Sentences with phrase «other saintly»

Curious as to how other saintly teams did that day, O'Reilly and McGowan did some checking around and came up with this remarkable list:

St Francis de Sales (one of the first to see the dangers of heresy at Port Royal) and other saintly spiritual writers who advocated frequent communion saw it as a practice requiring regular confession and serious preparation.

Other saintly champions of the Scotist view in the Middle ages include St Catherine of Siena, St Bernadine of Siena and St Bonaventure.

Oliva appeals to a classic moral doctrine promoted by Aquinas and many other saintly theologians, namely, that the circumstances impact the guilt attached to a sinful act.

Many other saintly authorities could be quoted, but one hopes that this helps to reassure those who, in the current climate of tension, have been made nervous and perhaps over cautious about what truly belongs to the orthodox tradition of the Church.

Not exact matches

Twain was a bad man, yes, in some ways, but he was the same mixture of good and bad as the rest of us, and every other artist and writer who ever lived, including the saintly ones.

For instance, when these characteristics are perceived as exhibited in an individual enduringly and in a sense in which these are understood to affect the world around in a favorable fashion — either in an objective sense of effecting something concrete outside such a person [like effecting healing, foretelling, acting as medium in a non-rational manner or simply doing good or saying good to help the people selflessly], exhibiting personal traits, conditions and states which are known to be «abnormal» [like going into trances, hearing voices, seeing visions, or just the simple unconventional behavior, which proceed from such an individual's horizon to affect, influence, impact others» horizons]-- or is subjectively perceived to be extra-ordinary — such an individual is said to be godly, god - bearing, pious or saintly.

To the right of that post, a bit under the gallery, sits Bishop Anderson of Chicago, and two seats away is the saintly face of the Rev. Alexander Whyte of First St. George's Church, Edinburgh, whom more American preachers love than any other living pulpiteer.

This is not adequate grounds for distinguishing between Jesus and Socrates and Gautama, let alone any number of other wise or saintly or good people, unless one resorts to a dogmatic insistence upon Jesus» «sinlessness» or «absolute perfection» about which we have no final way of knowing, and which Jesus is reported as denying with respect to himself (Mark 10:18).

At the other, in protest against the self - righteous «perfectionism» thus implied, is the current neo-orthodox tendency to stress the continuance of sin in the most saintly Christians, with reluctance to grant any significant moral achievement as the result of redemption lest it savor of human presumption.

In other words, it is not thanks to magisterial Church documents that we have this central tenet of the Faith (although I am sure by now that it is certainly secured by decree of the Magisterium), but thanks to the faithful and saintly life and writings of one man from a far flung province of the Roman empire who would rather retreat to the quiet of the cloister than rule from the episcopal throne (though he clearly felt quite bitter about losing the latter).

A great, saintly man, greater than all other saints?

Instead of using the kind of deus ex machina embodied in a formal religious figure that Percy favors in his other novels, we have instead Binx's Catholic family, most notably the saintly Lonnie, that stands for «wise answers.»

Jason Bateman plays the everyman (ya know - the Ed Helms - role), who's lorded over by psychotic Kevin Spacey, who manages to make the other horrible boss he played, Buddy from SWIMMING WITH SHARKS, look almost saintly by comparison.

Ford did more than any other filmmaker to enshrine Lincoln as a saintly rustic, most memorably in the classic Young Mr. Lincoln (1939), and Spielberg seems to follow his lead in the first dialogue scene of Lincoln.

Hobart Shakespearean that he is, Esquith skillfully plays the role of the modest, righteous, self - fulfilled, patient, and wise educator who — though surely he could work in other more - prestigious and remunerative professions — nobly remains in the classroom, quietly going about his saintly business.

I haven't met a reader (misdirection, sorry) nor read an article by the editors or other contributers, which isn't socialist and thinks that socialism is the saintly path.

I don't know what kind of influence Dr Curry will have other than irritating those noble, saintly, and brave soldiers of the Climate Wars but I do know THEY are having an effect on public mental health: