Sentences with phrase «make pious»

Only then can the relationship between God and God's people be of such direct intimacy as to make the pious attempt of others to serve as intermediaries seem like a meddling intrusion upon married love: «No longer shall each man teach his neighbor and each his brother saying «Know the Lord,» for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest.»

Increasing ever more and ever more his wealth, he makes the pious dwell within unbroken bounds.

And we you saying that the fact that I am polite makes me pious?

Ed Miliband makes pious noises denouncing «factionalism» as if he is a saintly figure who never had anything to do with it.

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.

You are completely incapable of even the slightest bit of empathy, and merely think the more pious you seem, and the more assertions you make that means your right.

Nothing makes for news like a cover - up exposing the pious for the political, power - hungry and «morally - flexible» mortals they truly are.

Do you think it makes you more pious?

You can continue to spew out your immoral doctrine until you die, that doesn't make it true, and that doesn't make you any more pious even though you really want to feel better than everyone else because of it.

George Maybe Jesus is crying over all the people who were killed in his name, or because they made him, a pious Jew, into a blasphemy of his faith?

Our sped - up, hyper - efficient, media - saturated world seems to be making it harder than ever to live pious, simple, disciplined Christian lives.

And make him exchange his pious stance for a humble walk with God and man.

All three interlocutors attested that they had been raised by pious parents to respect the wealthy and to emulate «those who've made something of themselves through hard work» for the sakes of their «families and investors.»

But we Christians think that such joking is coarse and crude and so we frown at those who make these jokes, and look down our pious noses at those who laugh.

Herbert's pious advice makes for a refreshing read, but the chief charms of this volume are the insights it affords into Herbert's art; by examining the priest at work in the temple, we better know The Temple itself.

Yet they shamelessly cheat widows out of their property and then pretend to be pious by making long prayers in public.

A pious experience does not a spiritual theologian make.

The resulting substitute is at best conventional pious words and moral platitudes, at worst a string of interesting illustrations to make the sermon snappy.

Sometimes we think the elders in the church, pious Christians, pastors or other brave souls who make sacrifices for their faith are the real Christians, the real children of God.

Strauss must know that this strategy is quixotic, since as soon as he says we must be open to the excellence of philosophy and to the obedience of the pious, he has made it impossible not to wonder how these dispositions can be integrated, or at least held together in the same soul.

We «tart up» dismissive sobriquets for our rivals, we find ways to make sure our critics don't succeed, we justify shutting them out with pious cant.

They have no value either as representations of Jesus or as an attempt to make God show through this pious and pitiful imagery.

I think us Christians need to be less pious, and more open, honest, authentic, and real... we are so «pious» is makes me sick.

... When the Christians assembled in their Temple at Jerusalem to celebrate Easter, the chaplains of the Church, making use of a pious fraud, greased the chain of iron that held the lamp over the Tomb with oil of balsam; and... when the Arab officer sealed up the door which led to the Tomb, they applied a match, and the fire descended immediately to the wick of the lamp and lighted it.

The first settlers of Salem, Hawthorne wrote in «Main - Street,» were «stalwart» men, who strode «sturdily onward,» brave and pious men of «thoughtful strength,» men «who do not merely find, but make their place in the system of human affairs.»

Call them phony Christians, with their coded language, created to make themselvs sound pious to other phony Christians.

This sight has produced consternation in many pious hearts who wonder what has happened to ministers to make them become fomenters of disorder.

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.

Attacking theocentrically oriented theologians like Stanley J. Samartha, Ashish Chrispal says that such thinking «moves away from the centrality of Christ and the triune God,» and that Samartha «fails to recognise that the kind of pluralism he and other pluralists propose can make the religions a matter of indifference or can take a form of pious scepticism or people may renounce all religious choices, since they can live equally without them» and goes on to emphasise that

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...

It describes behavior or speech that is intended to make one look better or more pious than one really is.

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.

Does it make you feel good to be a self - righteous, self - important, pious little fuck who can't give a straight answer to anything?

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

Listen, me, I blame me for making broad sweeping generalizations that one side is too pious, the other two bigoted.

This is enshrined in Canon Law which makes the local bishop the moderator of «pious and sacredexercises» so that they are «fully in harmony with the laws of the Church» (Canon 839 # 2.

Oh wait, she covers her hair too... (side note: According to Islamic beliefs, Mary is considered the most pious of women and is granted a high place in Paradise for her righteousness)-- Another interesting note to make is that this New York mosque, which was once the Burlington Coat Factory, was bought a long time before now, How interesting that politicians are making an issue of it now, before elections.

That is, in the elements from which it was made, illuminated under the open sky, it showed forth the hidden riches of the earth, while through the pious craftsmanship of its makers, it made manifest the highest powers of a human world.

What makes recent virtue ethics (Bennett's included) so ineffectively pious is that it does not admit that the moral force of a virtue such as courage depends greatly on its circumstances.

The modern critical study of the gospels has made the historic Jesus no mere figment of the pious imagination, but a living figure who, at an historic moment in time, appeared in Palestine, lived his brief but tremendously significant life, and gave rise to a vigorous new religious movement that has in time become the most widespread of all the religions of the world.

If there should be a place having a few faithful men in it, before the multitude sufficiently increase to vote (psephisasthai), who shall be able to make a dedication to pious uses for the bishop to the extent of twelve men, let them write to the churches round about them, informing them of the place in which the multitude of the faithful [assemble and] are established that their chosen men in that place may come, that they may examine with diligence him who is worthy of this grade.119

Using the 4 S's of science, skepticism, sarcasm and satire whilst employing neuropsychological research and a humanistic world view, we'll look at what the alternatives are to a pious moral code and why people and groups might make the decisions they do.

The persecution of the Catholic Church reaches its pinnacle as Thomas Cromwell confiscates its wealth for the crown, making Henry the richest English king in history, while Katherine dies in pious poverty.

Not even Blanchett and Rush — two of the finest actors working today, or Morton — who stirs me to impure thoughts even as a supposedly pious figure, or Owen — who almost makes a pair of puffy pants look butch, can drag «The Golden Age» out of the morass in which Kapur has sunk it.

It's Easter and Alexander makes plans for a celebration to end his pious fast even as Della Rovere's assassin ascends to the position of the Pope's taster; Lucrezia's lover asks for her hand in marriage but her father dismisses him and his request; Juan's wild behavior threatens the life of Lucrezia's child, forcing Cesare to make a chilling decision about his brother.

The Borgias, Season 2, Episode 9: It's Easter and Alexander makes plans for a celebration to end his pious fast.

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.

Stanley Townsend makes Kent an aggressive bully - boy rather than the usual pious worthy while Stephen Boxer's Gloucester has the diffidence of the middle - rank courtier.

Press: The Boston Globe, «Pious conversions, dazzling domesticity, and ghosts made tangible», by Cate McQuaid

I feel confident that there are many, many, of the great and good today who will need reminding how nasty, unctuous, pious and petty was their need for making their life easy and increasing their standing within a piss poor guarded framework of their own making.