Sentences with phrase «personal sanctity»

Leonard presents personal sanctity as very much within reach — undeniably important for those who feel holiness is a strange and beautiful concept somehow reserved only for the great heroes in faith.

For the first time in my life I felt myself in the presence of personal sanctity.

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But I would like to highlight one crucial aspect of Nat's body of work that obituary writers in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Associated Press, and other mainstream media outlets (though not First Things) woefully downplayed: Nat stood steadfastly — sometimes at great professional and personal cost — for the sanctity and equality of human life from conception to natural death.

This would include the Ten Commandments and its laws protecting the sanctity of life, for example, or the personal challenge of Jesus to love and forgive enemies and put others first.

For Catholic schools to be a worthwhile enterprise for the Church, they must survive and flourish as institutions where pupils grow in a «personal relationship with Jesus» which includes following the teaching of Jesus, through His Church, that we should attend Mass every Sunday, go to confession regularly, say our prayers and be loyal to the magisterium - especially in its moral teaching regarding the sanctity of human life, and the meaning and purpose of sex and marriage, in accord with Humanae Vitae and Evangelium Vitae.

However, inasmuch as my personal opposition to this practice is rooted in a sectarian (Catholic) religious belief in the sanctity of human life, I am unwilling to impose it on others who may, as a matter of conscience, take a different view.

On Saturdays, we officiate weddings with unconditional vows, on Sundays we preach sermons on the sanctity of marriage, and then on Mondays we counsel our congregation that Jesus exempts them to do the hard work of remaining faithful in times of unfaithfulness and that ultimately marriage is not about Jesus and the church but their personal desires.

While paternal authority continued to be acknowledged and male involvement desirable, fathers were increasingly edged out of a Protestantism which stressed innocence, personal piety, individual education, and the sanctity of domestic sentiments.9

[17] Returning to the theme of the Ecclesiastical hierarchy, one sees that Maximus acknowledges its importance, but he strives to bring out its significance for the personal growth in sanctity and communion with Christ.

It's a matter of personal conviction, predicated on a belief in the sanctity of life, and that the right to life is the most fundamental of human rights.

How can we have reached the stage that the last line of defence of the sanctity of personal information (without two factor authentication) rests with being one of the few people to know the city in which one's secondary school is located (assuming, of course, that that question and answer has not already been compromised)?

Critiques of Assisted Dying Peter Bowal and Paulami Saha When the sanctity of life is displaced by a culture of respectable voluntary death, this change in attitude could eventually disrupt the personal autonomy of the living.