Sentences with phrase «sacred institution»

The globe - spanning presence of wheat and its exalted status among secular and sacred institutions alike differentiates this food from all others presently enjoyed by humans.

These recent school shootings have deeply affected Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) as we grapple with the loss of life in one our most sacred institutions.

Instead it's an assertion of human will, the conscription of a sacred institution to serve a contemporary ideology.

No sacred institution can assure its presence.

Christians who truly believe that marriage is a sacred institution between a man and a woman are welcome to their belief.

Too often the debate between a Bernard of Clairvaux and a Peter Abelard is read in terms of the latter's so - called heterodoxy when it was just as much about Bernard's progressive vision of a church disentangled from the control of secular princes over against Abelard's more conservative view of an ordered relation of patronage and rule between secular rulers and sacred institutions.

We pray for a great increase in reverence for such a sacred institution.

The existence of special religious symbols — sacraments, rites, holy books, sacred institutions — is the basic argument by which the particular historic faiths support their universal claim.

«The family, like the church, is a sacred institution,» Robb said.

Ah yes, marriage, that sacred institution.

Second, VALIDATE that sacred institution of marriage, thereby continuously bonding husband and wife in their devotion and faithfulness to each other (Genesis 2:18, 23, 24).

Marriage has been held as a sacred institution for years now.

It is the most intimate of human relationships, a gift from god, a sacred institution, holy, and central to the community of faith.

Even the military, another sacred institution for conservatives, is complicatedly defined by Eastwood as a place in which the admitted erasure of self becomes an ironic form of transcendence.

The information he uncovers unwittingly attacks a sacred institution and soon he's the target of threats and abuse from the sport's near - religious adherents.

Marriage is the sacred institution that provides the foundation for the individual, the family, the community and the nation.