Sentences with phrase «pious men»

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.

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.

All pious men pray, partly in words, partly without words, partly in complete solitude, partly in the community of the faithful.

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.

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

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 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 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.

With proper instinct for the truth, they do not permit themselves to be imposed upon, and they are thus protected against any turning towards the â $ ˜Godâ $ ™ of the pious man.

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

After some days the pious man saw his dead companion walking in the garden of paradise beside fountains of water; and he saw Bar Ma «yon the tax collector lying on the bank of a river, he was striving to reach the water and he could not.

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.

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.

The mere Politician, equally with the pious man ought to respect and cherish them.

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.

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Contemporary loneliness isn't romantic enough to believe that the happiness these pets instantly bring their adoptive owners will have any kind of half - life: Elliot is the child of divorce and Opal the product of a misbegotten union between a pious man and a secular woman, both of which are unpleasantly modern relative to the cattle drive that whisks the dad away from his family in Old Yeller.

A pious man explained to his followers: «It is evil to take lives and noble to save them.

Not exact matches

What love and mercy have been measured out for the priests who showed their «love» to children, and the men who covered up for them, including your pious - ass pope?

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.

And make him exchange his pious stance for a humble walk with God and man.

I'm betting that there were some slaves owned by pious believers that would disagree that your belief teaches all men are created equal.

The ulama, the Shaikh, Mullah, Imam, Ahund, Mufti, Mujtahid, Hatib — all are only men like the others in the Muslim community, men who perform special services and are respected and elevated only on the basis of the Quranic principle that the highest is the most pious.

But I believe in God's providence He has used that to show how truly special and unique the writings of the New Testament are — that they were inspired by Himself and not simply the writings of pious or pietistic men.

Without recognition of the Creator, without some apprehension of a good over-all purpose for all human beings in whatever stage of development they may be, to consider all other men as our brothers is no more than a pious phrase.

Dynamically, swearing is a symbol of something quite important — viz., that this is not a «churchy» or pious group but a real he - man approach.

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.

There Joseph seems unaware of God and perhaps more than a little self - centered, but here he presents himself as a mature and pious young man.

Man's greedy impulse to exploit nature used to be held in check by his pious worship of nature.6

Then, pious as it is to think of Him, while the pageant of experiment or abstract reasoning passes by, still such piety is nothing more than a poetry of thought, or an ornament of language, a certain view taken of Nature which one man has and another has not, which gifted minds strike out, which others see to be admirable and ingenious, and which all would be the better for adopting.

For example, the man who fasts develops strength of will because he decides not to eat or drink; he becomes more considerate of his fellowmen; he becomes pious and virtuous; his spirit is enlightened and his body becomes clean of sin.

He to whom Jesus is only a man — were he ever so exalted, pious, noble, wise, the greatest of all religious founders and saints — does not have this God.

Only then can the relationship between God and God's people be of such direct intimacy as to make the pious attempt of others to serve as intermediaries seem like a meddling intrusion upon married love: «No longer shall each man teach his neighbor and each his brother saying «Know the Lord,» for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest.»

In the first Jesus tells Nicodemus, a good, pious, wealthy man, a representative of the religious establishment, that he needs to be born from above (3: lff.).

As a Canaanite and a woman, moreover, she is meant to be kept at least two arms distance from this pious Jewish man.

By the same authority I release you from the office of prior... I do not want you to complain that I have judged you without a hearing, or that I have not accepted your defence... You have done as much as you had grace to do...» But «it is not enough that a man be good and pious by himself.

However, he sent back a message of gratitude, though again qualified with «the praise of men is always vain», a pious remark that had an energy about it rather beyond mere «piety».

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

I am sixty - seven years of age and have resided in X. fifty years, and have been in business forty - five, consequently I have some little experience of life and men, and some women too, and I find that the most religious and pious people are as a rule those most lacking in uprightness and morality.

If there should be a place having a few faithful men in it, before the multitude sufficiently increase to vote (psephisasthai), who shall be able to make a dedication to pious uses for the bishop to the extent of twelve men, let them write to the churches round about them, informing them of the place in which the multitude of the faithful [assemble and] are established that their chosen men in that place may come, that they may examine with diligence him who is worthy of this grade.119

So Christ came to earth and was crucified, and man was set free, but the bargain turned out to be a «pious fraud» on God's part, for by his resurrection from Sheol Christ escaped from Satan after all.

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.

When the revered and highly influential Sheik Abdulraheem Aduanigba, Chief Imam Yoruba Ilorin and Chief Imam of Yoruba land, a deeply courageous, wise, God - fearing, pious, devout and righteous man called for the emancipation of the Yoruba Muslims from Fulani domination and manipulation and insisted on the liberation of Ilorin from Fulani hegemony he was promptly arrested and briefly detained by Buhari's Fulani - controlled police.

I am a strong Christian man who is serious about his faith but I am not so stiff and pious that I can't have fun.

The reason for finding a pious date in Dubai is that the Muslim men usually date to be in a long lasting relationship with a girl i.e. to choose a spouse for marriage.

Kid Blue may be set in the early 20th century (it's a bit vague on that point) but the attitudes are pure 1973, with the more pious townspeople spouting cliches about patriotism, the unemployed / poor bringing it on themselves, young men needing to learn respect for their elders, and native Americans being «savages.»

Quickly turned away by the born - again family man, Elvis lures David's oblivious teenage daughter Malerie (the lollipop - like Pell James) into a clandestine affair, leading to a tragicomic In the Bedroom confrontation with Malerie's pious brother, Paul (Paul Dano).

Sensing opportunity, Plainview sets out with his right - hand man, Fletcher Hamilton (Ciaran Hinds, above right), and young son, H.W. (Dillon Freasier), to take their chances in dusty Little Boston, a hardscrabble community where the main excitement comes from the holy - roller church of charismatic preacher Eli (Dano again), Paul's pious twin brother.

Today the water buffalo had the pond to themselves, and only the village ancestor shrine opposite showed signs of life, but not with pious prayers and hypnotic chants offered to the ancestors: only the revolutionary song calling on young men to join the Red Army.

In this repressively pious society where gold is worshipped second only to God, to be different is a threat to the moral fabric of society, and not even a man as rich as Johannes is safe.