The Church has always linked personal asceticism and
the search for holiness with this demand for mercy and justice to the poor; the Lenten trilogy of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving is both fundamental and structural.
I think that true doctrine, when it is married to a genuine
search for holiness, can often be a threat to us.
Condemnations await
those searching for holiness!
Not exact matches
The Scriptures are sacred because they present the thoughts and acts of men who were
searching for God, and who in these writings left on record their highest concepts of righteousness, truth, and
holiness.
The result of this division has been stacks of ugly and unread Bibles, and art so distanced from
holiness as to evoke despair of any
search for beauty or truth.
With strong emotion he called us» Americans
searching for the roots of liberty, Eastern Europeans so lately liberated» to the authentic path of freedom and
holiness, centered in the sacrifice of Christ, and raised the host to unite our group in a bond far stronger than argument.
His
Holiness the Dalai Lama, himself a master of the scientific method in his
search for analytical insight, shows enormous respect
for science and scientists, and frequently emphasizes the importance of education and information in building awareness.