Sentences with phrase «for holiness»

Of these, no one has been so influential in so many different spheres as Jacques Maritain (1882 — 1973), a man who, in addition to his intellectual stature, was widely esteemed for his holiness of life.

The Church has always linked personal asceticism and the search for holiness with this demand for mercy and justice to the poor; the Lenten trilogy of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving is both fundamental and structural.

The quest for holiness within the religious families taking the vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, was interpreted in terms of the paradigm of other - worldly salvation.

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.»

In our daily prayer and struggle for holiness we grow in friendship with him, and the more we «concede» to his will in love, the more strength and solace we shall receive.

The rays of light are stand - ins for holiness and divinity.

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

I was quite John Wesley-esque in terms of real passion for holiness; it felt like such a strange collision.

The damage this can do to the Church, her liturgy, her teaching, and above all to the yearning for holiness — which always requires renunciation of the goods of this world for love of the Good who infinitely transcends this world — is beyond calculation.

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

I have the utmost respect for His Holiness as a spiritual teacher — I used to revere him as an enlightened deity that resided in a realm well beyond my reach, as if he were God - like.

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

Scott Hahn has called Franciscan a «greenhouse for holiness.»

It is a license for Holiness.

The beginning point for the holiness that recovers and reorders life is indeed sabbath.

Thanksgiving for the holiness of life ought to arise in this love as in other natural loves.

In being involved in mission we too experience God working for holiness and justice in history — which in turn shapes our discipleship.

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

We need to continue work already begun by lay - people everywhere on a holistic depiction of God's grass - roots strivings for holiness and justice in history.

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.

«It was also an opportunity for His Holiness to meet his flock and to encounter some of the work being done under the various ministries within the Coptic Orthodox Church in the United Kingdom.»

The Hebrew word for holiness, «kedushah,» carries with it a connotation of separateness or distinctiveness.

Gee, one of those sound like it's a guideline for a Holiness Code book (see Leviticus Chapter 15 please...)

I don't want to mistake despair for holiness in these days.

In Chapter 5, we observed that the novelty of Jesus» consciousness of God comes to light in an especially shocking way in his critique of the alternative proposals for holiness set forth by several religious movements prevalent at the time he lived and proclaimed the Good News.

But exhortation does tend to morph from an encouragement to holiness to a legalistic demand for holiness.

While most church membership statistics are inflated, the opposite obtains for Holiness groups.

But I always have found it ironic that churches would go to Vegas for conferences or gambling junkets all while postulating for holiness.

It is there in its rich, broad claims for holiness and justice.

Pearson navigates the tension between the Bible's calls for holiness and justice this way: «I take the Bible seriously, just not literally,» he says.

For a few years, the Azusa Street mission became the best - known hub of a movement framed by premillennialist views, influenced by a Wesleyan fervor for holiness and committed to the practice of the spiritual gifts enumerated in 1 Corinthians 12.

I don't think there was a noticable difference between the two, but they need one or the other for the holiness!

For example, East Africa was evangelised, it is true, first by missionaries, but it was the East African Revival that set the pattern for holiness, for a vigour of lifestyle in relationship with Christ that so impressed an 18 year old teaching at Kiburu Secondary school.

Of course, joining twitter has one downside for his holiness — Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga can now say they have more followers than the Pope!

Bishop of Verona, Italy, revered for his holiness and learning.

So very thankful for the holiness given to us in Christ, our eternal gift from Him.

I think that true doctrine, when it is married to a genuine search for holiness, can often be a threat to us.

I recommend starting out by reading the Cliff Notes account of Book One, which tells of the adventures of Redcrosse Knight on his quest for holiness.

First, the hard science of believers and non-believers need not differ in techniques or analysis [2], but the «methodological atheism» [3] of the social sciences ignores, and thus in practice denies, man's need for holiness and redemption.