Sentence examples for worldly position from inspiring English sources

Luther's message served as a warning to those who felt secure in their faith, their virtue, their worldly position; guilt for the crime at Golgotha is ubiquitous, seeping forward in time.

Americans are not supposed to know much about class, or to care about it, compared to our English cousins, who, it is said, are doomed to a sharp awareness of worldly position, the way some musicians suffer from perfect pitch in a world full of wrong notes.

TRANSPORT can be an awkward issue for men and women who reach a lofty rank in the service of God, especially in countries and cultures where that also implies an elevated worldly position.Blase Cupich, the new Catholic archbishop of Chicago, made headlines recently by becoming the first holder of that office to dispense with a chauffeur and drive his own car.

Cardinal Szoka took a more worldly view.

In content, Noh plays taught the folly of worldly power and position, that time destroys all living things.

Although ambition for worldly success - money, position, power, titles - can indeed prompt impatience, and almost always does, it is only ambition that explains a person's persistence even after he has been caught out in the smaller and greater dishonesties by which he wormed his way, without a ticket, into life's front row.

Made from stacked layers of laminated wood that can be rearranged at will, it enables a viewer to assume a position of worldly omnipotence.

We may find that there is an eerie similarity between the local yoga studio where everyone is striving to perfect their lotus position and the worldly competition that you had originally sought to avoid.

Asser's response to Alfred's request was to ask for time to consider the offer, as he felt it would be unfair to abandon his current position in favour of worldly recognition.

Thus Baron's position is half-way between the usual, worldly kind of patriotism, and what might be described as its distinctively ethical type.

In his opinion, the English discussion about women bishops was disappointingly shallow at times; it had stressed the general need for gender equality in top positions, as though the English church was just a worldly bureaucracy.