Alfred the Great had, on regaining the control of his realm, largely endowed the episcopal seat rendered illustrious by the sanctity of Cuthbert and the learning of Bede.
Out of the cares, toils, duties, afflictions, and responsibilities of daily life are to be built the pillars of sanctity of the Stylites of our age.
Indicate these, and you portray that type of sanctity in which the life of the Church will find its actual and living expression.
For we may say that the intelligence, the science and sanctity of the Church are now gathered into this one city.
Sanctity consists in making them identical as motives for every thought, word, and deed of our lives.
What victory have you acquired, what power to conquer in the struggle for sanctity do you possess, when you cannot so far control your thoughts and feelings as to be able to apply yourself to studies which you feel are necessary?
Should yours be a sacred calling, you are not, on that account, either the better or the more secure; your sanctity and your salvation depend on yourself, not on your calling.
I can be an alien no longer, and without the Church I know, by my own past experience, that I cannot attain to purity and sanctity of life.
It was a powerful stay of patriotism, a powerful bond of civic and family life; it threw a charm of awe and old-world sanctityaround everything it touched.
The title Augustus which the new emperor assumed was one which, to the Roman mind, associated him with the majesty of Jupiter and the sanctity of all holy places and solemn rites.
Although in Plutarch's day Delphi had declined in splendour and fame,(2119) it was still surrounded with the glamour of immemorial sanctity and power.
A kind of institutional sanctity seemed to hedge it round about, so that it spoke with the thunder of authority--and here was the Press quite unable to pay the expressman seven dollars and a half!
Know that the Reality of Divinity or the substance of the Essence of Oneness is pure sanctity and absolute holiness—that is to say, it is sanctified and exempt from all praise.
Before appearing in the human form, the Word of God was in the utmost sanctity and glory, existing in perfect beauty and splendor in the height of its magnificence.
This is the spot which is held in greater sanctitythan any other at Jerusalem.
But in works of lesser sanctity interpolations and additions were made according to the reciters' taste.
One of his principal objections to the doctrine of the permanent self was that, if it were true, emancipation and sanctity would be impossible[483], because human nature could not be changed.
Arhat, it may be mentioned, is the commonest word in early Buddhist literature (more common than any phrase about nirvana) for describing sanctity and spiritual perfection.
The Rock Edicts also deal with the sanctityof animal life.
Yet no one denies that sanctity and nirvana are religious ideals.
The teachers of the Ganges valley had probably a greater reputation for learning andsanctity than the rough wits of the Sâkya land and this may have attracted Gotama.
Some of the religious rites, which originated in these social aggregates, were nationalized from the superior sanctity they were supposed to possess; thus showing to what extent the gentes and phratries were nurseries of religion.
Some of them, from the sanctity they were supposed to possess, were nationalized.
The sbirro now mounted the bench and started to remove the coffin lid, when a blasphemous cry of rage broke from his lips that defied utterly the sanctity of the place.
Of all the abodes in Rome the sanctity of the convent is inviolate!
Absorption in infinite substance, renunciation of the desire to live, and inert sanctity will always constitute the ultimate form and expression of human illusion.
The perfect sanctityof the mystics, Buddhists, and pessimists is a subtler egoism simply; and the sole genuine virtue in the world is generosity, which does not fear to set its foot in the dust, in the service of another.
God being the very principle of goodness, the personification of the moral ideal, the love of God ultimately becomes a moral love properly so called, the love of virtue, of sanctity at its height.
I cannot think that even a minion of Prince John would dare to violate the sanctity of a convent.
The stones of the churchyard ought themselves to tell the sanctity of the place, and that it is a Christian's rest[16].
Long, long may it be ere the sanctity of our churchyards is thus invaded.
We do not always realize that love brings its own sanctity with it.
He upholds the sanctity and inviolability of the marriage tie more stringently than did the Jewish Law.
It shewed that he was altogether free from that kind of stubbornness which is born of self-regard, and that he did not attach a sanctity to an opinion or a resolve, merely because it was his.
Thus Christ's recognition of the sanctity of marriage does not hamper human legislation, or prevent the growth of Humanity in any manner consistent with its health.
This truth was the surpassing value of a man as man,--the sanctity which clothes a human being who is made in the image of God.
If our Lord had left writings of His own, every letter of them would have been invested with such sanctity that there could have been no independent investigation of truth.
We have already pointed out, that true Buddhism considers celibacy to be the only sure means of attaining real sanctity of character.
It excludes all who aim at perfect sanctity from the holy estate of matrimony.
Other Lamas and monks distinguished forsanctity are burnt, and their ashes are either distributed as relics, or preserved in idols or in small Dagabas.
Without doubt, celibacy in instances of extraordinary sanctityhas always commanded respect in India; but in no country of the world has married life been so universally honoured.
In Burma the cremation of a monk distinguished for sanctity is an affair of great state and ceremonial.
Even the living body is regarded as a mass of corruption, a thing to be held in contempt, and a constant impediment to sanctity of life.
The degree of sanctity with which this extraordinary tree has been invested by Buddhists, may be compared to the feeling of veneration with which Christians regard the attested wood of the Cross.
Then, again, some kind of pre-eminence was assigned to individuals who were remarkable for greater knowledge, or sanctity of character.
The aspirations after sanctity had disappeared, and instead of them there remained the practical reality of the five senses.
The Church was essentially democratic, while at the same time it had the monopoly of learning; and all the secular power fell to it which learning, combined with sanctity and assisted by superstition, can bestow.
At that period they knew neither the custom of Taboo (the sanctity and inviolability of all things) nor cannibalism, both of which customs they first began to practise in their adopted country.
They killed all the pigs and dogs upon the island, lest the first should violate the sanctity of the grave, and the latter injure their flocks and herds.
If, however, he flee to a church, then let it be according to the sanctity of the church; as we have before said above.
I know that many of the clergy at that day trod the path of sanctity by a blameless life; I know that many of the laity of all ranks and conditions in this nation were pleasing to God.
He had thrice held the high office of chancellor; he had been the ecclesiastical representative at the Council of Constance, and had acquired a good character for sanctity by having made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
I doubt not the sanctity of the Father Malagrida, Donna Leonora, but I have reason to doubt his sanity.
