Sentences with phrase «accompanied by sacrifice»

But like every form of strength, there can be no beauty in it unless it is accompanied by sacrifice.

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People burned as witches, blacks lynched by Christians in this county, people killed in human sacrifices, servants killed to accompany pharaohs on their journeys to the afterlife, untold numbers of people killed in various cultures because they were deemed to have offended God in some way, and so on.

The festival which comes after the conclusion of the annual pilgrimage is accompanied by animal sacrifice.

and second, the approach to God by way of animal offerings had been so central in Judaism that, while the sacrifices were always accompanied by supplications, they had competed with personal prayer, had furnished for many people a public substitute for it, so that when the bloody altars were gone a devout rabbi could mingle his exaltation of private communion with the lament «We have nothing to bring but prayer.»

The age - long persistence of outward forms of animal sacrifice along with profound changes in the interpretation of their meaning presents one of the commonest phenomena of religious history — preservation of custom accompanied by alteration of theory.

The offering as sacrifice is given a holy quality by the attitude which accompanies its giving.

Accompanying the exposition are a picture and paragraph devoted to architecture (Solomon's Temple), a lithograph of the Jerusalem temple, a pictorial representation of Solomon and Queen Sheba from Ethiopia, a painting by Cornelis de Vos of Solomon offering sacrifices to idols, a map of the divided kingdoms, a contemporary Chinese painting of Elijah, another painting of Elijah by Peter Paul Rubens, a 17th - century needlepoint rendition of Jezebel's death, a sidebar devoted to the term «Jezebel,» and a picture of a panel showing King Jehu offering tribute to the Assyrians.

Self - publishing makes sense in many situations: for instance, when the author has identified a market that isn't currently served by trade publishers, and has a plan to reach that market; when the author is publishing a book to accompany some other form of presentation or workshop; and when the author is willing to sacrifice the advantages of trade publication in order to enjoy more autonomy over the process.

exhibition of a new body of work by Roe Ethridge: Sacrifice Your Body, which will be accompanied by an artist book of the same title.