Sentences with word «saintliness»

This used to be called «righteousness», but this word has been ill - treated in its usage so that it now conjures up images of selfrighteousness or indignation or someone striving for saintliness by avoiding the real world.

The Liberal theologian of England and America is described with commendation by Dean Inge in the closing chapter of his Types of Christian Saintliness: «His «authority» is the best available judgment of civilized humanity which is the Liberal's Great Church.

Administrative ability, as well as saintliness, now loomed larger in episcopal appointments.

Of course the wealthy members of the church gave up their property for the common good, but voluntarily as an offering, not in order to gain especial saintliness.

They are a diverse breed; many of them are characterized by the meek saintliness that illumines Florence Dombey, while others are more dynamically willful (Bella Wilfer and Estella Havisham are the most vivid example).

For example, the Protestant doctrine that we are all sinners is reflected in the Freudian - Marxist behaviorist - positivist claptrap claiming that there is no virtue, that all our actions arise from dark psychic urges, exploitative class greed or biological impulses — which supposedly proves that talk about good and evil, right and wrong, and certainly saintliness is illusory.

But life goes on and saintliness often goes unrecognized amid life's daily routines and demands.

To the summits of seraphic perfection, strong holiness, sweaty saintliness!

There is so much wisdom there, so much knowledge of how to attain spiritual ends, so much saintliness.»

This is the biography that is necessary for pinning down all the details often skirted in other writing about Muggeridge, who became - to use a much overused term - an icon of brilliantly curmudgeonly saintliness for millions.

Despite some notable personal bravery in World War One and in the fight against nuclear weapons, this tradition rejects class struggle or anti-fascist struggle, in favour of impotent, pacifist saintliness.

Though Kingsley's saturnine poise is much more interesting in roles which call for varying degrees of slipperiness (Death and the Maiden, Sexy Beast), he nevertheless manages to bring shades into the inherently monochromatic saintliness of the role with life - sized, profoundly felt gravity and dignity, all while executing that marvelous, peculiarly British trick (remember Robert Donat in Goodbye, Mr. Chips) of seeming to age from within.

Director / co-writer Ethan Hawke's biopic on the late, great songwriter Blaze Foley is blessed with a central performance by Little Rock singer and guitarist Benjamin Dickey, who lends this outlaw - country wildman and Townes Van Zandt drinking buddy an aura of tarnished - halo saintliness.

Cheery Outback owners value their wagons for their practical size, all - weather tractability, fuel efficiency and all - round saintliness.

In Christian saintliness this power is always personified as God; but abstract moral ideals, civic or patriotic utopias, or inner visions of holiness or right may also be felt as the true lords and enlargers of our life, in ways which I described in the lecture on the Reality of the Unseen.

The routine of a parish situated in a lukewarm, homogeneous comfort zone inspires only a rare few toward saintliness.

The press paints bullying as principle and arrogance as saintliness.

Man does not have to achieve for himself particular qualities, either an especial virtue or an especial saintliness; he must simply be obedient, and for that he needs no special qualities.

The subject of Saintliness left us face to face with the question, Is the sense of divine presence a sense of anything objectively true?

The shine has left her saintliness lately.

I love Pope Francis for his saintliness.

According to the Qur» an they have no special distinction which gives them any sort of saintliness or supernatural ability such as the authority to intercede or remit sins.

The most convincing proof of what some have called the «saintliness of Pere Teilhard» is his humility; and his humility is the pledge of the greatness of his love.

Public Health theology argues that beyond the individual egotism which threatens to reduce humanity to a mass of gladiatorial combatants, there are dynamics in society itself which even the most saintly will not change by their saintliness.

As the book ends, he reaffirms his sense of vocation, and perhaps takes a small step toward that saintliness he had sought in seminary.

Many men and women in this community have attained to saintliness of life, and countless ordinary people have been enabled to live decent and moderately happy lives in difficult circumstances.

«Saint Michael Harrington,» as neoconservative apologist Michael Novak has called him, has some of the qualities of saintliness.

That professor's tribute to Maritain's saintliness, his gentleness, his childlike manner has remained with me, especially the unusual word (for Harvard), «childlike.»

For the Church's holiness does not in some Pelagian sense directly depend upon her members» deeds - even though by their lives the saints among her do manifest her saintliness to the world and contribute through their graced cooperation to her growth in goodness.

In the annals of saintliness we find a curious mixture of motives impelling in this direction.

In this it resembles Asceticism, to which further symptom of saintliness we had better turn next.