Sentences with phrase «saintly christian»

This is true in the sense that self - love and self - centeredness are never fully conquered even in the most saintly Christian.

At the other, in protest against the self - righteous «perfectionism» thus implied, is the current neo-orthodox tendency to stress the continuance of sin in the most saintly Christians, with reluctance to grant any significant moral achievement as the result of redemption lest it savor of human presumption.

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In a June 28 sermon, Hall complained that the windows put a «decidedly saintly spin on two leaders of the Confederate Army,» whose «inscriptions portray them as exemplary Christian gentlemen,» but «contain no reference to the sin of slavery which both men fought — and one died — to uphold.»

And yet, though I am not acquainted with him, I know at least this much: No matter how saintly he is, no matter how profound his Christian witness, no matter how gifted his teaching, Timothy George will not be sharing in the Lord's Supper with Richard John Neuhaus.

Thus novelists have portrayed censorious, unforgiving priests to demonstrate the gap between the church and genuine Christianity; repressed, neurotic priests to demonstrate the unhealthiness of the celibate life; and gentle, saintly priests to demonstrate the unworldliness of the true Christian.

I have said enough, I hope, to show why so many of us feel so immensely indebted to this layman, perhaps the greatest exemplar of the Catholic laity in the last two centuries — a master of many wisdoms, a metaphysician, a philosopher at once humane and Christian, an ethicist and philosopher of history, a political philosopher, a saintly and childlike man.

Those denied the basic physical foundations of «the good life» are quite apt to be as good Christians and as saintly souls as those who are able to live in comfort.

The Christian knows that sinful selfishness continues to plague even the most saintly.