Sentences with phrase «praise of»

So far, his sermons of denunciation were only common form, whereas in his In Praise of Folly (1511) Erasmus had given public vent to a violent sarcasm, which some people had found offensive, denouncing the warlike Pope Julius II and referring in his correspondence to «the monopoly of the Roman High Priest».

All this time I've put my personal identity on hold in the pursuit of identifying myself in the praise of others.

Aside from the hymn - like praise of love its meaning is found in love as the force that brings human beings together.

The motive was more noble; it is intended to affirm the proposition that in acknowledgment of this relationship of God - to - parents - to - child and in appropriate acceptance of life as holy gift, life is lived in praise of God and therefore is fulfilled life, gratified life, meaningful life, completed life.

Paid - time religious broadcasters are almost totally unrestrained in their praise of the potential of radio and television to contribute to the task of evangelism.

What is important is what faith remembers and celebrates there, and rehearses in praise of God.

Ephesians 1:12 - 14 «In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, THE GOOD NEWS of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.»

It is formed in faith and wrought in praise of God.

who (this is the Holy Spirit) is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God's possession — to the praise of his glory.

One is apparently to regard the lavish praise of the author J as an acceptable substitute for praise of God, without bothering to consider what the fictional «J writer» might have thought of such a distinction.

In his Praise of Folly (1509) he showed up how remote ecclesiastical and scholarly debate was from pastoral concern.

In the second order of merit we can signal those which are sacramental, those connected with the praise of God and those which are broadly penitential:

And once again, just in case we forgot, Paul tells us that this is to the praise of His glory.

And while at times he mocks the fear of sex supposedly endemic to the religious, he does not make the heart race with anger or lust: «Why do you blush to hear the praise of pleasure, when you do not blush to indulge its temptations under cover of night?»

Like the Christians in Ephesus, we are a people who have «heard the word of truth, the gospel of our salvation» and have been «marked with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit which is the pledge of our inheritance toward redemption as God's own people, to the praise of his glory.»

Thompson may be right, and I believe he is, that Peirce had other reasons or inclinations (including an influence of Kant) supporting his conclusion; but it is demonstrable from his own language in praise of the wonders of continuity that he did have this reason.

Fackre's comments are suggestive as they link theology to doxology - to praise of God given his presence among us.

In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will — to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves.»

The Lord is with you»; second, Elizabeth's praise of her cousin, «Of all women, you are the most blessed, and blessed is the fruit of your womb» (Luke 1:28,42).

I couldn't reconcile the divergence between the praise of Romney as statesman and despair about Romney as obfuscating politician.

There is no life that is not in community, And no community not lived in praise of GOD.9

It seems that, for some Catholic senators, a proclamation in praise of ethnic Mafiosi would be more palatable than one seeking to de-fund Planned Parenthood.

Its worth is found, not in its «success» or the praise of fickle people, but in the price Jesus paid to establish it — how can we run from that, my pastor friends?

He wrote two books in Spain and destroyed them both: one (a collection of poems in praise of the Russian Revolution) when he left Spain, the other one (a book of essays) upon his return to Buenos Aires.

This practice of constitutional revision by an unelected committee of nine, always accompanied (as it is today) by extravagant praise of liberty, robs the People of the most important liberty they asserted in the Declaration of Independence and won in the Revolution of 1776: the freedom to govern themselves.

In Praise of Folly's said to be the product of a trip by horse.

His freely - chosen beneficence should elicit and would merit the praise of his people.

No, those are real babies in Psalm 8:2, and David is teaching here that «the speechless mouth of infants is sufficiently able to celebrate the praise of God.»

It comes, therefore, as a shock to the reader of the Phaedrus, on many grounds a later dialogue than the Republic, Phaedo, and Symposium, 1 to find Socrates reasserting the divinity of Eros, recanting as impious, the speech he had just made in praise of the nonlover.

If conservatives would be more forthright and balanced in their condemnation of American evils, radicals might become more vigorous in their praise of the good.

One of the most difficult things to resist is the praise of people, even if deserved.

Some of these we have already noted as appearing in the Pyramid Texts or The Book of the Dead, but apart from these there have appeared many hymns of high order in praise of one or the other of the gods.

They worked only for wages — the esteem and praise of the public.

do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same:

It celebrates the gospel of grace in the love and praise of God.

Christians of all types are encouraged to «give to Caesar what is Caesar's and give to God what is God's,» to be like the widow, who gave her last two pennies and so received the praise of Jesus, and to follow the instructions of Paul to give generously and joyfully for the ministry of the church.

One of the best teachings I had heard, that you alluded to, was that the religious leaders wanted the praise of men more than the approval of God, and hence condemned Jesus.

Yet it was never demoralizing or cynical; the burden of Malcolm's wit, like that of the medieval and Renaissance Christian fools about whom he loved to discourse, as in Erasmus» Praise of Folly or Shakespeare's King Lear, was always, implicitly or explicitly, that we were all fools in need of laughter, forgiveness, and grace.

Among its most beautiful passages are those in praise of wisdom in chapters 3, 4, and 8, and its graphic picture of a model wife in 31:1 - 31.

But perhaps the most significant praise of all: When Wright speaks, preaches, or writes, folks say they see Jesus, and lives are transformed.

Instead we should let people determine their beliefs on their own and praise those of any religion that are good people.

«Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,» says the writer to the Ephesians, «who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:... Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved» (Eph.

Thou who first wast sensible of and didst first bear witness to that prodigious passion which disdains the dreadful conflict with the rage of the elements and with the powers of creation in order to strive with God; thou who first didst know that highest passion, the holy, pure and humble expression of the divine madness» which the pagans admired — forgive him who would speak in praise of thee, if he does not do it fittingly.

The Father has sown seeds of the Word into the fabric of human rationality, which, when enkindled by the muse of the Spirit, causes persons to participate in the praise of creation for its Creator.

And so it is that the editorial page of the Sunday Times of December 11 led off with a long piece «In Praise of the Counterculture.»

«In Praise of the Counterculture» could be read as the paper's letter of resignation from the world of power and influence outside midtown Manhattan.

«38 In his praise of love, Hartshorne extols it as the sharing of the sufferings of others that is our only consolation in the face of tragedy which is the inevitable concomitant of all experience.

It is pointed out that the wife of T'ai Tsu, Empress Ma, was a Muslim, that many of his responsible officials were Muslims, that he never worshiped in a temple after his accession, that he forbade the drinking of wine, that he composed the hymn of praise of one hundred words to Muhammad which may still be found inscribed in the main mosque in Nanking, and that historians mention his strange facial features, which may have been due to foreign blood as a descendant of a Persian or Arab.

For they have been sealed with the promised Holy Spirit who guarantees their inheritance of life in Christ «toward redemption as God's own people, to the praise of his glory» (Eph.

Learn to scorn the praise of men, Learn to lose with God; Jesus won the world through shame!