Sentences with phrase «most sacred thing»

And just when I start to buy the lie that my schedule is the most sacred thing on the planet, I am interrupted by a reminder to stop, acknowledge the time, and read the appointed prayer for this appointed day on this appointed hour.

No maiden has ever been so cheated as Sarah, for she was cheated out of the most sacred thing of all, the absolute wealth which even the poorest girl possesses, cheated out of the secure, boundless, unrestrained, unbridled devotion of surrender — for first there had to be a fumigation by laying the heart of the fish and its liver upon glowing coals.

The most sacred thing in material life was property.

And then that moment of birth being one of complete relief and release and joy, yes absolutely, but instead of popping champagne corks or bursting into laughter, I cried from the core of myself — like some ancient writer said, I lifted up my voice and I wept, because she was finally here and we were alive and we were safe and I felt held by the God - with - us; it was the most human and most sacred thing I'd ever done in my life, it felt like a glimpse of Incarnation.

Not exact matches

The right to liberty takes on particular importance when addressing the most important» and sacred» things.

Writing in the 19th Century, the evangelical missionary to the Holy Land, Rev John Nicolayson said the supposed miracle was evidence the city of Jerusalem desperately needed to hear the gospel: «If anything especial need be urged in favour of a missionary settlement in Jerusalem, this and other similar perversions and mockeries of the truth and of sacred things, furnish a most urgent plea.

One of the things I have been most inspired by in Church history is the ways in which everyday things were often viewed as sacred moments.

Personally, I think what cost us most was poor tactic and wrong team selection, last season (u know this thing about favouritism at Arsenal: the sacred lambs).

``... Being in public office is a real sacred trust in my mind, and most people in public office try to do the best thing that they can do by their constituents.

Well, Brian's Next Big Thing is launching a satellite into the airspace above a sacred Hawaiian island for smug billionaire military contractor Carson Welch (Bill Murray, in a role most will say he phoned in, but looks as if it was cut to pieces in post, like most of the characters).

Most of us don't have teams, of course — these are phones we're talking about — but the bond between a man and his smartphone (or a woman and her smartphone) can apparently be a pretty sacred thing.

The thing that I like most about the book is O'Shaughnessy use of data to slaughter several sacred value investing cows, one of which I mentioned yesterday (see The Small Cap Paradox: A problem with LSV's Contrarian Investment, Extrapolation, and Risk in prac...).

The thing that I like most about the book is O'Shaughnessy use of data to slaughter several sacred value investing cows, one of which I mentioned yesterday (see The Small Cap Paradox: A problem with LSV's Contrarian Investment, Extrapolation, and Risk in practice).

Headon said lawyers need to reflect on the fact that while lawyers tend to hold much of what they do and how they do it to be sacred, most other professions have moved on with the times to embrace technology and other service providers in an effort to get things done more efficiently.

I despise buying anything from China — especially things for our most sacred and special holidays!