Sentences with phrase «too pious»

One side is too pious and the other side bigoted.

Listen, me, I blame me for making broad sweeping generalizations that one side is too pious, the other two bigoted.

It is too personal, too pious and too intrusive to name another person's particular wrongdoing as sin.

Unfortunately, most Bible reading is listless and lifeless because the readers are too relaxed to think sharply, too pious to argue cogently, too concerned merely to be inspired for the Word of God to accost them.

Bishop von Galen seems to have been seen by some Germans as representing a possibly noble, but rather too pious, vision of life.

Some of the writing is clumsy and ponderous: «Gloria explained that I was witnessing a typical Bavarian scene and pointed out an interesting fact...» Some is just a bit too pious.

I grew up in a tradition where some of these outward spiritual exercises were rejected because we didn't want to come across as too pious or overly spiritual or legalistic.

Not exact matches

What boggles me is all those pious people who say «the church should not change just because some people want it too».

Nonetheless, despite his success in puncturing the naïve, pious image that Agnon cultivated, here too Oz's vision of religious life betrays nothing of his youthful exposure to it.

All too much of the time we consider our preaching to be an exercise in theological teaching, in moral exhortation, or in pious meditation.

Back in the 1940's, when Reinhold Niebuhr started Christianity in Crisis to support the war against Nazism, he abandoned his earlier pacifism, and his earlier too - simply pious way of wishing evil away, and called for a new tough - minded Christian realism.

Oh wait, she covers her hair too... (side note: According to Islamic beliefs, Mary is considered the most pious of women and is granted a high place in Paradise for her righteousness)-- Another interesting note to make is that this New York mosque, which was once the Burlington Coat Factory, was bought a long time before now, How interesting that politicians are making an issue of it now, before elections.

I am sixty - seven years of age and have resided in X. fifty years, and have been in business forty - five, consequently I have some little experience of life and men, and some women too, and I find that the most religious and pious people are as a rule those most lacking in uprightness and morality.

Synopsis: When God decides that mankind has become too sinful and must be wiped off the Earth, he chooses Noah (Russell Crowe), a pious man, for a great task... [MORE]

Abiding faith is no easy subject for the movies; too often it comes out pious and insufferable, and troubling masterworks on the order of Carl Dreyer's «The Passion of Joan of Arc» or Robert Bresson's «Diary of a Country Priest» come along once a decade if we're lucky.

Irons is the pious one, and Malkovich is auditioning for Taken about a decade too early as he seeks to avenge the death of his son (played by a baby Peter Sarsgaard).

I was about nine when these epiphanies struck, too young to be considered pious, so she learned to ignore me.

They can claim to be pious all they want but if ships are too easy to get in the game then no one is going to pay money for them.