Sentences with phrase «holy will»

Yet a priest who is so holy he will not — or can not — heel a nipping dog or ask that a television be quieted is ridiculous.

Sin, in the religious sense, is not a defect in the harmony of a spiritual order; it is an offense against the most holy will of God.

Help us endure the lamentations of the suckers who vote Republican, for they enable the enforcement of Thy Holy Will.

Are you in touch with the fact that Almighty God surely does in fact have a perfect holy will and that his will is set?

Trying to live a sinless life or trying to be holy won't get you there either.

All that happens is in some way, either directly or permissively, related to His most holy Will: «nothing walks with aimless feet,» and we shall make hash of human life if we assume that we can evade God or get on well enough with only a casual nod at Him; that is not the way the universe is run.

We wish to serve Him as friends and disciples according to his holy will and to be faithful and obedient sons and daughters of his Church.

At this point in history, far too much evil has been done by Christiian people who are absolutely convinced they are doing «God's holy will», when they are clearly doing their own.

Yet in spite of these limitations the writers of the Bible had some most remarkable insights concerning the nature of God and how he was seeking to bring his erring children to fuller obedience to his holy will.

The Catholic view of faith, as a way of knowing (God and His holy will), with the assistance of God - given reason, was abrogated.

But although the resigned attitude toward fate thrusts these claims of man into the background, Jesus has a far greater right to do so, since to him God is not merely fate but at the same time the holy Will which claims the will of man, requires his obedience.

Although this is surely God's intent, He does not override the freedom that enables men and women to resist His holy will.

There they will be blessed, as they find their meaning in relationship to Him, and we shall be enabled to live according to God's holy Will.

Yahweh's chief pleasure was not in the blood of the rams or bullocks, though the ceremonial law might require them; it was in obedience to his holy will, which came in the insights of the prophets to mean «mercy and not sacrifice.»

Help me in all things to rely upon your holy will.

God used the unrighteous intentions of a very wicked man to accomplish his divine and holy will.

Mrs Holloway was adamant that «all souls who love God truly and sincerely, and do what they know to be his holy will are beautiful in his sight and in the sight of his holy Mother and the angels.»

The purpose of meditation, however, is to set God and his holy will before us.

He has «nailed it to the cross» that we might see both our guilt and His even greater mercy; the earnestness of His holy will and the even greater earnestness of His fatherly love.