Sentences with phrase «sacred act»

3) Question: I view information as holy, and copying and file sharing as sacred acts akin to prayer.

really sad, and more very sad when people believe in the way of salvation through sacred acts barbaric and immoral.

Effects of individual religious sacred acts — e.g. confession and penance, conversation, communion in times of crisis, etc..

It's uncivilized, uncouth, and will never help our kids understand that eating is a more sacred act than shoving it in as fast as you can.

Founded in 1970 by a group of powerful and conscious people, looking to return the natural and sacred act of birth to the family, and have it in an environment that supported women and families.

I think laughter is a sacred act.

Though there may be areas of his life or his world which take on special sanctity for cultic purposes, these sacred acts and places only represent the whole of life, the whole of his world.

It was a scene of tremendous absurdity, like a man watching TV while making love to his wife: distracted people distracting themselves during a sacred act.

Exorcism in the Catholic Church is a sacramental, a sacred act producing a spiritual effect, which must be done according to the officially prescribed Rite of Exorcism.

And tomorrow when we rise and work all over again, I usually find it — whatever you call it, the Holy Spirit, your muse, your words, your inspiration — rushes into the vacuum left by the sacred act of imperfect creation and again, there is enough for yet another day.

This consideration of the forms of worship leads naturally to the topic of sacred acts and sacred objects.

Most Protestant communions do not hold it to be a sacrament in the same sense that baptism and the Lord's Supper are, yet it is a sacred act.

As Maggi Cage explains it in Woman of Power, «The sacred act of creating has to do not only with creating, but with destroying as well.»

In Roman Catholic churches, for instance, the sacred act of confession is held as absolutely confidential.

But if travel is important enough that God commanded the Israelites to do it somewhat regularly, and has been so integral to the people of God in centuries past, then it seems the people of God today may stand to benefit from learning to travel as a sacred act.

Breastfeeding is a sacred act of bonding and it can be difficult to give up on those quiet moments shared together.

Yet it can be a sacred act rather than a routine one.

A donation is the sacred act of giving.

Essential to this process is transforming our inner critics into allies, learning to move only as fast as the slowest part of us feels safe to go, developing the capacity to be tender, gentle and accepting with all the ways that we are (even as we work to change some of those ways) and reclaiming rest as a sacred act.»