Sentences with phrase «such saintly»

Or will it be such a saintly avatar that it avoids this eventuality, and so will never quite manage to be convincingly human?

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

Not exact matches

When Paradisi knelt to utter his prayer God gently rebuked him, «Such a plea is unbecoming for a saintly man.»

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.

The saintly Dom Guéranger with his L'Année Liturgique, and subsequent writers such as Pius Parsch, provided a healthy counterpoint to this tendency by instructing the laity on the texts of the liturgy themselves.

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

They notice that it is permeated by a spirit of deep reverence or piety, that it aims to transform the quality and character of experience in a direction that appears saintly, that it manifests itself in such institutions as temples and monasteries in which there are ritual observances, and so forth.

Some three dozen societies on this planet (none of them, of course, saintly or likely to be mistaken for the Kingdom of God) have actually shown such respect, in their institutions and in their daily practice.

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.

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