Sentences with phrase «missionary zeal»

He is eloquent on the subject of «the unique religious system present within each congregation,» and speaks with missionary zeal of «the bulky body of symbols and stories and values and beliefs and histories contained therein which lie just beyond the grasp of any of the quantitative tools at our disposal.»

Something approaching missionary zeal for the rural ministry has developed in this century as an increasing number of young men have decided to devote themselves to it.

Of course Pope Francis is right: the Church must be renewed in missionary zeal and she must reach out anew to the whole of humanity.

I know some school leaders who approach recruitment with an almost missionary zeal: targeting ex-students or siblings of current teachers and offering them training within chains of schools or through close links to universities.

We have more external missionary zeal than we know what to do with, but next to no internal monastic discipline.

Just as the Jews had sometimes felt called to the task of preserving the Law for the salvation of all nations, the early Christians, with tremendous missionary zeal, were inwardly impelled to «proclaim the Gospel to every living creature».

Dominic's missionary zeal flowed directly out of cloistered contemplation, but it convinced him of the need for a new evangelistic order.

«There was an unmistakable missionary zeal to it all,» McCartney writes in his autobiography, From Ashes to Glory.

Underlying the new missionary zeal...

Such Catholic rigor was part missionary zeal — to spread «the word» — and part defense against the encroachments of an increasingly secular world.

Between the 29th June last year and the 29th June this year all the faithful are called to give thanks to God for the tremendous work and missionary zeal of the Apostle to the Gentiles.

And this great missionary zeal is evident in his first Apostolic Exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium: «I dream of a «missionary option», that is, a missionary impulse capable of transforming everything, so that the Church's customs, ways of doing things, times and schedules, language and structures can be suitably channelled for the evangelisation of today's world.»

They brought with them the same missionary zeal that helped them succeed at the innovative edge as they became superintendents, state education chiefs, and staff members at the federal Department of Education.

Marica Weisman made a cause of contemporary art and spread its message with an almost missionary zeal.

Christianity is «intolerant» in the sense that (like its monotheistic relatives, Judaism and Islam) it claims to possess a universal truth superior to the teachings of other religions; and it has spread this doctrine with a missionary zeal perhaps exceeding even Islam's.

The poems are relentless in documenting the outcome: Native children forcibly removed from their families to boarding schools, forbidden to speak their own language, subjected to a bureaucratic regime with a toxic mix of condescension and missionary zeal.

He worked with a kind of missionary zeal to rally the mental health community behind the work of UNESCO and the World Health Organization.

John Paul's missionary zeal, his personal holiness and simplicity of life, his dislike of pomp, matched Gregory's.

In the case of Matthew, interpreters differ if Jesus is criticizing the missionary zeal of the Pharisees or only the fact that once they win one person they impose on that person their formalistic understanding of the law.

As a young convert, Oesterreicher was animated by a missionary zeal to convert Jews.

Neuhaus had a missionary zeal, a fervor for argument and conversation in defense of the faith he loved so passionately.

This idea came into its own in the modern period, when Bacon declared the world the arena for human satisfaction and flourishing, and thus brought a missionary zeal to the program of scientific experimentation and technological innovation.

And this great missionary zeal is evident in his first Apostolic Exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium: «I dream of a «missionary option», that is, a missionary impulse capable of transforming everything, so that the Church's customs, ways of doing things, times and schedules, language and structures can be suitably channelled for the...

Indeed, de Lubac worried, the support Schema XIII was receiving from some of the bishops and theologians at the council would leave the Church vulnerable to an uncritical embrace of the world, and yet more seriously, to mistaking its own growing temptation to worldliness for apostolic and missionary zeal.

Several western and some Indian writers have stated that the Indian church had no missionary zeal and it was only later through the contact with European missionaries that evangelistic spirit was awakened in the church.

In addition, they tend to have a missionary zeal that is seldom matched by those on the left, and almost never by those in the moderate middle.

This came to the fore in the adventure of the discoveries and in the missionary zeal which shared the gift of faith with other peoples....

Barnabas» friendship with Paul extended to a shared missionary zeal.

The West imposes the same poverty on the rest of the world with missionary zeal.

Their missionary zeal made them agents of Christian awakenings.

He embraced it with missionary zeal and started testing the limits of how much fun a man could have while tethered to a wing 10 stories above him.

That's where I gained the missionary zeal I am talking about.

Peru and Latin America are not, of course, alone in having monuments to the missionary zeal of Christianity.

With near - missionary zeal, Burris and IB coordinator John Murphy set out to try.

He says, «What I see is that people have a missionary zeal to want to work with kids who need them the most.

And while this has helped stem the tide of decline — as well as reinvigorate the church's missionary zeal (the famous line from Cardinal Hickey of Washington, quoted by Kathleen, «we don't education [urban] students because THEY are Catholic, but because WE are»)-- it has also dampened the Church's once - powerful religious belief system.

Their role is so impressive because they work with missionary zeal and commitment.

If there were ever any questions about his missionary zeal, they should be cast aside.

With the 10th anniversary of the hurricane last fall, the missionary zeal of young reformers coming to the city has waned, and philanthropies have some «reform fatigue,» said Rhonda Kalifey - Aluise, a New Orleans native who is the executive director of the KIPP New Orleans Schools, one of the biggest charter school operators in the city.

There is missionary zeal.

A thorough analysis of Barnes's writings would locate them in the broader movement to bring modern art to American audiences in the 1920s and 1930s — a movement that frequently had a missionary zeal.