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1. Later, laymen began to take up this form of fighting, as a form of self-defence, and as a handy qualification to become a soldier, which would also lead to further advancement depending on their ability and talent
2. This special type of religious retreat was started in the early 40’s in the island of Mallorca, Spain, by a group of Catholic laymen who were concerned about the unchristian effects the increase of tourism was having in their island
3. Traditional Catholic belief was that laymen could not understand the Bible and that to translate it out of Latin would be dangerous
4. resisted any direct appeal to the Bible because laymen could misunderstand it and fall into heresy
5. But he that is a layman is bound by the ordinances of laymen
6. This illusion is not only baffling to laymen and scientists but has even baffled mystics and advanced meditators who have confronted it throughout the ages — to the extent that some have said that ordinary consciousness generates illusions
7. 4 When your records refer to these messengers of the kingdom as being "ignorant and unlearned," it was intended to convey the idea that they were laymen, unlearned in the lore of the rabbis and untrained in the methods of rabbinical interpretation of the Scriptures
8. Widely acclaimed by connoisseurs and laymen alike, she turned out to be a much sought after kuchipudi dancer
9. If it can be argued forever given “good legal wording”, why not start out with laymen wording and a hand shake, and keep the attorneys out of the discussion
10. second layer of meaning that laymen did not, would
11. Of course those embedded in the institution are going to say that I’m nuts, that includes all, whether laymen, clergy, the elected back-ups, or just the parishioners
12. laymen, artists and scholars that he writes inspired pieces of poetry which
13. In the Church of England, at any rate, there is at present no lack of laymen
14. There are probably 500 laymen in proportion to each clergyman
15. How few laymen know anything about Church work in their own diocese! How few care one jot for Convocation! How few could tell you, if their lives depended on it, who are the proctors of their diocese! How few understand the meaning of the great doctrinal controversies by which their Church is almost rent asunder! How few exhibit as much personal interest or anxiety about them, as a Roman spectator would have exhibited about the fight of a couple of gladiators in the arena of the Coliseum! How few could tell you anything more than this, "that there is some squabble among the parsons; and they don't pretend to understand it!"�This is a melancholy picture; but I fear it is a sadly correct one
16. Oh, mighty condescension! Oh, wondrous liberality! We will let laymen do rough work which could not be clone at all without them, and which they have no need to ask the clergy's leave to do! If this is all that people mean when they talk of enlisting "lay co-operation," I am sorry for them
17. We must have not only an apostolical succession of ministers, but an apostolical succession of laymen, if our Church is to stand much longer
18. Of course I do not forget that a house of laymen has been called into existence in the province of Canterbury, with the express purpose of acting as a consultative body, and an assistant to Convocation, and it has been resolved to form a similar house of laymen at York
19. For this tardy recognition of the rights and duties of laymen I am very thankful
20. (a) In the first place, these Houses of Laymen will have no legal status, unless they are formally authorized by the Crown and Parliament, and will be nothing more than voluntary debating societies
21. (b) In the second place, the mode of forming, composing, and electing these Houses of Laymen appears at present far from satisfactory
22. If they are to consist of laymen elected by the various diocesan conferences, they certainly will not be a fair representation of the laity of the Church of England
23. (c) Last, but not least, it does not seem quite clear what these Houses of Laymen are to be allowed to discuss
24. It is unreasonable to suppose that intelligent English laymen, men of light and leading and intellectual power, will ever submit to be practically muzzled, and forbidden to speak of any but temporal matters
25. But I have a firm conviction that no movement in this direction will ever do much good, until we have a real National Council, composed of the 30 bishops, and some 60 presbyters, and 120 laymen, elected from the 30 dioceses of England and Wales, and including laymen of the middle class, as well as of the upper ranks of society
26. Remember how admirably the Irish laity set their house in order after Disestablishment, and have more faith in English laymen
27. No man can be ignorant of that who knows how our best laymen conduct themselves on the committees of our great religious Societies
28. In the time of our Lord at least one-third of the Sanhedrim consisted of laymen
29. At the Councils of Pisa and of Constance, a prominent place was assigned to Canonists and other doctors of law who were simple laymen
30. But not only have masterly apologies for the faith and works of Christian literature proceeded in great numbers from laic pens, but laymen have also, at certain times and places, shown themselves superior in their zeal for purity of doctrine to that portion of the Church which, as a rule, constitutes Ecclesia docens
31. They believe all laymen need a mediator with God
32. The modern advocacy of the doctrine of immortality in Christ has been assailed by them with persistent rebuke during the space of a whole generation (specially by the laymen of the party), as teaching a doctrine that 'lowers men's views of the Atonement of Christ, and of the Evil of Sin, which required that atonement for its expiation
33. Be sure that your cancellation policy is clear, and that it is in laymen terms, so that they understand in full the repercussions of not showing up for their appointments
34. How’s that for laymen speak? Personally I find it challenging, invigorating—”
35. Surely men of God should be more scrupulous about honesty than laymen, not less?
36. Like most laymen he thought of things in physical terms
37. “Honestly, Your Grace, under the circumstances it would be unreasonable to expect any other reaction out of laymen faced with such … conflicting levels of priestly authority
38. Lydgate was a natural son of Bulstrode's, a fact which seemed to justify her suspicions of evangelical laymen
39. This is a subject which we have covered for laymen in a separate book, entitled The Interpretation of Financial Statements
40. Originally, the Knights Templar were laymen who protected and defended Christians traveling to Jerusalem
41. That may seem a bit chimerical to laymen, but Nixon is no layman
42. As to adults, laymen that is to say, he had never touched them
43. Homyakov asserts that a church is a collection of men (all without distinction of clergy and laymen) united together by love, and that only to men united by love is the truth revealed (let us love each other, that in the unity of thought, etc
44. The privilege was conferred on the Abbey by King William, but as it inferred the warlike service of following the banner to the King’s host, the actual custody was held by laymen, the Abbey enjoying the pecuniary advantages attached to the privilege, as religious houses drew the temporalities of churches served by vicars
45. Many Christians, both laymen and ministers, are earnestly opposed to Chinese immigration, for reasons which seem to them ample and even imperative
46. Being undenominational, it has the opportunity offered it to present to its readers discussions upon all religious questions, many clergymen and laymen seeking its pages for a freer and fuller discussion than any denominational paper will grant
