Sentences with phrase «just pious»

Perhaps it is just a pious wish.

The symbolization of a reunified mankind was not just pious talk in early Christianity, but a quite important way of conceptualizing and dramatizing the Christians» awareness of their peculiar relationship to the larger societies around them.

Explicit use of classic Jewish images, the vivid presence of modern - day horrors: Many have found the White Crucifixion a disturbing work, and not just pious Jews.

We could give this fatalist reading of the situation a theological spin by claiming that only God can act without loss, which is just a pious admission that nobody's perfect.

Just the pious, sanctimonious, arrogant halo - polishers who post their sh!t here and pretend they know what they're talking about when they can't string together a dozen words that make sense.

Interior prayer, when it is joined to and prompted by the sacrifice and resurrection of Christ, is not just a pious and good intention which is granted by a kindly and compassionate God, but is powerful in the order of reality

He reminds us that as Mother of God she was a real person — not just a pious idea — and that we need our relationship with her to grow as she helps us to know her Son.

Not exact matches

I'm just trying to make sure that there's at least one contrarian and maybe one voice of realism among this season's many purveyors of touching truisms, pious platitudes, and bumper sticker BS — all of which feels like it was written by either Hallmark or hacks whose prior Republican clients and «candidates» are now sitting on the sidelines sucking their thumbs and watching The Donald drive the bus off the bridge.

What boggles me is all those pious people who say «the church should not change just because some people want it too».

Just what is the nature of the work required of us if we are to treat the first commandment as indeed the first and not as a merely pious addendum to the second?

Try to ask a serious question with an open mind, acutally listen & try to imagine where that person is coming from... not just your narrow pious world / church view.

Just beware of the most pious.

The pious Pharisee's bravado and righteous indignation is just a mask for self - justification.

Pious speculation has sometimes argued that God could have redeemed us with «just one drop of Jesus» blood».

Some of the writing is clumsy and ponderous: «Gloria explained that I was witnessing a typical Bavarian scene and pointed out an interesting fact...» Some is just a bit too pious.

True spirituality does not consist in pious feel - ings, because we are perhaps just now in love or have some sorrow.

All of this just adds to the problem of church becoming so fake and shallow all the while claiming they are so deep and pious.

Do people that cook up this pious drivel get it from somewhere, or just pull it out of their, um, buttocks?

«The liberal - democratic mind, just as the mind of any true communist, feels an inner compulsion to manifest its pious loyalty to the doctrine.

For instance, when these characteristics are perceived as exhibited in an individual enduringly and in a sense in which these are understood to affect the world around in a favorable fashion — either in an objective sense of effecting something concrete outside such a person [like effecting healing, foretelling, acting as medium in a non-rational manner or simply doing good or saying good to help the people selflessly], exhibiting personal traits, conditions and states which are known to be «abnormal» [like going into trances, hearing voices, seeing visions, or just the simple unconventional behavior, which proceed from such an individual's horizon to affect, influence, impact others» horizons]-- or is subjectively perceived to be extra-ordinary — such an individual is said to be godly, god - bearing, pious or saintly.

Moving on, I've quite enjoyed what I've read of your thoughts (and His) on the «holy doctrine of the Inspiration of Scripture» — I don't know who I'm quoting, just someone with an air of pious church authority tone!

See just how many Christians who pretend to be pious get left behind and are surprised as to why lol!

With just faith we act like pious religious leaders (Pharisees).

Neither of us, I think, was quite certain just what contribution I might be making to the enterprise, but I was a reasonably educated and reasonably pious» though hardly properly observant» Jew who had worked for many years as an editor, and since Religion and Public Life had recently begun publishing First Things, I suppose it was thought that I was qualified to add some, albeit hardly scholarly, expertise to the enterprise.

Jesus» was most turned off by the Pharisees and outwardly pious... with that said, we all are human and make mistakes and I for one am just as guilty of the same hypocrisy...

I don't think it is offensive, it just comes across to some as unreal, or overly pious, or «holier - than - thou.»

I just think some Christians say this so often, it make them sound like they are trying to appear righteous and pious before others.

Yes Jesus lived, ate and drank with the shunned, but he also spent allot of time in the synagogues even if it was just for the sake of upsetting the pious.

For all the perverse ingenuity of their methods of destruction, there is a terrifying sameness to the regimes Royal describes; indeed, he warns that «it is just as difficult to retain a sense of the realities behind these repetitive litanies of horror as it is to see real human beings behind pious descriptions.»

As it stands, so long as the old parties reckon on slipping into Downing Street on a barely legitimate 35 % of the vote, their pious handwringing and furrowed brows is all just crocodile tears.

What makes it easier to swallow is that the Jerry Maguire character is just asking to be a little better than the rotten character he realizes he has become and that he does not turn completely pious and unbelievable on us as he continues in the same line of work with just a little more care for others.

She's pious and uptight, he's vulgar and mercenary, and it's just a matter of time before the hardships they jointly experience bridge the gulf between them.