Sentences with phrase «pious life»

A pious life may flourish for a brief time, but unless it leads to a more caring and responsible relationship with other human beings and to efforts to change conditions that cause human need and suffering, it will most likely not endure.

Take two people, one very religious, lives a pious life because he / she wants to go to heaven and not burn in hell.

Trading legalism for pietism is really no improvement, we are no longer under the power of the law, and no longer slaves to sin, we still can and do fall short of perfection, in fact, Romans 7 gives us a pretty clear picture of the kind of abject failure that results from trying to live a pious life under our own power.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

This alienation is reflected in the existential uncertainties of a man as deeply pious as Samuel Johnson; or it can be seen in Mary Margaret Alacoque, immersed in a cloistered religious life.

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

pious S.O.B live in the fuxing real world

Nonetheless, despite his success in puncturing the naïve, pious image that Agnon cultivated, here too Oz's vision of religious life betrays nothing of his youthful exposure to it.

Such pious talk marks a departure from how the president discussed his faith life before his White House years.

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 Catholics up top kept the bible from the poor uneducated masses (who they kept from being able to read and getting an education anyways) so they could distort it for their own personal gain while they live a rich and pious lifestyle.

In life, they were very holy and pious people, so we revere them greatly.

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.

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.

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.

There is no need to affix a particularly pious label to these seemingly so secular duties of family and professional life with all their daily bitterness and boredom, and to the civic duties from which no one should try to escape.

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.

«Left conservatives» or «Red Tories,» for example, accept Marx's analysis while aiming at something like Burke's more traditionalist or organic vision — a return to less calculating, more chivalrous, less laborious, less urban and more pastoral, more loving and familial, more pious ways of life.

Pious heathen of ancient and modern times all want to come to God themselves, by prayer, by a virtuous life, by stern discipline, by a holy life.

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.

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.

Jesus» reply in verse 23 is taken by Martha as a word of pious consolation, but Jesus sharply defines his meaning: the power of the resurrection life is not something to be waited for in the future; it is now present.

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.

Bishop von Galen seems to have been seen by some Germans as representing a possibly noble, but rather too pious, vision of life.

Considering most natural events were attributed to god, its not hard to connect the dots that if a giant flood comes that kills large amounts of people, the people who survived said god / gods sent it and the people who lived were the most pious and the people who died were evil.

He had watched the sacred New Year procession; he had seen, for the pious but benighted Babylonian, a profound mystery taking place under the eyes of the beholder as Marduk and Nabu went out in solemn pilgrimage to the Akitu house, there to settle the fates of the incoming year; he had witnessed the annual festival in which Marduk triumphed over all his foes, cosmic and terrestrial, and himself died that life might once more return to the world.

Respond to the God of the Covenant not with pious activity but by living to the limit of your capability, by loving to the deepest capacity of your life, by being all that you are capable of being.

This is the beginning of the death of the spiritual life, and in the end there is nothing left but spiritual chatter and clerical condescension arrayed in pious words.

For Bonhoffer, to live in Christ meant to be a church which existed, not for the pious faithful, but for others.

Two pious men lived together in Ashkelon, devoting themselves to the study of the Law.

Neither of us, I think, was quite certain just what contribution I might be making to the enterprise, but I was a reasonably educated and reasonably pious» though hardly properly observant» Jew who had worked for many years as an editor, and since Religion and Public Life had recently begun publishing First Things, I suppose it was thought that I was qualified to add some, albeit hardly scholarly, expertise to the enterprise.

My prayer life is more cathartic than pious.

«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.»

There are three poems (Isaiah 42.1 - 4, 49.1 - 6, 50.4 - 11) in which the prophet, who lived in the age of the Babylonian Captivity, describes this pious man, God's «chosen one» who will bring justice to all nations, who has an «instructed tongue» and a «mouth like a sharpened sword», and who has been able to suffer humiliation because he relied on God.

Attacking theocentrically oriented theologians like Stanley J. Samartha, Ashish Chrispal says that such thinking «moves away from the centrality of Christ and the triune God,» and that Samartha «fails to recognise that the kind of pluralism he and other pluralists propose can make the religions a matter of indifference or can take a form of pious scepticism or people may renounce all religious choices, since they can live equally without them» and goes on to emphasise that

May the Lord pour out his blessing abundantly upon all our Boarding Schools that a host of pious youth may be raised up, filled with the Holy Spirit and clothed with the whole panoply of God who shall go forth as angels of mercy bearing life and light and peace to this benighted, perishing people.26

I live in the United States where it's politically incorrect to appear «righteous and pious.»

First, in view of the appalling gap separating Christ's example and our performance, we church people — conservatives and liberals alike — need to declare a moratorium on pious platitudes, admit our hypocrisies, and re-examine what we really are living for in the context of Christ's imperatives.

This also means that our faith must be understood as commitment to work for the purposes of God and not as a pious hope for the next life.

Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini was also «pious» in returning to the place where his father lived and was buried to found the town anew and to invest it with a new life.

I have heard pious people say, Well, you can't live by Jesus» teachings in this complex modern world.

And the sermon — which we may hope will be no series of moral platitudes or pious phrases, but a real proclamation of the gospel of God in Christ — can be for us, as it is meant always to be, the very Word of God brought to bear upon our human lives.

To practice Torah means not only ethical and responsible living hut also reflective study and pious devotion and worship.

Jews, both pious and secular, who want to find some way to live at peace with Palestinians despair over the zealotry of the Gush Emunim, who believe God has given their people land on which Palestinians have also dwelt for generations.

The Bolsheviks hated pious priests, so Lenin and his successors ruthlessly crushed authentic Russian Orthodox religious life — the expression of a great spiritual and theological tradition — wherever they could; the list of ROC martyrs to communism is a long and noble one.

Adrian of Utrecht was a pious, devoted man, influenced by the Brothers of the Common Life, but also strongly orthodox in his theology.

As a result, was he living a pious or godly personal life?

Yes Jesus lived, ate and drank with the shunned, but he also spent allot of time in the synagogues even if it was just for the sake of upsetting the pious.

The modern critical study of the gospels has made the historic Jesus no mere figment of the pious imagination, but a living figure who, at an historic moment in time, appeared in Palestine, lived his brief but tremendously significant life, and gave rise to a vigorous new religious movement that has in time become the most widespread of all the religions of the world.