Sentences with phrase «personal observance»

Just a personal observance.

But he also tells his stories with a sly wit and keen personal observance, making them entirely universal.

Its about identifying with the life of Jesus and making a personal observance of all that he experienced for humanity.

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In bothpublic and personal life, the institutions, observances, and teachings associated with religion — in this case meaning Christianity — appear to be ever more marginal, giving credibility to the idea that there is a necessary connection between modernity and secularity.

Or someone who has grown up with a formal kind of Christian observance but would not be able to talk about a personal relationship with Jesus?

Only they hold to the doctrine that there is a Creator (and Governor of the universe); that each individual owes a personal accounting at the time of Judgment to this Creator, a Judgment that is prior to all claims of civil society or state; and that this inalienable relation between each individual and his Creator occurs in the depths of conscience and reason, and is not reached merely by external bows, bended knees, pilgrimages, or other ritual observances.

Its appeal is complex, drawing on belief in anthropogenic global warming and trust in the «scientific consensus» behind it; the Great Recession and a protective reaction to rapid social change; a basic need for the concrete, local, and personal; the waning of religious observance; peer pressure, star power, money, and more.

4 Where he might have said, «Personal relations are more important than religious observance,» he makes a picture: «If, when you are bringing your gift to the altar, you suddenly remember that your brother has a grievance against you, leave your gift where it is before the altar.

While faith is so personal and subjective that it is not open to objective study, the religious observance which stems from faith is observable.

Bousset has pointed out the gradual transformation of Judaism, during the period between the Old and New Testaments, from a national cultus to a religion of individual piety — a religion of observance rather than of theology, on the one hand, or of deep personal feeling, on the other.

Good, in this sense, contains an extremely wide range of gradations, extending from the purely external observance of good order to the most intimate self - examination and character - formation and to personal self - sacrifice for the most sublime human values.

The instruction should address the principles of honesty, tolerance, personal responsibility, respect for others, observance of laws and rules, courtesy, dignity and other traits which will enhance the quality of their experiences in, and contributions to, the community.

Detailed Questionnaire: The registration form goes into detail, asking about our top personal priorities, faith denomination, and religious observances.

The registration form goes into detail, asking about our top personal priorities, faith denomination, and religious observances.

On the evidential basis now adopted on her behalf, it was an entirely personal objection, neither arising from any doctrine of her faith nor interfering with her observance of it, and never raised by any other employee.