Such a state is what the Scriptures call lukewarmness, which to God is revolting. |
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They could help Me, but even they don't realize how dangerous this lukewarmness is. |
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God's word repeated as prayer, spoken to one another as encouragement, reflected on when we are perplexed, can still cut through pain, confusion, and lukewarmness. |
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Jesus' invitation spoken from outside their doors is a request for fellowship with any individual, who will repent of and overcome the spiritual lukewarmness of their lives. |
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This was coupled with an already weakened condition within the Church of spiritual lukewarmness and complacency. |
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I will always bless you, even when some sadden me through lukewarmness, disbelief and disobedience. |
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The White House seemed to recognize this, as evidenced by the lukewarmness of its support for Lincoln in the waning days of the campaign. |
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That would be a sign of lukewarmness and comfort-seeking, and, ultimately, of a failure to grasp the deep relationship between reason and faith. |
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Giving into the pleasures of life makes your fervor lukewarm and this lukewarmness is the cause of other weaknesses and sins. |
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What I can see is that young people in their parishes feel too much of lukewarmness. |
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Although the latter is the more serious, it could only have happened on account of a general, widespread lukewarmness, bringing with it indifference to the gravity of the sin and offences against Almighty God. |
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But the habitual state of grace may subsist with habits of venial sin, with attachments, probably slight, but that we do not wish to break, in short, with a very harmful and dangerous state of lukewarmness. |
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It is slightly overwhelming in its information density compared to most social networks, and its spare use of color around the edges lends it a feeling of lukewarmness. |
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Let's note the parallel in Jesus' words about spiritual lukewarmness. |
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Sazonov was furious at the lukewarmness of the British and French reactions to Russia's protests. |
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