Sentences with phrase «for saintliness»

I do not pretend that this new insight made for saintliness.

Not exact matches

For example, the Protestant doctrine that we are all sinners is reflected in the Freudian - Marxist behaviorist - positivist claptrap claiming that there is no virtue, that all our actions arise from dark psychic urges, exploitative class greed or biological impulses — which supposedly proves that talk about good and evil, right and wrong, and certainly saintliness is illusory.

It is not saintliness and perfection Jesus looks for or expects because he can not work through those things.

That professor's tribute to Maritain's saintliness, his gentleness, his childlike manner has remained with me, especially the unusual word (for Harvard), «childlike.»

For the Church's holiness does not in some Pelagian sense directly depend upon her members» deeds - even though by their lives the saints among her do manifest her saintliness to the world and contribute through their graced cooperation to her growth in goodness.

The collective name for the ripe fruits of religion in a character is Saintliness.

The saintly character is the character for which spiritual emotions are the habitual centre of the personal energy; and there is a certain composite photograph of universal saintliness, the same in all religions, of which the features can easily be traced.

Man does not have to achieve for himself particular qualities, either an especial virtue or an especial saintliness; he must simply be obedient, and for that he needs no special qualities.

Of course the wealthy members of the church gave up their property for the common good, but voluntarily as an offering, not in order to gain especial saintliness.

A lower example still of theopathic saintliness is that of Saint Gertrude, a Benedictine nun of the thirteenth century, whose «Revelations,» a well - known mystical authority, consist mainly of proofs of Christ's partiality for her undeserving person.

Though Kingsley's saturnine poise is much more interesting in roles which call for varying degrees of slipperiness (Death and the Maiden, Sexy Beast), he nevertheless manages to bring shades into the inherently monochromatic saintliness of the role with life - sized, profoundly felt gravity and dignity, all while executing that marvelous, peculiarly British trick (remember Robert Donat in Goodbye, Mr. Chips) of seeming to age from within.

It is difficult not to admire Leigh's boldness in giving the Christian virtues of selfless generosity, charitable goodwill and quiet passivity to a backstreet abortionist, but by presenting Vera with an almost cartoonlike saintliness from start to finish, Leigh misses an opportunity to engage seriously with the moral complexity of the abortion issue — and some viewers will be left longing for Vera to be a shadier, more difficult figure, like the protagonist of Leigh's far more confronting «Naked» (1993).

They offer more of Todd's saintliness (as conscientious wrestling coach, father, and mourner), a glimpse at Sonja's mothering and an explanation for Thomas Haden Church's character lack of a family.

Cheery Outback owners value their wagons for their practical size, all - weather tractability, fuel efficiency and all - round saintliness.

I'd also leave room to consider vanity and inexperience as alternatives to lack of «saintliness» for explaining presenters who present one - sided reports.