Sentence examples for only exhortation from inspiring English sources

"U Comin," was the only exhortation.

"I still hope that the pope would address the real issues of the church in Austria: the tremendous lack of priests, the exit of hundreds of thousands of people, the decay of this church, and to give constructive practical answers, and not only exhortations".

Soon it became painfully clear that they could agree only on exhortations of peace.

But exhortations by revered Jewish religious leaders (not self-proclaimed guardians of public morality) to give particular care to matters of modesty in times of widespread societal licentiousness are about one thing only: honoring the Jewish religious tradition.

Indignant exhortation only gets us so far.

They tend to be long on moral exhortation but give only clues to the theoretical bases of the moral system.

Their exhortations only cast him farther down.

They have had to grapple with countless generations of exhorting billboards, only to see those exhortations suddenly change: denunciations of Communism followed by expressions of friendship and solidarity with the Soviet Union; the government of neighboring Egypt as friend, enemy, friend, enemy and now friend again.

Schaeffer didn't like the formal melding of church and state, but his exhortation to readers was that Christianity, properly applied, "brings forth not only certain personal results, but also governmental and legal results".

That statement was not just an exhortation to excellence.

But Lewis' exhortation was inherently strategic.