Sentences with phrase «saintly life»

Accordingly, throughout the annals of the saintly life, we find this ever - recurring note: Fling yourself upon God's providence without making any reserve whatever — take no thought for the morrow — sell all you have and give it to the poor, only when the sacrifice is ruthless and reckless will the higher safety really arrive.

There is thus an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.

Occasions of contact with such elements are avoided: the saintly life must deepen its spiritual consistency and keep unspotted from the world.

Our next topic shall be Poverty, felt at all times and under all creeds as one adornment of a saintly life.

In other words, it is not thanks to magisterial Church documents that we have this central tenet of the Faith (although I am sure by now that it is certainly secured by decree of the Magisterium), but thanks to the faithful and saintly life and writings of one man from a far flung province of the Roman empire who would rather retreat to the quiet of the cloister than rule from the episcopal throne (though he clearly felt quite bitter about losing the latter).

Al - Farabi is said to have led a saintly life of religious devotion and contemplation.

It is also important to see that subtle distortions in the saintly life may be as destructive as vicious rejections of God's call by grossly unspiritual people.

Not exact matches

Twain was a bad man, yes, in some ways, but he was the same mixture of good and bad as the rest of us, and every other artist and writer who ever lived, including the saintly ones.

And this presupposes that legend has to do with a «saintly» life and a blessed death, by which the believer can be edified and inspired to emulation.

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.

A new life - size mural depicts Pope Francis with a saintly halo kissing U.S. President Donald Trump with devil's horns on his head.

To the right of that post, a bit under the gallery, sits Bishop Anderson of Chicago, and two seats away is the saintly face of the Rev. Alexander Whyte of First St. George's Church, Edinburgh, whom more American preachers love than any other living pulpiteer.

It is those who live in a saintly manner who do the most to change this world for the better.

As was said of another saintly teacher, he never wrote a life of Christ — but lived it.

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.

We should honor great men, saintly men are noble examples for us, but no great or saintly man can reveal God's mystery to us and bind us with God; no man can take away our guilt and make us certain of the completion of life in eternal life.

It epitomized a connection to Jews and Judaism that pervaded the life and career of this saintly man.

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The saintly and the worldly ideal pursue their feud in literature as much as in real life.

And George Bernard Shaw, that saintly cynic of a much later generation, writes in The Doctor's Dilemma: «Do not try to live forever, you will not succeed.

It doesn't matter whether it's summer and you're enjoying a live music performance at Mears Park, or it's winter and you're having fun at Saint Paul Winter Carnival — singles from the Saintly City know how to make dating rock!

What happens when you're an exhausted, stressed - out mother of three, who feels like you've reached the end of your rope as far as coping mechanisms go, and a saintly young woman floats into your life to help you save yourself?

The main premise of the film is that our beloved Nick (Santa) Claus (Giamatti, Shoot»Em Up) has an older brother named Fred, who has, from the moment the younger was born, lived in the giant shadow of his saintly and talented sibling.

The saintly Evelyn (Diana Douglas, Kirk's real - life ex-wife) takes care of Mitchell and he takes her for granted, and the same goes for Alex's wife Rebecca (Bernadette Peters).

Though their 2014 film, about a woman (Marion Cotillard) trying to save herself from imminent redundancy, is cut from the same careworn cloth as previous features, it's another undeniably sublime and heartbreaking work about saintly self preservation, the struggles of working class life and the fact that it's often the smallest stories which deal with the biggest and most important ideas.

The festival will include representatives from the Animal Ark No Kill Shelter, Animal Humane Society, Caring for Cats, Home for Life, Saintly City Cat Club, Twin Cities Cat Fanciers, and Twin Cities Pet Rescue to help educate attendees about cat - related issues.

The Saintly City, as some like to call St. Paul, is bustling with life and a broad demographic, from young University of Minnesota students to retirees who winter in the southwest.

It is natural and understandable for people struggling with survival to forgo the higher life goals such as achieving a saintly name.