One who equals or surpasses the virtue or knowledge of another does not take away or lessen the other's good, but improves his own good; and thus emulation is not harmful, but beneficial in spiritual matters.
Who is to be considered as more worthy for appointments in spiritual matters?
But no person should be considered as worthy of spiritual offices unless his moral character is good, and excellence in temporal things does not compensate for negligence in spiritual matters.
In spiritual matters, however, man ought not to suffer injury by sinning, in order to free his neighbor from sin, as stated above.
Therefore fraternal correction belongs to those who are placed above others in spiritual matters, i.
I grant you, though, ministers and doctors are very apt to see differently in spiritual matters.
In its simplest and broadest statement this discourse was a plea for the individual consciousness as against all historical creeds, bibles, churches; for the soul as the supreme judge in spiritual matters.
The owl, which sees clearly at night, but cannot see in the daytime, denotes those who are clever in temporal affairs, but dull in spiritual matters.
All bishops derive their authority in equal measure immediately from Christ, and it cannot be proved from the divine law that one bishop should be over or under another, in temporal or spiritual matters.
The making of laws for the church is one thing and the governing of the empire another; the ordinary intelligence which is used in administering worldly affairs is not adequate to the settlement of spiritual matters.
I will permit the elections of bishops and other prelates to take place in a canonical way, and I surrender control in spiritual matters to the pope.
They yield to seductions and threats; they accept or submit, even in spiritual matters, to his positive ascendancy.
His Holiness will have the same consideration for me in temporal matters as I have for him in spiritual matters.
The pope installed as a functionary at Paris, and arch-chancellor on spiritual matters.
He was condemned to make statements extolling freedom in spiritual matters, the futility of which was plain to himself, and which, therefore, Protestants should not take so seriously as some of them do.
Once the Visitation had been made in the Elector’s name, then, in spite of all that might be said, he could not fail to appear as the one to whom the oversight of spiritual matters belonged.
Hence one can infer the great fruit that would be gathered in spiritual matters by means of the profitable idea which was invented by our father Fray Joseph and put in practice in his time with the utmost ardor.
That convent was the refuge of the gospel ministers who lived in it in suitable number to look after the Christians in spiritual matters and to allure the apostates to the bosom of the Christian religion which they had abandoned.
Men insisted on judging for themselves in spiritual matters.
But in spiritual matters he was still supreme, and when reformers like Huss and Savonarola refused him obedience on questions of doctrine, the very men who had been fighting papal soldiers were shocked by this heretical wickedness.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spiritual matters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
