation typically calls for a change of behavior without offering the congregation a new metaphor by which to understand the world.

No, God demands the opposite: that we become inwardly attentive to his quiet exhortation, which is present in us and which tears us away from what is merely habitual and puts us on the road to truth.

Avery Dulles In general terms, Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life), which was issued by John Paul II last March, is an analysis of the «culture of death» and an exhortation to promote the «culture of life.»

I often refer to Paul's exhortation in Romans 12, which says don't let the world squeeze you into its mold, but let God remold your mind from within.

As Cardinal Ratzinger put it in a CDF document on communion for the remarried, «The structure of the Exhortation [Familiaris Consortio] and the tenor of its words give clearly to understand that this practice, which is presented as binding, can not be modified because of different situations.»

In general terms, Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life), which was issued by John Paul II last March, is an analysis of the «culture of death» and an exhortation to promote the «culture of life.»

It would be possible to parallel Gustafson's fair and careful criticisms with exhortations from the Second Vatican Council, which urged correctives in precisely these areas.

This was but one of numerous prayers, exhortations and warnings — the latter included a list of all the unpleasant things which the novice must expect, the restricted diet, the cold, the rising to recite the Office in church while it was still dark, the shame of having to go begging in the streets.

But we can see it in the way in which the exhortation turns marriage into something we aspire to rather than a sacramental reality we can rely on.

The very phrase with which Pope Benedict begins his recent apostolic exhortation, Sacramentum Caritatis, is taken from St Thomas's Summa Theologica (III, q. 83, a. 3).

I rose from my knees and commenced an exhortation, after which I sang a hymn.

Father John Boyle, on his blog «South Ashford Priest» (the sudden rise of these excellent clergy blogs seems to be a sign of the times), reports that he has discovered contrasting translations of Sacramentum Caritatis, which lead him to comment that he will «have to re-read the apostolic exhortation in a completely different light... Where, in the English, the Pope might be saying «It would be awfully decent of you chaps to...» I shall have to interpret it as: «What I want / command from now on is that...».»

However the real process of character formation involves not merely an absorption of precepts, but also the general orientation of the soul in which the ethical life is integrated with «the good life» in its broadest sense, so that morality becomes a matter of aspiration as well as exhortation.

Osama bin Laden composed an ode to the destruction of the USS Cole in 2000, which he recited at his son's wedding, and a second example of his verse was discovered in an abandoned safe house in Kabul, having been distributed among trainee jihadis as an exhortation to fight.

Any Conservatives reading this might scoff at the comparison - which only goes to show how effective their leader's exhortations have been.

Paul addresses this very issue with the Philippians in 4:1 which forms a bridge between his discussion in chapter 3 and his exhortations in chapter 4.

Some groups condemned the governor for calling on districts to direct more of their state aid to their neediest schools — an exhortation that seemed at odds with his history of fighting the state's Foundation Aid formula, which directs more money to the state's poorest school districts and which advocates argue is itself underfunded.

Exhortations to scientists to create wealth are wicked in the same way, because they devalue the real contribution made by science, which need not be related directly to making money.

In the early going, my own lizard brain resisted with a couple of clever arguments (noted in this blog post) to Seth's exhortation, which will come as no surprise to him.

Which is obviously an exhortation that can just as usefully be applied self - critically... OK yeah, I worry, so I obviously rationalise & anaesthetise these anxieties accordingly — but in reality, my fully - invested portfolio is a resounding confirmation of my past, present & continuing bullish stance on the markets.

The conception of a sky understood as non-addition becomes full of references and manifests itself in the structure of these works that delineate negative spaces, real exhortations to the sky which from time to time are dressed as the land.

Thus, Emmott's tedious essay — which, in my view contains not a single original idea, but merely rehashes the standard Chicken Little exhortations found in books such as The Population Bomb (1968), Planetary Overload (1993) and Our Final Hour (2003)-- whispers the following into our ear:

But I had not yet seen this video, which mashes up statements from Bill Nye, David Attenborough, Isaac Asimov and NASA climatologist Richard Alley into an auto - tuned climate change primer / save - the - world exhortation.