Sentence examples for state of holiness from inspiring English sources

Rarely has a film depicted religious experience with such power and clarity, bringing the audience uncannily, exaltingly close to a state of holiness.

But if Mandela was not a saint, who is a saint?In almost all the religions of the world, the idea exists that certain individuals have attained an extraordinary state of holiness.

There are many complicated forms of initiation: the Vaishnavas differentiate between the members of the four classes; the Shaivas and Tantrists take into account the natural aptitude and competency of the recipients and distinguish between first-grade initiates, who are believed to obtain access to God, and higher-grade initiates, who remain in a state of holiness.

This is followed by spiritual regeneration, which returns the believer to the state of holiness before Adam's transgression.

When we are in a state of holiness, of connection with the Divine, it feels new and joyful, even if a given practice that helped us come into that state of holiness is ancient and well-rehearsed.

Either people go to the site of holiness, or else the holiness is somehow disseminated over great distances.

Lingayats who have reached a certain level of holiness are believed to die in the state of emancipation.

He preached that we have become desensitized to the notion of holiness, for which he placed no blame, but stated as fact.

Blasphemy: a violation of holiness.

Gradually the meetings became known as the Tuesday Meeting for the Promotion of Holiness, and they became centres of the growing Holiness movement that sought Christian perfection.

I really wanted to capture that feeling of spirituality, of holiness.