Sentences with phrase «sacred thing»

So, either you can believe that DLC is a sacred thing that no one can ever possibly lie about, or someone's lying.

Most of us don't have teams, of course — these are phones we're talking about — but the bond between a man and his smartphone (or a woman and her smartphone) can apparently be a pretty sacred thing.

«I was making the decision to do this work because this work, to me, was a sacred thing.»

What is the mindset of the people who support equal civil rights for homosexuals but disagree with Obergefell v. Hodges because it redefines the word «marriage», which they believe is a sacred thing...

Sleep is a sacred thing in the home of a family with a new baby.

The relationship between a mother and her beloved children is a sacred thing, but so is Kraft dinner.

Tomatoes in the south are kind of a sacred thing -LSB-...]

It's a sobering and sacred thing to take the life of another human, even if it's justified.

And just when I start to buy the lie that my schedule is the most sacred thing on the planet, I am interrupted by a reminder to stop, acknowledge the time, and read the appointed prayer for this appointed day on this appointed hour.

No maiden has ever been so cheated as Sarah, for she was cheated out of the most sacred thing of all, the absolute wealth which even the poorest girl possesses, cheated out of the secure, boundless, unrestrained, unbridled devotion of surrender — for first there had to be a fumigation by laying the heart of the fish and its liver upon glowing coals.

It means that Jesus elevates the relationship between a man and a woman in the order of creation, making it into a flesh and blood living symbol of His love for His Church, «a sign of a sacred thing.»

St. Thomas Aquinas defines a sacrament as: «The sign of a sacred thing in so far as it sanctifies people» — «Signum rei sacrae in quantum est sanctificans homines» (ST.III, q. 60, a. 2).

Soon after its formation in 1902, [the Social Revolutionary Combat Organization] turned into a sect, which presupposed reverence for the «holy terror» as a sacred thing.

The most sacred thing in material life was property.

And then that moment of birth being one of complete relief and release and joy, yes absolutely, but instead of popping champagne corks or bursting into laughter, I cried from the core of myself — like some ancient writer said, I lifted up my voice and I wept, because she was finally here and we were alive and we were safe and I felt held by the God - with - us; it was the most human and most sacred thing I'd ever done in my life, it felt like a glimpse of Incarnation.

As a day trader, the news is a sacred thing for you that you have to monitor and act upon.

I just don't buy the popular notion that a person's network on LinkedIn is some kind of sacred thing that needs to be protected.

«Émile Durkheim understood religion not as belief in the supernatural (as the popular conception would have it), but as a system of beliefs and practices relating to sacred things.

But be warned, making something sacred «is a bit dangerous as it tends to ignore the existence of tradeoffs (sacred things are considered inviolable), but it can be valuable when used judiciously.»

«[The] world of vows is a world of sacred things, in which holy and indefeasible obligations stand athwart our lives and command us along certain paths,» whether we find it convenient at the moment or not.

They condemn Catholics, because, however religious they may be, they are natural, unaffected, easy, and cheerful in their mention of sacred things; and they think themselves never so real as when they are especially solemn.

Multiculturalism teaches us to approach the sacred things of others with respect, but we can do this only if we ourselves are not estranged from the sacred, from God.

It is desirable to have a little table in one's room or one's home dedicated to sacred things — a place for the Bible, a cross, a picture of Christ — and not let it get cluttered with other things.

of religion: relating to religious or sacred things rather than worldly things.»

«Why can't gays leave other people's sacred things alone?»

Since such suggestions obviously relativize or water down the absolute rightness of any single position, the religious debunker will be accused of a lack of faith, a lack of commitment (even worse than a lack of faith), a lack of team spirit, a rebelliousness against divinely established authority and, naturally, an irreverence toward holy and sacred things.

Social media gives us a platform to share some really sacred things — some really intimate details — in a social setting, where it will soon be pushed to the bottom of the news feed and forgotten.

Phos Phorus: You are joking about sacred things you really don't understand and you don't understand anything — open the book for yourself and read — alot.

You think this is joking business — the Bible is a message from God — you are spending your life crudely joking about sacred things; you could be using your time wisely.

Writing in the 19th Century, the evangelical missionary to the Holy Land, Rev John Nicolayson said the supposed miracle was evidence the city of Jerusalem desperately needed to hear the gospel: «If anything especial need be urged in favour of a missionary settlement in Jerusalem, this and other similar perversions and mockeries of the truth and of sacred things, furnish a most urgent plea.

For us as Christians the role of Jesus the Christ makes him the epitome of the sacred, but we also have other places and people whose sacredness is derivative from his and additional sacred things which are auxiliary to him.

And whoso magnifieth the sacred things of Allah, it will be well for him in the sight of his Lord.

Whether formulated by Durkheim (a system of beliefs and practices related to sacred things), by Weber (that which finally makes events meaningful), or by Tillich (whatever is of ultimate concern) religion in its «classical» sense refers not so much to labels on a church building as to the imagery (myth, theology, and so forth) by which people make sense of their lives — their «moral architecture,» if you will.6 That human beings differ in their sensitivity to and success in this matter of «establishing meaning» there can be no doubt.

If my colleague Brad Gregory's historical assessment is true, and if Ephraim Radner's «Protestant version» of the Reformation's purported beneficial effects» that it «gave us back our consciences, granted us freedom, unleashed reason,» etc., and has given rise to modern secular institutions that have exercised caritas even better than have Christian institutions» are arguable if not actually overstated, what then are modern Christians (Protestant and Catholic) to do in the face of contemporary culture's relentless hostility to sacred things?

The ogre drives the girl out of her way to mess with the very sacred things (singing and fighting with a Taiaha stick) he teaches the chubby, nondescript boys of the neighborhood.

Not exact matches

In «Doesn't Remind Me,» the late Chris Cornell sings about «the things that I've loved, the things that I've lost, the things I've held sacred, that I've dropped.»

Time spent outside of the office or with family is sacred, so we try our best to bring many things that happen outside into the office.

«It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow, consumer - hell type situation as not only meaningful, but sacred, on fire with the same force that made the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down,» he said.

Nominus: «the burning bush represents many things to Jews and Christians such as God's miraculous energy, sacred light, illumination, and the burning heart of purity, love and clarity.

Asserting that all innocence has been lost, Zizek claims that an object is no longer considered art «simply [on] its direct material properties, but [by] the place it occupies, the (sacred) Place of the Void of the Thing.»

The act of writing was invented, after all, to convey the sacred: Permanent things must be passed on in a permanent way, hence the hieroglyphs on Egyptian tombs.

I do many things, administrative, worship planning, staff support, patient and family care, but nothing is more sacred than listening to and being with the dying.

They are doing the EXACT SAME thing — taking a dip in the sacred holy rivers, called the «Triveni Sangam» of Jamuna, Ganga and Saraswati

The right to liberty takes on particular importance when addressing the most important» and sacred» things.

That being said, it's just my opinion and sadly I can't really do anything about it and have to operate within a world where a dead body is sacred, holy thing.

The great trick that humans developed at some point in the last few hundred thousand years is the ability to circle around a tree, rock, ancestor, flag, book or god, and then treat that thing as sacred.

It could very well be that the rallying of encouragement and affirmation for Julie is a sacred, holy thing and more important than anything on this blog.

Let them be the natural consequence of the sacred company we keep, but those things aren't my identity, they are not The Thing or The Point.

And thus do they pervert and distort the Scriptures, making them the guide to slavish details of the daily life and an authority in things nonspiritual instead of appealing to the sacred writings as the repository of the moral wisdom, religious inspiration, and the spiritual teaching of the God - knowing men of other generations.»

Keen thinks some people will want to remain religious agnostics, locating the sacred in «flesh, things, and event or not at all.»