Sentences with phrase «grow in holiness by»

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.

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This state of readiness is described as «holiness and godliness,» being «zealous to be found by God without spot or blemish, and at peace,» and growing «in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.»

And by far the best thing for you is to grow in holiness.»

So we can also contemplate this same unfolding and unified purpose of Christ in our own lives, from our conception as a simple cell, ensouled by God in accordance with the Unity Law, to Baptism and entry into Christ in the Eucharist, through the years of growing up and formation in holiness and the spiritual life — maybe through failure and re-conversion.