Sentence examples for christ intended from inspiring English sources

"There are some prelates in this country who don't act very Catholic, because they're more interested in trying to change the church to what they think it ought to be rather than what Christ intended it to be.

As for religious poverty, Marsilius sides with the Franciscans and takes their doctrine further not only is it legitimate for religious to live entirely without ownership of property (they can use what they need with the owner's permission), but this is what Christ intended for all the clergy (pp. 183 4, 196 215/244 6, 262 86).

We are called to DO things to help others, and I have no intention of giving up on that entirely, but I'm not at all convinced that running ourselves out doing more and more is what God or Christ intended when we were asked to become meek and humble, more like a child, and to mourn with those that mourn and comfort those who stand in need of comfort.

Not later than 1115, at the command of his abbot, he began a history of his own monastery and its patrons, which gradually expanded into a general history of the church and incorporated a chronological outline of events from the birth of Christ, originally intended as a separate work.

Paintings depicting this chapter of the Passion of Christ were intended for devotion and immensely popular in Italy at the time; yet the caliber and provenance of this particular rendering by a lead painter of the north Italian school, who would later influence Caravaggio and other Baroque painters, are truly exceptional.

At several centres he established at Prague, Milíč introduced the devotio moderna, a reform of prayer developed in Holland that emphasized a method of devotion centred on Christ (Christocentric) and intended to involve the emotions as opposed to the academic and abstract forms of medieval scholastic theology.

In it, he proclaimed, "Islam is an anti-Christ religion that intends through violence to conquer the world".

The cover art, which portrays Manson as a crucified Christ with his jawbone torn off, is intended as a criticism of censorship and America's obsession with media martyrs.

Zurbarán's masterly trompe l'oeil rendering of this crucified Christ make it impossible to be sure whether it is intended to represent a sculpture, a painted image on canvas or even a mystical vision.

He avoided famous names, save for Titian's intimate "Lady with a Mirror" and Mantegna's sombre, foreshortened "Dead Christ", which hangs near Quentin Metsys's portrait of Erasmus, intended as a gift for Sir Thomas More.

It might be that Iamblichus' Pythagoras is intended in part as a pagan rival to Christ and to Christianity, which was gaining strength at this time.