Sentences with phrase «saintly people»

Investing with saintly people is not guaranteed to deliver excellent investment results.

If the world lacks beauty, there are nevertheless beautiful, saintly people who mitigate the stubbornness of evil.

as any glance at the words used by saintly people about themselves would show.

This small section allows the reader to share in the Eucharistic faith of saintly people who, since the Lord's command to «Do this in memory of me,» have handed to us that great treasure that we are now called to hand on, to celebrate and to revere.

With most of us the customary hardness quickly returns, but not so with saintly persons.

We find such saintly persons in great number in all high religions.

In fact, the church sometimes ordered autopsies, often for the purpose of looking for signs of holiness in the body of a supposedly saintly person.

Here McConaughey is as saintly a person as the actor was in «Dallas Buyers Club,» when he shed fifty pounds to become Ron Woodroof, intent on finding alternative treatments for AIDS.

Shot in an unfussy, unobtrusive cinema vérite style, it's both a deep look at an extraordinary, almost saintly person, and the milieu that she operates in, building up a heartbreaking portrait of the women she tries to help, from her own drug - addicted sister - in - law to Temeka, who's been working the streets for three years despite being only 15.

Not exact matches

I've known people of little education or sophistication to follow Jesus in a most saintly manner, and I think The Way is simpler than you describe.

For instance, when these characteristics are perceived as exhibited in an individual enduringly and in a sense in which these are understood to affect the world around in a favorable fashion — either in an objective sense of effecting something concrete outside such a person [like effecting healing, foretelling, acting as medium in a non-rational manner or simply doing good or saying good to help the people selflessly], exhibiting personal traits, conditions and states which are known to be «abnormal» [like going into trances, hearing voices, seeing visions, or just the simple unconventional behavior, which proceed from such an individual's horizon to affect, influence, impact others» horizons]-- or is subjectively perceived to be extra-ordinary — such an individual is said to be godly, god - bearing, pious or saintly.

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.

Though lots of people have many different religious heroes and saintly forefathers, nearly all people of all religions agree that Jesus is, if nothing else, a good example to follow.

I've talked to people who know him personally, and Ignatius is a saintly man.

This is not adequate grounds for distinguishing between Jesus and Socrates and Gautama, let alone any number of other wise or saintly or good people, unless one resorts to a dogmatic insistence upon Jesus» «sinlessness» or «absolute perfection» about which we have no final way of knowing, and which Jesus is reported as denying with respect to himself (Mark 10:18).

Kass's distinctive concerns must have continued to owe something to the personal decency of his «saintly» and «moralist» parents, as much to his exposure to the questioning characteristic of Great Books Theirs, because of their quasi-religious community, was not the kind of quasi-socialism that abstracted from the greatness and misery of ordinary persons.

I wasn't referring to suicide, but more in general: how, for instance, disease or wars are blamed on the devil and saintly deeds by people always have to come from God.

Two: Someone who considers that a woman who decides to «sacrifice» a career for the good of little ones who need her help to grow into self contained human beings is a terrific person, a stand up for what she believes in, a helper with the creation of the future world, sooooo stressed looking after baby and helping Junior with potty training, and a total martyr to the cause of saintly motherhood.

There are a few good people in the drama, some almost saintly in their dedication to get an innocent man freed, and a lot of bad folks such as a fellow who actually committed a murder but implicated a neighbor as co-defendant.

Hazel's matter - of - fact - ness doesn't go untempered by fear or sadness, but she and her cohorts are nothing like the saintly, heroic, very quiet sick people who populate so many books and movies.

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