Sentences with phrase «of saintliness»

Which when you think about it is exactly the same as «half - evil», assuming the other half of Arnas is made of saintliness.

«One of the things that made me run was hearing candidate after candidate saying that immigration lost us the election,» said Diane Abbott, who is starting to take on a very unlikely air of saintliness.

We saw, under the head of Saintliness, how some characters resent confusion and must live in purity, consistency, simplicity.

Moreover, we must not confound the essentials of saintliness, which are those general passions of which I have spoken, with its accidents, which are the special determinations of these passions at any historical moment.

Yet he was magnificently adapted to the larger environment of history; and so far as any saint's example is a leaven of righteousness in the world, and draws it in the direction of more prevalent habits of saintliness, he is a success, no matter what his immediate bad fortune may be.

Single attributes of saintliness may, it is true, be temperamental endowments, found in non-religious individuals.

Our survey of the phenomena of saintliness has unquestionably produced in your minds an impression of extravagance.

Let me pass next to the Charity and Brotherly Love which are a usual fruit of saintliness, and have always been reckoned essential theological virtues, however limited may have been the kinds of service which the particular theology enjoined.

In this it resembles Asceticism, to which further symptom of saintliness we had better turn next.

The subject of Saintliness left us face to face with the question, Is the sense of divine presence a sense of anything objectively true?

«Saint Michael Harrington,» as neoconservative apologist Michael Novak has called him, has some of the qualities of saintliness.

There was a touch of saintliness in Mother.

According to the Qur» an they have no special distinction which gives them any sort of saintliness or supernatural ability such as the authority to intercede or remit sins.

Not exact matches

The most convincing proof of what some have called the «saintliness of Pere Teilhard» is his humility; and his humility is the pledge of the greatness of his love.

The Liberal theologian of England and America is described with commendation by Dean Inge in the closing chapter of his Types of Christian Saintliness: «His «authority» is the best available judgment of civilized humanity which is the Liberal's Great Church.

To the summits of seraphic perfection, strong holiness, sweaty saintliness!

There is so much wisdom there, so much knowledge of how to attain spiritual ends, so much saintliness.»

The routine of a parish situated in a lukewarm, homogeneous comfort zone inspires only a rare few toward saintliness.

The third stage is the first step toward saintliness, the stage in which Allah reveals truth to man by inspiration, as is pointed out in the seventh and eighth verses of the ninety - first Surah of the Qur» an.

Unless the Infinite is represented in finite form, unless the Word becomes flesh over and over again, though only as oral preaching, unless the risen Christ manifests himself in the visible forms of individual saintliness and communal authority there is no human relation to the Infinite and Transcendent.

In Christian saintliness this power is always personified as God; but abstract moral ideals, civic or patriotic utopias, or inner visions of holiness or right may also be felt as the true lords and enlargers of our life, in ways which I described in the lecture on the Reality of the Unseen.

The collective name for the ripe fruits of religion in a character is Saintliness.

(«It will be found,» says Dr. W.R. Inge [in his lectures on Christian Mysticism, London, 1899, p. 326], «that men of preeminent saintliness agree very closely in what they tell us.

(The «enthusiasm of humanity» may lead to a life which coalesces in many respects with that of Christian saintliness.

The saintly character is the character for which spiritual emotions are the habitual centre of the personal energy; and there is a certain composite photograph of universal saintliness, the same in all religions, of which the features can easily be traced.

Of course the wealthy members of the church gave up their property for the common good, but voluntarily as an offering, not in order to gain especial saintlinesOf course the wealthy members of the church gave up their property for the common good, but voluntarily as an offering, not in order to gain especial saintlinesof the church gave up their property for the common good, but voluntarily as an offering, not in order to gain especial saintliness.

Were I to parody Kant, I should say that a «Critique of pure Saintliness» must be our theme.

A lower example still of theopathic saintliness is that of Saint Gertrude, a Benedictine nun of the thirteenth century, whose «Revelations,» a well - known mystical authority, consist mainly of proofs of Christ's partiality for her undeserving person.

In reading such a narrative, we realize the gap between the thirteenth and the twentieth century, and we feel that saintliness of character may yield almost absolutely worthless fruits if it be associated with such inferior intellectual sympathies.

What I then propose to do is, briefly stated, to test saintliness by common sense, to use human standards to help us decide how far the religious life commends itself as an ideal kind of human activity.

In almost every lecture, but especially in the lectures on Conversion and on Saintliness, we have seen how this emotion overcomes temperamental melancholy and imparts endurance to the Subject, or a zest, or a meaning, or an enchantment and glory to the common objects of life.

The centralizing of political authority in the hands of the emperor was stabilizing but if to this end he determined episcopal appointments his eye might be less directed to saintliness than to amenability.

We live in a moment of near - religious hysteria, where one's commitment to the Brexit project defines one's saintliness.

Though Kingsley's saturnine poise is much more interesting in roles which call for varying degrees of slipperiness (Death and the Maiden, Sexy Beast), he nevertheless manages to bring shades into the inherently monochromatic saintliness of the role with life - sized, profoundly felt gravity and dignity, all while executing that marvelous, peculiarly British trick (remember Robert Donat in Goodbye, Mr. Chips) of seeming to age from within.

It is difficult not to admire Leigh's boldness in giving the Christian virtues of selfless generosity, charitable goodwill and quiet passivity to a backstreet abortionist, but by presenting Vera with an almost cartoonlike saintliness from start to finish, Leigh misses an opportunity to engage seriously with the moral complexity of the abortion issue — and some viewers will be left longing for Vera to be a shadier, more difficult figure, like the protagonist of Leigh's far more confronting «Naked» (1993).

Director / co-writer Ethan Hawke's biopic on the late, great songwriter Blaze Foley is blessed with a central performance by Little Rock singer and guitarist Benjamin Dickey, who lends this outlaw - country wildman and Townes Van Zandt drinking buddy an aura of tarnished - halo saintliness.

Saintliness and cinema are an odd couple, enough so that auds will be caught off - guard by «This Is Martin Bonner,» a mood piece, a character study and an exercise in poetic gesture possessed of a sort of evanescent, secular spirituality.

I'm a fan, don't get me wrong, but this sense of evangelical, holier - than - thou saintliness turns my stomach.

They offer more of Todd's saintliness (as conscientious wrestling coach, father, and mourner), a glimpse at Sonja's mothering and an explanation for Thomas Haden Church's character lack of a family.

Though the objects are often ripe with holy allusions, Beck cuts the saintliness with a pervasive sense of humor and a playful iconoclasm.

I'd also leave room to consider vanity and inexperience as alternatives to lack of «saintliness» for explaining presenters who present one - sided reports.