Sentences with phrase «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.

The religious leaders (the Pharisees) have largely ceased to give an effective lead, and have become more and more absorbed in pious practices at the cost of the «weightier matters of the Law.»

The frequent reception of Our Lord in the Eucharist is a pious practice which should be widely recommended.

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.

Not exact matches

Any practice, however humble and pious, that diverts attention from Allah must be stopped.

Their pious acts are of no avail, for God's pleasure is in justice that must «roll down like waters» and in righteousness that must be «like an ever - flowing stream» (Amos 5:24) The people have not practiced justice or righteousness.

To practice Torah means not only ethical and responsible living hut also reflective study and pious devotion and worship.

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?

Buddha enlisted his first disciples in Benares; they were the five pious devotees who before his enlightenment had practiced asceticism with him.

But let us take for example the practice of human sacrifice which has been long regarded with horror in the West, yet was seen as a noble and pious act in certain cultures (e.g. the Aztecs of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica).