Sentences with phrase «with sanctity»

Johnson's Mother and Child (2011) wryly plays with the sanctity of representing these revered religious figures in art history, transforming Mary and the infant Jesus into a duct - tape sculpture cast in stainless steel.

Christianity and Mohametanism: — For two thousand years the Greek art - forms lifelessly repeated: The Greek schools of philosophy, Stoic, Epicurean, Aristotelian, Neo-Platonic, arguing with barren formulae: Conventional histories: A stabilized Government with the sanctity of ancient ceremony, supported by habitual pieties: literature without depth: Science elaborating details by deduction from unquestioned premises: Delicacies of feeling without robustness of adventure.

There is a method to this madness: The goal is to cleanse healthcare of all those who would dare to practice medicine in accord with sanctity - of - life moral viewpoints.

Aren't Christians forced to entertain the thought that solitude is closely connected with sanctity?

«As a family ministry concerned with the sanctity of life, marriage, and religious freedom, we are optimistic that Judge Gorsuch will continue to protect our cherished liberties, and earn the entire country's respect as a member of our nation's highest court,» said Jim Daly, president of Focus on the Family, in a statement.

Fourth, this concern with the sanctity of human life per se was at the heart of the White Rose protest against the murder of the Jews.

Not exact matches

Gianna: The Catholic Healthcare Center for Women» named after Saint Gianna Beretta Molla, an Italian doctor, wife, and mother, who, when faced with complications while pregnant, refused to have an abortion at great risk to her own life» provides women gynecological and obstetric care that is fully committed to the USCCB's Directives for Catholic Healthcare Services and fully respects both the dignity of women and the sanctity of human life.

The pastor said of what he has read about Mourdock's remarks, they largely lined up with the church's teachings on the sanctity of life and their belief that life begins at conception.

«In a hostile environment, we're going to do everything we can do within the parameters of the law to ensure our freedom to continue to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ, protect and defend the sanctity of life, help couples with their marriages, help parents raise their children, and find forever homes for orphaned children,» he said.

Liberals generally are for the killing of babies and other horendous ideas that war against the sanctity and liberty of human beings... Giving men with this kind of a world view «equal time» isn't what I think God desires.

I believe he is providing a prominent professional service to humanity free of charge, where he doesn't have to, out of belief in the «Sanctity of Human Life» and as a Christian with a directive from the Lord Jesus Christ to do so.

Taboos on eating fat and blood, (Leviticus 3:17) rules concerning clean and unclean foods, detailed directions concerning the dress of the officiating priests, insistence on ceremonial exactness in sacrifice these and similar legalisms have as part of their background and explanation the sense of sanctity and inviolability in things divine, demanding punctilious care to make human relationships with them safe and profitable.

For Catholic schools to be a worthwhile enterprise for the Church, they must survive and flourish as institutions where pupils grow in a «personal relationship with Jesus» which includes following the teaching of Jesus, through His Church, that we should attend Mass every Sunday, go to confession regularly, say our prayers and be loyal to the magisterium - especially in its moral teaching regarding the sanctity of human life, and the meaning and purpose of sex and marriage, in accord with Humanae Vitae and Evangelium Vitae.

Compassion impels us to work tirelessly to alleviate the suffering of our fellow creatures, to dethrone ourselves from the centre of our world and put another there, and to honour the inviolable sanctity of every single human being, treating everybody, without exception, with absolute justice, equity and respect.

They wanted to ditch the old Judaeo - Christian belief in the sanctity of all human life and replace it with what they regarded as a more advanced and rational philosophy.

an arabic concept is «sanctity of contact», that those we meet and touch, we are connected with those people in a sacred eternal way...

This constitutional disestablishment of all churches embodied the wisdom of Roger Williams and Thomas Jefferson — the one from his experience with the Massachusetts theocracy and the other from his experience with the less dangerous Anglican establishment in Virginia — which knew that a combination of religious sanctity and political power represents a heady mixture for status quo conservatism.

Ideas about the sanctity of conscience and the importance of godly edification were emphasized and subtly modified by clergy as they attempted to secure popular submission to the secular authorities, regain ecclesiastical control of the laity, forge alliances with the state, and secure patronage from the aristocracy.

Often in matters of sex this respect for life's sanctities is associated with a sense of mystery, fortunately not yet dissipated by pestilential amateurs trying to save the world by telling all they know.

The deeper trouble with all of us, both older and younger, is not that we lack knowledge of external penalties, but that we lack a fine sense of inward sanctities.

Purity that respects the sanctity of womanhood; sincerity that makes your «yea» enough without an oath and your word as good as your bond; magnanimity, like Lincoln's, with malice toward none, with charity for all; kindness which unostentatiously helps one's fellows, the right hand not knowing what the left hand does — all that is livable.

That is why the crusades, despite their failure, can be considered one of the outstanding achievements of the medieval Church... As long as Christianity endures on earth, as long as there exists a civilisation from which Christian principles have not been wholly banished, there will be men to treasure these pages of sanctity and heroism, inscribed by the crusaders with their blood.

Furthermore, I think that most people would agree that with 50 percent of marriages ending in divorce in this country, divorce is a much greater threat to the «sanctity» of marriage than gay marriage.

On Saturdays, we officiate weddings with unconditional vows, on Sundays we preach sermons on the sanctity of marriage, and then on Mondays we counsel our congregation that Jesus exempts them to do the hard work of remaining faithful in times of unfaithfulness and that ultimately marriage is not about Jesus and the church but their personal desires.

One danger to the Christian revolt is that it will enter into alliance with forces whose aims and strategies are so foreign to its own that when the common Victory is won — if won it can be — the revolutionary church will be left with the sad reflection that it supplied the «Fourteen Points» which gave specious sanctity to an outrageous peace and that its fruits of victory are an external prosperity based on rotting foundations and debts which it can not collect without destroying its own life.

Both the tellers of the tale and those who love to hear it would have to move too much mental furniture in order to see that the markers of our modern world — the care for truth, the sanctity of the individual, the siding with victims — derive from Christianity, indeed from canonical, orthodox Christianity.

Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Jews, and so on recognize a power in life — identified with a sense of the sanctity of life — and a power in death, insofar as death seems to overcome, eliminate, evacuate the power of life.

[17] Returning to the theme of the Ecclesiastical hierarchy, one sees that Maximus acknowledges its importance, but he strives to bring out its significance for the personal growth in sanctity and communion with Christ.

The heroic diligence, courage, and humility with which he exercised his pastoral vocation indicates that sanctity infused the actions of an intellectual giant worthy of the title Doctor of the Church.

The Christian realist regards the pursuit of sanctity as the calling of a few individuals, and incompatible with the demands of pursuing justice in a sinful world.

Having already been hailed as a model of sanctity by Blessed John Paul II, Pope Benedict paid her the highest possible compliment at her canonization ceremony, entrusting her with «the renewal of the faith in the first nations and in all of North America.»

Attorney Rogers calls that argument «farfetched»: «American common law and statutes that protect the sanctity of the dead and the sensibilities of the living apply with equal force, irrespective of the religion of the deceased or of the next of kin.»

The people who speak most often about the sanctity of human life should have been the very first to champion the right of people with AIDS to adequate healthcare rather than lobbying against government expenditure for AIDS research, as did the Moral Majority.

On the contrary, even Karl Barth, who uncompromisingly rejects homosexual partnerships as out of step with the Creator's intention, writes that such unions are often «redolent of sanctity» (Church Dogmatics III / 4, p. 166) because they are about the struggle to give and receive love.

Can one be realistic about the facts of aging, diminishment and death and still live with a sense of sanctity of existence and reverence for life?

With the 1990s, some war movies examined honor, duty and code versus the sanctity of an individual life (A Few Good Men) to sexism and the issues of female authority (Courage Under Fire, GI Jane) to the internal demons besieging a leader and group of misfit soldiers as they sacrificed their lives for one (Saving Private Ryan).

As I've mentioned before, I personally think it is counterproductive to spend time and money trying to mess with the constitution so that it restricts the rights of U.S. citizens under the banner of «protecting the sanctity of marriage,» especially when heterosexual couples face a divorce rate that hovers between 45 and 50 percent.

The Son of God leaning towards her like a sweet lover, and giving to her soul the softest kiss, said to her at the second Sanctus: «In this Sanctus addressed to my person, receive with this kiss all the sanctity of my divinity and of my humanity, and let it be to thee a sufficient preparation for approaching the communion table.»

For the not so young, for those who already have an established way of life, the book is still likely to reveal some very useful ways in which patterns of family life and behaviour might be addressed, with a view to all members of the family attaining to sanctity of life and eternity with God.

And the next following Sunday, while she was thanking God for this favor, behold the Son of God, more beauteous than thousands of angels, takes her in His arms as if He were proud of her, and presents her to God the Father, in that perfection of sanctity with which He had dowered her.

You will look long, hard, and futilely to find in His Holiness any serious analysis of the Pope's ground - breaking nuptial theology of the human body, or his emerging feminism, or his intense ecumenical outreach to Orthodoxy and the Reformation churches, or his commitment to a theological dialogue with Judaism unprecedented in nearly two thousand years, or his refocusing of Catholic social doctrine, or his passionate interest in the universality of sanctity in the Church, or his dialogue with atheist and agnostic philosophers and scientists, or his commitment to the «method of persuasion» in a revitalized Catholic evangelism, or his millennial sensibility.

Without denying that the sanctity of her members builds up the whole Church, I worry that this too directly relates the will and works of the members with what actually «makes» or constitutes the Church, namely, the sacrifice of the Head, not the purity or righteousness, always imperfect, of his members.

There are values that surpass even the sanctity of a unified family and the right of all children to live with people who actually love them, are responsible for them, and are able to care for them.

Theologically, Farrow takes issue with the Anglican proposal to «affirm the integrity and sanctity of committed adult same - sex relationships,» for the wording suggests that persons can be «already pleasing to God, requiring no redemption in Christ.»

Now, with this, I dare say, Schindler, von Hildebrand, and the rest of West's critics would readily concur: significant liberation from concupiscence can come with high levels of sanctity.

In the twenty - five years since, Southern Baptists have belatedly joined with many other persons of faith, especially Catholics, to protest the pagan disregard for the sanctity of human life.

That is why the crusades, despite their failure, can be considered one of the outstanding achievements of the medieval Church... As long as Christianity endures on earth, as long as there exists a civilisation from which Christian principles have not been wholly banished, there will be men to treasure these pages of sanctity and heroism, inscribedby the crusaders with their blood.

We are well used to such Evangelicals, sharing with them the doctrinal and moral essentials of classical Christianity, a commitment to the Augustinian patrimony of the West, recent remarkable joint statements on justification, and much common work for the sanctity of life, Biblical standards of sexual morality, social justice, environmental responsibility and world peace.

Cooperstown is going to become even more of a bland high - school - history textbook than it already is, distilled to names, numbers, and nothing more, with prominent figures and events removed to keep the idea of sanctity alive and well, rather than risk telling a story someone might not want to recall.

Thus, lacking body mass, women made a virtue out of delicacy (often a rather steely delicacy); stuck with not just bearing but also raising the children, women promoted the sanctity of motherhood; deprived of upper - body strength, women made men carry things; afflicted by capricious hormonal fluctuations, women used crying as a form of interpersonal leverage; restricted from the public sphere, women commandeered domestic life; shut out of decent employment, gals adopted a «pay - to - play» strategy - men had to pay for sex, with dinners, rings, and homes.