Sentences with phrase «ins for holiness»

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Offense is given to the Holy Spirit, holiness is quenched, and evangelism suffers, for outsiders see no point in becoming Christian.

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 promiseIn 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 promisein 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!

1 Timothy 2: 1 - 4 I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people — for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness.

There is a precedent for this development in the late - nineteenth - century holiness movement, with its ethos of populism and Protestant pluralism.

«I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people — for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness.

The first articulation of this significance is found in the Old Testament — the ideal of personal holiness, the concern for the poor and the needy, the equitable relation that was to exist in criminal matters.

First, they undermine obedience to God in all areas of life, and circumvent the suffering necessary for holiness.

The verses says... 1I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone — 2for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness.

There is a final way that the Church often fails gay people, and that is by watering down the biblical vision for sexual holiness and human fulfilment in a misguided attempt to be more welcoming.

That said, those who ARE looking for something apart from empiricism and existentialism, those who are looking for some purpose and meaning to existence, need to see authenticity and integrity in the church i.e holiness.

And just as there are certainties we have learned from nature, such as the laws of science, gravity, and thermodynamics, there are also certainties we can learn from Scripture, such as the holiness of God, our own sinfulness, and our need to believe in Jesus for eternal life.

For as it is apparent, the reason evil exists is to train the Faithful in holiness!

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).

The bottom line is that the holiness we need comes not from our own works, but from Jesus Christ Himself, who gives it to us freely when we believe in Him for eternal life.

Holiness for me was found in the mess and labour of giving birth, in birthday parties and community pools, in the battling sweetness of breastfeeding, in the repetition of cleaning, in the step of faith it took to go back to church again, in the hours of chatting that have to precede the real heart - to - heart talks, in the yelling at my kids sometimes, in the crying in restaurants with broken hearted friends, in the uncomfortable silences at our bible study when we're all weighing whether or not to say what we really think, in the arguments inherent to staying in love with each other, in the unwelcome number on the scale, in the sounding out of vowels during bedtime book reading, in the dust and stink and heat of a tent city in Port au Prince, in the beauty of a soccer game in the Haitian dust, in the listening to someone else's story, in the telling of my own brokenness, in the repentance, in the secret telling and the secret keeping, in the suffering and the mourning, in the late nights tending sick babies, in confronting fears, in the all of a life.

In Christ alone does the feminine structure of holiness become real: he literally pours his blood out for the sake of another, he literally lays his life down to bring forth the life of another, he literally opens up the table of his own body to feed and calm another.

The resolution offered in all three passages is also remarkably similar: God recruits the prophet to plead on behalf of the poor and needy; Timothy recruits the community for a vocation of holiness; and the crafty worker fiddles with the books to recruit sympathy for himself.

The present Pope's own admiration and support for science, as evidenced in His Holiness's addresses to the Pontifical Academy for Science, and to the Vatican Observatory, goes unreported.

Someone Who Is Holy isn't pacing down the grocery store aisle with three tinies hanging off the cart and coupons in her purse, she isn't running the dryer again to «fluff» the clothes that have sat in there too long, she isn't snorting while she laughs at television shows on Netflix, she isn't on her hands and knees wiping up someone else's vomit, she isn't locking the bedroom door and throwing a saucy look of promise at her husband because clearly good sex isn't included in the holiness life, she doesn't sweat, she doesn't turn on cartoons for three - minutes - of - peace - for - the - love.

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.

The Scriptures are sacred because they present the thoughts and acts of men who were searching for God, and who in these writings left on record their highest concepts of righteousness, truth, and holiness.

But if we repent of these things, and, as Zacharias says in Luke 1:75, serve God in holiness and righteousness, it will go a long way in preparing the way for others to meet the Messiah.

Walter Hooper, «On C. S. Lewis and the Narnian Chronicles,» quoted in Eliane Tixier, «Imagination Baptized, or, «Holiness» in the Chronicles of Narnia,» in The Longing for a Form: Essays on the Fiction

I prefer to avoid the term «objective» in speaking of the Atonement, partly because of its obvious philosophical difficulties and partly because many theologians have assumed that the death of Christ can have objective efficacy only if it is an act directed either towards God, in satisfaction of his justice or in somehow making it possible for his love to operate for the forgiveness of sinners without compromising his holiness, or towards a personal devil in somehow liberating sinners from his clutches.

It's amazing how even as Christians, people who are called to walk in holiness and stand for truth and righteousness, we will turn a blind - eye to the actions of someone because they play for our favorite team.

After spending 20 years tryng to worship in the Protestant realms, I had a deep desire for the «traditional» worship and holiness of God the «the» Church.

God is not maniacally killing anyone in the Old Testament, but is demonstrating the dire consequences of sin, the dire need for a Savior who has come, and the need for the indwelling power of His Spirit to transform the life so that living pleases God who is our righteousness, holiness, and redemption (Gen. 3:15; Gal.

This is the foundation of our faith» (Pope Paul VI)-- and it comes with a responsibility for «my brothers» holiness», in other words, evangelisation.

In our daily prayer and struggle for holiness we grow in friendship with him, and the more we «concede» to his will in love, the more strength and solace we shall receivIn our daily prayer and struggle for holiness we grow in friendship with him, and the more we «concede» to his will in love, the more strength and solace we shall receivin friendship with him, and the more we «concede» to his will in love, the more strength and solace we shall receivin love, the more strength and solace we shall receive.

Chesterton's charity, humility, and passionate love for truth have also been highlighted by Italian scholar Paolo Gulisano, and in a recent anthology, The Holiness of G.K. Chesterton.

After felicitously noting that for Soloveitchik «victory and defeat are of equal value,» he succumbs to the natural pull of a more one - sided, hierarchical position, writing that the motion of submissive retreat «is inherently endowed with holiness,» while «the act of advance is not in itself holy,» and so must be «imbued with this quality through the willingness to accept defeat.»

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.»

In his Diary entry for 6 September 1979, Archbishop Romero wrote that Opus Dei «carries out a silent work of deep spirituality among professional people, university students and labourers... I think this is a mine of wealth for our Church — the holiness of the laity in their own profession.&raquIn his Diary entry for 6 September 1979, Archbishop Romero wrote that Opus Dei «carries out a silent work of deep spirituality among professional people, university students and labourers... I think this is a mine of wealth for our Church — the holiness of the laity in their own profession.&raquin their own profession.»

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

It corresponds to the deepest stirrings of the human heart and offers guidance for genuine growth in holiness and virtue.

For that reason, the celebration of a sacrament always results in an encounter with Christ, if the recipient is well disposed, because the encounter itself does not depend on the holiness of the minister (usually the priest).

Even when we seem to be making great strides in holiness if we slip into presumptuous pride it is possible for us to fall from grace.

As Selvaggi writes, «the nature of consecrated virginity [is] holiness of body and soul, the one inseparable from the other, both for the glory of God in humble service and modest living in a stable way of life.»

In discussing the virgin birth, I argue that locating the body of Jesus in the eternal (and, for Mormons, procreative) relation of Father to Son does not demean the holiness of Mary's bodIn discussing the virgin birth, I argue that locating the body of Jesus in the eternal (and, for Mormons, procreative) relation of Father to Son does not demean the holiness of Mary's bodin the eternal (and, for Mormons, procreative) relation of Father to Son does not demean the holiness of Mary's body.

The body of every saint is to an exceptional degree a temple of the Holy Ghost, and the impressive track record of cures (affirmed by the Catechism of the Council of Trent) presumably stems from a continuing connection between the physical remains and the possibility of divine intervention.Tradition suggests that the holiness and curative possibility is much greater for primary and secondary relics, but still exists for third - class, in this case the casket.

Leonard presents personal sanctity as very much within reach — undeniably important for those who feel holiness is a strange and beautiful concept somehow reserved only for the great heroes in faith.

One could turn to many artists for a precedent for a newly evangelised culture comprising imaginative activities that are open to the transcendent, a culture that integrates human creativity in art, literature and science with the call to holiness, to a life that acknowledges truth, goodness and beauty as having their source in the divine.

In a new 100 - page document advising faithful on how to pursue holiness in the modern world, Francis said «defamation and slander can become commonplace and respect for the good name of others can be abandoned... even in Catholic media»In a new 100 - page document advising faithful on how to pursue holiness in the modern world, Francis said «defamation and slander can become commonplace and respect for the good name of others can be abandoned... even in Catholic media»in the modern world, Francis said «defamation and slander can become commonplace and respect for the good name of others can be abandoned... even in Catholic media»in Catholic media».

Please don't feel sorry for me; the balance between concupiscence and holiness is carefully but eloquently held in the Western theological tradition, and as an inheritor of that tradition, I'm really rather joyful — Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me!

If we're looking for the way to get God to bless our sexual lives, the solution to the problem of what it means to be a sexual being, we're only going to come up with false rules and standards, ways of being that force some people out and others in, models of holiness that may work for one season of life but fall apart in another.

... When God saves people in this life by working through his Spirit to bring them to faith and by leading them to follow Jesus in discipleship, prayer, holiness, hope, and love, such people are designed... to be a sign and foretaste of what God wants to do for the entire cosmos.

Indeed, our pride ought to be shattered when we pray, «and lead us not into temptation,» for by these words we recognize that we can never be self - sufficient in holiness and virtue.

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 worlIn 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 worlin the world.

The suffering of our sisters and brothers presses us first of all not into further faith explorations, but into mission — sharing in God's struggle for holiness and justice throughout the world.

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.