Yet public worship like private prayer requires time enough to relax before God, center attention upon him and
upon holy things, enter into his presence without any sense of pressure.
Not exact matches
Jud 1:14 It was also about these men that Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied, saying, «Behold, the Lord came with many thousands of His
holy ones, Jud 1:15 to execute judgment
upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh
things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.»
The
Holy Spirit teaches us all
things; we speak of the
things that the Spirit brings; truth reduced to language and writing (again); we continue to remind one another (in speech, script & action); meanwhile philosophy makes claim
upon the derivatives, often assuming even to authorship.
A picture of
Holy Communion's spire comes to mind and I remember the words of St. Bernard of Clairvaux: «Continual silence, and removal from the noise of the
things of this world and forgetfulness of them, lifts the heart and asks us to think of the
things of heaven and sets our heart
upon them.»
But one
thing is the business of religion; it always has been the business of religion — to lay its hands
upon life's
holy places and insist that they shall not be violated.
Since you are concerned about all these
things, this is evidence that the
Holy Spirit is at work
upon your life, therefore, you have not committed this sin.
For all which
things we give thanks unto thee, and thine Only - begotten Son and thy
Holy Spirit; for all
things whereof we know, and whereof we know not; for all thy benefits bestowed
upon us, both manifest and unseen.
35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The
Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of
Holy Ghost shall come
upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that
holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of
holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
Without any expectation of it, without ever having the thought in my mind that there was any such
thing for me, without any recollection that I had ever heard the
thing mentioned by any person in the world, the
Holy Spirit descended
upon me in a manner that seemed to go through me, body and soul.
Wishing to remove from the minds of your Eminences and of every true Christian this vehement suspicion justly cast
upon me, with sincere heart and unfeigned faith I do abjure, damn, and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally each and every other error, heresy, and sect contrary to the
Holy Church; and I do swear for the future that I shall never again speak or assert, orally or in writing, such
things as might bring me under similar suspicion.
And I heard the man clothed in linen, which [was]
upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that [it shall be] for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the
holy people, all these [
things] shall be finished.
The peasants who have now banded together in Swabia have formulated their intolerable grievances against the rulers in twelve articles, and have undertaken to support them with certain passages of Scripture... the
thing that pleases me most... is that they offer to accept instructions... Since I have a reputation for being one of those who deal with the
Holy Scriptures here on earth, and especially as one whom they mention and call
upon by name in the second document, I have all the more courage and confidence in openly publishing my instruction.