Sentences with phrase «only saints»

«Let us not think that these Gifts of the Spirit are proper only to souls that have reached certain heights on the road to perfection; let us not believe that only the saints possess the Gifts of the Holy Spirit.

In «Make Hell Hot Again» (August / September), Marc Barnes claims that I argue the following in a recent article for the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly: «A world populated in the end by saints and sinners is a better cosmic whole than a world that contains only saints, because in the former world, where God brings at least some human beings to glory, and eternally as well as justly punishes the rest, God is able to manifest his goodness the most clearly and fully.»

Paul Macdonald Jr., in a recent essay for the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, argues that «a world populated in the end by saints and sinners is a better cosmic whole than a world that contains only saints, because in the former world, where God brings at least some human beings to glory, and eternally as well as justly punishes the rest, God is able to manifest his goodness the most clearly and fully.»

The true fellowship of the saints has only saints gathering, and where the elders SERVE the youngers as a function and not an office.

Gregory might have had a chequered career in the Church, but the beauty of his writings — spanning from letters, speeches and beautiful poetry — were recognised by subsequent ages and became so popular in the east that Gregory is the only saint to have the title «theologian» apart from Simon the new theologian, and the Apostle John.

They have the only Saint Lucian 5 Star Chef on the island!

And the Huffington Post called out domestic violence survivor Rihanna for sporting not only the Saint Laurent clutches but also the gun - embossed Vlieger & Vandam tote years earlier, when so many abused women die as a result of gun violence.

No, that won't stop us, but I am positive I am not the only saint who chuckled at a YouTube video displaying a game we've conquered over a decade ago.

She becomes «eyes for McCay, a mother for Ben, a friend for Vera, brains for Bill» and reacts to the abuses of the town as only a saint could.

Not exact matches

It was then when Saint John says a light bulb went off that made her realize the only way to succeed was to bring her full self to work.

According to a 2003 Milwaukee Magazine profile, he fired his weapon only once on the job, shooting and wounding a Saint Bernard that lunged at him while he was investigating a break - in.

For Saint John, she says it was important for her to understand that «you are the only you — so why not bring that?»

MillerCoors bought Saint Archer Brewing Company earlier in September, with only 35,000 barrels projected for 2015.

I think strategically you can make the case that the dollar could see its status revisited downwards which would benefit the euro, probably it's benefiting not only the euro, but also the Chinese currency,» Saint - George said.

When asked for comment on the Post report and the backlash over his comments, Faber told Fortune that, «If this is the only sin I committed in my life I would feel like a saint.»

Praying to Mary or to saints instead of to the only one who has authority to do something about their sins and can intervene in their lives.

Only God can say who's a saint, not a bunch of priests.

He said, for instance, of the deathbed conversion of his friend Frank S. Meyer that «the only remaining intellectual obstacle to his conversion was the collectivist implication lurking in the formulation «the communion of saints» in the Apostles» Creed.»

Saint Nicholas was born only a few hundred years after Christ only short distance away in what is now Turkey.

The mother MAry nor any other Catholic saint can answer prayers, but GOD only.

Having been a Baptist for nearly twenty years and a Latter - day Saint for 35 years now, I can tell you his religion, if it is lived fully, will only make him a much better person, and not one you would have any problem trusting from a character and moral point of view.

Not only do the lives offer the unexpected, saints who do not always conform to stock virtues or conventional patterns, they also put a new figure on the stage, the holy woman.

• Patrick Leigh Fermor, The Violins of Saint - Jacques: No one in the twentieth century wrote more magnificent English, or prose of a purer purple; but, while his travel memoirs are now more widely appreciated than ever, his only novel (or novella, really) tends to be overlooked — a deftly constructed, economically proportioned, perfectly satisfying little tale about the small twilight world of a fictional French Caribbean island on its last day.

To accuse the left of bringing up Jesus only when they want to convince people he was the patron saint of liberalism is hysterical.

So great and splendid is the educational ministry of Christian parents that Saint Thomas has no hesitation in comparing it with the ministry of priests: «Some only propagate and guard spiritual life by a spiritual ministry: this is the role of the sacrament of Orders; others do this for both corporal and spiritual life, and this is brought about by the sacrament of marriage, by which a man and a woman join in order to beget offspring and bring them up to worship God.

I'd need to tell you about harsh winters and barren fields and doubting saints and unanswered prayers, about the kind of rising that only happens after you've been down on the ground for quite a while.

Even when life after death was a very vague hope, held by only a few, scornfully denied by some, supposed to affect only a selected group of saints and sinners, (E.g., Daniel 12:2.)

the real saints lived amongst the poor, he only visits them and lives the other 362 days in luxury lying to the people.

Protestantism will be purified only insofar as she is willing to contend conservatively for the faith once delivered to the saints.

It is only fitting that the one for whom creation was made should be born of the holiest of the saints, indeed anything less is scarcely conceivable.

Nor the angels, saints in heaven and even the son of God doesn't know the exact time of his return, Only the Heavenly Father.

Wow that really is the heart of a saint... only yesterday it was 900 years old, now its 800 years old, in a week it'll still be beating

It seems to them that this is an insecure foundation on which to build the whole Structure of Christian belief and the way of life which follows from it; especially since such experiences may not be unique, for there are possible parallels, not only in the visions of the saints but in many alleged psychic phenomena.

It could be your mother, your sister, your wife, your best friend, your Sunday school teacher from long ago, a pastor, a mentor, a saint from centuries past, or even a woman you met for only a few minutes but whose presence changed you.

Christians who are sainted through martyrdom - which stipulates being killed out of hatred for the faith - are the only ones exempt from being involved in a miracle.

In the intervening years, my appreciation for this insight of Richard of Saint Victor has only deepened.

A monument to the importance of that achievement for the history of the Slavs is the very alphabet in which most Slavs write, which is called Cyrillic, in honor of Saint Cyril, the ninth - century «apostle to the Slavs,» who, with his brother Methodius, is traditionally given credit for having invented it... Not only among the Slavs in the ninth century, but also among the other so - called heathen in the 19th century, the two fundamental elements of missionary culture for more than a millennium have therefore been the translation of the Bible, especially of the New Testament, and education in the missionary schools.

The communion of saints is not only a theological concept, it is the model for a vibrant Catholic literary culture.

But those that say that even the saints of Yahweh will always be sinners, and that their purification will only be fully had when we get to heaven, undercut the gospel covenant.

Before the Quattrocento ended, the great Verrocchio had demonstrated what sculpture could do to activate the space not only within but around a niche with his magisterial Christ and Saint Thomas, created for the Orsanmichele in Florence, and the same body of formal knowledge is evident in The Young Saint John the Baptist.

These Separatists would allow preaching only by a converted ministry, and demanded that a congregation be composed only of known saints.

Scoundrel and saint are only phantoms of the imagination.

Similarly, the various contributions of the many saints and seers, storytellers and casuists of Scripture can only be, as T. S. Eliot put it, «reconciled in the stars.»

The only «host» is the Holy Spirit, not some saint or angel that you worship as an intermediary.

After only the briefest interval — so Mark implies all along — ; his followers were convinced that he had risen from the dead — not as one more resuscitated Israelite, like the daughter of Jairus, nor as a saint who had entered glory, like Moses or Elijah, but as no one less than the transcendent, heavenly Messiah, the «Son of Man» who was to come on the clouds of heaven and hold the last judgment upon all mankind.

I'm all for community, and even diviersity within community, but only within the framework of «the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.»

Perhaps there will literally only be 144,000 saints who make it (Revelation 7).

God's presence and indwelling in Jesus is said to differ not only in degree but in kind from his indwelling in the greatest of his saints, or in us.

St Francis is one of the best - loved saints, not only among Christians, but also among environmentalists and animal rights campaigners: he loved nature, animals and every human person.

Yet the Bible explicitly says that only God has immortality inherently and that immortality is brought to light through the gospel and granted to the glorified saints who persevered in the faith to the end, whereas it does not appear to say anywhere that immortality is granted to the unsaved.