Sentences with phrase «pious feelings»

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.

We do this not so much by indulging in pious feelings, but by bearing the burdens of our life with simple fortitude and without ostentation.

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.»

The liberal principle accepts the truths of God's revelation in Christ only to the extent that they cohere with natural reason, correspond to pious feelings, or serve the needs of civil society (cf. Apologia, chap.

True spirituality does not consist in pious feel - ings, because we are perhaps just now in love or have some sorrow.

Not exact matches

I'm just trying to make sure that there's at least one contrarian and maybe one voice of realism among this season's many purveyors of touching truisms, pious platitudes, and bumper sticker BS — all of which feels like it was written by either Hallmark or hacks whose prior Republican clients and «candidates» are now sitting on the sidelines sucking their thumbs and watching The Donald drive the bus off the bridge.

You can continue to spew out your immoral doctrine until you die, that doesn't make it true, and that doesn't make you any more pious even though you really want to feel better than everyone else because of it.

Yeah, Catholics, keep dogging on people for doing what you're doing while feeling pious and superior... good job.

Consider, for example, how sex enters into religious feeling, and how the religious community must reckon with the sexual dynamics in pious emotion.

thinks, that the Tigris and the Euphrates have not a common source, that the Dead Sea had been in existence long before human beings came to live in Palestine, instead of originating in historical times, and so on... We are able to comprehend this as the naive conception of the men of old, but we can not regard belief in the literal truth of such accounts as an essential of religious conviction... And every one who perceives the peculiar poetic charm of these old legends must feel irritated by the barbarian — for there are pious barbarians — who thinks he is putting the true value upon these narratives only when he treats them as prose and history.

«The liberal - democratic mind, just as the mind of any true communist, feels an inner compulsion to manifest its pious loyalty to the doctrine.

I don't have any scripture that tells me those people in Sandy Hook weren't pious enough and DESERVED their fate — so I can feel profound compassion for them, without any need for being judgmental.

After all, some of the most pious and fervent prayer warriors out there feel perfectly at ease praying for their enemies to be struck down.

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.

There were some six hundred commandments that the pious Jew felt obliged to obey.

He was quickly disgusted by his own feelings, more pious than humane.

Despite being a long - standing follower of and contributor to this magazine, I feel I must express concern with the manner in which the May / June editorial dismissed the notion that «a drop» of the Redeemer's blood would have sufficed for our Redemption, describing the notion as «pious speculation», not «helpful», and not «true» (p. 3).

Does it make you feel good to be a self - righteous, self - important, pious little fuck who can't give a straight answer to anything?

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

No wonder feminists have been reluctant to feel rewarded by Bloom's designation of J as a woman (such as it is: «my personal fiction» — no sooner is the ink dry on her Book of J than she is attacked and mutilated by every soul drawing a pious or orthodox breath.

Throwing out idiotic statments then probably running away to troll another thread, probably in some self - righteous attempt to feel all pious and superior.

I feel the same about my pious patents.

Women immersed in a religious landscape frequently feel pressure to act happy and bear their maternal miseries with pious silence.

We may not feel particularly «pious» at the sacrament; this will be largely a matter of our temperament.

I have encountered many breastfeeding mothers who feel pious and holier - than - thou because they can breastfeed.

Whatever my religious beliefs are now, a lot of it really freaked me out because I could one hundred percent understand why incredibly pious people would feel such guilt, shame and isolation in that situation because of how I was brought up.

Dovid feels the same pressure to be devout, to serve as a pious example to the community.

I really felt all the characters as they were so well drawn and my only qualm is the significance of the pious brother Henry and as he was of no significance.

Despite relapses of failing eyesight and crippling rheumatism, he continued to lecture on Spencer's behalf, dragging himself around the Midwest in unheated trains to proselytize in town after town where often, he would recall, he encountered «a protracted meeting in full blast at every church in town except the Episcopal, and a general feeling of pious rage at my appearance on the scene.»

I feel confident that there are many, many, of the great and good today who will need reminding how nasty, unctuous, pious and petty was their need for making their life easy and increasing their standing within a piss poor guarded framework of their own making.