Sentence examples for holiness from inspiring English sources

The mitzvoth are only "holy" inasmuch as they constitute holiness through being God's commands.

And we are given the hope of future progress in holiness by the work of the Holy Spirit (Rom. 5 3 5).

Your holiness, if you're reading, please address the sainthood to the Guardian, London.

Your holiness should probably avoid this.

Opus Dei promotes the pursuit of "personal holiness through work, family and social life".

Having lost their locus of holiness, Jews were dispersed even more extensively than before across the Mediterranean world; some members of the widening Jewish diaspora embraced the Christian understanding of the Hebrew scriptures while others rejected it.

But to the modern mind, there still seems to be an asymmetry: a man whose nature is both divine and human is brought into the world, miraculously, by a female human being who acquires a degree of holiness mainly by virtue of the (male) child she bears.

Their military heirs still have greed, machismo (a word conveying Latin American admiration for masculine qualities of toughness and physical courage) and belief in the holiness of their mission.

He is known for hardness on the field and holiness off it: it was his "Christian conviction", he said, that made him confess his guilt.

The argument concerned the holiness of the name, or names, of God.The row began in 1907, when a book entitled "In the mountains of the Caucasus" was published.

But many others are put off by Google's cocksure assertion of its own holiness, as if it merited unquestioning trust.