Sentence examples for contemplating christ from inspiring English sources

Emphasizing that the final goal of Christian life is to be transformed, or "transfigured", into Christ he stated that the rosary helps believers come closer to Christ by contemplating Christ.

Such theories, in Royce's account, explain that in contemplating Christ's willing sacrifice of his own life for the sake of the human community, the sinner experiences deep repentance and develops a new capacity for love of the betrayed community.

The jury – which he praised for their moral courage – found against Gay News and its editor, Denis Lemon, for publishing James Kirkup's poem The Love That Dares to Speak Its Name, about a centurion contemplating the body of Jesus Christ on the cross.

After contemplating the suffering of Christ, she needed a bit of relief.

The rosary is perhaps most famous for its adornment: a set of beads with which a Catholic can keep count, and track the progress, of the prayers while contemplating the mysteries of Christ.

His Journey of the Mind to God (1259) was a masterpiece showing the way by which man as a creature ought to love and contemplate God through Christ after the example of St. Francis.

Brian Sewell chooses the painting Christ contemplated by the Christian Soul by Velazquez.

During these heavy, pregnant days of Advent- these days of waiting and anticipation- I've been contemplating what sort of world the Christ child entered.

Mr Bush famously turned to God in middle age, after a dissolute youth; Mr Gerson was on a faster track, studying theology at Wheaton College in Illinois (motto: For Christ and His Kingdom), and contemplating studying at a seminary.

Day Two Day Two Sunday morning: go to church Sit silently in Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum (18) on Argyle Street (0141 276 9599; glasgowlife.org.uk; free; daily 10am-5pm, Fridandand Sunday 11am-5pm) in a chapel-like space and contemplate Salvador Dali's Christ of St John of the Cross.

Still contemplating the shoes.