How To Use Sanctify In A Sentence

  • Sometimes they may contradict each other, but always they illuminate and, like all poetry, sanctify life. WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
  • Starting at 9 a.m. on Friday May 11, nine monks performed a religious ceremony to sanctify the new branch office.
  • God is also Holy Spirit, being sanctifying power, subsistential, proceeding from the Father without separation, and resting in the Son, identical in essence with Father and Son. NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus
  • Combine that with a deep interior life and an understanding of the need to sanctify work and you have an excellent vison of the apostles the Church needs in the 21st century. The ABC's: Aquinas, Books, Catholic identity
  • They're elected leaders and are supposed to "sanctify" the results of the voters and make sure we don't accidentally choose a loser. Jackson Williams: Clinton and the Delegates: A Friendly Reply to Rachel Maddow
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  • On the one hand, Michelangelo sought to restore the devotional image, strengthening its hold on a new cut of viewer; on the other, he aimed to sanctify the modern aesthetic, linking Renaissance techniques back into archaic types.
  • It is common now for Orthodox priests to baptize and sanctify warships, submarines, missiles, and tanks.
  • Even a spiritual and non-affiliated individual such as myself can grasp the sanctify of life. Bishops slam 'unacceptable' health care bill
  • Whatever you do after that to 'sanctify' your union is up to you and your church. Undefined
  • They turned to Dutch religious rituals to sanctify their marriages and to validate their babies as Christians to enhance their chances for emancipation.
  • Despite the doomsday rhetoric, I have yet to see a single example of how a particular class of citizens sanctifying their union via marriage will wreck that institution.
  • Last Monday at 11 a.m., 9 monks led religious ceremonies to sanctify the occasion and create solidarity among the 1,500 plus local government employees.
  • When Israel under Joshua arrived at the Jordan River, they were commanded by the Lord to "sanctify" themselves and prepare to cross over. Adventures in the Land of Canaan
  • But since some of these objects were intelligent beings, and the others were in control of such, the word sanctify denotes these ones 'formal surrender of themselves and their possessions to God. Holy in Christ Thoughts on the Calling of God's Children to be Holy as He is Holy
  • In Scripture, the word hallow is a synonym for the word sanctify. Latest Articles
  • If a teaching is called pietism but teaches no more than what God has always used to sanctify Christians, then it is not really pietism. Apprising Ministries
  • Nine monks performed a ritual ceremony to sanctify the shrine, and blessed the local residents and the surrounding area.
  • Positively, God exercises his sanctifying power in us in order to lovingly and with much tenderness draw us close to his heart.
  • The church will sanctify your body and soul on Sundays.
  • But if he sanctify his field after the jubile, then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain, even unto the year of the jubile, and it shall be abated from thy estimation. Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
  • Earlier in the day, he said the Dalai Lama was scheduled to sanctify a Buddhist temple in Elista, the Kalmyk capital, and that no meetings with Russian officials were planned.
  • “The function of the state is to enlighten, to develop, to increase, to fortify, to spiritualize, and to sanctify the soul of a nation.” Matthew Yglesias » The Senate’s Underpants Gnome Problem
  • As a joke, it succeeds marvelously, taking square aim at the government that borrows from the perceived grandeur of the British colonial era to sanctify the art made by its own citizens.
  • As the promising young Christian leader in his rural South African village, James is dispatched on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, an experience intended to sanctify his succession as the next pastor.
  • The new religions exalt secular saints, enforce dogma, punish heretics, value self-sacrifice, and sanctify writings.
  • A revered monk performs a ritual ceremony to sanctify the signs at each of the guesthouses at her Ban Ruan Thai Kalae.
  • Contrary to what many prelates fear, accountability is not a threat to the bishop's trifold mission ‘to teach, to sanctify, and to govern.’
  • His ministry is to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ, and during this age to convict man of sin, regenerate the repentant sinner, to indwell, guide, instruct, sanctify and empower the believer.
  • The use of Catholic ritual to sanctify the Revolution parallels the crucial role that the Church played in the events of 1789 and 1790.
  • An assembly of 90 monks conducted Buddhist ritual chants and prayers sanctifying the ceremony.
  • Bait Hillel states that first you bless the wine then sanctify the Shabbat.
  • While it's quiet inside the bar, as Father Murphy gets down to sanctifyin ', outside is another story. Strangeways: The Thirsty – Page 076 | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
  • We sanctify God before others when our deportment is such as invites and encourages others to glorify and honour him; both are required, Lev. x. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
  • English Version takes it not of the priests, but the guests bidden, who also had to "sanctify" or purify themselves before coming to the sacrificial feast (1Sa 9: 13, 22; 16: 5). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • The more the Bible is treated as a historical document, the more its message is interpreted in universalist terms, the more the churches sanctify the political and cultural order, the less hold liberal religion will eventually have on the hearts and minds of believers. Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down
  • Sanctify unto me all the first-born -- To "sanctify" means to Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • And for their sake I sanctify Myself , that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.
  • The word sanctify means “to make holy, or to set apart.” The New Testament Commentary Vol. III: John
  • 'Tis the insatiety of the human beasts of prey immortalized in jurisprudence, and I, Dignity, sanctify all that. Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 4, June 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature
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  • After all, the clergy were keepers of public conscience - it was their duty to restrain avarice, sanctify poverty and excommunicate kings if they chose.
  • It's an awesome place and the Celts associated it with their Goddess of Waters, Sul, sanctifying it into a shrine.
  • Providence may, indeed, sunder forever those dearest to each other, and the stricken soul accepts the blow as the righteous discipline of a Higher Power; but when the bereavement is the arbitrary dictate of human will, there are no such consolations to sanctify grief and assuage agony. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861
  • Rituals by the Converted temporarily sanctify specific locations - a house, the market square, a crossroads, a beach - for services they hold there.
  • The simplest meaning of the word sanctify is to separate or to devote to sacred uses. The Theology of Holiness
  • Yet cattle, the possession sacrificed by male elders to sanctify rituals of ukuzila, were dying off.
  • Council of Trent has refrained from applying the term habitus to sanctifying grace. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
  • Our country has a providential position in our century in relation to Europe, and our efforts to Catholicize and sanctify it give it an importance, in a religious aspect, of a most interesting and significant character. Life of Father Hecker
  • When we act in a holy way, sanctifying His Name and creation itself, then, the Presence of God becomes more accessible to man, and nature stands aside for God.
  • An assembly of 90 monks conducted Buddhist ritual chants and prayers sanctifying the ceremony.
  • It was for the solemn task of protecting and sanctifying the ducal resting place that Philip chose the most austere of the religious orders.
  • The duty being assigned by the law to the priests (Le 1: 6), was construed by consuetudinary practice as an exclusion of all others not connected with the Aaronic family. for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests -- that is, displayed greater alacrity than the priests. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • The word "sanctify" means to set apart, or appoint to service. Sermons, Addresses and Reminiscences and Important Correspondence, With a Picture Gallery of Eminent Ministers and Scholars.
  • Christ, in our gracious acceptation, notwithstanding all that was against us, and also, by principling us with grace for obedience, sanctify us throughout. The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
  • Were that to happen, it would require that bishops be more fully what they are ordained to be, pastors of local churches charged with the tasks of teaching, sanctifying, and governing.
  • Sometimes they may contradict each other, but always they illuminate and, like all poetry, sanctify life. WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
  • It is a blasphemy against the very Creator of life who taught us to cherish and sanctify life.
  • He prays for sanctifying grace; and this every true penitent is as earnest for as for pardon and peace, v. 10. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
  • The word sanctify means simply "to make holy" (L., sanctificare = sanctus, holy, + ficare, to make). The Heart-Cry of Jesus
  • The "sacerdotal" or "ministerial" priesthood, which is a manifestation of the hierarchy's Petrine charism of teaching, sanctifying, and governing authority, exists solely to serve and facilitate the Marian charism of all believers. Archive 2006-04-01
  • He sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times, anointed the altar and all its utensils, and the layer and its base, to sanctify them.
  • Formal Victorian monuments are no longer enough, it seems, to evoke memory and sanctify the sacred.
  • That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word.
  • His ministry is to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ, and during this age to convict man of sin, regenerate the repentant sinner, to indwell, guide, instruct, sanctify and empower the believer.
  • Jesus Christ returns to his followers and breathes on them the power of forgiving love, thus restoring and re-commissioning them for the work of healing and sanctifying the world - a new creation.
  • Sometimes they may contradict each other, but always they illuminate and, like all poetry, sanctify life. WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST

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