Sentences with phrase «pious christian»

After the poem «T'was the night before Christmas» appeared in print in 1823, the red - suited guy who slides down chimneys supplanted the pious Christian St. Nicholas in American consciousness.

«Today, I Adebayo Alao Akala mourns a great icon and mentor but celebrates a pious Christian, lover of God and humanity, a lover of nobly virtues and a prayer warrior.

In other cultures such stories are usually thought of as myths, but it is an offense to suggest to the pious Christian or Jew of the older school that the Bible is in any sense mythical in character.

The landlord who is a pious Christian becomes the enemy if you are on the side of the landless labourer.

I am such a pious Christian!»

They will not of course explicitly contest that even the pious Christian who holds fast unconditionally to the instructions of the Gospel and of the Church can still raise innumerable questions regarding public and private life, of very considerable importance, yet can not expect to get answers to them directly from the Church.

He worked hard to get them on the side of the Third Reich so he could present himself to the nation as a pious Christian.

Don't be all pious you Christians out there.

Let a child be physically maimed for life by a birth injury, or spiritually maimed by having to grow up in hunger and fear as in war - torn lands, or in squalor and crime as in our own slums; and then when the natural consequences appear, not a few pious Christians will say that God in his inscrutable providence willed it to be this way.

Sometimes we think the elders in the church, pious Christians, pastors or other brave souls who make sacrifices for their faith are the real Christians, the real children of God.

«who they can be» we don't all want to be pious christians.

imagine your Christian republic face to face with Sparta or Rome: the pious Christians will be beaten, crushed, and destroyed....

Pious christians have this smug little aphorism, what's the atheist going to say when god does show up?

On Sunday they are devout, pious Christians.

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.

The characters emerge from their bonnets and beards to reveal themselves not as the simple ciphers they may at first seem (the pious Christians, the bourgeois couple) but as full - fledged individuals — thorny, scared, and searching.

Not exact matches

Solution: Either Jesus returns and straightens up, or God gives us a new powerful pious monarch who destroys the current evil power elite, and supports again the Christian Church.

a Christian nun is considered pious for covering herself head to toe, because that's what God said in the bible.

It always amazes me that my fellow Christians proclaim they are so pious and godly yet they judge others.

It seems unlikely that the work was ever meant to have been taken seriously by Christians; instead, its purpose was to offer further conjectural details about the life of Christ as a pious entertainment, part of a larger body of Pilate literature.

Our sped - up, hyper - efficient, media - saturated world seems to be making it harder than ever to live pious, simple, disciplined Christian lives.

I'm sick of defending my faith after the fact to nonbelievers that means I'm not pro-active in my faith.It really irritates me how Christians get so offended at these groups and decide, through their pious thinking, that the best thing to do is create an alternative to these days and other ideas.

The first, widespread in nineteenth - century America and kept alive by popular Christian authors today, is that virtually all the founders were pious, orthodox believers who sought to establish a Christian nation.

However, it does seem that Francis had a very positive influence on the conduct of the Sultan, in that he behaved with considerable moderation in his future dealings with the Christians, and there is even a pious legend to the effect that he was converted on his deathbed to Christianity.

But we Christians think that such joking is coarse and crude and so we frown at those who make these jokes, and look down our pious noses at those who laugh.

Dubois's pious genius had sought to satisfy the old missionary impulse through a new kind of Jewish — Christian dialogue.

Back in the 1940's, when Reinhold Niebuhr started Christianity in Crisis to support the war against Nazism, he abandoned his earlier pacifism, and his earlier too - simply pious way of wishing evil away, and called for a new tough - minded Christian realism.

Today we still speak of the cross only in the explicit language of the Church and religion; perhaps some pious old Christians may still use the expression for the experience of their own life.

My contention is that this places Ivan's sensibility much nearer to the authentic vision of the New Testament than are many of the more pious and conventional forms of Christian conviction today The gospel of the ancient church was always one of rebellion against those principalities and powers — death chief among them — that enslave and torment creation; nowhere does the New Testament rationalize evil or accord it necessity or treat it as part of the necessary fabric of God's world.

One result is the lavish style of conspicuous consumption that dominates such institutions as Oral Roberts University and the Christian Broadcasting Network, where it has become normative doctrine that the pious will prosper.

But there are enough tidbits to imply that he was a Social Gospel Christian, very much the product of his family's targeted philanthropy and devotion to liberal Protestantism.The grandson of America's first billionaire, Rockefeller was born into a pious Baptist home where liquor, smoking and profanity were prohibited, family prayers were a daily ritual, and the Sabbath always sacred.

And when The Rapture comes and all of the true, pious, humble, charitable, forgiving Christians ascend bodily to Heaven, I'm sure the world will miss both of them.

See just how many Christians who pretend to be pious get left behind and are surprised as to why lol!

«I rejoice to bear that the fairest provinces of Persia are adorned with... Christians... Since you are so powerful and pious, I commend them to your care, and leave them in your protection.»

And if you will here stop and ask yourself why you are not as pious as the primitive Christians were, your own heart will tell you that it is neither through ignorance nor inability, but purely because you never thoroughly intended it.

While Eusebius can be regarded as a serious, though by no means always an accurate historian, the numerous Christian Acts of various apostles, none of them earlier than the middle of the second century, are for the most part fictional romances, full of pious legend, but of little or no use as history.

Even so, on biblical and pious grounds, some Christians challenged the doctrine of divine impassibility.

I think us Christians need to be less pious, and more open, honest, authentic, and real... we are so «pious» is makes me sick.

... When the Christians assembled in their Temple at Jerusalem to celebrate Easter, the chaplains of the Church, making use of a pious fraud, greased the chain of iron that held the lamp over the Tomb with oil of balsam; and... when the Arab officer sealed up the door which led to the Tomb, they applied a match, and the fire descended immediately to the wick of the lamp and lighted it.

The phrase «contemporary Christian music» evokes for many people visions of pious confection and Amy Grant; singers preaching to the converted in an extremely insular subculture.

The first reference to the passage is by the fourth - century Christian bishop Eusebius, a well - known defender of pious fraud who felt it acceptable to lie for the Church, who many scholars suspect forged the passage himself.

D. E. Nineham points out that «most commentators accept at any rate the basic facts of the story, arguing that Christians would have been unlikely to invent a tradition in which Jesus receives hurried burial from a pious Jew, and his own followers have no part in the proceedings ’15 and then goes on to add that «scholarly opinion has perhaps been a little inclined to overlook the possible influence of the Old Testament on the story».16

Call them phony Christians, with their coded language, created to make themselvs sound pious to other phony Christians.

There is a world of difference between a private devotional gesture, the action of the specially pious, and the prophetic witness of the whole community — the matter - of - fact witness, repeated week by week, that to be Christian is to stand among the needy.

To Sifton, the CHRISTIAN CENTURY»S Charles Clayton Morrison, «he of the pious do - nothing school,» typified the Protestant mainstream.

A person can easily be pious, but not a Christian.

It takes much more to be a Christian than to be pious.

A Christian knows nothing to say about his piety, for he finds in himself nothing good or pious.

Pious American Christians have difficulty praising a tan Jesus, thus, I hope when He does return; that he look like Blond Jesus, and not Mexican Hey - Seus.

I just think some Christians say this so often, it make them sound like they are trying to appear righteous and pious before others.