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- noun The quality of being
Christlike .
Etymologies
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Examples
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If we used Messiah, the Disciples, and the first followers of the risen Savior as our examples we may find ourselves ashamed at our actual lack of "Christlikeness".
Latest Articles Life and Liberty Ministries 2008
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Yet it would also make quite an impact -- and make a statement about true Christlikeness -- if American Christians refrained from knee-jerk criticism of the party.
Christian writer: Muslim Brotherhood 'similar' to U.S. evangelicals 2011
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The Libertarians want to talk about the ideal condition when talking about capitalism, but they want to talk about non-Christlikeness when it comes to everything else.
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The final version of this enigmatic character is in one sense an embodiment of Christian gentleness, but it is a gentleness deeply flawed by lack of self-knowledge, confused desire and passivity – an ironic picture which reflects what some would indeed see as Christlikeness, yet incorporates an oblique recognition of something like a Nietzschean critique of Christianity as dealing in unrealities and depending on the resentment of the weak.
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Not only would a leader need to model Christlikeness and nonmaterialistic motives, but he must also confront those troublesome individuals.
Rich in Every Way DR. GENE GETZ 2004
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Not only would a leader need to model Christlikeness and nonmaterialistic motives, but he must also confront those troublesome individuals.
Rich in Every Way DR. GENE GETZ 2004
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A radiant cheerfulness is something akin to Christlikeness, it is an inspiration.
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You wish us to imbue your boys and girls with ideal standards of life, but all too often we see them, having left our schools and colleges, full of the knightly chivalry of youth, torn in the world of business between the ideal of Christlikeness and the selfish rivalry of commercial conflict.
Christianity and Progress Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Christlikeness -- of others from whom one differed in important matters and with whom one seemed perhaps to have little in common. '
Letters to His Friends Forbes Robinson
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Christlikeness is to behold, not our own hatefulness, but His goodness and beauty.
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