secularities

This is but another version of the phrase, “putting God into business,” the realization and restraint of His presence and of His fear in all the secularities of life.

The Weapon of Prayer 1835-1913 1991

The union of church and state swept them into secularities, and thus impaired their strength.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862 Various

With one or two mighty exceptions to be sure -- Dante, of course, Buonarroti, of course, and, for all his secularities.

Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett Maurice Hewlett 1892

It was too dark to see Lippi's light-hearted secularities in the choir; one saw them, however, best in the congregation -- the same appealing innocence in the grey-eyed women, and the men with the same grave self-possession and the same respectful but deliberate concern with their own affairs which gives you the idea that they are lending themselves to divine service rather out of politeness than from any more intimate motive.

Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett Maurice Hewlett 1892

It would not have been becoming in him to have a good judgment on these secularities.

Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887

Domestic life with all its secularities shall be hallowed.

Expositions of Holy Scripture Alexander Maclaren 1868

Every common piece of service that we do, down among the vulgarities and the secularities and the meannesses of daily life, may be lifted up to stand upon precisely the same level as the sacredest office that we undertake.

Expositions of Holy Scripture Alexander Maclaren 1868

So be not tossed about by these secularities, for the root of them all is heathenish distrust of your Father in heaven.

Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke Alexander Maclaren 1868

He had learned what so many of us need to learn far more thoroughly, that if our religion does not drive the wheels of our daily business, it is of little use; and that if the field in which our religion has power to control and impel is not that of the trivialities and secularities of our ordinary life, there is no field for it at all.

Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms Alexander Maclaren 1868

Christ, in the veriest secularities of the most insignificant and trivial occupations, then it would be no use talking about that being our aim.

Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. Alexander Maclaren 1868