Sentence examples for christ because of from inspiring English sources

Critics say that he was part of an institutional culture that protected the Legionaries of Christ because of Father Maciel's close ties to high-ranking officials in John Paul II's papacy.

Another motivation for Denny's ministry was his understanding of the life of Christ: "Because of the sacrifice and commitment of Christ, the place of utter despair, terror, pain and evil becomes, 'a road to bring us nearer God'".

In two other places in Romans 11 verses 25–26 ("the full number of Gentiles [will] come in" and thus "all Israel will be saved") and 30 31 ("by the mercy shown to you, they too may now receive mercy")—Paul asserts that he would save some of Israel indirectly, through jealousy, and that Jews would be brought to Christ because of the successful Gentile mission.

In an important sense then, Jesus became Christ because of the temporal circumstances in which he was born and raised: "the Christian life, in its primary [i.e. earliest] exhibition, was perhaps only possible under the peculiar circumstances of Galilee during the Roman dominion" (CD 184).

That is what we're about, making sure that nobody feels excluded from the love of Christ, because, according to Him, nobody is.

The theologians and people of many churches still use phrases like "the life of Christ," because "Christ" is primarily a name.

Instead, in Christ, and because of Christ, we are invited to participate in the Kingdom of God through redemptive movement -- for both men and women -- toward equality and freedom".

The only sculpture I have ever liked on the monument is Mark Wallinger's figure of Christ, because it made a virtue of the plinth's strangeness.

When Milton was sixteen, he started at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he excelled at composing Latin verse and earned the nickname the Lady of Christ's, because of his delicate looks and chastity — though he also later boasted that as a young man he was seldom without a sword and could beat many stronger men at fencing.

And in 2002, the same Danish newspaper that published the cartoons of Mohammed rejected several cartoons mocking the resurrection of Christ because the editor feared they would "provoke an outcry".

I first read Philostratus in 1983 or 1984, when I was looking at background material for 'The Last Temptation of Christ,' because I was interested in anything that discussed the pagans' answer to Jesus.