Sentences with phrase «quiet as a church»

Even when accelerating hard for passing or climbing uphill, the V6 and eight - speed combo was as smooth as eggs and as quiet as a church mouse.

This new Impala is as quiet as a church.

As quiet as a church mouse.

Sammy's most notable characteristic is that he's quiet as a church mouse.

Quiet as church mice when he's not around.

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I am sure that there have been other pastors with doubts, who were smart enough to keep quiet and line up another job to support their family first before resigning as a church pastor!

A vital church family, beamed down by the effect of God's Word as a sort of fifth column in that land of cool exteriors and quiet despair.

This could be one of the reasons for why pastors have deep personal friendships — the spirituality of Protestant ecclesiology largely sees personal / dyadic friendships as preferrential — and for years upon years, spirituality focused on sermons, quiet times, Bible studies, etc. in the church.

As one who has been through the living hell of spiritual abuse in my old church there is no way I can keep quiet about those who abuse church members.

Furthermore, by characterizing allegations of child abuse as a sad case of «disunity» and «strife» within the church and urging his fellow Christians not to ask too many questions about the situation, Challies only perpetuates the painfully common narrative that those who raise concerns about abuse in churches are troublemakers, out to sow disunity and dissention, and that we are wise to keep this matters quiet.

As mystics and missionaries, heroic martyrs and courageous founders of religious orders, in public life as sovereigns or in quiet service in convent or school, the Church's women saints are testimony to the fact that Mother Church takes legitimate pride in her daughterAs mystics and missionaries, heroic martyrs and courageous founders of religious orders, in public life as sovereigns or in quiet service in convent or school, the Church's women saints are testimony to the fact that Mother Church takes legitimate pride in her daughteras sovereigns or in quiet service in convent or school, the Church's women saints are testimony to the fact that Mother Church takes legitimate pride in her daughters.

As another put it, «The first essential of a quiet funeral is a willing corpse,» and the churches are certainly not that.

(CNN)- After years of keeping quiet about his Mormon faith, Mitt Romney's campaign thrust his church life into the national eye Thursday night, as a handful of Mormons took to the Republican National Convention's stage to deliver moving testimonials about the Republican presidential nominee's role as a member and leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Schurch life into the national eye Thursday night, as a handful of Mormons took to the Republican National Convention's stage to deliver moving testimonials about the Republican presidential nominee's role as a member and leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day SChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints.

As we live in a world desperate for a glimpse of God, desperate for a rescue, crushed by evil and poverty and war and the grind of lonely existence in quiet desperation, we, the Church are part of God's plan to push back that darkness and make space for his Kingdom.

He blessed that wee new girl, and her family, and it was that moment when the quiet unassuming one is revealed as their true identity in the movie, he's still a pastor, still a teacher, even after all of the deconstruction and pulling apart and rebuilding of our faith, and our understanding of church and go - go - go - programs on the premise of compounds and build - it - they - will - come, coupled with a new understanding of vocation and ministry, even with his business acumen, and the new normal life in the secular marketplace.

The «Dumb Ox» 8 of the thirteenth century may have been shy and quiet and slow, preferring the solace of his books and his writing to the demands of oration and teaching, but his effect on all subsequent theologizing was profound and rather all - encompassing, particularly insofar as the Roman Catholic Church is concerned.

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre is busy and noisy, and does not lend itself as well to quiet reflection.

It is possible, for example, that the fundamental Catholic theoretical doctrine of the primacy may continue to exist as ground for division between Christian denominations but that at the same time the historical situation will impose on the Catholic Church, with the quiet inevitability of an inescapable environment, an actual practice of the primacy to which non-Catholics themselves will scarcely be able to raise objection.

In the parish church, as in the University lecture halls and the Friary study rooms, the ascetic face, the evident sincerity, the sometimes almost frightening intensity of his quiet though easily audible voice, his glinting eyes, and his ability to speak to the condition of those he was addressing, won people to him.

The Declaration calls attention to the fact that the curfew is rung by the Lisbon Bell in the South Church Tower at 9 p.m. as a gentle reminder that Nantucket appreciates quiet in the late evening hours.

While the atmosphere inside the city's two other major theatres of worship — Anfield and Goodison Park — can be as quiet as an empty church, the city is still awash with football passion and conversation, and both sets of supporters long for past glories.

I love these candles in part because of the places and stories they take as their inspiration: The minty Balmoral is inspired by damp and green Scottish meadows; the Carmelite by shadows on stone walls and church candles... a quiet cloister doesn't sound too bad about now.

If I was at work, church, or the store, I would have to find a quiet place to be alone and «get over it» as best I could.

Quiet loyal honest loving i like to enjoy life I go to church i love to cook go to the movies take Long romantic walks i love to cuddle n watch movies i like being together n doing things as a couple..

Bishop Jakes, who heads the Dallas - based nondenominational church the Potter's House and is the host of a weekly broadcast on the Trinity Broadcasting Network, appears in the film in two modes as a charismatic preacher performing before an enraptured audience, and as a quiet, compassionate confessor, whose deep, rumbling voice seems to provide a kind of aural absolution for the troubled Michelle.

Murphy acquits himself nicely, proving he can summon a quiet, even gentle presence playing the soft - spoken Mr. Church, who starts off as a cook for a single mom and her young daughter and eventually becomes more like family.

While not quite as quiet as the proverbial church rodent, differentiating between Audi's turbodiesel V6 and the similarly configured supercharged TFSI gas engine also available is getting increasingly difficult.

Smooth comfortable ride, quiet as an atheist in church, plenty of oomph, safety can't be beat.

Secure in the knowledge that no one knew he was there, and standing so still and quiet that he hardly could hear himself breathe, he watched from the confessional as Monsignor Ferris went about the rounds of securing the church for the night.

Hotel Adelita - This charming family - owned hotel is located at Calle Juan N. Alvarez # 34 in downtown Zihuatanejo on a quiet part of the street near the small Navy Base and near the waterfront, the pier and the fishermen's area, close to many good restaurants and stores as well as the church «Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe».

Hotels like this one offer a huge amount for those who enjoy outdoor pursuits, as you can go walking, mountain biking and horse riding in the peace and quiet of the Catalonian countryside, which also has many fascinating Romanesque churches and medieval towns to visit too.