Sentences with phrase «which pious»

cit., II, 126) or as the vision of the divine countenance or as a uniting of the soul with the heavenly spouse, it is one and the same reality to which the pious soul keeps looking while in this state of finiteness and which it is already anticipating within this finiteness.

There may be something to learn from all this about the way in which pious men rebel against the idea of divine, incarnational authority and activity living on down the centuries in the Church.

Verses 29 - 30 are from the Shema, the prayer which every pious Jew repeated daily.

Not exact matches

I'm just trying to make sure that there's at least one contrarian and maybe one voice of realism among this season's many purveyors of touching truisms, pious platitudes, and bumper sticker BS — all of which feels like it was written by either Hallmark or hacks whose prior Republican clients and «candidates» are now sitting on the sidelines sucking their thumbs and watching The Donald drive the bus off the bridge.

As a pious Catholic, he still believes himself married to the woman who left him eight years before, but he has nonetheless been «deprived of the loyalties which should have sustained him.»

Decorously contained on a half - page with regular rhyme and punctuation, it seems at first glance to be the sort of poem a pious 17th - century country parson might be expected to write — a courteous reiteration of theological truths upon which the Sunday faithful may happily agree.

The frequent reception of Our Lord in the Eucharist is a pious practice which should be widely recommended.

Turkey has a ministry of waqfs, as a part of the government; some of the Arab countries have governmental departments which are concerned with the administration of religious endowments; but in most countries almsgiving in goods or money is a voluntary gift either to individuals or to pious foundations.

There is no need to affix a particularly pious label to these seemingly so secular duties of family and professional life with all their daily bitterness and boredom, and to the civic duties from which no one should try to escape.

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.

In the years 1956 - 57 he wrote a number of journalistic essays which were published in 1958 as Pious and Secular America.

They represent the other extreme of Sufism which is condemned by the genuinely pious Muslims.

Interior prayer, when it is joined to and prompted by the sacrifice and resurrection of Christ, is not just a pious and good intention which is granted by a kindly and compassionate God, but is powerful in the order of reality

He knew that catechesis which is purely pious and voluntarist (i.e. addressed only to the will, exhorting to «do good, be good» and seeking to evoke emotional experience without giving any vision of the coherence and truth of God's works), does not hold the young.

On the other side, there are some institutions of higher education in which requirements for pious living and correct doctrine replace the climate of open - ended inquiry.

... When the Christians assembled in their Temple at Jerusalem to celebrate Easter, the chaplains of the Church, making use of a pious fraud, greased the chain of iron that held the lamp over the Tomb with oil of balsam; and... when the Arab officer sealed up the door which led to the Tomb, they applied a match, and the fire descended immediately to the wick of the lamp and lighted it.

D. E. Nineham points out that «most commentators accept at any rate the basic facts of the story, arguing that Christians would have been unlikely to invent a tradition in which Jesus receives hurried burial from a pious Jew, and his own followers have no part in the proceedings ’15 and then goes on to add that «scholarly opinion has perhaps been a little inclined to overlook the possible influence of the Old Testament on the story».16

He had watched the sacred New Year procession; he had seen, for the pious but benighted Babylonian, a profound mystery taking place under the eyes of the beholder as Marduk and Nabu went out in solemn pilgrimage to the Akitu house, there to settle the fates of the incoming year; he had witnessed the annual festival in which Marduk triumphed over all his foes, cosmic and terrestrial, and himself died that life might once more return to the world.

The proverbs which are interspersed throughout may be extraneous; and some of the more pious statements of conventional orthodoxy must certainly be regarded as editorial, especially chapter 12.

The use of a nickname, the humorous situation that «breaks the ice» at a stuffy party, swearing which offends the pious because it is close to the logic of the language about God, the use of words with a specialized meaning and enclosed in quotation marks or inverted commas, the discovery of someone's name after an encounter on an impersonal level are incidents which may lead to discernment.

Then, pious as it is to think of Him, while the pageant of experiment or abstract reasoning passes by, still such piety is nothing more than a poetry of thought, or an ornament of language, a certain view taken of Nature which one man has and another has not, which gifted minds strike out, which others see to be admirable and ingenious, and which all would be the better for adopting.

The pious statement 9:22 belies itself — it is the protest which confirms the reality of what is denied:

And the dénouement of José Zorilla's glutinously pious (and still popular) Don Juan Tenorio (1844)-- in which Juan is saved from hell at the last moment by the pure spirit of the one woman he truly loved — is a particularly unfortunate encore on the part of Goethe's Eternal Feminine.

For Bonhoffer, to live in Christ meant to be a church which existed, not for the pious faithful, but for others.

Such words must seem to many to be pious and meaningless platitudes, mere gestures of respect to the past and bare of that realism which the present moment demands.

Especially was it thought that a pilgrimage to the land that had been trod by the feet of the Saviour of the world, to the Holy City that had witnessed his martyrdom, was a peculiarly pious undertaking, and one which secured for the pilgrim the special favor and blessing of Heaven.

Despite being a long - standing follower of and contributor to this magazine, I feel I must express concern with the manner in which the May / June editorial dismissed the notion that «a drop» of the Redeemer's blood would have sufficed for our Redemption, describing the notion as «pious speculation», not «helpful», and not «true» (p. 3).

The feminist exegetes give equally short shrift to pious Judaism; in a commentary on the Book of Genesis, Amherst College religion professor Susan Niditch dismisses the culture of the ancient Hebrews as one «in which powerful women are regarded with suspicion as unnatural and evil» (actually, the women in Genesis seem quite the opposite, inspiring quite a bit of respect from their menfolk).

There are three poems (Isaiah 42.1 - 4, 49.1 - 6, 50.4 - 11) in which the prophet, who lived in the age of the Babylonian Captivity, describes this pious man, God's «chosen one» who will bring justice to all nations, who has an «instructed tongue» and a «mouth like a sharpened sword», and who has been able to suffer humiliation because he relied on God.

Indeed, it was precisely the fact that the economically poor and oppressed were the faithful remnant who trusted in Jahweh that led to the new usage according to which the words for the poor designated the pious faithful.

«Like him who perverts the revenues of some pious foundation to profane purposes, he pays the wages of idleness with those funds which the frugality of his forefathers had, as it were, consecrated to the maintenance of industry.»

We could give this fatalist reading of the situation a theological spin by claiming that only God can act without loss, which is just a pious admission that nobody's perfect.

On Easter Sunday they return to New Jersey for dinner in Barnegat Pines with Vicki's family, which includes her turnpike toll - taker father, Wade Arsenauft, who spends his time in the basement restoring an ancient Chrysler; her querulous younger brother, Cade, a future police officer; and her stepmother, Lynette, a widowed, divorced, pious Catholic.

Ih: You DO understand that people can not fear retaliation («judgement» to you pious folk) from a being in which they do not believe, don't you?

And the sermon — which we may hope will be no series of moral platitudes or pious phrases, but a real proclamation of the gospel of God in Christ — can be for us, as it is meant always to be, the very Word of God brought to bear upon our human lives.

This is enshrined in Canon Law which makes the local bishop the moderator of «pious and sacredexercises» so that they are «fully in harmony with the laws of the Church» (Canon 839 # 2.

I first encountered him on my blog about five years ago, and every so often, more recently of late, he comes back and spouts off some sort of pious nonsense, which sounds good on the electronic page, but which I know for a fact is nothing but pure hypocrisy.

Jews, both pious and secular, who want to find some way to live at peace with Palestinians despair over the zealotry of the Gush Emunim, who believe God has given their people land on which Palestinians have also dwelt for generations.

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.

That is, in the elements from which it was made, illuminated under the open sky, it showed forth the hidden riches of the earth, while through the pious craftsmanship of its makers, it made manifest the highest powers of a human world.

It is this teaching of St Thomas Aquinas and Pope Pius XII which Paul McPartlan dismisses as «pious nonsense»: see note 7 above.

Do you expect atheists to fear retaliation (judgement to those pious types) from a being in which they do not believe?

Add to this the often saccharine depiction of martyrs in Christian art and legend, and one has a situation in which martyrdom is seen as a pious, quaint idea from an earlier age.

But it is not fundamentally a form of words, any more than it is a set of pious thoughts in which Christians unite.

The sense of alienation and distance from God which had grown upon the pious in Israel must in proportion as they had learned to look upon Him as no mere national divinity, but as a God of justice who would punish Israel for its sin as certainly as Edom or Moab, is declared to be no longer in place; and the typical form of Christian prayer points to the abolition of the contrast between this world and the next which thought all the history of the Jews had continually been growing wider: «As in heaven, so on earth.»

The importance which was attached to the choosing of the minister is impressively reflected in a passage of Calvin's Institutes where he writes: «Whenever a controversy arises respecting religion, which requires to be decided by a council or ecclesiastical judgment; whenever a minister is to be chosen, in short, whenever anything of difficulty or great importance is transacting;... it is a pious custom and beneficial in all ages, for the pastors to exhort the people to public fasts and extraordinary prayers.»

If there should be a place having a few faithful men in it, before the multitude sufficiently increase to vote (psephisasthai), who shall be able to make a dedication to pious uses for the bishop to the extent of twelve men, let them write to the churches round about them, informing them of the place in which the multitude of the faithful [assemble and] are established that their chosen men in that place may come, that they may examine with diligence him who is worthy of this grade.119

Of course, Ken's tips are provided within the overall context of a healthy, committed, loving relationship with one's children — which affirms Dr. Bengston's findings that passing on our faith to our kids is as much about being emotionally connected as it is about being pious.

But let us take for example the practice of human sacrifice which has been long regarded with horror in the West, yet was seen as a noble and pious act in certain cultures (e.g. the Aztecs of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica).

Not even Blanchett and Rush — two of the finest actors working today, or Morton — who stirs me to impure thoughts even as a supposedly pious figure, or Owen — who almost makes a pair of puffy pants look butch, can drag «The Golden Age» out of the morass in which Kapur has sunk it.