Sentences with phrase «on pious practices»

Schools belonging to conservative churches, on the other hand, are often very conscious of their Christian grounds, but they typically express this in terms of conservative mores, an emphasis on pious practices, and the teaching of Christian doctrine in the curriculum.

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Pious practice should therefore be done in such a way that this relationship is expressed adequately, reflecting both the compassionate loving character of God on the one hand, and the transformative effect of knowing such a God on the other.

There will come a time where these pious believers will do nothing else than go to church and pray to their god for new product developments to magically appear on trees, instead of going to college and practice science and engineering so that they can develop those new products themselves.

Do the sacraments of the church stand for something ultimately real, or are they merely pious exercises, valuable only because of the psychological effect they have on those who practice them?