Sentences with phrase «holiness which»

Love is to the Christian a term which points to an infinite holiness which always stands in judgment upon man, but the judgment is against man's sin, not against his existence as a man.

Or what about God's holiness which is the really frightening thing, not so much his wrath but how absolutely apart God's nature is from mine.

As to holiness, this is of course to be seen as not so much a moral quality, although that is demanded, as in its «belonging on God's side» and hence participant in the holiness which is God's own.

It does contradict any doctrine of holiness which assumes that either through an initial regeneration or a «second blessing» we shall achieve on earth the ability to live without sin.

For though the sphere of culture Itself belongs partly to the realm of truth, beauty and holiness which ultimately has no need to defend itself before the court of utilitarianism, faith and its object transcend even these good things.

If man lends his will to the direction of his passions, he begins the movement of holiness which God completes.

As Stratford Caldecott wrote in his preface: «There is a crying need for holiness, among both clergy and laity, a holiness which takes the example of Christ himself as its source, and it seems to me that it would be most helpful to have such «centres of holiness» in this country.»

Is it possible our generation over-corrected from and overreacted to a version of holiness which was really a legalistic emphasis on certain behaviors?

Confession is both intimidating and humiliating but it moves us incrementally toward holiness which results in a greater capacity to love.

The spirit in our minds that needs purging, cleaning and needs holiness which without that, none will see the Lord.

Not exact matches

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!

YOU: Christian perfection is a Christian doctrine which holds that the soul of the baptised Christian may attain a high degree of virtue and holiness and become entirely sanctified with the help of divine grace of Jesus.

Which is not to ignore the benefits of holiness even to the artistic vocation.

Even though it isn't a happy thought, I am convinced that God's holiness, which encompasses His justice and righteousness demands punishment for those who break His laws.

In April, a «pontifical mandate» was given to uncover the source of hundreds of personal letters and confidential documents that leaked to Gianluigi Nuzzi, an Italian journalist and author of «Sua Santita,» a book that translates to «His Holiness» and included the documents, some of which were thought to have come off the pope's desk.

It reminds the believer that the vision of God unfolds amidst the splendor of holiness while also pointing toward the way in which the final movement to ecstatic wonder is always grace - filled and joy - laden.

Which one wins: sinfulness or holiness?

When the holiness of the land (a divine proclamation) becomes the holiness of the state (a human creation) we all too easily move in the direction of theocracy veiled as statism (in which the state is the embodiment of divine will).

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.

Paul wants his readers to put off that old way of conduct, and live their new life in the Spirit with the new man which was created by God for righteousness and holiness (Ephesians 4:22 - 24).

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).

Nonetheless, as this essay has argued, a key component in understanding John Paul's anthropology is seeing how holiness manifests a feminine structure to which all human persons are called.

Hallelujah, at least His Holiness made me read and even post comment here, which is a never before.

We may easily give up on each other and believe ourselves incapable of the call to holiness; but God never ceases to call us and to offer us his grace, which is «the free and undeserved help that God gives to those who respond to his call» (CCC 1996).

It is this which would give what theology has called «immunity from concupiscence» in the state of original holiness and justice.

Perhaps instead of virginity... or even purity (which carries something of an either / or connotation, I think)... we ought to talk about the path of holiness.

Giving up on doing such things because it is deemed to be too difficult, ineffective, cumbersome, shaming, paralyzing, pointless, or whatever could be better interpreted as a loss of faith in the Savior Jesus Christ and his power to change us, and an absence of the Holy Spirit which seals us unto holiness and eternal salvation.

Beyond the considerable body of research that has emerged in the past three decades which demonstrates that women played a far more generous role in the early Church than perhaps Neuhaus has imagined, my own Wesleyan holiness tradition has apparently escaped his ecumenical vision as well for it was already ordaining women in the nineteenth century.

He claimed Christians should be extreme when it comes to «charity, of virtue, of grace, of unswerving adherence to goodness and truth, to the high goal of holiness in which lies our ultimate happiness».

This holiness — without which we can not live — is not available upon request but arises in and through practices that invite God to come dwell among us.

I am thinking of independent churches, the Holiness traditions, the Assemblies of God, and the Nazarene Church, and the Baptist General Conference, which ordained its first woman in 1943 — the Reverend Ethel Ruff.

The holiness and beauty and truth which belong to Christ begin to become incarnate in our own lives.

They demand not justice, not freedom, not beauty or holiness, but 24/7 celebrity news, gossip, and revenge porn: an empire on which Page Three of the Sun never sets.

Isaiah of Jerusalem is notable for the way in which, far ahead of his time, he translated the idea of holiness into ethical meanings.

Though the Lord is a consuming fire, it is not that He burns with rage toward sinners, but that, as discussed above, the all - consuming love and holiness of God burns away anything that draws near which is not filled with the righteousness of God.

(Isaiah 5:16) Then, in contrast with this view, having described the loose and cynical ways in which popular thought referred to «the Holy One of Israel,» (Isaiah 5:18 - 19) he went on to announce with vehement earnestness the real meanings of holiness in terms of personal morals and social righteousness.

Church discipline matters not just for the sake of affecting elections, but for the care of souls and for the holiness of the church «without which no one will see the Lord» (Heb.12: 14).

But the expression of this good gift must come inside a relationship through which it can communicate the holiness of life as well as the gratification of biological desire.

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 Pope wishes us to pray and consecrate ourselves to God through lives of faith and holiness accompanied by an outpouring of prayer for vocations, without which we would have no Eucharist.

This label, apparently, is meant to denote the specific calling God gives to each individual, through which each is to live out his own particular call to holiness.

Sensing an opportunity to be heard by unprejudiced ears, and, writes Las Casas, «knowing the odor of holiness that they produced, he let himself into the straw hut which had been given to the religious for their quarters and made an account of his life.»

Synan argued that Pentecostalism was an outgrowth of the 19th - century Holiness Movement, which in turn had its origin in the teachings of John Wesley.

For us he is a guide and patron who spurred us on and captures what we thought and felt with prose, intellect, and holiness to which we can only aspire.

The original purpose of human existence, and the existence towards which we are headed because of what God has done and will continue to do until the last day, is to worship and glorify God in holiness.

This article is about the moral cowardice of the Christain clergy, who are willing to preach sermons about the holiness of Capitalism (which is NOT in the Bible) but who will not mention helping the poor (which is all over the Bible).

Unlike the propagators of the Maria Goretti model, who enjoined girls to embrace virginity for its own sake out of deference to ecclesiastical authority, Dohen affirmed that the consecrated virgin freely chooses to sacrifice marriage, which she called «the greatest natural means to holiness and the source of the greatest human love» for the sake of «something else» (Vocation to Love [Sheed & Ward, 1950], p. 56) In her writings, that «something else» appears to include the spiritual status of a «bride of Christ,» lonely confrontations with God and, above all, the freedom and detachment necessary to serve God in the world.

23 I will show the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, the name you have profaned among them.

-- especially when, as most of you would know, the law prohibiting homosexual behavior is imbedded in a context in Leviticus in the holiness code, the purity code, as it's sometimes called, which also prohibits the planting of two kinds of seed in the same field, or the wearing of garments made of two kinds of cloth.

So, it says - IF THEY CONTINUE IN FAITH AND CHARITY AND HOLINESS WITH SOBRIETY SHE (EVE) WILL BE SAVED DURING CHILD BEARDING - WHICH WAS HER FORM OF PUNISHMENT FOR DISOBEDIENCE IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN.