Sentences with phrase «for his holiness as»

I have the utmost respect for His Holiness as a...

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In so doing, he has appeased His Holiness, Justice, and Wrath; He has conquered the enemy that we brought into the world by our rebellion, which is death itself, by rising from the dead and living and reigning as victorious King and Savior; and He has reconciled those who believe in Him to Himself that they may live life eternal with Him at the consummation of all perfection, for perfection will be restored as He has promised!

And just as there are certainties we have learned from nature, such as the laws of science, gravity, and thermodynamics, there are also certainties we can learn from Scripture, such as the holiness of God, our own sinfulness, and our need to believe in Jesus for eternal life.

For as it is apparent, the reason evil exists is to train the Faithful in holiness!

As a generation known for reacting (and often over-reacting) against those who've gone before us, have we made this mistake with holiness?

The present Pope's own admiration and support for science, as evidenced in His Holiness's addresses to the Pontifical Academy for Science, and to the Vatican Observatory, goes unreported.

He will remind members of the congregation that the Church has for 20 centuries defended and proposed the «greatness of marriage» as a «path to holiness, for the perfecting of human love and as the foundation of the family».

Beyond the considerable body of research that has emerged in the past three decades which demonstrates that women played a far more generous role in the early Church than perhaps Neuhaus has imagined, my own Wesleyan holiness tradition has apparently escaped his ecumenical vision as well for it was already ordaining women in the nineteenth century.

But if we repent of these things, and, as Zacharias says in Luke 1:75, serve God in holiness and righteousness, it will go a long way in preparing the way for others to meet the Messiah.

It's amazing how even as Christians, people who are called to walk in holiness and stand for truth and righteousness, we will turn a blind - eye to the actions of someone because they play for our favorite team.

As Stratford Caldecott wrote in his preface: «There is a crying need for holiness, among both clergy and laity, a holiness which takes the example of Christ himself as its source, and it seems to me that it would be most helpful to have such «centres of holiness» in this country.&raquAs Stratford Caldecott wrote in his preface: «There is a crying need for holiness, among both clergy and laity, a holiness which takes the example of Christ himself as its source, and it seems to me that it would be most helpful to have such «centres of holiness» in this country.&raquas its source, and it seems to me that it would be most helpful to have such «centres of holiness» in this country.»

Some anthropologists do respect distinctly religious ideas such as holiness and life - after - death, but many still try to explain religion away as no more than a shared «language» for expressing social patterns, calming irrational fears or marking men as somehow different from animals.

As Selvaggi writes, «the nature of consecrated virginity [is] holiness of body and soul, the one inseparable from the other, both for the glory of God in humble service and modest living in a stable way of life.»

Leonard presents personal sanctity as very much within reach — undeniably important for those who feel holiness is a strange and beautiful concept somehow reserved only for the great heroes in faith.

One could turn to many artists for a precedent for a newly evangelised culture comprising imaginative activities that are open to the transcendent, a culture that integrates human creativity in art, literature and science with the call to holiness, to a life that acknowledges truth, goodness and beauty as having their source in the divine.

Please don't feel sorry for me; the balance between concupiscence and holiness is carefully but eloquently held in the Western theological tradition, and as an inheritor of that tradition, I'm really rather joyful — Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me!

The fact that Hartshorne can give little meaning to the «absolute Absolute's» functioning apart from contingency indicates strongly that there may be a failure in his theology to account completely for what many theologians have thought of as the transcendence or holiness of God.

Bishop Angaelos said: «This is a historic visit, not only of the 118th Pope of Alexandria to the United Kingdom, but more personally for His Holiness Pope Tawadros, as his first engagement with his flock across Britain.

The Hebrew could not even say the name as they had reverence for the Holiness of God.

We are called on to clarify what God in the historical labor for holiness and justice wrests from us as sound teaching.

The Holiness reform impulse is largely evaporated, and often in the recent identification with the «evangelical» world even repudiated as inappropriate for a properly «spiritual» and «evangelistic» church.

Founders of the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) sought to broaden their base just as the Holiness and Pentecostal churches were reaching for wider acceptance.

To interpret the statement as a straightforward affirmation of Reformed commitments, as de Chirico does, smacks of the way Pentecostal and holiness churches were initially invited to join the National Association of Evangelicals for their numbers, not their theology, a history Molly Worthen has chronicled in her Apostles of Reason.

To be free of ideological captivity is to «join the community of struggle,» to oppose racism and sexism, to fight for human rights and women's ordination, to engage in social action, to envision «holiness as justice,» and to develop nonsexist language and imagery in order to «empower» and free the congregation to engage in the «struggle for liberation.»

3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; 4 that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, 5 not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God; 6 that no one transgress and wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you.

As the Nazi's raised hell in the Holocaust in Europe in the 1930s and early 40s, his holiness Pius XII stood silently by... Fast forward to the epidemic of priestly pedophilia, covered up and stone - walled for decades by the Holy See.

The reasons for this are complex, and have at least something to do with Vatican II's efforts to re-valorize the lay state as a path to holiness.

God, the process in human nature identifiable as holiness or transcendence, becomes the power making for salvation in organic human societies which achieve self - consciousness (INNW 38).

Some even treat the absence of a certain «orthodox» profession as a lack of holiness and a ground for excommunication.

As will soon be evident, the writer believes that Christian perfection — or holiness, as the doctrine is more popularly called — stands in one sense for a very important and vital trutAs will soon be evident, the writer believes that Christian perfection — or holiness, as the doctrine is more popularly called — stands in one sense for a very important and vital trutas the doctrine is more popularly called — stands in one sense for a very important and vital truth.

The result of this division has been stacks of ugly and unread Bibles, and art so distanced from holiness as to evoke despair of any search for beauty or truth.

For those Pentecostals, they do see the Baptism of the Holy Spirit as a second experience of grace, but not compeltely related to sanctification (as early Pentecostal / Holiness groups did).

Now he is in a denominational leadership role as director of church multiplication and director of African - American ministries for the International Pentecostal Holiness Church.

Moral evil He can not will, either as end or means, for that would contradict his holiness.

There is first of all «dulia,» or the reverence which may be paid to men who, by virtue of their «holiness,» are regarded as dwelling - places for the Spirit of God.

Heb 12:14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: Heb 12:15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; Heb 12:16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.

I lean towards the third view... but I admit it is the most difficult of the three views... Christ's priorities appear to be «love in motion» flowing in almost unpredictable directions as dictated by the greatest need: — He heals a slave rather than rebukes slavery; — He heals a man at a pool, then leads the man to belief, then says «cease from sinning»; — He heals many others and says «go and sin no more» to but a few; — He shares money with the poor but establishes no long - term aid; — He touches lepers; He converses with seeking Pharisees; He debates with other Pharisees; He lives with Samaritan outcasts for two days; — He acknowledges the five «marriages» of the Samaritan woman as «marriages»... and then remarks about her current co-habitation... but then moves to higher priorities; — He seems so very focused on internal holiness and not on external holiness; — He violates the Sabbath; He says He is Lord of the Sabbath; He even says that the Sabbath was created to assist man, rather than man created to serve the Sabbath... thus turning the entire concept of the Law into one of assistance rather than being chained to obedience; — He insists on impartiality in the way we bless others, even if we call them «evil» or «good».

«The rational choice reading of holiness as Mother Teresa's ranking preference explains this otherwise puzzling lapse of compassion for the sick as calculated utility maximization.»

The author of the Ephesians is not talking about some future horizon so much as the actual and present means for edifying, for «building up» the Church; so that she can preach the fullness of Christ's message of salvation and so serve the holiness of its members.

God's attributes as such, his holiness, his justice, his mercy, his absoluteness, his infinity, his omniscience, his tri-unity, the various mysteries of the redemptive process, the operation of the sacraments, etc., have proved fertile wells of inspiring meditation for Christian believers.

19, often referred to as the highest development of ethics in the Old Testament, begins: «You shall be holy, for I, Yahweh your God am holy»; and for the most part throughout the chapter the terms of holiness are moral and ethical.

For me it doesn't matter whether my pastor is a man or a woman as long as there is holiness in his / her life, that through him / her you can see Jesus and living what they preach.

In the temple at Jerusalem, too, sacrifices and prayers were offered regularly for the Caesar, and Jewish leaders were satisfied so long as the Romans showed a certain consideration for the holiness of Jerusalem.

His Sources of Christian Ethics is a magisterial account of what went wrong with moral theology and, more importantly, how to understand the Christian life as a journey toward the good, as a call to holiness, rather than as a roadmap for avoiding the impermissible.

In place of «holiness» as the imitatio dei followed by the other renewal movements («You shall be holy; for I the Lord your God am holy,» Lev.

The politics and economics and sometimes the family life of human groups are regarded by the extremer advocates of holiness faith as too defiling for contact.

For the rigidity of the law it substituted the life of the spirit; it scorned the cautious wisdom of the sage to bless the trusting faith of a child; from the beauty of the flesh it turned to the beauty of holiness; it regarded man as a prodigal son and a lost sheep, lost but for the grace of the Divine Shepherd.&raqFor the rigidity of the law it substituted the life of the spirit; it scorned the cautious wisdom of the sage to bless the trusting faith of a child; from the beauty of the flesh it turned to the beauty of holiness; it regarded man as a prodigal son and a lost sheep, lost but for the grace of the Divine Shepherd.&raqfor the grace of the Divine Shepherd.»

The Christian Holiness Association even attempted «confederation» in the mid-1960s but had to settle for a more loosely organized program of «cooperative ministries» in such areas as publishing and evangelism.

The «rapid about - face» began in the early 1960s under the impulse of the Second Vatican Council and «its willingness to address non-Catholic Christians as «brothers,» to acknowledge that blame lay on both sides for the ecclesiastical ruptures of the Reformation, to stress the unique role of Christ as mediator between God and humanity, and to urge ordinary lay Catholics to live lives of practical Christian holiness.»

Suffice for now is to say this: it is my opinion that 1) Scripture is clear that God's wrath and holiness demanded a sin payment, 2) as I read your articles you seem to be trying to use every logical, illustrative, and theological trick to convince yourself it's not true, but it's like you're losing the argument with yourself, 3) I really enjoyed that you broadened the truth of salvation through Jesus past justification (which many fundamentals focus on) to include redemption, sanctification, covenant marriage, adoption, etc..