We have come, then, to the
communion of saints as the ultimate personal context of pastoral care.
The «son of man», it is explained, stands for «the people
of the saints of the Most High».
Perhaps because of her own spiritual struggles, she fed on the lives
of the saints who had struggled before her.
We think
of saints as those who are on terms with the sublime.
As we remember the strong shoulders
of the saints on which we stand, we are challenged to strengthen our own shoulders.
But the
prayers of the saints — whether offered in our safe places or in places of great risk and danger — are never small or ineffective or useless.
I am all for
gathering of the saints, and corporate worship, but let's start acting more like people of faith and less like a country club.
These fragments were most often borrowed from the lives
of saints with the same name.
I really don't like talking about myself, because I don't want to paint a
picture of a saint.
Good with kids, they will exhibit the patience
of a saint when children want to hug and climb on them.
Often, in a standard
biography of a saint, we read «after overcoming many difficulties and problems, he / she...».
A faithful spiritual friend guided me toward the rich promises of scripture and the written
wisdom of the saints.
The
glory of the saints that now surrounds the sick and the dying accompany the individual over the last enemy of this life.
That is his worth and ur children in years to come will wonder why that was all he was paid when they see the success arsenal has become
because of this saint.
The variations in the lives
of the saints suggests that holy people do not conform to a predetermined pattern.
Imagine what a different place the world would be if it were
full of saints.
I have asked
loads of saints fans and even they not sure about who is better.
There is a slow, steady immersion into the
communion of the saints through study, worship, and the practice of the moral life.
Who was this woman who has always had the
patience of a saint when it came to her children suddenly causing one of them to be afraid of her?
If we learn nothing else from the
lives of the saints, we should know the power their works and examples had to change an age.
And yet guys like you continue to worship him like he's some
kind of saint.
Since my city
of Saint John doesn't have a Chapters or a Starbucks, Lisa and I went early to enjoy these in Moncton.
Phrases with «of the saints»