Sentences with phrase «of pious»

Unfortunately, this type of pious exhortation has almost no impact on behaviour, because our water is incredibly cheap: an average of 86 cents per thousand litres.

This is true even of the pious brethren who carry the gospel to foreign parts

The pose of a crisply dressed young boy or girl might rhyme with the Greco - Roman «Dying Gaul» or a 19th century Courbet or Millet painting of pious field hands.

Jeremy Gilbert - Rolfe, «Non-representation in 1988: Meaning Production Beyond the Scope of the Pious,» Arts Magazine (May 1988): 30 — 39.

The stark interior of the Pious Inquisitor might appear austere on first glance, but Heretic's symmetrical spaces require players to execute complex strategies in order to outplay their opponents.

Despite relapses of failing eyesight and crippling rheumatism, he continued to lecture on Spencer's behalf, dragging himself around the Midwest in unheated trains to proselytize in town after town where often, he would recall, he encountered «a protracted meeting in full blast at every church in town except the Episcopal, and a general feeling of pious rage at my appearance on the scene.»

Intermittent fasting is a common custom in many religions and viewed as a sign of pious constraint.

I really felt all the characters as they were so well drawn and my only qualm is the significance of the pious brother Henry and as he was of no significance.

Perhaps concerned that we will mistake «My Left Foot» for one of those pious TV docudramas, the movie begins in the middle of one of Christy's typical manipulations.

Set in New England circa 1630 (well before the Salem Witch Trials), The Witch takes us inside the challenging lives of a homesteading family, recently banished from the colony by the righteous acts of pious father William (Ralph Ineson).

The setting is a patch of swampland, natch, full of pious hypocrites like Donnie.

Lowden is a remarkable blend of innocence and determination, giving Tommy's budding romance with Meg Drinnan (Ophelia Lovibond), a local waitress a few years his elder, the quality of both blind folly and of unexpected nobility as he remains loyal to her despite Meg's misgivings, and, worse, the disapproval of his pious mother.

The Eid is a period that brings together families, communities and indeed, the entire nation for contemplation and the observance of pious prayer to the Almighty.

Praasha Desire Praatika Image / Symbolic Pracheeta Origin / Starting point Pradyuta To begin to shine Pragnika Clever lady Praharsha Happy girl Prahasini Continues smiling girl Prajisha Morning Pramik Best / Fulfilling desires Pranal God Pranamya Offering obeisances Pranani Most beautiful Pranavee Goddess Parvati / The first sound of universe Aum (Alternate Spelling: Pranavi) Pranaya Leader Pranidhi Spy Pranika Goddess Parvati Pranisha Love to life Pranja Very cute Pranusha Prathama Usha — first rays of the morning Sun Pranvi Forgiveness / Goddess of life / Maa Parvati Pranvuta Praised Prasheila Ancient time Prashi Accomplishment / Fame Prashvita Parvati / Lord Shivas wife Prathulya Incomparable Prathusha Saisudha / Early morning / Dawn Prathysha Saisudha / Early morning / Dawn Prathyumna Victory Prathyusha Saisudha / Early morning / Dawn Prati One who appreciates and loves music Pratichi West Pratika Image / Beautiful / Symbol / Symbolic Pratitha Well known Prattusha Beautiful / soft Prattysha Morning Pratusha Saisudha / Early morning / Dawn Pratushya Morning Pratyaksha One who is real Pratyaya Perception / Thought / Intention Pratyusha Bright morning Pravara Eminent Prayukta Experimented Prayushi Pure Prayuta Mingled with Saadhvi Religious women / Courteous / Polite Saahana Raga Saarya Name of a pious woman Saatvika Goddess Durga / Calm (Alternate Spelling: Saatwika) Saavi Goddess Lakshmi / The Sun Saavini Pertaining to the month of Saavan / One who prepares Soma Sabrang Rainbow Sachita Consciousness Sadhvi Religious women / Courteous / Polite Saesha With great desire and wish / Truth of life Sagnika Fiery / Passionate / Married / With fire Sahuri War / Powerful / Victorious / The earth Sahya A mountain in india Saisha With great desire and wish / Truth of life (Alternate Spelling: Saiyeisha) Saketa Lord Krishna (Alternate Spelling: Saketha) Samanvi One who has all the best qualities Sambhwi Durga Samiha Generous Samika Peaceful Samiksha Analysis Samita Collected Samithra Good friend Sanchana Gathering of good habits Sanchaya Collection Sanha Skilful / Radiance / Elegance / Conciseness Sanheeta A compilation or a bunch of vedic hymns / Code (Alternate Spelling: Sanhitha) Sanmaya Equal / Removal of obstacles / Etc Sanmita Goddess Parvati / Prasanna Lakshmi Sanoja Eternal Sanrakta Red / Pleasant / Beautiful Sanwari Dusky Sanya Eminent / Distinguished / Born on saturday Sarasvi Water / Saraswathi Goddess Sarayu A holy river Sarisha Charming Sarit River Sarjena Creative Sarunati Nobleminded Sarvani Durga / Universal / Complete Sarvari Night

But it is not fundamentally a form of words, any more than it is a set of pious thoughts in which Christians unite.

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.

And it was on the calendar of any pious Jew who had the leisure to observe it.

The husband is a convert, obsessed by apologetics, church history, and doctrine» something of a pious cold fish.

Dr. Horton suggests that its purpose was to assist the nightly devotions of pious dollar - worshiping tourists.

One day on reading a saying by the founder of Hasidism about the fervour and daily inward renewal of the pious man, he recognized in himself the Hasidic soul, and he recognized piety, hasidut, as the essence of Judaism.

The earlier foundational writer is not J, as Wellhausen suggested, but rather the voice of pious obedience and transcendent understanding of God (found outside the J texts in E and P).

wonder what the response of the pious ones is for this..

It would surely have been very simple to arrange things in such a way that everything fitted properly if, after all, these prophecies, these words of God, these divine interventions in history, are all the religious interpretations of pious authors.

I first encountered him on my blog about five years ago, and every so often, more recently of late, he comes back and spouts off some sort of pious nonsense, which sounds good on the electronic page, but which I know for a fact is nothing but pure hypocrisy.

When it comes to judging the weak efforts of all who follow the great J, Wellhausen's diatribe can not compare with that of Bloom, who speaks of «the long, sad enterprise of revising, censoring, and mutilating J»; where Alter, talks of «composite artistry» in describing the juxtaposition of J and P in the opening chapters of Genesis, Bloom sees deliberate replacement, correction and supersession due to the «revisionary labors» of pious morons.

Faith is not a matter of pious exertion or heroic will power.

But Jesus broke into his disciples» reverie of pious amazement with a real shocker, a blunt, prophetic pronouncement: all the magnificence before their eyes would one day be rubble, he declared.

«Like him who perverts the revenues of some pious foundation to profane purposes, he pays the wages of idleness with those funds which the frugality of his forefathers had, as it were, consecrated to the maintenance of industry.»

May the Lord pour out his blessing abundantly upon all our Boarding Schools that a host of pious youth may be raised up, filled with the Holy Spirit and clothed with the whole panoply of God who shall go forth as angels of mercy bearing life and light and peace to this benighted, perishing people.26

If they did, they would know that most of the pious myths handed down are recognized as such by the most involved parties in the major religions.

Or one may take the story of Job, his refusal to be deflected by the well - meaning advice of pious friends.

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

Did you ever notice that those who Jesus hung out with were prostitutes, mentally ill, smelly fishermen, etc. rather than a bunch of pious church people?

To Sifton, the CHRISTIAN CENTURY»S Charles Clayton Morrison, «he of the pious do - nothing school,» typified the Protestant mainstream.

By the first century, it is clear, Judaism was a fully - developed system of piety, that is, of pious observance — not a system of theology, nor a code of law, merely, but a system of piety.

I have been joined to the society of the pious.

It can not be restricted to a particular locale or people, regardless of formal religious establishments or the enshrinement of pious references to the deity in historic statements, public documents, and speeches by politicians.

Again, speaking of alms, it says that it is a «precise and known» right of the needy to receive a share of the possessions of pious men (Surah LXX, 24 - 25).

This can happen even in the midst of a pious community.

According to the will of his father he was accepted by the Shi`as as their religious leader and became known as Imam Zain al - Abidin, the Ornament of the Pious.

There have been literally thousands of religions «changing through history» — including christianity — to suit the agendas of the pious, the power hungry, the greedy and the fearful.

Actually, this is the most common heard piece of pious fraud spread by zealots like you.

And that «return» (often called ressourcement theology) was not a matter of pious nostalgia but of intellectual adventure: a movement that sought to enrich the Church's reflection on her own nature and mission at a moment when theology risked falling into a sub-discipline of logic — something dry and abstract, detached from the explosive good news of the Gospel.

One pervasive form of pious gathering occurs within the family.

The first reference to the passage is by the fourth - century Christian bishop Eusebius, a well - known defender of pious fraud who felt it acceptable to lie for the Church, who many scholars suspect forged the passage himself.

The phrase «contemporary Christian music» evokes for many people visions of pious confection and Amy Grant; singers preaching to the converted in an extremely insular subculture.

... 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.

With proper instinct for the truth, they do not permit themselves to be imposed upon, and they are thus protected against any turning towards the â $ ˜Godâ $ ™ of the pious man.

While Eusebius can be regarded as a serious, though by no means always an accurate historian, the numerous Christian Acts of various apostles, none of them earlier than the middle of the second century, are for the most part fictional romances, full of pious legend, but of little or no use as history.

Jesus» reply in verse 23 is taken by Martha as a word of pious consolation, but Jesus sharply defines his meaning: the power of the resurrection life is not something to be waited for in the future; it is now present.