Sentences with phrase «holiness requires»

Our response to the call to holiness requires us to exemplify and advance a culture of life.

Indeed, the road to holiness requires strong, powerful wills.

Not exact matches

God is infinitely holy, and could never look favorably upon sin, and an offense against the holiness of God is an infinitely wicked deed done in open rebellion against the God who created you — that deed requires an infinite amount of retribution to atone for, and one that you, being a mere person could never repay though you attempted to do so for all eternity.

The forging of a full Holiness coalition in the CHA has required a blunting of fundamentalist rhetoric and doctrines like premillennialism and the inerrancy of the Scriptures.

Christianity (not all forms) is the only «religion» I'm aware of which answers differently: It doesn't matter if the good outweighs the bad, even by a ratio of 1 trillion to one; God is holy, and so requires perfect holiness, and the only way to get that is by God giving it to us by grace through faith.

As the title of this section («The Final Purification, or Purgatory») indicates, the emphasis throughout is on the purification required to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven, and this purification is contrasted with the punishment of the damned.

The damage this can do to the Church, her liturgy, her teaching, and above all to the yearning for holiness — which always requires renunciation of the goods of this world for love of the Good who infinitely transcends this world — is beyond calculation.

Yahweh's holiness makes exacting demands in cult and ritual; it also requires a sweeping righteousness in his people.

And he knew that hearing the conscience requires holiness, and serious guidance.

Nothing more should ever be required of one who bears that name, no oath, no swearing by God or by holiness or by heaven above or by the earth beneath.

What is required of the Church, according to this conception, is the intense development of its own life and the careful guarding of its holiness.

Under Moses, who led the Israelites to the edge of the Promised Land of Canaan, the people had been taught to recognize God as the one who had saved them from the Egyptians and who had protected them through the wilderness and who required holiness and moral behavior.