Sentences with phrase «read sacred texts»

There are those who consider themselves Christian, Buddhist, etc in a religious sense who have never read sacred texts associated with their religion.

But reading sacred text can put it on your heart, and then when your hearts break, the holy words will fall inside.»

This is fascinating — I think a lot of people who are basically atheists «try» religion in this sense — reading sacred texts, reciting prayers, even attending church.

I read this sacred text no differently than I would read other fairytales with heroic characters and plot twists galore.

Progressive religious folks of all stripes tend to share a post-triumphalism (a sense that it's time to move beyond the old triumphalist paradigm in which one religion is The Right Path to God and all the other paths are wrong), as well as an inclination toward reading our sacred texts through interpretive lenses which take into account changing social mores and changing understandings of justice.

And insofar as Mr. Miller saying those who are «spiritual but not religious» not reading sacred texts: I most definitely do, and do not limit my exploration to a particular religion, idea, or spiritual concept.

It is thought that those in this bardo are very sensitive to the thoughts of those they knew in life, and consequently chants, prayers, reading sacred texts and other rituals may guide those in this confused state.

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He loved coming in each week knowing that readings had been assigned, and that he, like millions of others, would be submitting himself to the sacred texts, not subjecting it to his own consumeristic impulse.

Paul was writing to Christians whom he had never seen, but expected soon to see, and he sets forth the common faith which he is sure they already hold — «the gospel of God, (See Mark 1:14 — though the text may originally have read, «the gospel of the Kingdom of God,» as in the A. V.) which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the sacred writings,

valerie0423 Have you ever taken the time to read any of the mythologies or other sacred texts of rival religions to prove them false?

The sacred text was read with the Fathers of the Church, accompanied by commentaries and catenae, with frequent glosses explaining the meaning of difficult....

We experience God and revelation as perennially - unfolding, which means there's always room for new ways of understanding divinity and sacred text, especially when the old ways of understanding them (e.g. antiquated readings of Leviticus 18:22) turn out to be hurtful or to seem misguided.

In recent decades, this pneumatological and ecclesial way of reading the Scriptures is being widely recovered, thus protecting the sacred text from individualistic exegesis and those critical methodologies that are indifferent, or even hostile, to God's saving and sanctifying truth.

However, when we actually read the text of The Five Wounds, we find there that Rosmini concludes: «Putting the sacred rites into the vernacular would induce greater problems than the remedies imposed,» and would be «a cure worse than the disease».

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Who could have imagined that Dr. Billy Graham would be willing to participate and preach in a service at the National Cathedral alongside a Jewish Rabbi and Muslim Mullah, sharing the same chancel area as worship leaders, and reading and praying from their own sacred texts and traditions?

Personally, I've spent more than 50 years reading, studying, memorizing, preaching, and teaching from the sacred texts.

I have also read as many of the sacred texts of other religions as I can find, something a True Believer would not, as a rule, do, since they have found the One True Religion, just as the followers of all other religions have.

Prayer and the reading of sacred texts, for example, are prescribed ways of drawing closer to God.

Spinoza begins by reading the Bible — not as a sacred text, but in the same way one would read any other book.

As a community of faith gathers to read, hear and study sacred texts, as it sings hymns of praise and confesses its sins, and as it practices acts of hospitality, compassion and justice, it learns and relearns how to receive and embody God's truth.

Yes your obervation about is is very correct.Sharia law is a sacred part of our text, If you want to know read the Const.itution and learn about this yourself.

The article has been well written by the author and yes Sharia law is a sacred part of our text, If you want to know read the Const.itution and learn about this yourself.

One word changes everything... For more than twenty centuries, words within a sacred text have mystified, confused, and been misunderstood by almost all who read them.