Sentences with phrase «more for holiness»

We have prayed more for the world, more for holiness, more for our neighbor... thinking of other's well - being rather than self....

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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.

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.

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 receive.

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.»

Some anthropologists do respect distinctly religious ideas such as holiness and life - after - death, but many still try to explain religion away as no more than a shared «language» for expressing social patterns, calming irrational fears or marking men as somehow different from animals.

More important, however, for future religious development than this translation of holiness from primitive untouchableness into majestic greatness and exclusive sovereignty was the baptism of the idea into moral meanings.

Bishop Angaelos said: «This is a historic visit, not only of the 118th Pope of Alexandria to the United Kingdom, but more personally for His Holiness Pope Tawadros, as his first engagement with his flock across Britain.

For isness is holiness; holiness is isness, just that and no more.

Perhaps the Pope needs to be more clear, for those like you, that it is the evil doers keeping the food from the people... start naming names Your Holiness, for God's sake.

As will soon be evident, the writer believes that Christian perfection — or holiness, as the doctrine is more popularly called — stands in one sense for a very important and vital truth.

The thing that worries me the most for the Church today is the notion that if we compromise our holiness — if we compromise our view on sexuality — then the people will be evangelised more easily and more people will come to Christ.

I lean towards the third view... but I admit it is the most difficult of the three views... Christ's priorities appear to be «love in motion» flowing in almost unpredictable directions as dictated by the greatest need: — He heals a slave rather than rebukes slavery; — He heals a man at a pool, then leads the man to belief, then says «cease from sinning»; — He heals many others and says «go and sin no more» to but a few; — He shares money with the poor but establishes no long - term aid; — He touches lepers; He converses with seeking Pharisees; He debates with other Pharisees; He lives with Samaritan outcasts for two days; — He acknowledges the five «marriages» of the Samaritan woman as «marriages»... and then remarks about her current co-habitation... but then moves to higher priorities; — He seems so very focused on internal holiness and not on external holiness; — He violates the Sabbath; He says He is Lord of the Sabbath; He even says that the Sabbath was created to assist man, rather than man created to serve the Sabbath... thus turning the entire concept of the Law into one of assistance rather than being chained to obedience; — He insists on impartiality in the way we bless others, even if we call them «evil» or «good».

Obviously he does: justice and righteousness belong to the Holiness of Yahweh (so 5:16, quoted above) But for Isaiah the term embraces vastly more than Yahweh's ethical attributes.

His Sources of Christian Ethics is a magisterial account of what went wrong with moral theology and, more importantly, how to understand the Christian life as a journey toward the good, as a call to holiness, rather than as a roadmap for avoiding the impermissible.

With 613 holiness codes you'll not only have to be more specific but also explain to me, a Christian, why you're quoting the holiness code to me since it is meant only for the Jews.

The Christian Holiness Association even attempted «confederation» in the mid-1960s but had to settle for a more loosely organized program of «cooperative ministries» in such areas as publishing and evangelism.

Thomas Upham, one of the more mystically inclined of early Holiness teachers, wrote in 1836 the important Manual of Peace, opposing the military chaplaincy, advocating «tax resistance,» and calling for the abolition of capital punishment.

«Desire, a burning passion for more, is at the heart of both... the greatest enemy of holiness is not passion; it is apathy.»

Marriage is much more a training zone for personal holiness than an award gala for personal perfection.

I myself wondered whether the list was complete without more attention paid to the evangelical impulse and the quest for personal holiness.

satan was responsible for his own actions as Adam and Eve were and so are we.Its interesting that because of satans fall satan is now Gods lap dog he gives him a leash and tells him his constraints and he allows him to test his people so that through testing he builds our faith and so we can say that all things work for good to those that love God.brentnz Holiness in the prescence of sin makes it more holy so they help to define what is holy and what is evil or sin.We see that all the way through the bible so they co-exist temporarily until evil has run its course and then God will judge and we know that satan is cast into the fiery pit for ever.Even towards satan God is merciful.brentnz

For example, in paragraph 956 in The Catechism of the Catholic Church we read: «Being more closely united to Christ, those who dwell in heaven fix the whole Church more firmly in holiness....

Of course, joining twitter has one downside for his holiness — Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga can now say they have more followers than the Pope!

We can be reassured by the humility of His Holiness, that just because we experience negativity in some form doesn't mean we are hopeless in our quest for a more spiritual life.

Personally I find this the raw material for teaching but even more importantly: it's your holy time with holiness, with the creative processs, to uncover how you move, breathe, feel and ignite your passion.

Apart from his shocking disingenuousness (if there's a more blatant Christ parable than The Shawshank Redemption, I don't know what it is), Darabont obviously doesn't understand that for the reborn mind, the longer the climb, the better the proselytizing — hence the desertion, the nepotism, and the DUIs actually augmenting Dubya's holiness instead of casting suspicion on it.

As for point two, I really don't think we need any more tax incentives or holiness attached to housing, so doing away with the HBP in favour of encouraging TFSA use would suit my politics just fine.

They become more conscious that we all have the capacity to be «wounded healers» for one another, and that the journey to wholeness in relationship is the journey of holiness.