She became as noted for her benefactions as for the saintliness of her recluse life.
The year after her death, Law, the noted author of The Serious Call, cited Lady Hastings as a sufficient refutation of the charge that saintlinesswas not a natural product of the English Church.
What she achieved through saintliness and devoutness, they make her out to have accomplished by intelligent enthusiasm.
Unfortunately the Church's idea ofsaintliness has grown insipid since the Council of Trent, and orthodox historians are disinclined to study the variations of the Catholic Church down the ages.
In her walk there was the rigid austerity of a saint who has adopted saintliness not from inclination, but from the force of a necessity against which rebellion has been in vain.
Nowhere has St. Clare received so true an interpretation of her gentle saintliness as in this painting by Simone, and he has surpassed his other works in the exquisite drawing of the hand which holds her habit to one side.
Many retired to the mountains and ended their days as anchorites, and after death their bodies remained incorruptible, in testimony of the saintliness of their martyrdom.
He may have reason, and justice, and saintliness on his side, yet I never can forgive him.
For so saintly a man must not be taken as a hater of women, or his beatification as the son of a woman would have no sense, and would call his incorruptibility into question, and his saintliness of character in grave doubt.
By the time that the Normans cast their influence over Worcester, Bishop Wulfstan had gained so much fame for saintliness that it is recorded he was the only English prelate left in charge of his see.
St. Juan's ideal of saintlinesswas as much of an anachronism as his scheme of Church reform.
Now it will be found that these men of acknowledged and pre-eminent saintliness agree very closely in what they tell us about God.
Judah the Patriarch, his saintliness and popularity, soon superseded all the collections of a similar kind, and became the official text-book of the Oral Law.
Jonah Gerundi, not less famous for his Talmudic learning than for his saintliness and piety.
Mr. Gore's ascetic saintliness of life conceals from the general world, but not from the privileged circle of his intimate friends, the high breeding of a great Whig family and the philosophy of Balliol.
Lippi failed to gain approbation because he would not sacrifice his conception of painting things as God made them to the misguided saintliness of the monks.
Greatness is only an illusion, but goodness and saintliness are realities.
Greatness is no real virtue, but goodness and saintliness are virtues.
His Madonnas have a most taking motherly expression and yet are full of the mystic saintliness that becomes the Mother of God.
Saintliness of character, in the ordinary acceptation of the word, would scarcely be thought of even distantly in connection with them.
My lack would borrow thy excess, My feeble faith the strength of thine; I need thy soul's white saintliness To hide the stains of mine.
His saintliness was wholly unconscious; he seems never to have thought himself any nearer to the tender heart of God than the most miserable sinner to whom his compassion extended.
Saintliness includes goodness and sacrifice, and excludes all the earthly impure spirits of selfishness, pride, quarrels and conquests.
If you ask what saintliness ought to mean, Christianity has not to argue but to show you the saintliness in the flesh.
No, they expect from Europe more saintliness than they have had in their history.
Bonar himself knew how to combine with the profoundest reverence and saintliness a strain of delightful mirth; and the absence of this is the great defect of his otherwise charming autobiography.
The romance of cloistered saintliness was not his.
In spite of his conduct on this raid, Theodore, Florence of Worcester, and others, speak of thesaintliness of his character.
Others, whose range is wide, fail to reach the higher altitudes of saintliness because they have never been called to pass through sore trials, or, if they have heard the summons, have shrunk from the hardships.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "saintliness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
