Sentences with phrase «gradually learns the man»

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And those who do live the life of the community, seeking to appropriate for themselves its central affirmations, yet unconcerned about the peripheral, secondary, and now and again misleading assertions and practices that have often been associated with those essentials; those who learn gradually to join in its prayers and receive the sacraments, and to read the Bible with open, earnest, yet critical minds; those who endeavor with heart and soul to express in daily life the Christian principle of life «in Christ» — such men and women will find increasingly that they genuinely belong.

«My homosexuality, my exclusive attraction to other men, my grief over it and my repentance, my halting effort to live fittingly in the grace of Christ and the power of the Spirit — gradually I am learning not to view all of these things as confirmations of my rank corruption and hypocrisy.

Gradually the political rulers of Islam lost their religious aura and the rulers came to be replaced, as the conscience - keepers of the community, by the ulama or learned men, who had studied the holy law in depth.