Sentences with phrase «great saint»

The Lachine Rapids, in fact, are the reason Montreal exists: they marked in the old days the point at which the great Saint Lawrence river became unnavigable.

History and Health of the Saint Bernard Dog Breed: The breed was known for their rescue work in the Great Saint Bernard Pass between Switzerland and Italy, particularly at a Hospice that was built for weary travelers where the St. Bernard was used as a guard, working, and rescue dog.

Rediscover the spiritual dimension of his life and help pupils to clarify possible misunderstandings and misconceptions surrounding this great Saint of Christianity with this eye - catching and informative lesson presentation.

Receiving his teachings from the great saint Swami Rama, this yoga guru dedicated his life in the up liftment of humanity.

Celebrated in the adoring memory of the Great Saint Valentine, a noble priest who devoted his life to uniting love and helping couples find their «happily ever after», Valentine's Day holds a special place in the hearts and souls that this day is a much - awaited day for entities across the planet.

JJ oooo JJ... the great Papa JJ... the one and only Junior Jesus... the great saint who never does wrong... you are still flogging a dead horse... the NDC is in Opposition in case you have not noticed, while a living raging bull is moving around with reckless abandon destroying everything it finds in its path including the assets and citizens of this nation.

This occurrence has symbolic meaning; it proves the validity of the statement of the renowned traveler - explorer Marco Polo: «If Buddha had been a Christian, he would have been a great saint of our Lord Jesus Christ, so good and pure was the life that he led.»

Concluding his interview, Cardinal Mueller was right to reiterate the message of the great Saint John Paul:» Do not be afraid!»

The sense of being possessed, of being grasped and used by something not ourselves but through which we realize our fullest potentialities, is indeed familiar to us all, although not necessarily in the vivid and striking way a person of genius or a great saint can know it.

Mention of that great saint brings to mind what he said about change: he sharply cautioned against changing law — any law — even when some improvement is possible, unless there is some «urgent necessity or substantial and obvious benefit», since «the mere fact of change in law itself can be adverse to the public welfare and lessen the restraining power of the law».

Next, I'm going to look at the lives of all of the great saints of East and West.

Many great saints, remember, endured infestation for years.

Some who have no such experience become great saints.

Some of the greatest saints — Teresa of Avila, for example — have years of darkness with no feeling of the presence of God at all.

Among the tombs of great saints which attract large crowds are those of Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai in Bhit Shah in the Sind, Data Ganj Bakhsh in Lahore, Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer, Hajji Waris Ali Shah in Dewan in Uttar Pradesh, Yousuf Sharif Shah in Hyderabad, Deccan, and Nizamuddin Auliya in Delhi — as well as those of many other famous saints and thousands of lesser local saints.

His experience leads him to set up a new afterlife for people who are neither notorious sinners, nor great saints.

Greatness does not necessarily mean success: some of the greatest saints have been failures in the short term (Thomas More, Edmund Campion, the Japanese martyrs).

What I enjoyed is how Leonard weaves into nearly every chapter, the life and works of a plethora of great saints, coining their best known catch phrases concerning evangelisation and the holy life: St Augustine, St Maximilian Kolbe, St Paul, St John Paul II.

Today, just as in the early and medieval church, part of the devotional appeal of relics, particularly those of great saints, lies in the possibility of miraculous cures (Acts 19:12), either through their instrumentality, or on the occasion of their close proximity.

Commenting about the doubts Mother Teresa experienced, Gumpel asked, «Do not these researchers understand that periods of doubt, and even severe trials of faith, have affected some of the Church's greatest saints — St. John of the Cross, Therese of Lisieux — and that persevering and overcoming them is considered one of the signs of sanctity?»

Inside their church, named after their homeland's greatest saint, they heard the gospel read in their native tongue and sang the hymns of their grandfathers.

The recognition that the great saints, above all the Blessed Mother of our Lord, are also still present in God's vital memory, is our way of understanding that God can and still does «use» them to enrich God's own joy and to further the grand design of God's love.

We have already learned some important facts about him: He is from the Global South; he takes a bus to work; he is the first Jesuit elected; and he has taken the name Francis, invoking the memory of those great saints, Francis of Assisi and Francis Xavier, both Church reformers in their own way.

We follow proudly the great saints of our Church, the folk we admire and our ancestors who were martyred for their faith.

At least the great saints are immediate successes, as are the smaller ones.

Great saints and martyrs showed true love for their closest relatives by putting eternal life with Christ first.

It spans the magnificent and comprehensive achievement in the Christian West, which extends from St. Augustine to St. Thomas, and continues through to the great saints, mystics, and teachers of the post Reformation period.

As Jesus» will was always centred on the Father and his mind was not clouded by the attractions of sin, he was able to grasp the true tragedy of our human condition in a way that only great saints have understood.

He is priest, prophet, and king, speaking through Council, Pope, prophet, and great saints, through the ages.

Great saints and gurus were on with the people in their anguish.

The tendency has been to rely on the depth experience of great saints, such as Francis of Assisi, or great heroes of the Bible who had dramatic experiences, such as Isaiah or Paul.

«39 The present writer has found great inspiration, much truth, wisdom, and beauty, fervent witness to the numinous character of ultimate reality in the great Hindu writings through the ages, and hopes to learn still more from them; but he can not agree with Radhakrishnan's conclusion that «Jesus» own testimony, philosophical truth and religious experience alike demand that He should be brought in line with the other great saints of God, who has not left himself without a witness in any clime or age.

Great saints have left us wonderful teaching on the Eucharist: John Chrysostom, Thomas Aquinas, John Eudes, Alphonsus Liguori, John Vianney, John Bosco, Therese of the Child Jesus, to name but a few.

The greatest saints, the spiritual heroes whom every one acknowledges, the Francises, Bernards, Luthers, Loyolas, Wesleys, Channings, Moodys, Gratrys, the Phillips Brookses, the Agnes Joneses, Margaret Hallahans, and Dora Pattisons, are successes from the outset.

Dryness of spiritual life is nothing new: many great saints persevered through it, which should give us all hope.

The great saints like Augustine bear witness to this.

The great saints are immediate successes; the smaller ones are at least heralds and harbingers, and they may be leavens also, of a better mundane order.

The early church faced a bewildering array of philosophical challenges and competitors, from Neo-Platonism and Manichaeism to the Roman mystery cults, with many of the great saints, martyrs and apologists of that age being converts from other belief systems.

Apart from the scattered traditions in the Mishnah and Talmud and the early Midrashim, we should know almost nothing about these great saints and teachers.

Like many others in the Anglo - American world, I have long been fascinated by French history, love the language of Molière and Chateaubriand, admire the political thought of Montesquieu and Tocqueville, and treasure the example of great saints like Thérèse of Lisieux and Louis de Montfort.

And the great saints of all high religions «pray without ceasing,» as Paul says.

Lack of key ecclesial sources Throughout this document, with its many footnotes and citations, there are virtually no references to sacred Scripture, no mention of its importance in the transmission of the Faith, nor to the witness of the great saints and doctors of the Tradition.

In the presence of Our Lady he helps us to express that filial devotion characteristic of so many great saints.

Of course there have been exceptions to this, and cures by special miracle have at all times been recognized within the church's pale, almost all the great saints having more or less performed them.

Being born and raised in a spiritually well - established family in Karnataka, KavithaJi's upbringing was instilled with all the values and teachings of Basavanna (one ofthe greatest saints in 12th - century and a highly - distinguished Hindu philosopher, statesman, Kannada poet).

It was an era when people were guided by great saints [viii].

Greater Saint Louis Training Club Their mission is to conduct training classes, exhibitions and AKC performance events in order to promote the training of all dogs for better human companionship.

The Greater Saint Louis Training Club is a non-profit organization that advocates and delivers innovative force - free canine training, sponsors events, and provides education for dog enthusiasts to advance the human - canine bond.

In 1958 the Greater Saint John Real Estate Board was founded with only seven members.

Not exact matches

Saint Archer co-founder Josh Landan said his San Diego - based company «always wanted to get great beer into more people's hands,» when he sold a majority stake to MillerCoors.