Sentences with phrase «does sacredness»

Church dictates and edicts aside, does sacredness count for anything anymore?

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At times we may simply perceive in a particular classroom a sense of «sacredness» that says to us: Here is what we should be doing.

I don't want to be so tired doing my life that I miss my life — the wonder of it, the beauty of it, the sacredness of it.

This reality does not reduce the value and sacredness of the Bible.

It stands for something they do not stand for — the sacredness of human personality.

Posner even indicates some sympathy for those who want to prohibit those other abortions: «I do not mean to criticize anyone who believes, whether because of religious conviction, nonsectarian moral conviction, or simply a prudential belief that upholding the sacredness of human life whatever the circumstances is necessary to prevent us from sliding into barbarism, that abortion is always wrong and perhaps particularly so in late pregnancy, since all methods of late - term abortion are gruesome....

As O'Brien pressed him to admit the sacredness of the site, Imam Rauf spoke up forcefully, more forcefully than he did in the rest of the interview.

This perspective distorts the principle of the sacredness of life to a point where it threatens life itself, for it does not understand that one species supporting or being supported by another is nature's way of sustaining life.

I figure that if the world is being desecrated the least we can do is try to notice all of the sacredness that remains still around us and in us.

If the right to critique Darwinism is at stake, how does that advance a biblical theology of a good creation and the sacredness of all life — a more positive approach than a reactionary Evangelicalism evolved from a world - denying fundamentalism?

Yet as soon as the decree was handed down, the Hebrew sense of the sacredness of life began to humanize the punishment, making the death penalty harder and harder to exact, just as we have done today.

Finally it violates the sacredness of life, for if life is holy, if our right to it is inalienable, then the most miserable specimen of human life shares this holiness even if he does not honor it.

The essential character of sacrament will be misunderstood unless two points are constantly kept in mind: First, the sacredness of the objects or acts does not lie in themselves.

The sacredness of the Bible rests upon the demonstration, through generation after generation within the religious community, that it is able to do this.

We expect they do and we suspect those characteristics as Gallagher concluded in his sermon are what exude sacredness.

-- to the sacred and to the sacredness of life: In the West, rationalism, deism and naturalism have led to a humanism without God and to a form of atheism which does not exist in non-Western cultures.

How does one understand the experience of sacredness and worshipfulness through the history of mankind and throughout so many diverse cultures?

The influx of cheap Arab labor from the occupied territories has undermined one of the most basic concepts of mainstream Zionism, avodah ivrit — the sacredness of Jewish labor, the idea that Jews must stop being middlemen, as they were so often forced to be in the Diaspora, and do their own dirty work.

In conversation about it one day, my (married, monogamous) boss who was generally repulsed by Christian values said straight up, «these young ones, they don't consider the sacredness of sex.

I use the word narrative as a synonym for «god,» with a small «g.» I know it is risky to do so, not only because the word «god,» having an aura of sacredness, is not to be used lightly, but also because it calls to mind a fixed figure or image.

Theology therefore can transcend itself in the cause of mar,... what we can do is to try to get all to agree to the human proposition that spiritual resources are inherent in all men, that these resources, when summoned, can bring them closer to one another, and that the sacredness of life is not peculiar to any one creed.

If you are a family member or dear friend, do you find your self struggling to figure out your role and how you can make a difference to honor the sacredness of this little life that has now changed everything?

How does a mama who has experienced everything about mommying — pregnancy, birth, mothering — with one child not feel guilt about sharing such sacredness with another?

«Part of it is admitting that some groups have a different conception of sacredness than we do,» he said.

Sacredness is not a concept, which means it has very little to do with the analytical mind.

OR you can realize that every moment of it had more meaning than you dared to recognize at the time, so much meaning it scared you, so you just lived, just took for granted the love and laughter of each day, and didn't allow yourself to consider the sacredness of it.

This book does what few books on animals manage to do, which is to attempt to raise the level of human consciousness about the necessity for relationships with companion animals and the sacredness of those bonds.

HE IS A NOWHERE MAN, BOUGHT AND PAID FOR TO SIT IN AN OFFICE OF EMPTINESS AND GO ALONG WITH SELLING OUT THE VENICE BOARDWALKS, ARTIST, MEDICINE MEN, BEAUTY AND CREATIVITY THAT VENICE WAS BUILT UPON, THE SYSTEM HAS FAILED EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US, WE ARE ALL IN THE AMERICAN HOLOCAUST TODAY, BEFORE THE EUROS CAME, IT WAS JUST THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES BEING MASSACRED, NOW IT IS YOU, YOUR GRANDCHILDREN AND CHILDREN OF YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW, YOUR GREAT GRANDPARENTS SLAUGHTERED THE NATIVE AMERICAN PEOPLES TO STEAL THERE LANDS, NOW IT IS HAPPENING TO YOU, KARMIC JUSTICE THE NATIVE CHOCTAWS PULLED TOGETHER EVERY THING THEY HAD TO SAVE THE IRISH POTATO FAMINE, TO SAVE THE IRISH PEOPLES, AND THEN THE IRISHMAN KILLED THE NATIVE S FOR THE SACRED GROUNDS, KARMA AND JUSTICE IS NOT A PRETTY PHOTOGRAPH OF WHAT YOUR ANCESTROS DID TO MY ANCESTROS ALL SACREDNESS NOW IS GONE THE AMERICAN HOLOCAUST CONTINUES, GREAT BOOK, BY DAVID STANNARD