«The Vegetarian was sparked by my uncertainty about the spectrum of humanity — a spectrum that stretches
from holiness to horror.»
Upon graduation he also received a special award
from His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Here are ten life changing tips inspired by quotes
from His Holiness, the Dalai Lama: 1.
6:4 - 5) and the famous words
from the holiness code of Leviticus (19.18).
As we near the end of the age as we know it, the unsaved whom only the Father can call (Matthew 22:14; John 16:3), have filled the avenues as a reminder of how far
from holiness we are as a whole.
The efficacy of the Eucharist fows
from the holiness of those incorporated into Christ, in contradistinction to the frailty of its indispensable priestly ministers.
Christians who don't know their Bible, who worship God with their lips but shy away
from holiness, are.
Pentecostals
from a Holiness background still, to this day, often debate things like wearing makeup and generally don't drink alchohol (like their Wesleyan cousins).
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.
Rather the texts come
from the Holiness Code in the Hebrew scriptures or from some of Paul's letters to the early Christians.
«This has been a difficult year for Christians in Egypt with recent and ongoing attacks, and thus the visit will also be an opportunity for their brothers and sisters to hear directly
from His Holiness about the situation there, and how they can provide greater support for them.»
The joy which results
from holiness is the deeper satisfaction and certainty which comes from the revelation that things are as they should be, indeed must be.
To me it would make him a much more relatable human and doesn't take away
from his holiness.
People like us shy away
from holiness, worried about ostentatiousness or self - righteous punctiliousness.
To conceive of God apart
from His holiness is intrinsically impossible.
«a non-Jewish soul comes from the three satanic spheres, while the Jewish soul stems
from holiness.»
Not exact matches
Hopes were dashed after His
Holiness Abune Antonios was stopped
from asking a question during the service and promptly whisked away
from the building afterwards.
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!
From the outer reaches of Spatial Nothingness and even far into the innermost depths of all Atomized Nothingness Realms, God's Holiness Spirit will forever dwell apart from and forever within us al
From the outer reaches of Spatial Nothingness and even far into the innermost depths of all Atomized Nothingness Realms, God's
Holiness Spirit will forever dwell apart
from and forever within us al
from and forever within us all...
We seek to please Him by offering Him a willing and contrite heart, ready to learn
from our mistakes and delve into the messiness that is the realm of
holiness.
And this is why you hate God, aside
from your appeti.te for sensual sin and His
holiness.
They largely withdrew
from politics, the academy and pop culture into safe enclaves of
holiness to await Christ's return.
I can't stop you
from writing garbage against the catholic church or his
holiness.
Holiness is
from God and embodies fully compassion.
That said, those who ARE looking for something apart
from empiricism and existentialism, those who are looking for some purpose and meaning to existence, need to see authenticity and integrity in the church i.e
holiness.
Ironically, it is somewhat homophobic to think that gay people need a different rule
from everyone else, as if we are less capable of sexual
holiness than straight people.
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.
As He spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets, Who have been since the world began, That we should be saved
from our enemies And
from the hand of all who hate us, To perform the mercy promised to our fathers And to remember His holy covenant, The oath which He swore to our father Abraham: To grant us that we, Being delivered
from the hand of our enemies, Might serve Him without fear, In
holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our life.
The result is basically a «convertive piety» with its call to self conscious conversion, the experience of the «new birth,» and a life of «
holiness» that is demonstrably and empirically distinct
from the rest of the world in its expression of «actual righteousness.»
The bottom line is that the
holiness we need comes not
from our own works, but
from Jesus Christ Himself, who gives it to us freely when we believe in Him for eternal life.
Priestly loving is not an equal relationship: it has «the unique challenge, the authority which enters the soul to prompt goodness,
holiness and to release
from sinful ways... [It is] a Christ relationship» (TPL p. 7).
Is it possible our generation over-corrected
from and overreacted to a version of
holiness which was really a legalistic emphasis on certain behaviors?
But in our steering away
from legalism, I wonder if we left the road to
holiness or began to forget that God also cares about what we do and how we do it and why.»
It is this which would give what theology has called «immunity
from concupiscence» in the state of original
holiness and justice.
Holiness, to me, means committing every area of my life —
from sex, to food, to time, to work — to the lordship of Jesus.
He then ends the chapter with «But now being made free
from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto
holiness, and the end everlasting life.
Sanctification (
holiness of life) must be utterly distinguished
from justification (God's decree that we are holy in spite of our sin) and is to all intents and purposes irrelevant.
Have we steered so far away
from legalism that in doing so, we also abandoned a pursuit of
holiness?
Good question... If the person speaking
from the pulpit is commited to pursuing
holiness, then I believe that they are speaking for God.
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.
If I seal up the entry into my heart I must dwell in darkness — and not only I, my individual soul, but the whole universe in so far as its activity sustains my organism and awakens my consciousness, and in so far also as I act upon it in my turn so as to draw forth
from it the materials of sensation, of ideas, of moral goodness, of
holiness of life.
In their attempt to grow in
holiness by carefully observing rules about food and purity» the Pharisees may have kept themselves apart
from ordinary people, rather as some vegetarians are reluctant to eat with those who have chosen meat, or as the early Methodists, with their stress on temperance, kept themselves apart
from those who drank alcohol.
Maybe if we worked harder on our own lives, focused on how we are treating others, a more holistic
holiness could finally exude
from our lives.
That is to say, anything holy was dangerous to meddle with, and, far
from having ethical connotation,
holiness meant unapproachableness.
(Isaiah 6:1 - 3) Such a God was not lightly to be approached; an inviolability not to be profaned lay deep in Isaiah's thought of the Eternal; but reverence had taken the place of dread as the corollary of
holiness, majesty had displaced the former dangerousness of the deity, and the response demanded
from man by the
holiness of the Most High had become thoroughly ethical.
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.
Far
from being synonymous with goodness or righteousness, therefore, «
holiness,» at the first, suggested the aloofness and inviolability of the god.
Even when we seem to be making great strides in
holiness if we slip into presumptuous pride it is possible for us to fall
from grace.
There increasing
holiness was denoted by increasing remoteness
from the common man, until, farthest away of all, absolutely inviolable to the ordinary worshiper, the acme of sanctity and separateness, stood the Holy of Holies, into which even the high priest went only once a year.
The particular role of the Petrine principle (through its objectified
holiness and rule), in relation to this mutual love, is to prevent us
from proposing our own human spirit as the Holy Spirit.