ungodliness


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impiety by virtue of not being a godly person

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'The seminar is auspicious, as it addresses all what we need as an individual to achieve a successful life and country devoid of any act of ungodliness.'
The wisdom of Aristotle is part of the argument about ungodliness and the necessity of grace.
In his dissertation on the question of animal automatism, Mandeville rejected several views because of their ungodliness. Finally, to avoid theological contradictions, he resorted for explanation to the omnipotence of God.
(36) Dostoyevsky's response, with all the succeeding ideas of Russians as God-bearing people destined to save the world from Western ungodliness, prophetically set an example of a conservative rebellion of the sacred mind, which, instead of being "determined on laying claim to a human situation in which all the answers are human, in other words formulated in reasonable terms," (37) revolts against the very prospect of such a choice.
She had been reading the works of an American Congregational Minister, John Abbott, The Way to Do Good, and he wrote that "when you abandon your ungodliness and sin and give yourself to the service of God, your work is entered upon, not concluded" (Bostridge, 2008).
It's not a Bible verse or a laying of hands because an evil spirit is tormenting them as a consequence of their ungodliness.
all scenarios of apocalypse are also morality tales that conclude with the medium-term effects of an opportune lesson well learned, and a new ethic of intended non-repetition in the future of past mistakes: moral recklessness, social dissipation, ungodliness and hubris of knowledge/ power run-amok.
While precise genealogical knowledge may be relatively shallow in Nabobuco, responsibility for the perceived immorality and ungodliness of the ancestors, whether known individuals or not, is keenly felt.
However, her father's description of the ungodliness he found in America convinced her that the Army was needed there so she contacted William Booth who eventually gave his blessing for her to go to USA and commence Salvation Army ministry.
[T]his activism encouraged anti-amendment members of Congress to speak out, since they could refute the charge of ungodliness by pointing to all the religious leaders and legal experts who shared their view."); see also Beaney & Beiser, supra note 221, at 497 (noting that "the most important function" that the religious establishment served at the hearings was "to make it 'respectable' and 'safe' for Congressmen to oppose the Becker proposal").
In a letter to his sister (dated 2 May 1734), Hervey writes that 'the most sovereign Preservative against all Ungodliness and Worldly Lusts is the Terrours, the insupportable Terrours of the Lord'.
There was a general ungodliness in the way her lips twisted down at the corners when she smiled, and in the--Heaven help us!--in the almost passionate quality of her eyes.
On the other hand, only ungodliness and unbelief of heart, and no outer work, make him guilty and a damnable servant of sin.
He that undertakes the duty of the pilgrimage during them must abstain from coition, ungodliness and acrimonious dispute, and whatever good you do, Allah is aware of it.