Sentences with phrase «of sanctifying»

The idea of sanctifying the Supreme Court building as a «temple of justice» is an American idea that we could well do without.

On Buttiglione's scheme, the priest has to judge the state of the penitent's soul — to decide whether to say, «You're in a state of mortal sin, you're deprived of sanctifying grace, if you died at this instant you would be damned, and you can't take communion»; or «You are committing grave sin, but as you're a bit all over the place right now, you're not in a state of mortal sin, nor will you be after your next grave sin.

Bread and wine, for example, become the Body and Blood of Christ, just as baptismal water effects or actualizes the new life of sanctifying grace in the believer.

This second connotation, a qualification of sanctifying grace, Niebuhr said, is also supported by the thought of St. Paul when his thought is considered as a whole.

The absence of sanctifying grace in the new - born child is an effect of the first sin, for Adam, having received holiness and justice from God, lost it not only for himself but also for everybody else.

Religion of this sort has the effects of sanctifying selfishness and of blunting concern for excellence here and now.

I would never admit that anyone can receive Communion if the person is not in a state of sanctifying grace.

In that case, the objective situation of sin would not deprive the state of sanctifying grace.

Evangelical Catholicism celebrates the seven sacraments as divinely given means of sanctifying life.

They helped to create the musical ethos of the Sanctified Church, which had a considerable impact on blues, jazz, and Gospel.

For without the atomized and celestial cosmologies there could not be any cellular cosmologies of sanctified living realms!

Minimally, the proposal is aimed at generating, or re-generating, a measure of sanctified dissatisfaction with a state of disunity that scandalously contradicts what Christians claim to believe.

«It is the unhurried meditation on gospel truths and the exposing of our minds to these truths that yields the fruit of sanctified character.»

Like Zora Neale Hurston wrote of the Sanctified Church, he understood the power of the «shouting» and yet how such practices were already being shunned as odd relics of a past no longer wanted.

I can not let these questions go, for I remain convinced that any truthful account of Christian convictions requires a display of the sanctified life.

Devout Catholics, the survivors recount here how they rationalized their acts by blessing their friends» corpses and by thinking of their sanctified flesh as Holy Communion.

«My art becomes an explorer, a tracer of forgotten tribes, a seeker of sanctified visions,» explains Saar.

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They urge economies to submit to financial austerity by sanctifying debts rather than saving themselves and their labor force at the expense of debt and savings trends.

The uniqueness of Christ in relation to other «spiritualities» and the compatibility of Christianity with the «truth» found in other religions thus found its way into debate, becoming a major concern of Section IV, «Holy Spirit, Transform and Sanctify Us!»

May the great Name of God be exalted and sanctified, throughout the world, which he has created according to his will.

Hebrews 10:10 «By this will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.»

YOU: Christian perfection is a Christian doctrine which holds that the soul of the baptised Christian may attain a high degree of virtue and holiness and become entirely sanctified with the help of divine grace of Jesus.

Catholics hold that the Church is the body of Christ, a sacramental and mystical communion in which Christ is truly and effectually present and through which his justifying and sanctifying grace is mediated.

The collection is clearly not confined to sanctified saints and includes more than a few rogues who contributed to Britain's march of history.

And on the eve of his death, He sanctified a cup of wine as «the new covenant in my blood» (Luke 22:14 - 23).

Marriage is a form of acramentum — a symbolic expression of Christ's love for his Church, even a channel of God's grace to sanctify the couple, their children, and the broader community.

5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.

Christians «crucify» their bodies in the hope of rising one day in resurrected bodies, our physicality sanctified by the grace of God.

That it properly organizes, regulates, and sanctifies the sexual union of male and female.

1Cor 6: 11And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

A true Christian makes prayer a daily matter (1 Thess 5:17), in which Jesus taught them to pray first and foremost for God's name of Jehovah to be sanctified by means of his «kingdom».

But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God 1 Corinthians

(25) «Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the Church, and delivered Himself up for her, (26) that He might sanctify her, cleansing her in the bath of water by means of The Word; (27) IN ORDER THAT HE MIGHT PRESENT TO HIMSELF THE CHURCH IN ALL HER GLORY, NOT HAVING SPOT OR WRINKLE OR ANY SUCH THING, BUT THAT SHE MIGHT BE HOLY AND WITHOUT BLEMISH.»»

And Baptist evangelist Charles Spurgeon once said, «With some [Christians] the last part of their nature that ever gets sanctified is their pockets.»

So here are 7 of the more helpful categories of gospel truths that a new believer might need to know in order to be sanctified and grow into the image and likeness of Jesus Christ:

In giving counsel on prayer, after Jesus had told his disciples: «Whenever you pray, say, Father, let your name be sanctified», he then proceeded to give an illustration of one who asked a «friend» at midnight for three loaves of bread.

But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.»

Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace?&raquOf how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace?&raquof God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace?&raquof the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace?&raquof grace?»

I believe that I can not of my own understanding and strength believe in or come to Jesus Christ my Lord, but that the Holy Ghost has called me by the Gospel and illuminated me with His gifts, and sanctified and preserved me in the true faith..

Peter was one of the first twelve men sent out by Jesus to extend his own ministry of teaching and sanctifying.

His ontological understanding of the priest as the one standing in for Christ who teaches, protects, leads and sanctifies led him to question many of the initiatives in the 1980s which sought to extend to the laity tasks traditionally the function of the priest.

The no nonsense wisdom of St. Josemaria Escriva is wonderfully captured in the phrase «You have an obligation to sanctify yourself.

Instead, she speaks of sin from the eschatological perspective of God's desiring the full flourishing of all persons, and of women who know themselves to be justified and sanctified in faith.

It is not a blueprint for how the oneness will take form, but a plea for the Father's strong name to protect those who are in the world, hated by the world, yet up to the task (read «sanctified») of doing mission with joy and hope.

I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you to serve and bear witness... to whom I send you to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.

Further, while some contend that the soul sanctifies biology, thus delineating the uniqueness of human life, the simple presence of the soul fails to engender life as the Christian faith understands it.

It is rather that in the incarnation of the Word of God humanity has been taken into unity with God; human life has been sanctified; and a way has been opened for all men in every century and in all circumstances to enter into their right relationship to the Creator (the relationship of sons to their Father) through God's gracious approach to them in Christ and the response of trust and obedience which God in Christ evokes from them.

It is we who are sanctified, made fit for divine service, by the call of Christ to faith and obedience, just as the fishermen were given roles in God's great drama of salvation.

For the life of each individual to be sanctified by that Word it is not necessary that there should have been a myriad separate incarnations.

In a collection of essays entitled The Sanctified Church, Zora Neale Hurston described the traditions of the African American holiness and Pentecostal churches as a «revitalizing element» in black music and religion.