Sentences with phrase «pious individuals»

I really feel sorry for religious pious individuals, they will never experience the beauty of se.x.

What if you are a pious individual who believes in God (or gods, goddesses, etc.) but believes in the wrong one?

Not exact matches

Turkey has a ministry of waqfs, as a part of the government; some of the Arab countries have governmental departments which are concerned with the administration of religious endowments; but in most countries almsgiving in goods or money is a voluntary gift either to individuals or to pious foundations.

For instance, when these characteristics are perceived as exhibited in an individual enduringly and in a sense in which these are understood to affect the world around in a favorable fashion — either in an objective sense of effecting something concrete outside such a person [like effecting healing, foretelling, acting as medium in a non-rational manner or simply doing good or saying good to help the people selflessly], exhibiting personal traits, conditions and states which are known to be «abnormal» [like going into trances, hearing voices, seeing visions, or just the simple unconventional behavior, which proceed from such an individual's horizon to affect, influence, impact others» horizons]-- or is subjectively perceived to be extra-ordinary — such an individual is said to be godly, god - bearing, pious or saintly.

Monasteries were built by rulers or prosperous individuals and tended to accumulate more riches through further gifts of land or treasure from pious believers.

It consists in the fact that what we have here is not consecutive narrative, but simply individual stories — and these are told in the manner of the people — pious people, who marvel at God's doings rather than ponder over questions of purely human detail (§ 3).

The former government whip added: «The present leadership of the party, Momentum and other associated left wing groups appear to think that their own individual pious principles are more important than winning elections.

The present leadership of the party, Momentum and other associated left wing groups appear to think that their own individual pious principles are more important than winning elections.

In Indian culture especially in Hindu, Marriage is considered extremely pious and sacred union of two individual souls who start their journey of life together.

The characters emerge from their bonnets and beards to reveal themselves not as the simple ciphers they may at first seem (the pious Christians, the bourgeois couple) but as full - fledged individuals — thorny, scared, and searching.