The steady diet of sermons and doxologies swelled not my liver but my spleen. |
When imagination fails doctrines become ossified, witness and proclamation wooden, doxologies and litanies empty, consolations hollow, and ethics legalistic. |
Sometimes he quotes the psalms to introduce a note of religious fervor, or inserts, according to circumstances, blessings, curses or doxologies. |
Mr. Nimmons, who oversees a congregation of about 2,100, said he had long thought of his roof as a potential canvas for his doxologies, a celestial screen saver, of sorts. |
Doxologies were an integral part of Israelite worship and that of the early church, appearing frequently in psalms and hymns. |
This gleaming piece is recognizably minimalist in its radically reduced material, but the composer said that he had modeled it on the solemn doxologies of the Russian Orthodox Church. |