Sentences with phrase «increase in holiness»

For all the media's demands for Church «reform,» however, one wonders whether they would welcome it, if it actually led to an increase in holiness, and offered much less material for them to write lurid headlines about.

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As the centuries passed, however, «holiness» changed its meaning, and in the change can be seen the increasing possibility of private prayer.

Increasing historical sophistication has revealed the discontinuities between classical Wesleyanism and late 19th century Holiness thought in which the doctrine of «entire sanctification» was expounded from the accounts of Pentecost in the Book of Acts.

Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to ever - increasing wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.

Take Paul's words out of the New Testament and out of Christian experience and what have we left of Christian hope — «and may the Lord make you increase and excel in love to one another and to all men... so as to strengthen your hearts and make them blameless in holiness.

All growth in holiness, all increase in depth of spirit, wisdom, charity, courage, reverence and glorification of the Father in individual souls is directly and personally the work of Jesus the Word through his own sacred humanity.

Without falling into that old rut of opposing the legalistic and the prophetic, we may discover in the very teaching of the Torah an increasing pulsation that turn by turn sets out the Law in terms of endlessly multiplying prescriptions and then draws it together, in the strong sense of the word, by summing it up in one set of commandments which only retain its being directed towards holiness.

I ask Your Holiness to do all you can to raise your voice in defense of the Orthodox Christians in eastern Ukraine who, in a situation of increasing violence on the part of Greek Catholics and schismatics, live in daily fear.»