Sentences with phrase «for his holiness of»

Church discipline matters not just for the sake of affecting elections, but for the care of souls and for the holiness of the church «without which no one will see the Lord» (Heb.12: 14).

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

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.

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We have prayed more for the world, more for holiness, more for our neighbor... thinking of other's well - being rather than self....

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!

1 Timothy 2: 1 - 4 I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people — for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness.

There is a precedent for this development in the late - nineteenth - century holiness movement, with its ethos of populism and Protestant pluralism.

For all the darkness and violence of Angels, these characters have other qualities, hinted at by the title: innocence, purity, naïveté, even holiness.

These were their thoughts, but they erred; for their wickedness blinded them, And they knew not the hidden counsels of God; neither did they count on a recompense of holiness nor discern the innocent souls» reward.

«I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people — for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness.

The first articulation of this significance is found in the Old Testament — the ideal of personal holiness, the concern for the poor and the needy, the equitable relation that was to exist in criminal matters.

First, they undermine obedience to God in all areas of life, and circumvent the suffering necessary for holiness.

The verses says... 1I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone — 2for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness.

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.

Paul wants his readers to put off that old way of conduct, and live their new life in the Spirit with the new man which was created by God for righteousness and holiness (Ephesians 4:22 - 24).

Holiness for me was found in the mess and labour of giving birth, in birthday parties and community pools, in the battling sweetness of breastfeeding, in the repetition of cleaning, in the step of faith it took to go back to church again, in the hours of chatting that have to precede the real heart - to - heart talks, in the yelling at my kids sometimes, in the crying in restaurants with broken hearted friends, in the uncomfortable silences at our bible study when we're all weighing whether or not to say what we really think, in the arguments inherent to staying in love with each other, in the unwelcome number on the scale, in the sounding out of vowels during bedtime book reading, in the dust and stink and heat of a tent city in Port au Prince, in the beauty of a soccer game in the Haitian dust, in the listening to someone else's story, in the telling of my own brokenness, in the repentance, in the secret telling and the secret keeping, in the suffering and the mourning, in the late nights tending sick babies, in confronting fears, in the all of a life.

In Christ alone does the feminine structure of holiness become real: he literally pours his blood out for the sake of another, he literally lays his life down to bring forth the life of another, he literally opens up the table of his own body to feed and calm another.

Husbands were told to love their wives the way Christ loved the church when He gave Himself up for her — gave up His power and position to come down to the level of a servant — so that He could raise the church up to His holiness.

The resolution offered in all three passages is also remarkably similar: God recruits the prophet to plead on behalf of the poor and needy; Timothy recruits the community for a vocation of holiness; and the crafty worker fiddles with the books to recruit sympathy for himself.

For many of us, this idea of holiness was replaced with youth group conversations of «how many non-Christian friends can you have without compromising?»

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».

Someone Who Is Holy isn't pacing down the grocery store aisle with three tinies hanging off the cart and coupons in her purse, she isn't running the dryer again to «fluff» the clothes that have sat in there too long, she isn't snorting while she laughs at television shows on Netflix, she isn't on her hands and knees wiping up someone else's vomit, she isn't locking the bedroom door and throwing a saucy look of promise at her husband because clearly good sex isn't included in the holiness life, she doesn't sweat, she doesn't turn on cartoons for three - minutes - of - peace - for - the - love.

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.

The Scriptures are sacred because they present the thoughts and acts of men who were searching for God, and who in these writings left on record their highest concepts of righteousness, truth, and holiness.

The first is Romans 1:2, but there the word Paul uses for «holy» is hagiais instead of the normal word for divine holiness, hierais.

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.

Only through this second experience of Joy did Lewis fully recognize Joy's «bright shadow» for what it was: «holiness.

Walter Hooper, «On C. S. Lewis and the Narnian Chronicles,» quoted in Eliane Tixier, «Imagination Baptized, or, «Holiness» in the Chronicles of Narnia,» in The Longing for a Form: Essays on the Fiction

I prefer to avoid the term «objective» in speaking of the Atonement, partly because of its obvious philosophical difficulties and partly because many theologians have assumed that the death of Christ can have objective efficacy only if it is an act directed either towards God, in satisfaction of his justice or in somehow making it possible for his love to operate for the forgiveness of sinners without compromising his holiness, or towards a personal devil in somehow liberating sinners from his clutches.

The other, very widely prevalent, aberration is the substitution of beauty for holiness.

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.

After spending 20 years tryng to worship in the Protestant realms, I had a deep desire for the «traditional» worship and holiness of God the «the» Church.

God is not maniacally killing anyone in the Old Testament, but is demonstrating the dire consequences of sin, the dire need for a Savior who has come, and the need for the indwelling power of His Spirit to transform the life so that living pleases God who is our righteousness, holiness, and redemption (Gen. 3:15; Gal.

This is the foundation of our faith» (Pope Paul VI)-- and it comes with a responsibility for «my brothers» holiness», in other words, evangelisation.

Chesterton's charity, humility, and passionate love for truth have also been highlighted by Italian scholar Paolo Gulisano, and in a recent anthology, The Holiness of G.K. Chesterton.

After felicitously noting that for Soloveitchik «victory and defeat are of equal value,» he succumbs to the natural pull of a more one - sided, hierarchical position, writing that the motion of submissive retreat «is inherently endowed with holiness,» while «the act of advance is not in itself holy,» and so must be «imbued with this quality through the willingness to accept defeat.»

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.»

The message for us seems to be that if we are to truly be able to influence Muslims then we should hope to emulate the holiness of St Francis, to preach the Gospel to them boldly but humbly, to be truly inspired by the Holy Spirit, so that our words and actions are not merely empty sounds and gestures.

In his Diary entry for 6 September 1979, Archbishop Romero wrote that Opus Dei «carries out a silent work of deep spirituality among professional people, university students and labourers... I think this is a mine of wealth for our Church — the holiness of the laity in their own profession.»

Isaiah of Jerusalem is notable for the way in which, far ahead of his time, he translated the idea of holiness into ethical meanings.

It corresponds to the deepest stirrings of the human heart and offers guidance for genuine growth in holiness and virtue.

For that reason, the celebration of a sacrament always results in an encounter with Christ, if the recipient is well disposed, because the encounter itself does not depend on the holiness of the minister (usually the priest).

There is for them only one God — he is holy, his land is holy, his nation is to be a holy people — and while the indiscriminate mixture of moral and ceremonial elements carries over old ideas even while it ventures into new ones, there is an evident elevation of the idea of holiness into terms of the divine majesty, and of the Most High's exclusive claim on man s devotion.

According to Leonard, the pursuit of holiness is something we must all strive for — «Our lives must radiate the power of Christ's grace and the warmth of his love.

For His Mother, too, He is the source of her holiness and the reason for her preservation from Original SFor His Mother, too, He is the source of her holiness and the reason for her preservation from Original Sfor her preservation from Original Sin.

The Pope wishes us to pray and consecrate ourselves to God through lives of faith and holiness accompanied by an outpouring of prayer for vocations, without which we would have no Eucharist.

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.»

In discussing the virgin birth, I argue that locating the body of Jesus in the eternal (and, for Mormons, procreative) relation of Father to Son does not demean the holiness of Mary's body.

The body of every saint is to an exceptional degree a temple of the Holy Ghost, and the impressive track record of cures (affirmed by the Catechism of the Council of Trent) presumably stems from a continuing connection between the physical remains and the possibility of divine intervention.Tradition suggests that the holiness and curative possibility is much greater for primary and secondary relics, but still exists for third - class, in this case the casket.

He expounds a vision that reaches for the ideal that draws people out of themselves towards God and the life of holiness.