Sentences with phrase «in a religious sense»

All life is sacred (but NOT in a religious sense) as as such it commands and deserves respect from all.
There are those who consider themselves Christian, Buddhist, etc in a religious sense who have never read sacred texts associated with their religion.
Andrew Copson, Chief Executive of the BHA commented, «Britain is a country where most people are not Christians in any religious sense, where we have a long tradition of humanism, and where we have increasing numbers of people of dozen of non-Christian religions.
Do the most that you can with the time you have been given by nature on this world It is a miracle that you are here, but not a miracle in a religious sense, in a universal sense.
It is in such a strategy rather than in the intensity of emotional attachment that parental love reaches its highest moral plane, and comes closest to the meaning of love in its religious sense.
cit., p. 200) Such language is neither descriptive in any scientific sense nor self - involving in the religious sense.
This is why I prefer to turn toward some structures of the interpretation of human experience to discern there those traits through which something has always been comprehensible under the idea of revelation understood in a religious sense of the term.
A lot of people are only comfortable with the idea of a creator, as the word is defined in a religious sense and can not fathom anything different.
«By refuge,» he makes it clear, «I mean a retreat in a religious sense, a place where one escapes liberal society or its costs and enters into another... realm.»
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And he wasn't a christian in the religious sense either, he was actually an athiest that saw a need to believe and pray to god as a weekness.
From his death - camp learnings, Frankl concludes: «Belief in an overmeaning — whether as a metaphysical concept or in the religious sense of providence — is of the foremost therapeutic and psychogenic importance.
In general, non-believers don't think faith (in the religious sense) is a virtue whereas religion is predicated on faith.
While it is true that none of the Apostles needed a formal education for their position, we can not say they were not educated by Jesus and others; even Paul not only was educated in the worldly and in religious sense, but he taught «school» every day for two years in Ephesus after being rejected by the synagogue.
Waiting on God is «work» in the religious sense of being actively mindful of God's presence and of our accountability.
In english parlance, sin can be used either in a religious sense or not as its general meaning is «wrong».
It is a fact that in the religious sense they were unique, just as in an intellectual sense the Greeks were a Chosen People.
Displaying it in a religious sense (or a position that symbolizes as such) is wrong and disrespectful to those who hold other beliefs.
The word «Pagan» (which can translate as «common» or «provincial») was originally used (in the religious sense) to refer to the practices of peasents or commoners that were not supported by the early catholic church.
In the religious sense, for sure.
Sacrifice, in the religious sense, is an illusion.
Sin, in the religious sense, is not a defect in the harmony of a spiritual order; it is an offense against the most holy will of God.
We are starting with this fundamental principle that we are all citizens and equal citizens of one state... and you will find that in course of time Hindus would cease to be Hindus and Muslims would cease be Muslims, not in the religious sense, because that is the personal faith of each individual, but in the political sense as citizens of the state.»
In the religious sense, «belief» refers to a part of a wider spiritual or moral foundation — generally called faith.
One of the things that she always said was that one of the worst sins — not in a religious sense — was the sin of pride, and I think she became slightly prideful, of the community embracing her, and she couldn't cope with it.
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