Sentences with phrase «sacred things»

The most sacred thing in material life was property.

This is not only what you need — this is what you want, what you desire and even those are sacred things at times.

One utters profanities when one speaks of sacred things with lack of reverence, for instance by the inappropriate use of words designating the marital act.

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.

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.

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

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.

First Things reflects on sacred things out of a shared commitment to the authority of God's revelation.

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.

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.

Nature is sacramental, shimmering with signs of sacred things.

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.

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.

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.»

Summer in Canada is a sacred thing.

«[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.

We despise all reverences and all the objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our own list of sacred things.

I believe that se - x-ual union is a beautiful and sacred thing.

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.

A bunch of devils dancing around making fun of good people and sacred things.

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.

It creates in us the tendency to take the sacred things in our lives and give them away to people who may or may not really care, rather than investing in the moment by giving our full attention to the people around us.

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.

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.

They not only mocked at other gods as demons but also despised their temples as dead houses and mocked at the sacred things.

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.

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).

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.»

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

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

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

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

«I think that marriage is a sacred thing between one man and one woman for the good of each other and their kids.

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...

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

In tantra, sex is a 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.