How To Use Holiness In A Sentence

They worship dreams Holiness in art, ritual, entertainment.
Hence there is in sin a peculiar inconformity to the holiness of God; which is the "macula," the "spot," "stain," and Pneumatologia
Purposefully moraceous make money work from home, but the lintwhite unholiness was that the wildness sokoro was buried me surpassingly was a permanently in the pintado flyer skillet. Rational Review
Holiness answers audience questions addressing the situation of Tibet, goal of bodhicitta, nature of enlightened mind, future of the Dalai Lama institution, compatibility of Buddhist practices with theistic faith, universal purpose of human life, practice of patience towards harm-doers, subtle energy and mind, and the Heart Sutra mantra. Nagarjuna's Bodhichitta Commentary
Thou teachest "my hands to war and my fingers to fight" [361] against the invisible enemies of my salvation and blessedness; against the enemies of holiness and of the power of Thy glory; against the subcelestial spirits of evil. My Life in Christ, or Moments of Spiritual Serenity and Contemplation, of Reverent Feeling, of Earnest Self-Amendment, and of Peace in God

True it is, that one can scarcely call _that_ education which teaches woman everything except herself, -- _except_ the things that relate to her own peculiar womanly destiny, and, on plea of the holiness of ignorance, sends her without one word of just counsel into the temptations of life. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859
The title waited for its fulfilment in Him who alone, in His own person, could perfectly show forth the holiness of God on earth -- Jesus the Son of the Father. Holy in Christ Thoughts on the Calling of God's Children to be Holy as He is Holy
His Holiness the Pope has made his first decision since the election.
These are ominous signs of God's holiness and the threat of judgment to the unholy.
Having again experienced, in November 2006, the joy and emotion of the personal and blessed participation of Your Holiness in the patronal feast of Constantinople, the commemoration of the St. Andrew the Apostle, the First Called, I set out "with a joyous step" from Fener in the New Rome, to come to you to participate in your joy in the patronal feast of Old Rome. Archive 2008-06-29
They are an expression of the holiness of the mystery that is being celebrated; of the actio Dei in which we participate. Archive 2009-02-01
His Holiness puts on a _mozzetta_ of white (instead of red) damask, and wears it during the whole of Easter week: His shoes also are white. The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome
There was considerable anxiety about His Holiness, much anxiety as to whether he would even be able to appear in public this Sunday in his hospital room.
The non-intellectual wing of the Christian Right Community has committed a sacrilege and blasphemy, (to say nothing of the secular crime of high treason), because they have accepted the fiction of a cynical team of writers, who depict the god they describe as a homicidal, Demonic, maniac, and touted these despicable properties as "holiness," and used that as an excuse to support and urge the slaughter of their chosen Muslim fantasy enemies. THE SHAMELESS END-DAYS FICTIONAL REPLACEMENT FOR REVELATION.
For Pharisees, holiness was achieved, in part, by rigorously keeping the law.
This is interpreted to mean that we should only seek to learn the Torah from a rabbi who resembles an angel in holiness and piety.
By which means it is, yet by my courtesy, that scarce any kind of men live more voluptuously or with less trouble; as believing that Christ will be well enough pleased if in their mystical and almost mimical pontificality, ceremonies, titles of holiness and the like, and blessing and cursing, they play the parts of bishops. In Praise of Folly
And that consideration which ingenerates shame and self-abhorrency on the account of the defilement of sin is taken peculiarly from the holiness of God. Pneumatologia
To be disapproved, that is, when the word condemns them, either as touching the faith or the holiness of the gospel; the which they must needs be, that are void of spiritual and heavenly judgment in the mysteries of the kingdom; Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02
I want to give up my selfish ways and follow your lead, for yours is the way of goodness and holiness.
This temple is a place of great holiness for the religion's followers.
We too may come to a similar point of recognizing God's holiness and our own sins.
The Holiness Code does not only deal with ritual sins or with idolatry.
These extravagancies set all the company in a laughter; at which the Bonza was so enraged, that he flew out into greater passion, till the king commanded his brother to impose silence on him; after which, he caused his seat to be taken from under him, and commanded him to withdraw, telling him, by way of raillery, "That his choler was a convincing proof of a Bonza's holiness;" and then seriously adding, "That a man of his character had more commerce with hell than heaven. The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 16
These words we will now explain and set forth in their relation to that superessential contemplation which is the source of all holiness, and of all perfec tion of life to which one may attain. The Adornment of the Spritual Marriage
They worship dreams Holiness in art, ritual, entertainment.
The farmer even has a halo formed by his tipped back sombrero, and the holiness of this revolutionary embrace is reinforced by its association with the embrace of Joachim and Anna in Giotto’s Arena Chapel in Padua. Jose Clemente Orozco and Diego Rivera - The Murals
The monastery was formally inaugurated by His Holiness on March 31, 1985.
These extravagancies set all the company in a laughter; at which the Bonza was so enraged, that he flew out into greater passion, till the king commanded his brother to impose silence on him; after which, he caused his seat to be taken from under him, and commanded him to withdraw, telling him, by way of raillery, “That his choler was a convincing proof of a Bonza's holiness;” and then seriously adding, The Works of John Dryden
Hutchinson, with a vast conceit of her superior holiness and with the ugly censoriousness which is a usual accompaniment of that grace, demonstrated her genius for mixing a theological controversy with personal jealousies and public anxieties, and involved the whole colony of the Bay in an acrimonious quarrel, such as to give an unpleasant tone of partisanship and ill temper to the proceedings in her case, whether ecclesiastical or civil. A History of American Christianity
He prayed to God night and day to endue him with the spirit of holiness.
His Holiness, however, with energy and determination, guided the project to fruition.
But I recommend this to you, — that if this be a truth, and we are convinced it is our duty to labour to affect our hearts with a sense of the unanswerableness of our souls, and the frame of our minds unto the will of God and the holiness of Christ, who is coming to visit his churches, — “What manner of persons ought we to be?” Several Practical Cases of Conscience Resolved
In it, His Holiness touches on many important aspects of spiritual practice.
The worship of God must be carried out with holiness and purity.
I do think that in the current era I follow His Holiness, the Dalai Lama in thinking that it is not correct or necessary, or even beneficial, to proselytise Buddhism and like convert America to Buddhism or something, as a religion.
The Scriptures teach righteousness and holiness of conduct.
Prayers were conducted for the spread of the Buddha dharma, for the happiness of all sentient beings, and for a long and successful life of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Several narratives intertwine as Lovric charts Marcella's tortuous, Minguillo-instigated progress through crippledom, a lunatic asylum and eventually a convent, including that of the fanatical nun Sor Loreta, who mortifies her body and starves herself to attain holiness while being as vile as possible to the less saintly nuns around her. Home
“And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you; to the end he may establish your hearts unblamable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.” The Weapon of Prayer
In the typical Tibetan home, there are photographs displayed of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and other incarnate masters.
With the possibility of such intense holiness available, nowhere else do we find something containing such potential for corruption and depravity.
This hath a further end, and truly it is but introductive to a further end; that so a soul may be made partaker of the gift of holiness within, and have that image of The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you: to the end he may stablish your hearts unblamable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints. 1 Thessalonians 3.
The acknowledging of this truth has a respect not only to the manifestation of his justice, but also of the wisdom, holiness, and dominion of God over his creatures: for that justice which, in respect of its effect and egress, we call vindicatory, which, as we have before demonstrated, is natural to A Dissertation on Divine Justice
His Holiness distills the essence of the ninth wisdom chapter in a succinct and effortlessly authoritative presentation of how all phenomena are dependently arisen, empty of inherent existence, mere dependently imputed. Bodhisattva's Way of Life
And I shall crave leave to say, that he who hath no experience of spiritual shame and self-abhorrency, upon the account of this inconformity of his nature and the faculties of his soul unto the holiness of God, is a great stranger unto this whole work of sanctification. Pneumatologia
Wesley's doctrine of what he called perfect love, his idea of an experience subsequent to conversion, that was later taken up by the holiness movement as a kind of an attempt to revive Wesleyan perfectionism.
And I shall crave leave to say, that he who hath no experience of spiritual shame and self-abhorrency, upon the account of this inconformity of his nature and the faculties of his soul unto the holiness of God, is a great stranger unto this whole work of sanctification. Pneumatologia
Only Jesus can redeem us and bring us into his holiness.
Rooted in the holiness tradition of Moses, the religious leaders regard the law as central to Israel's culture.
The Buddha of Compassion or His Holiness the Dalai Lama has been reborn thirteen times.
They worship dreams Holiness in art, ritual, entertainment.
And as the nature of evangelical holiness consists herein, -- namely, in a universal conformity unto him as he is the image of the invisible God, -- so the proposal of his example unto us is an effectual means of ingenerating and increasing it in us. Pneumatologia
They are the emblem of our country, of its holiness and ancientry, which we wear with pride on this day of each year. At Swim, Two Boys
So they can escape the righteousness of God, which they have provoked, they regard not their unanswerableness unto his holiness, whereby they are polluted. Pneumatologia
The point, I surmise, is that states of being such as love and holiness have an intrinsic exigence for expression.
This fetishization of asexuality gives way to an imperious and isolated priesthood, an aloof caste of men whose holiness is far too greatly predicated upon the choice not to have sex. Michele Somerville: Sex and the City of God, Part 2: Celibacy and Sexuality in the Catholic Church
Similarly, the holiness codes of Leviticus thread down from an all-encompassing mandate to behave distinctly from their foreign (and depraved) neighbors.
The hymen was not simply a sign or proof of chastity; rather, being physically ‘intact’ supposedly imparted strength, youth and holiness to the woman.
His Holiness explains the seed of bodhicitta, which is the biologically innate compassion (the love that binds social animals together); aspects of attachment and aversion required for biological survival; and tantric meditations that take anger (but not ill will) into the path. Nagarjuna's Bodhichitta Commentary
What if you took a moment to let go of the rushing and instead reconnected with a sense of holiness or inner peace?
But the boy Mohammed being by me objurgated-for I remarked in him a jaunty demeanour combined with neglectfulness of ceremonies-saluted it sulkily, muttering the while hints about the holiness of his birthplace exempting him from the trouble of stooping. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
There it stands, high above them all, and remote from them all, in its air of great antiquity, in its unaccountableness, in its serene truthfulness, in its unapproachable sublimity, in that impress of divine majesty and ineffable holiness which even the unbelieving neologist has been compelled to acknowledge, and by which every devout reader feels that the first page in Genesis is forever distinguished from any mere human production. Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers
The call to holiness through fasting has never been abrogated, that is, done away with, by the Catholic Church. Catholic Exchange
Even a number of Muslims come to the mutt for the blessing of His Holiness.
In other words, only those who persevere in faith and holiness prove that they are truly saved.
According to Jesus' interpretation of the law, God's chief attribute is mercy, not holiness.
If God chargeth his very angels with folly, that is, an unanswerableness unto his infinite holiness and wisdom, -- what can poor mortal men expect, that dwell in houses of clay, that are crushed before the moth? The Sermons of John Owen
So God's holiness makes hell as inevitable as his love makes heaven.
The souls of such separate themselves from the unlimited love for the sex, and devote themselves to one, with whom they look for an everlasting and eternal union and its increasing blessednesses, as the cherishers of the hope which continually recreates their mind; but it is quite otherwise with the unchaste, that is, with those who do not think religiously of marriages and their holiness. The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love
Over the arched window behind the ten Melchisedec pulpits, and just beneath the vertical modillion which forms the keystone of the ornamental wooden arch, is the text, "Holiness unto the Lord. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science
A former Methodist pastor and holiness preacher had established a bible school.
But let me tell you that when His Holiness the Pope was here, he spoke everyday, every afternoon you had him live on TV and radio.
This Advent, our spiritual imagination replaces earthliness with holiness. Sheldon C. Good: Market's Hand, God's Embrace
Apocalypse, holiness and filthiness would not be spoken of abstractedly, that is, apart from holy and _filthy_ persons, and in like manner righteousness and unrighteousness would not be mentioned apart from their necessary {117} antecedents, _personal_ righteous and unrighteous _deeds_. An Essay on the Scriptural Doctrine of Immortality
The message must be preached within the larger context of the biblical framework of God's holiness.
To assert and justify a thing which you call inward, real righteousness and holiness. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02
He knew that even in the dispute respecting the supremacy of Scotland, his Holiness had set up a claim to the kingdom which, in the temper of the times, might perhaps have been deemed superior both to that of Robert Bruce, and that of Edward of England, and he conceived his monarch would give him little thanks for any fresh embroilment which might take place with the Church. Castle Dangerous
Essential to our growth in the knowledge of what God intends for us is our ongoing progress in holiness.
His Holiness discusses using the method path to complement meditations on emptiness; the short term benefits of bodhicitta practice; clairvoyance; the long-term project of gradually purifying and ripening through sustained effort. Nagarjuna's Bodhichitta Commentary
The three uniting congregations were an Independent Holiness Church, a charismatic House Church, and a Brethren Assembly.
We were immediately struck by this city's holiness.
The 15-part seder feast is a traditionally kosher meal that opens with a prayer called the kiddush, declaring the holiness of the festival of liberation. Statesman.com - Highschool
And if we say that she is resolved into common putrefaction in worms and into ashes or dust; it behoveth us to weigh and think such thing as appertaineth to so great holiness, and to the seignory of such a chamber of God. The Golden Legend, vol. 4
Alas, I am built more for momentary lapses in judgment than permanent holiness. Times, Sunday Times
A religious Jew tries to bring holiness into everything they do, by doing it as an act that praises God, and honours everything God has done.
We begin down there that we may set the shining topstone of 'Holiness to the Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John
Thus they continued in such error, blindness, decrees, sophisms, superstitions; idle ceremonies and traditions were the sum of their new-coined holiness and religion, and by these knaveries and stratagems they were able to involve multitudes, to deceive the most sanctified souls, and, if it were possible, the very elect. Anatomy of Melancholy
The mother who appeared in the song was a compassionate looking woman, wearing a chuba (Tibetan for Tibetan dress), grey hair at the temples, she is the younger sister of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Jetsun Pema. Phayul Latest News
The sweet music brings holiness and purity of thought to the mind.
Paul also tells us to lead quiet lives in godliness and holiness.
Well, his Holiness was frighted, and the almoner ran out and brought in his Holiness's attendants, and they laid hold of me, but I struggled hard, and said, 'I will not go without my pack; arrah, your Holiness! make them give me back my pack, which Shorsha gave me in Dungarvon times of old;' but my struggles were of no use. The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro"
I was presented with no argument but simply with holiness, with the possibilities of contentment, integrity and wholeness that the religious life offers. Times, Sunday Times
All religions have their symbols of holiness through which the sacred flows into the mundane.
In other words, the distress that we feel when noting that many priests and many bishops interpret (our) Catholic faith and (our) divine liturgy, which is the final expression of that faith, as not being in “continuity” with its millenary tradition (something which Your Holiness has explained more than once), but in open and incurable “discontinuity”. WE BEG YOU, HOLY FATHER, DO NOT LEAVE US ALONE!
And then they heard as a holy God spoke His holy law, telling His people what His holiness meant for their lives.
It's a selective holiness, for there is no cagier, more media-averse CEO than Steve Jobs. Jesse Kornbluth: Steve Jobs at 'D': When You're an App, You're an App All the Way
The Methodist bishops refused to tolerate grass-roots revivalism within the ranks and ejected the most active proponents of Holiness just as the Wesley brothers had been ejected by the Anglican establishment a century before.
Wherein is contained, how hard a thing it is, to distinguish goodnesse from hypocrisie; and how (under the shadow of holinesse) the wickednesse of one man, may deceive many The Decameron
Now picture the reaction of those Pharisees who regarded themselves as holy, righteous, and pure but who looked down on any who didn't live up to their standards of holiness.
Our problem is that we no longer see holiness in its particulars, in practices like marriage or work that he hymns over and again in his writing.
Grant us the strength to love creation not merely for what it can give us, but because our health and holiness is woven - warp and weft - with its health and holiness.
Into Great Silence 2005- In this intimate doc, we get a never-before-seen glimpse of the daily lives and rituals of the Grande Chartreuse, an 11th-century monastery inhabited by modern-day Carthusian monks, whose vows of silence and poverty guide them to states of profound inner holiness. John Farr: Getting Religion: The Ten Best Films on Faith
The primary object of the sabbath is holiness, not merely rest: "Remember that thou keep holy the sabbath day. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Judah has dealt treacherously, and broken covenant with God, the covenant made in Ezra's time with reference to this very thing; he has profaned the holiness of the Lord by marrying the daughter (that is, the worshipper) of a strange god. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther)
Numerous postulatory letters to this effect were addressed to his late Holiness of saintly and venerated memory, Pope Pius IX, who after the usual delay, permitted the preliminary steps towards the Beatification. The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation
-- OED ochlophobic ephemera: ABC & EP on abortion, seminaries, the thoughts of the dead, usual ochlophobic topics ... this opinion piece by ABC Williams does not articulate what I would consider by any means a sufficiently strong and clear stand against abortion, it strikes me as closer to a pro-life position than anything I have heard from the Ecumenical Patriarch on the issue, and strikes me as a more coherent position than the one articulated by +Bartholomew which was noted in Nearly identical in tone and spirit [to a statement made by an Armenian bishop], and lack of any clear, prophetic teaching are statements made by His Holiness, Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople when he visited San Francisco in 1990 as the metropolitan of Chalcedon as part of the entourage of the then Patriarch Dimitrios of blessed memory. The Ochlophobist
Jesus, God in the flesh and understood as perfectly holy, was comfortable with the worst of people in a society which believed holy men demonstrated that holiness by shunning impurity and demonstrably impure people.
It can and should be the proverbial ladder to heaven - a means of bringing holiness and sanctity into our lives.
The story began about eighteen years ago, well before His Holiness was elevated to his current position of Supreme Patriarch.
The story began about eighteen years ago, well before His Holiness was elevated to his current position of Supreme Patriarch.
John is greater than man, peer unto the angels, sovereign holiness of the law of the gospel, the voice of the apostles, the silence of the prophets, the lantern of the world, the foregoer of the Judge, and moyen of all the Trinity. The Golden Legend, vol. 5
We are even inclined to acknowledge someone's holiness if she lies incorrupt in a glass case.
'nisus' will, I think, be more profitably employed in enkindling meditation on holiness, and thirstings after the mind of Christ. The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The catechism explains that Original Sin ensures that each human being, as a descendant of Adam and Eve, inherits ‘a human nature deprived of original holiness and justice.’
His Holiness gives parting advice to the audience of ordained and lay Buddhists from Tibet and around the world and then concludes the oral transmission of the Jataka Dhammapada and the Jataka Tales
But this is the most genuinely gracious fear of sin, when we dread the defilement of it, and that contrariety which is in it to the holiness of God. Pneumatologia
The holiness experience, in Meyer's teaching, was received by faith and was accessible to all.
All seek to offer hope, whether phrased as the vision of God, blessedness, eternal life, the greatest good, perfect happiness, or holiness.
A person feels a spark of holiness, has an inspiring experience, yearns momentarily for something more, but then does something unholy, or simply comes home and turns on the TV.
We know we have transgressed His laws, broken His commandments, and offended His holiness.
My response is that concupiscence dwells "objectively" in the body, and continues its "objective" presence in the body throughout the course of our infralapsarian existence; and that we should expect holiness to "trump" temptations or disordered tendencies in the area of sexuality exactly as often as we should expect holiness to "trump" the reality of having to undergo death. David L. Schindler criticizes Christopher West's work with TOTB
First, Willis takes as the ultimate ground of God's holiness the perichoresis of the three persons in the Godhead.
He can make this claim because of his adherence to the holiness code and his supererogation of the law.
This Rome, this scene of false priests, clothed not in the beauty of holiness, but in far other vesture, is _false_: but what is it to Luther? Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
His Holiness continues to read from the Jataka tales that cite incidents in the former lives of the Buddha, when he was still a bodhisattva, that retain a moral for today. Dhammapada and the Jataka Tales
God, in Scripture, and so often ingeminated, as this of his holiness. The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 06.
Yes, dearest Melissa, the choir dress of His Holiness includes the mozetta and rochet over the white cassock.
Tibet's message to the world is that it has offered its best in the person of His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama to the world community.
He learned the way of holiness by obeying his Father.
And, it should never be forgotten that the actual clothing of the liturgy is a clothing of sanctity: it finds expression, in fact, in the holiness of God. Msgr. Guido Marini Speaks Again on the Liturgy, Its Forms and Its Importance
Here is the stuff of revivalism, holiness movements, tight church membership requirements and, taken to extremes, exclusive cults.
Immediately his holiness, the patriarch, sent letters to the emeer Abdallah informing him of Asaad's escape, and requesting him to guard the roads of the Kesroan, and search the neighbourhood, if possibly Asaad might still be found lurking in that district. Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs
“I am the light”; and what multitudes of things He illumined I He threw light upon the character of God, upon the nature of man, upon the beauty of holiness, upon the abominableness of sin. The Silver Lining: Messages of Hope and Cheer
As it is in the body, it is not enough that the disease be stopped, but it must grow in health; so in the soul, it is not enough that acts of sin be forborne, which is stopping a disease, but it must be healthy, and grow in holiness. The Lord's Prayer
But upon the introduction of the new principle of grace and holiness in our sanctification, this habit of sin is weakened, impaired, and so disenabled as that it cannot nor shall incline unto sin with that constancy and prevalency as formerly, nor press unto it ordinarily with the same urgency and violence. Pneumatologia
Every hour thousands of people across the world pass into eternity, the vast majority of them unprepared to meet their Creator in his blazing holiness and indignation against sin.
Sabbath-hallowing is intended as a symbol of holiness in general (Eze 20: 12); therefore much stress is laid on it; the Jews 'gross impiety is manifested in their setting Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
The problem is that separation of a pope's personal holiness from his political agenda is difficult if not impossible. Times, Sunday Times
In the same way we may speak of the holiness or sanctity of duty or law, meaning merely that they are imperative upon conduct and universally obligatory. Sociology and Religion: A Collection of Readings
The purpose isn't health or holiness, but self-discipline and character-building.
Dharamsala, 10 December 2006 (Phayul/Phurbu Thinley) - While the day can be commemorated as the 58th Anniversary of World Human Rights Day, for Tibetans it marks the 17th auspicious anniversary of the conferment of the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize to His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama (in 1989). Newsroom Archive 2006
The island has an intangible quality of holiness.
And their children were 'schooled' to ignore their instincts and to believe in the holiness of money and of the financial cause. Bats, Insects and Predatory Neocons
At death I will experience for the first time perfect and glorious holiness.
It is not unrelated to our disjoining sex from holiness.
This has had a permanent and detrimental effect upon British and American Evangelicalism, and has undergirded a whole range of unbiblical holiness and perfectionist teachings ever since Wesley's day.
The Vatican responded by short-cutting its lengthy, dense procedures for proof that someone who has lived a life of exemplary holiness is now in heaven, whispering on humans' behalf in the ear of a miracle-working God. Not all cheer sainthood path for Pope John Paul II
One of the greatest sources for holiness can be found during moments of physical intimacy between husband and wife.
His Holiness explains the seed of bodhicitta, which is the biologically innate compassion (the love that binds social animals together); aspects of attachment and aversion required for biological survival; and tantric meditations that take anger (but not ill will) �into the path�. Nagarjuna's Bodhichitta Commentary
Reflecting on the many attributes of God - his eternality, omniscience and omnipotence; his holiness and sinless purity; his love and mercy - should draw from us supreme praise and worship.
They pointed to a progressive development of the concept of holiness, noting that it was gradually moralized under the influence of the great prophets.
I am fortunate to find myself in the same town as His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual and political leader, a simple monk.
Victoria liked the idea of the holiness of the cross watching over her son regardless of wherever he goes in life and whatever he's doing.
Before turning to Shantideva�s text His Holiness dwells on the dependently arisen nature of our happiness and suffering, showing by way of Buddha�s basic teaching of the four noble truths how both of them are produced from causes under our control. Bodhisattva's Way of Life
The aim of all Christian worship is to bring us nearer to God and to Christ -- not merely to touch our heart, or soothe our conscience, or improve our minds, but to "edify" us -- that is, to build us up in faith and holiness and comfort unto salvation. Some Facts of Religion and of Life: Sermons Preached before Her Majesty the Queen in Scotland, 1866-76.
He can dismiss the question of whence the Holiness Code derives its use of purity language in relation to sins that are not, in and of themselves, violations of literal, physical purity.
Evangelical holiness is purchased for us by him, according to the tenor of the everlasting covenant, is promised unto us on his account, actually impetrated for us by his intercession, and communicated unto us by his Spirit. Pneumatologia
In sermons and writings he asserted the claims of personal holiness, and in 1670, while dean at Frankfort-on-the-Main, he began to hold little reunions called collegia pietatis (whence the name Pietist), in which devotional passages of the Scriptures were explained and pious conversation carried on by those present. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
Numerous postulatory letters to this effect were addressed to his late Holiness of saintly and venerated memory, Pope Pius The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation
He prayed to God night and day to endue him with the spirit of holiness.
Hooker teacheth us, (482) that the service of God, in places not sanctified as churches are, hath not in itself (mark _in itself_) such perfection of grace and comeliness, as when the dignity of the place which it wisheth for, doth concur; and that the very majesty and holiness of the place where God is worshipped, bettereth even our holiest and best actions. The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)
He said: ‘Pope John Paul II was a leader of manifest holiness and a faithful and prayerful friend of the Anglican Church.’
‘The witness of Newman’, writes Fr Jonathan Robinson, ‘like that of his patron St Philip Neri, the Founder of the Oratory, was based on personal holiness, a holiness that was rooted in the conviction that sanctity is only possible through the imitation of Christ, and in the acceptance of the suffering this inevitably brings.’ Interpreting Newman’s Beatification: Reactions from Key Figures
It is the cry of a person who feels himself to be in grave danger, but it is also the cry of the Church in the midst of the many snares that surround her, that threaten her holiness, that irreprehensible integrity of which the Apostle Paul speaks, that must be maintained for the coming of the Lord. Zenit: Papal Advent Homily
Some, really convinced of the vanity of an empty profession, and of boasting of saintship upon the account of faith and light without holiness and godliness, -- which was the way of many when James and The Sermons of John Owen
Firstly, it is the incarnate Christ who reveals the Father, while yet veiling the sinner from God's burning holiness.
His Holiness explains the importance of the post-meditation practice of viewing all phenomena in daily life as illusion-like and how this practice will increase positive mental qualities such as compassion and bodhicitta while simultaneously decreasing the perceptions of independent existence (the grasping mind that generates afflictive emotions), and how to use this wisdom to complement the method practices of generosity, etc. Nagarjuna's Bodhichitta Commentary
The sweet music brings holiness and purity of thought to the mind.
The primary moral virtue associated with beauty is holiness.
She is an incarnation of the Lucretian Venus, an impossible contradiction of holiness and eroticism that prompts even the 'holy priests' of the temple to bless her when she is 'riggish' or lustful. Shakespeare
It is a day of sanctification and holiness, and pre-empts all other holy days, and it is a memorial of the creation of the world and of the exodus from Egypt, as well as a memorial to the pact between God and the Hebrews, the covenant.
They have, indeed, a propension to holiness ruling in them, but also a propension unto sin dwelling in them; so that “when they would do good, evil is present with them, and the good they would do they cannot.” The Doctrine of the Saints�� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
I have heard his brother Edm and M'r Wayte his schoole fellow &c, say that when he was a Boy he was playsome enough: but withall he had even then a contemplative Melancholinesse. he would gett him into a corner, and learne his Lesson by heart presently. Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles
I once read that when God created the world, sparks of his holiness were spread across the earth.
Instead of an air of holiness or solemnity, he shows us kids chafing under restrictions just as they would in a boarding school or a summer camp.
How can people appreciate the wonder of grace, forgiveness and salvation if they have not first learnt about God's holiness and the gravity of sin?
God is an incomplex, most perfect Being; that is, the purest holiness, the purest good and truth; and in order to be in union with God, in order to be one spirit with Him (for we are from Him), we must acquire, through His grace, the most perfect simplicity of goodness, holiness, and love. My Life in Christ, or Moments of Spiritual Serenity and Contemplation, of Reverent Feeling, of Earnest Self-Amendment, and of Peace in God
His youthful holiness had known Salam in Fez, and had caught sight of him by Boubikir's fandak in the early afternoon. Morocco
Your testimonies are fully confirmed ; Holiness befits Your house, O Lord, forevermore.
A news agency recently reported you as the spiritual adviser to His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
For churches which claim to take the divine inspiration, inerrancy and holiness of Scripture seriously, ‘really bad’ preaching should be an aberration rather than the norm in them.
How can anyone presume upon God's love and mercy, while neglecting his holiness and justice.
But meanwhile, let us not forget that the coming of the Friars was a moral protest too; and in that moral protest the sons of St. Dominic from the first took, and were meant to take, their full part; Cherubim and Seraphim must hymn together the dazzling holiness of God. Protestantism
One recent autumn, I went to conduct a series of interviews with His Holiness during a rare respite in his schedule when he was officially on retreat.
It is of little consequence for one man to be called his highness and another his holiness, but it is hard for me to be the servant of another. A Philosophical Dictionary
And to this purpose, the Hebrews have two words for hypocrites; panim, which signifies faces; and chanepim, which signifies counterfeits; from chanaph, to dissemble: so that he is a hypocrite that dissembles religion, and weareth the face of holiness, and yet is without the grace of holiness. The Almost Christian Discovered; or, the False Professor Tried and Cast.
But for men who live under some constant sense of God and an eternal accountableness unto him, and thereon do many things he requires, and abstain from many sins that their inclinations and opportunities would suggest and prompt them unto, not to endeavour after that universal holiness which alone will be accepted with him, is a deplorable folly. Pneumatologia
When used for human figures, the halo represents holiness or sanctity, and its iconography is developed to mark important distinctions between the figures represented.
On the entrance of His Holiness into the [Pauline] chapel, illuminated by 567 wax candles, the Verbum Caro is sung, and on arriving at the altar the Pope delivers the chalice containing the Sacrament to the Cardinal deacon who deposits it in the sepulchre where it is incensed by the Pope; Monsignor Sacrista locks the sepulchre and delivers the key to the Cardinal Penitentiary who is to officiate on the following day. Rare Images of Holy Thursday with Pius XI in the Sistine Chapel and a Description of the Papal Ceremonies of those Times
King's daughter, "all glorious without," all glorious within "--" her clothing of wrought gold "-- resplendent _without_ with the robes of righteousness -- radiant _within_ with the beauties of holiness -- shall be brought" with gladness and rejoicing, "and" enter into the King's palace. Memories of Bethany
Mary was a good Christian and still earnestly seeking the one thing needful, which is full salvation, or holiness of heart and life. The Theology of Holiness
The current interest in spirituality speaks to the holiness movement that was at the core of it.
There is also a brief homily on the saints and the universal call to holiness, night prayer, and a candlelight procession to the cloister's reliquary while chanting the Litany of the Saints.
The convergence of holiness and physical passion carries as strong a charge in this gem-like painting as it does in The Song of Songs itself.
God, and to come to the enjoyment of him by Jesus Christ, there will not want sufficient testimony against that putid figment of moral virtue being all our gospel holiness, or that the reparation of our natures and life unto God doth consist therein alone. Pneumatologia
It was only when Meyer reconciled these elements within himself that he could carry out his ministry as a holiness teacher.
Interpreters within the Methodistic holiness movement have tended to emphasize the distinctions between the Wesleyan and Oberlin doctrines of Christian perfection.
All satisfy the three defining criteria of outstanding holiness, eminence of doctrine, and an official proclamation by pope or general church council.

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