These people knew the holiness code cover to cover and could quote you chapter and verse. |
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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. |
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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. |
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All religions have their symbols of holiness through which the sacred flows into the mundane. |
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I once read that when God created the world, sparks of his holiness were spread across the earth. |
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According to Jesus' interpretation of the law, God's chief attribute is mercy, not holiness. |
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What if you took a moment to let go of the rushing and instead reconnected with a sense of holiness or inner peace? |
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Essential to our growth in the knowledge of what God intends for us is our ongoing progress in holiness. |
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I want to give up my selfish ways and follow your lead, for yours is the way of goodness and holiness. |
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At death I will experience for the first time perfect and glorious holiness. |
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In this way our entire lives may come to be an act of worship, encompassing purity and holiness. |
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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. |
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We too may come to a similar point of recognizing God's holiness and our own sins. |
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In other words, only those who persevere in faith and holiness prove that they are truly saved. |
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He was above all a holy man, but holiness is primarily about a person's relationship to God. |
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And then they heard as a holy God spoke His holy law, telling His people what His holiness meant for their lives. |
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The holiness experience, in Meyer's teaching, was received by faith and was accessible to all. |
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The current interest in spirituality speaks to the holiness movement that was at the core of it. |
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He was deeply conscious, after his own holiness experience, of his place within the movement. |
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Rooted in the holiness tradition of Moses, the religious leaders regard the law as central to Israel's culture. |
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It was only when Meyer reconciled these elements within himself that he could carry out his ministry as a holiness teacher. |
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Overscrupulousness is born of pride and arrogance rather than true holiness. |
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He can make this claim because of his adherence to the holiness code and his supererogation of the law. |
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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. |
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Christ's holiness never so illustriously shone forth as it did in his last sufferings, and yet he never was to such a degree treated as guilty. |
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Firstly, it is the incarnate Christ who reveals the Father, while yet veiling the sinner from God's burning holiness. |
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We are even inclined to acknowledge someone's holiness if she lies incorrupt in a glass case. |
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We know we have transgressed His laws, broken His commandments, and offended His holiness. |
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In reality holiness consists in one thing alone, namely, fidelity to God's plan. |
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One of the greatest sources for holiness can be found during moments of physical intimacy between husband and wife. |
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The Pharisees' holiness approach protected Israelite culture from assimilation into the dominant Greco-Roman culture. |
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The message must be preached within the larger context of the biblical framework of God's holiness. |
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How can anyone presume upon God's love and mercy, while neglecting his holiness and justice. |
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First, Willis takes as the ultimate ground of God's holiness the perichoresis of the three persons in the Godhead. |
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The image of God in which man was created did not consist in an inclination and determination of the will to holiness. |
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Neglect of the physical constraints of holiness could be punished with the most dire consequences. |
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The point, I surmise, is that states of being such as love and holiness have an intrinsic exigence for expression. |
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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. |
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For Pharisees, holiness was achieved, in part, by rigorously keeping the law. |
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Fortified by a twice-baked Goats cheese souffle and a wine that was fresh, crisp and fruity, I set off for my final rendezvous with his holiness. |
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The icon, in particular, is a practical form of art, dealing directly with questions of spiritual life such as holiness and asceticism. |
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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. |
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The purpose isn't health or holiness, but self-discipline and character-building. |
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A minority embraced an uncompromising biblicism or fundamentalism, combined with pre-millenarian views and the pursuit of holiness. |
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All seek to offer hope, whether phrased as the vision of God, blessedness, eternal life, the greatest good, perfect happiness, or holiness. |
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Centaur's Art might have been a mess, but the questions the script raises about the holiness and unapproachability of art are still worth asking. |
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These are ominous signs of God's holiness and the threat of judgment to the unholy. |
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If we hope for justice rather than mercy at the Last Judgment, we must have a horribly shallow view of God's holiness and of our unholiness. |
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He commissioned the crown as a symbol of the hereditariness and holiness of the state's highest office. |
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The primary moral virtue associated with beauty is holiness. |
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When used for human figures, the halo represents holiness or sanctity, and its iconography is developed to mark important distinctions between the figures represented. |
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Our ritual duty of holiness satisfied after half an hour in the scented gothic air, there were more stops in bars. |
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Moses learns at that moment of contemplation, four things about holiness. |
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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. |
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This they affirmed to be the very body of Christ, the locus of holiness, the society of saints, guaranteed by the unquestioned apostolic succession of their bishops. |
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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? |
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The sweet music brings holiness and purity of thought to the mind. |
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All the holiness of their lives, I now saw, was merely pretended. |
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Paul also tells us to lead quiet lives in godliness and holiness. |
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They pointed to a progressive development of the concept of holiness, noting that it was gradually moralized under the influence of the great prophets. |
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With the possibility of such intense holiness available, nowhere else do we find something containing such potential for corruption and depravity. |
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The worship of God must be carried out with holiness and purity. |
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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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The most potent response to profaneness is to strive for more holiness. |
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This experience cleanses and enables the believer to live a life of personal holiness. |
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The Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene, one of the largest holiness groups, was strongly opposed to the new Pentecostal movement. |
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His holiness shewed unto us, how much he and the see was and is obstringed and bound to your grace. |
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This is followed by spiritual regeneration, which returns the believer to the state of holiness before Adam's transgression. |
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Their holiness stands in stark contrast with many sinful patterns of sexuality in the world. |
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In effect, as if to confirm his holiness, David Heller's life was a mystagogic presence among my relatives. |
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God hath suspended the promise of eternal life on the condition of obedience and holiness of life. |
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If he does not do so, it is only because there can be no possible fellowship between His infinite holiness and the least venial sin. |
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Holiness Friends argue that early Friends, including George Fox's message of perfection, is the same as holiness. |
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God created man male and female, after his own image, in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness, with dominion over the creatures. |
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These were people who desired to grow in holiness in their daily lives without entering monastic life. |
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Perhaps the most powerful New Testament evocation of holiness as centeredness is the account of Jesus' calming of the storm at sea. |
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The author of 1 John not only agrees with the biblical definition of holiness, he also helps us reflect on the relationship between God's otherness and our own. |
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Holiness, apparently, is the operative principle here, and this explains the precedence for the priests and Levites, both of whom are assigned extra holiness by Scripture. |
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Down the centuries confraternities have been crucibles of holiness for countless people who have lived in utter simplicity an intense relationship with the Lord. |
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And so he is in the eyes of all who live to his praise. To them every attribute of God is lovely. The holiness and purity of his nature is most lovely to them. |
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It has been characterised as Arminian theology with an emphasis on the work of the Holy Spirit to bring holiness into the life of the participating believer. |
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They inherited the holiness movement's belief in entire sanctification. |
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In this incomplete poem, dated sometime between 1180 and 1191, the object has not yet acquired the implications of holiness it would have in later works. |
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Those who ascribe to Jainism and Hinduism, Sikhism and Buddhism understand that their path to holiness will entail a lifelong struggle with karma. |
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I find that I do not admire Serra for his form of holiness, the endless flagellations and literal breast-beating, as well as not taking care of his health. |
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