A bishop quoted an ancient sage as saying: If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible for us to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us. From LearnThat.org. [Unknown]
Christians take the title bishop (used at first only in the plural) to designate their rulers?. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
The term bishop is never once used to denote a different office from that of elder or presbyter. From Wordnik.com. [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference
Is it that the bishop is not who we thought he was?. From Wordnik.com. [Iyanla Vanzant: How Spiritual Leaders Get Through What They're Going Through: Lie or Leave] Reference
"It's that fellow they call the bishop," said Martin. From Wordnik.com. [The Associate Hermits] Reference
In the next breath, they call the bishop disobedient. From Wordnik.com. [Te Deum laudamus!] Reference
The bishop is the one playing politics, not Rep. Kennedy. From Wordnik.com. [Bishop bars Patrick Kennedy from communion over abortion] Reference
I also learned that what I called the bishop's hat was a miter. From Wordnik.com. [A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago] Reference
The word bishop is ultimately derived from the Greek 'epi' and 'skop'. From Wordnik.com. [Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
The titles bishop and elder, or presbyter, were essentially equivalent. From Wordnik.com. [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference
bishop Geddes, the Anglican bishop, is using aircraft in exactly the same way. From Wordnik.com. [The Mining Riddle of the Canadian Northwest] Reference
St. Cross was built seven hundred years ago by a certain bishop for poor old men. From Wordnik.com. [An Address by Mr. A.J. Adams] Reference
The ranking systems vary a bit, but a bishop is usually worth 3 points; a rook is worth 5. From Wordnik.com. [Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Ham’s Review Forum] Reference
Elevating him to bishop is causing the split in this Anglican denomination – as it should. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Criminal Charges Against Anti-Homosexuality Street Preacher Dropped in England] Reference
If anything, with all the Latinos in the US, a Latin American bishop would be quite welcome!. From Wordnik.com. [NY SUN: Wrong on Catholic Priests] Reference
The "good little man" (as he called the bishop) never lost the favor of the dissipated monarch. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Hymns and Tunes] Reference
The bishop is arrested and hundreds of Christians protest in the streets before he is released. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-08-01] Reference
The office of a scripture-bishop is an office of divine appointment, and not of human invention. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)] Reference
It is far from certain, however, that the word bishop in these three cases has its ordinary meaning. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference
However, if the bishop was consecrating the new bishop without authority, the new bishop is illicit. From Wordnik.com. [The validity of the original SSPX excommunications...] Reference
His own revelation of a private determination made by the bishop is evidence of his own misguided pride. From Wordnik.com. [Bishop bars Patrick Kennedy from communion over abortion] Reference
Nor do they so much as remember their name, or what the word bishop signifies, to wit, labor, care, and trouble. From Wordnik.com. [The Praise of Folly] Reference
The thing dwelt on here as the requisite in a bishop, is a good reputation among those over whom he is to be set. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
When he thought he should be the master of Chalons, he called the bishop from Flanders, to put him into possession. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12)] Reference
It's not clear if this bishop is supposed to be a heretic or if this is really del Toro's impression of Christianity. From Wordnik.com. [Movie Review: Pan's Labyrinth] Reference
Yet it was opened before, for the good reason that to Catholics the presence of a bishop is essential to religious life. From Wordnik.com. [Was The King Right] Reference
The bishop was the perpetual censor of the morals of his people. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2] Reference
It is interesting to know that the bishop was a son of that Sergeant. From Wordnik.com. [Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska] Reference
The Count d'Artois was in bed, but the bishop was his friend, and was admitted. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures on the French Revolution] Reference
The bishop was a prince of the empire and one of the most important magnates of. From Wordnik.com. [German Culture Past and Present] Reference
St Paul said in one of his letters that a bishop should be the husband of one woman. From Wordnik.com. [Should the Catholic church scrap its celibacy rule?] Reference
Lastly, the bishop was usually a feudal lord, with the obligations that that implied. From Wordnik.com. [An Introduction to the History of Western Europe] Reference
"Come in, Mrs. Martin, come in," called the bishop, as he saw her standing at the open door. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop's Shadow] Reference
But the home idea of the bishop was the more original one, and a far greater boon to the people. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
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