Sentences with phrase «pious man»

A "pious man" refers to someone who is deeply religious and devoted to their faith. They believe in and follow their religion sincerely and conscientiously. Full definition
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.
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.
He was the most pious man of his time and the most learned in religious doctrines.
The remaining pious man was deeply disturbed and cried out that the wicked in Israel did not get their deserts.
Sounds to me a lot like the story from the New Testament about the Pharisees who prayed loudly in public so that everyone would remark about what pious men they were and what jesus had to say about them.
Yet this broadly cultured and deeply pious man suffered through such a turbulent pontificate that, when he died in August 1978, many wondered aloud whether anyone could do the job under late - twentieth - century circumstances.
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).
The mere Politician, equally with the pious man ought to respect and to cherish them.
«Mystery of the Pious Man Who Led a Cult to Death,» New York Times.
The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them.
The first settlers of Salem, Hawthorne wrote in «Main - Street,» were «stalwart» men, who strode «sturdily onward,» brave and pious men of «thoughtful strength,» men «who do not merely find, but make their place in the system of human affairs.»
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.
All pious men pray, partly in words, partly without words, partly in complete solitude, partly in the community of the faithful.
And as there are such examples in Christendom, so also in Judaism and Islam there are pious men of thought who are free of exclusivism and who succeed in understanding the revelation of God in other religions.
The prayerful cry, «Not mine, but thy will be done,» has come from the lips of Christian as well as non-Christian men of prayer, ancient philosophers, and the pious men of Hindu, Buddhist, and Muslim religions.
One day on reading a saying by the founder of Hasidism about the fervour and daily inward renewal of the pious man, he recognized in himself the Hasidic soul, and he recognized piety, hasidut, as the essence of Judaism.
A pious man, he drank rarely and enjoyed spending time with his 12 children.
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She provides an explanation of her book's title as follows: A pious man explained to his followers: «It is evil to take lives and noble to save them.
A pious man explained to his followers: «It is evil to take lives and noble to save them.
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