Sentences with phrase «in pious practices»

The religious leaders (the Pharisees) have largely ceased to give an effective lead, and have become more and more absorbed in pious practices at the cost of the «weightier matters of the Law.»

Not exact matches

The frequent reception of Our Lord in the Eucharist is a pious practice which should be widely recommended.

Pious practice should therefore be done in such a way that this relationship is expressed adequately, reflecting both the compassionate loving character of God on the one hand, and the transformative effect of knowing such a God on the other.

Their pious acts are of no avail, for God's pleasure is in justice that must «roll down like waters» and in righteousness that must be «like an ever - flowing stream» (Amos 5:24) The people have not practiced justice or righteousness.

Schools belonging to conservative churches, on the other hand, are often very conscious of their Christian grounds, but they typically express this in terms of conservative mores, an emphasis on pious practices, and the teaching of Christian doctrine in the curriculum.

Buddha enlisted his first disciples in Benares; they were the five pious devotees who before his enlightenment had practiced asceticism with him.

But let us take for example the practice of human sacrifice which has been long regarded with horror in the West, yet was seen as a noble and pious act in certain cultures (e.g. the Aztecs of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica).