Sentences with word «pious»

One group of pious men was known as «the bruised and bleeding Pharisees» because they closed their eyes when they saw a woman coming down the street, even if it meant walking into a wall and breaking their noses.

Its ritual absolutes and rules look legalistic, rubric - mad today: but they spoke with a sure confidence of the sacramentality of life, the rootedness of the sacred not in pious feelings of «spirituality,» not in our heads or even exclusively our hearts, but in the gritty and messy realities of life, birth, death, water and stone and fire, bread and wine.»

Again, speaking of alms, it says that it is a «precise and known» right of the needy to receive a share of the possessions of pious men (Surah LXX, 24 - 25).

This film is, and this is key, about as pious as a whoopee cushion even with its happy ending.

How can one combine being a reasonable and lively, I won't even say a happy human being with being a genuinely pious Christian in such a way that both are at least approximately one?

On the other side, there are some institutions of higher education in which requirements for pious living and correct doctrine replace the climate of open - ended inquiry.

ye phe piece thora liye tha sheikh sahb... do not mind... but islam me koi sheikh nahe na syed only pious people success 2 world..

Sam Harris said it well: «It is time we realized that to presume knowledge where one has only pious hope is a species of evil.»

There is a fundamental distinction between madrasa graduates who are from poor economic background, possessing little technological knowledge and lead a downplayed pious life in villages and the middle class, politically literate global

On Easter Sunday they return to New Jersey for dinner in Barnegat Pines with Vicki's family, which includes her turnpike toll - taker father, Wade Arsenauft, who spends his time in the basement restoring an ancient Chrysler; her querulous younger brother, Cade, a future police officer; and her stepmother, Lynette, a widowed, divorced, pious Catholic.

Drawing on his unparalleled experience and a multitude of primary sources, Scheuer correctly and convincingly portrays America's most determined enemy as a rational, intelligent, patient and pious Muslim who understands us far better than we comprehend him.»

They continued to live as pious Jews, to frequent the Temple and to keep the Law, but knew themselves to be also set apart as true believers.

He was the most pious man of his time and the most learned in religious doctrines.

There is the further psychological insight that the person who uses religious language very freely, and who appears completely dependent on pious feelings and sentiments, may be concealing a profound disbelief in the very doctrines he aggressively affirms.

Monasteries were built by rulers or prosperous individuals and tended to accumulate more riches through further gifts of land or treasure from pious believers.

Schools belonging to conservative churches, on the other hand, are often very conscious of their Christian grounds, but they typically express this in terms of conservative mores, an emphasis on pious practices, and the teaching of Christian doctrine in the curriculum.

Even pious Christians seldom have embraced the «turn the other cheek» idea, nor did they typically kill homosexual men on the spot as is called for by the Bible.

There is little new information in this film which focuses endlessly on Darwin's dying daughter and his dull, pious wife.

The theological idea is that by doing good works on earth, or by engaging in pious practices like a pilgrimage, you can help «work off» some of the temporal punishments that may await you after death.

Church - going, but not too pious.

What is the sense of expressing pious wishes for the feeding and the warming of a poor brother, and then doing nothing about it?

There may be something to learn from all this about the way in which pious men rebel against the idea of divine, incarnational authority and activity living on down the centuries in the Church.

The text demands deeds, not pious phrases and saintly speeches.

«I think it is very sad that you believe it is acceptable to pretend to know things that you can not know — to think that is how you live your life is messed up to say the least — I hope you realize that to presume knowledge where one has only pious hope is a species of evil.»

I really feel sorry for religious pious individuals, they will never experience the beauty of se.x.

I am Atifah Karim, a very religious pious woman with religious values and ready to make a good wife to a loving, religious and a faithful husband, I want to say to you that marriage is part of our deen which must be fulfilled in the right manner.

The saying sounds very pious until we realize; First that «grace» in John Bunyans» theology almost certainly does not mean God's kindness and forgiveness but God's inscrutable and arbitrary election.

Truth be told, even if we presuppose the truth of atheism, the problem with Hume's argument is that it does not allow us to explain why stories or miracles are invented, as presumably is the case with Islam or Mormonism, as well as many pious legends of the medieval Church.

This older pattern of pious community was adopted by early Christians to support and express their newfound faith.

If what I have to share limits the choices to only rejection or conversion, it can not be loving, no matter how pious or holy my rhetoric might be.

Churches are most commonly serviced by a pastor, but may also be found under the care of nuns, Zenithians or other such pious persons.

But let us take for example the practice of human sacrifice which has been long regarded with horror in the West, yet was seen as a noble and pious act in certain cultures (e.g. the Aztecs of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica).

If all humans become pious like His prophets, His Kingdom will not increase, and all you become like a Devil, His Kingdom will not decrease, but followers of Devil will soon taste the Fire of Hell, so, enjoy this short life, soon you will know, who will be the biggest losers in this life and as well in the Next.

Explicit use of classic Jewish images, the vivid presence of modern - day horrors: Many have found the White Crucifixion a disturbing work, and not just pious Jews.

There is much in these first few pages of the Treatise that is designed to make pious Christian reformers nod in agreement.

Colored by pious imagination, and perhaps also — God forbid that we should deny it!