But was it not true that there were people, certain individuals, whom one found it impossible to picture dead, precisely because they were so vulgar? That was to say: they seemed so fit for life, so good at it, that they would never die, as if they were unworthy of the consecration of death.
Quotes about consecration (10 Quotes)
If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris.
Sanctification is not to be understood here as a separation from ordinary use or consecration to some special use, although this meaning is often present in Scripture, sometimes referring to outward and sometimes to inward or effectual separation.
I understand that my election and consecration has caused problems around the communion and I'm trying to be as sensitive to that reality as I can.
Some find it easier to bend their knees than their minds. Exciting exploration is preferred to plodding implementation speculation seems more fun than consecration, and so is trying to soften the hard doctrines instead of submitting to them. Worse still, by not obeying, these ... lack real knowing. Lacking real knowing, they cannot defend their faith and may become critics instead of defenders.
The kingdom fears that what is taking place in Iraq will lead to its partition and the consecration of sectarian divisions in a way threatening the country's Arab identity,
The last straw for Thompson and other conservative Episcopalians was the vote August 5, 2003, affirming the consecration of V. Gene Robinson, a homosexual bishop who lives with a partner. We saw this as a denial of the authority of scripture, rather than an anti-gay issue, ... This is the first time a general convention of the church took a vote that officially endorsed something we felt was overtly forbidden in scripture.
The light that never was, on sea or land The consecration, and the Poet's dream.
The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it. Hocus was an old cunning attorney. Dr. John Arbuthnot, History of John Bull, 1712. The words of consecration, 'Hoc est corpus,' were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as 'Hocus-pocus.' John Richard Green, A Short History of the English People, 1874.
Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, 'Hoc est corpus,' were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as 'Hocus-pocus.' John Richard Green, A Short History of the English People, 1874. see Charles Macklin.