Sentences with phrase «become sacred»

But when a new emergence achieves outsized approbation and applause, it can become a sacred cow of sorts, immune to fresh observation, criticism, or even real understanding of its essence and potential relevance.

It can become the sacred psychological space from which you can grow.

«After a certain period of time,» he says, «you almost have to make fun of things that become sacred cows.»

Built on land once known by the indigenous word, Kalahuipua'a, the area's unparalleled beauty has become a sacred natural space.

For me, they have become a sacred symbol of my devotion to my practice of yoga and my journey through the Yoga Therapy program.

Any space can become sacred.

How did the NHS become a sacred cow?

Nap time is important for babies but it can become a sacred time for parents to have a small section of the day to themselves.

«It's become a sacred tradition,» one local revealed, «almost as important as repeating that next year is our year.

The tournament has a starry history at a school where many customs have become sacred rituals.

Increasingly the matter comes to the fore as the Scriptures become the sacred text upon which a person's position may be used to maintain rank or power over another human being.

One minister wrote, «Kirkridge has become a sacred place for me, where I can be safe enough to shed more of my masks.»

Entitlements for the elderly have become the sacred cow of American politics.

Out of a vast body of oral or written material, through long testing, a certain few selections are made, generally not by an official body so much as by the decision of the community itself as evidenced by degree of use or disuse, and these become the sacred canon.

Places that become sacred to us or places that we jettison because they no longer afford us the opportunity to grow to to contribute or to protect our relationship's status as most important.

So, although we refer to the Bible as our sacred text, it is more accurately a collection of texts which have become sacred to the Church.

The theology, literature, poetry, music, sculpture, spirituality, feasts, and other forms of Christianity become the sacred space within which conversion unfolds.

Is this simply a hold - over from an earlier day which the general conservatism of the educational world perpetuates because it has become a sacred tradition, or is there something in the study of literature which, regardless of the field of specialization into which one goes, makes it of vital importance?

These two hours have become sacred to me and I look forward to this ritual several days a week.

Why does it become sacred by the mere fact of not being your own?

It's become a sacred truth that today's youth have it tougher than any time in memory when it comes to finding and keeping a job.

They've understood time as an agent in brand building: how you start fresh, pass through the fire of irrelevance, then become authentic, and then become sacred.

When a brand becomes sacred, it practically takes care of itself.

In fact, the ichthus or «fish,» which became the sacred symbol found repeatedly on the walls of the catacombs where the persecuted Christians took refuge, is an acronym formed from the first letters of the Greek words for «Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior.»

It is not only the sacred literature of the period, it is the only literature that has been preserved, and it was preserved only because it became sacred.

The human community becomes sacred through its participation in the larger planetary community.11

Over the last half century sports became sacred, serving up the faith, emotion and solace once received in places of worship.

And voíla, that's how the boyfriend blazer became a sacred wardrobe essential among fashionistas!

Five hundred years later, the Book of Dave is discovered, where it becomes a sacred...

Five hundred years later, the Book of Dave is discovered, where it becomes a sacred text of biblical proportions.

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Once a sacred ritual of central and south American people, ayahuasca (aka: yage) has become a popular hack for startup and business success.

But as that gap has narrowed and disappeared with the commodification of culture and our loss of a sense of the holy, art must become the void itself in order to re-establish the very idea of the sacred.

At a revival / carnival he publicly attacks a sacred text of another religion to taunt and provoke them and become a reality TV star.

How is it that a figure sacred to so many Americans has become the punch line of so many jokes?

It is our sacred duty to become less, so that they may become more.

If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time.

If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and enti.tle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time.»

With regard to others, it is our duty to cultivate within ourselves respect for the sacred and to show the face of the revealed God — the God who has compassion for the poor and the weak, for widows and orphans, for the foreigner; the God who is so human that he himself became man, a man who suffered, and who by his suffering with us gave dignity and hope to our pain.

«To know human nature most deeply, one must become a student of the sacred.»

But when it comes to Jesus Christ and that which is sacred to Christians, freedom of speech becomes the supreme good.

It is sorely tempting to arbitrate over this sacred interplay, to treat it in such a way as to refuse God the opportunity to make use of His special place, to place God outside of the conjugal relationship which then becomes the couple's own territory over which they alone arbitrate.

The more the family becomes familiar with gathering in prayer, where sacred words are uttered, the more communication within it will bring «peace to... homes».8

The result was that faith became a complete vacuum to be filled by revelation — by the power of the sacred alone.

For archaic man the only reality is the sacred reality of which he becomes a part through myth and ritual.

Some Religions will become extinct, the survivors will have to recede to explain go that their sacred texts are all allegory.

Second, being the word of God, the sacred scriptures became the foundations upon which the several religions were erected.

The more definitely the written law became established as canonical and regarded as infallibly inspired, the more surely could the explanation of the sacrifices be transferred from the realm of animistic superstition, where they really started, to the realm of sacred observance ordained by God and for that reason faithfully to be maintained.

Modern persons will never find rest for their restless hearts without Christ, for modern culture is nothing but the wasteland from which the gods have departed, and so this restlessness has become its own deity; and, deprived of the shelter of the sacred and the consoling myths of sacrifice, the modern person must wander or drift, vainly attempting one or another accommodation with death, never escaping anxiety or ennui, and driven as a result to a ceaseless labor of distraction, or acquisition, or willful idiocy.

I suspect the reason that ten became the holy number is nothing more sacred than that we have ten fingers on our hands and that made it easy to teach children the essence of the moral code of the Hebrew people.

Offering itself as the ultimate basis of reality and salvation, the sacred may either arouse a defiant emptying of the heavens and a repudiation of all sacrality in favor of secularity in a death of the gods, or become the place of evasion and retreat, a refuge from life rather than a response to it.