Sentences with phrase «as sacred acts»

3) Question: I view information as holy, and copying and file sharing as sacred acts akin to prayer.

But if travel is important enough that God commanded the Israelites to do it somewhat regularly, and has been so integral to the people of God in centuries past, then it seems the people of God today may stand to benefit from learning to travel as a sacred act.

Essential to this process is transforming our inner critics into allies, learning to move only as fast as the slowest part of us feels safe to go, developing the capacity to be tender, gentle and accepting with all the ways that we are (even as we work to change some of those ways) and reclaiming rest as a sacred act.»

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«This act of evil occurred as the victims and their families were in their place of sacred worship,» President Donald Trump said in a statement.

As a day trader, the news is a sacred thing for you that you have to monitor and act upon.

Nobody is obligated to act according to another's religion, and that includes acting as if some book is «sacred», or is anything more than paper and ink.

In short, dwelling in the land should be — must be — an act of imitatio dei, and, as the Hebrew prophets taught, to fail to embody that religious precept is to forfeit the right to dwell in that sacred place.

Homosexual acts by their nature arbitrate against the procreative dimension, as discussed in the previous section about the sacred interplay.

In fact religion is commonly understood as consisting precisely (from our viewpoint) in such relatively trivial and non-essential elements — as for example, the precise acceptance of particular historic doctrines, the reverencing of sacred books, or the performance of specific ritual acts.

Theology first appears in Western literature in Hesiod's Theogony, and appears there as systematic discourse about the acts of divine or sacred beings.

Much ecotheology, process theology and creation spirituality go even further by arguing against the traditional split between inert, value - free nature and a transcendent God, and by arguing that God acts in and through the processes of nature, which are reconceived as sacred or spiritual.

The revelation of the sacred name in Exodus 3:15 has been misconstrued, for instance, as God's refusal to be named, an indication of the ultimate unnameability of God, rather than God's act of naming himself.

As Hannah Arendt says, «What saves the act of beginning from its own arbitrariness is that it carries its own principle within itself, or, to be more precise, that beginning and principle, principium and principle, are not only related to each other, but are coeval,» 2 We will want to consider the act of conscious meaning - creation, or conscious taking responsibility for oneself and one's society, as a central aspect of America's myth of origin, an act that, by the very radicalness of its beginning, a beginning ex nihilo as it were, is redolent of the sacreAs Hannah Arendt says, «What saves the act of beginning from its own arbitrariness is that it carries its own principle within itself, or, to be more precise, that beginning and principle, principium and principle, are not only related to each other, but are coeval,» 2 We will want to consider the act of conscious meaning - creation, or conscious taking responsibility for oneself and one's society, as a central aspect of America's myth of origin, an act that, by the very radicalness of its beginning, a beginning ex nihilo as it were, is redolent of the sacreas a central aspect of America's myth of origin, an act that, by the very radicalness of its beginning, a beginning ex nihilo as it were, is redolent of the sacreas it were, is redolent of the sacred.

When the negative movement of religion is understood as being a reversal of the profane, there is a clear implication that religion acts by way of a backward movement or return, with the inevitable corollary that the sacred is an original or primordial Reality.

Those cultures in prolonged, intimate contact with it gradually lose the effectiveness of their sacred violence to act as an immunity to profane violence.

In Protestant Christianity, although there are generally only two recognized sacraments, «the Word of God» as recorded in the Bible is often regarded as having a sacred character and the reading of the Bible as in effect a sacramental act.

The primary purpose of the act was in defense of native American lands which they considered sacred as well as the use of peyote in their religious rituals.

The Rev José Piñero described it as «an act of idolatry and desecration and a trivialisation of the sacred.»

Anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski, for example, proposed that the study of religion is concerned with «the traditional acts and observances, regarded by the natives as sacred, carried out with reverence and awe, hedged around with prohibitions and special rules and behaviour.

Now it's celebrated as a sacred right that demands veneration from the whole culture, including the millions of ordinary people who see this kind of officially blessed homicide as a gravely evil act.

As Maggi Cage explains it in Woman of Power, «The sacred act of creating has to do not only with creating, but with destroying as well.&raquAs Maggi Cage explains it in Woman of Power, «The sacred act of creating has to do not only with creating, but with destroying as well.&raquas well.»

She commends cultures in which «abortion is viewed as one way of completing the sacred cycle that begins with sexuality,» condemning the squeamish «white Western culture» in which we «don't want to accept responsibility for our destructive acts or our negative side, so we deny their existence.»

As a community of faith gathers to read, hear and study sacred texts, as it sings hymns of praise and confesses its sins, and as it practices acts of hospitality, compassion and justice, it learns and relearns how to receive and embody God's trutAs a community of faith gathers to read, hear and study sacred texts, as it sings hymns of praise and confesses its sins, and as it practices acts of hospitality, compassion and justice, it learns and relearns how to receive and embody God's trutas it sings hymns of praise and confesses its sins, and as it practices acts of hospitality, compassion and justice, it learns and relearns how to receive and embody God's trutas it practices acts of hospitality, compassion and justice, it learns and relearns how to receive and embody God's truth.

Horeb, the mountain of God (according to E and the Deuteronomic editors), is the same as Sinai, the sacred mountain (J and P), which was the site of Israel's first formal act of Covenant organization.

In Roman Catholic churches, for instance, the sacred act of confession is held as absolutely confidential.

As for the uncritical adoption of «secular» styles, there is no denying that the act of giving ordinary, secular - sounding expression to extraordinary reality can transform the ordinary and secular into something sacred.

A holistic vision of the Gospel which overcomes all dichotomies — spiritual and material, personal and social, history and nature, sacred and secular — should be affirmed as the basis of God's freeing and creative act.

There is even a reference to it in the [Maya sacred text], the Popul Vuh, where the grandmother grinds chiles and mixes them with broth, and the broth acts as a mirror in which the rat on the rafters is reflected for the hero twins to see.»

It's uncivilized, uncouth, and will never help our kids understand that eating is a more sacred act than shoving it in as fast as you can.

«It is funny that Fayemi is not even ashamed to sermonise on the need to say no to impunity and eliminate the syndrome of sacred cows, when he, himself acted like a sacred cow by refusing to appear before a commission of inquiry, duly constituted to probe his four years as governor of Ekiti State.

By insisting that the Senate abides by the constitutions and provisions in the Police act and regulations, the IGP is not holding on to any straw as asserted by the Senate Spokesperson but to the rule of law to ensure that there is no sacred cow.

Dr. Price discovered that there were sacred foods that were collected and prepared to ensure strong minds, bodies and spirits and in every one of the healthy groups there was a nutrient which was common in their diets that acted as an activator for the other nutrients.

Tye Sheridan's performance as the lead boy, Ellis, who just wants to trust that love is a sacred emotion only to be disappointed by everyone around him, is a wonder, and one of the more memorable child acting performances we've seen in some time.

Robert feels that clients allowing us to come into their homes and care for the animals which they cherish as children is an act that is truly sacred.

Depicted in their sacred environment, or mandala, both figure and ground act as supports for a devotee's meditation practices.

They are suffused with selected sacred content registered through secular forms, as an act of cross-cultural communication.

To the local people, who also act as stewards of the sacred mountain, any destruction of the mountain body is unthinkable.