Edification

I don't think edification is the answer for ignorance, it may require a heart transplant. ❋ Unknown (2009)

So, perhaps a point of clarification/edification is required by you. ❋ Unknown (2010)

So here, for your edification, is an incredibly scientific pair of polls which will revolutionize modern science and understanding of sexuality. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Just for Mr. Byers’ edification, schmuck is a German word for that part of the male phallus that is covered by the foreskin. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Then you need one miracle to get through the edification, that is the enthrallment stage and then you need another miracle to get to canalization. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Eph 2: 20 refers to the Church; but the passage here to their individual progress in edification (Ac stablished -- confirmed. as -- "even as." abounding therein with thanksgiving -- advancing to fuller maturity ❋ Unknown (1871)

And the reader may observe that at present I examine not what men or churches may agree upon by common consent, as judging and avowing it best for their own edification, which is a matter of another consideration, but only of the duty of believers as such in their respective stations and conditions. ❋ 1616-1683 (1967)

I am apt to receive less of what is called edification from human discourses on divine subjects, than disturbance and hindrance. ❋ Unknown (1907)

When this is so, it does not result to edification, which is your Majesty's intent, but to depreciation of and contempt for the episcopal dignity, which requires the highest perfection. ❋ James Alexander Robertson (1906)

The minds of persons are differently constituted; and it is no praise to mine to admit that I am apt to receive less of what is called edification from human discourses on divine subjects, than disturbance and hindrance. ❋ Kenyon, Frederic G (1898)

But, from the first hour you hear of him, the Frank, closely considered, is always an extremely ingenious, well meaning, and industrious personage; -- if eagerly acquisitive, also intelligently conservative and constructive; an element of order and crystalline edification, which is to consummate itself one day, in the aisles of ❋ John Ruskin (1859)

State Sen. Martin Golden, a Brooklyn Republican, has sponsored a bill he says will override the distinction between religious clubs meeting in schools for education and edification, which is constitutional; and religious congregations making schools their own personal worship space, which isn't. ❋ Unknown (2012)

-- To edification, that is, not only for his profit, but for the profit of others, to edify the body of Christ, by studying to oblige one another. ❋ Unknown (1721)

I did not praise the austerities of the good nuns, nor did I labour to please any of my hearers, their edification was my sole object. ❋ Jean Pierre Camus (1618)

In addition to being pretty humorous, that does seem to represent passion supplanting edification, which is something we see quite a bit from the global-warming industry, including today. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But we treat of prayer principally as it is to be performed in families, societies, assemblies, congregations, where this mental prayer would do well to promote the edification which is attainable in the silent meetings of the Quakers. ❋ 1616-1683 (1967)

I don't suppose that for a boy it so much matters, as he is eating for "edification" as well as for sustenance, for the building up of his walls as well as for the nutrition of his existing frame. ❋ Ellice Hopkins (N/A)

I somehow managed to watch several movies, between the LONG plane trips and a day stuck in due to either a sun or chlorine allergy and I’ve done a “witty” one/two sentence summary of each below for your edification (I love the word edification … isn’t it great?) … anyway here they are: ❋ Unknown (2008)

No doubt various directors and keepers have from time to time shown intelligence and laboured to make museums not only places of enjoyment and "edification," but also the means of increasing knowledge and rendering service to the State. ❋ Unknown (1888)

If both are attempted, the unpopular academic, or scholars ', exhibition will get the upper hand and suppress the other, since it is a far easier thing to carry out successfully (for the class aimed at) than is the carefully planned exhibition intended for the "edification" of the greater public. ❋ Unknown (1888)