Sentences with phrase «sacred things at»

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«[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.

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.

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

Early stories such as the encounter with Yahweh at the burning bush, where Moses was warned to put off his shoes because the spot was «holy ground,» (Exodus 3:5; cf. Joshua 5:15) reveal the way in which this dread of holy things and places and this need of insulations against their dangerous potency issued in sacred rites and customs.

As she continues to read, we hear about Paul's incarceration and persecution, about how Jesus is «the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation,» about watching out for all those false teachings that circulated through the trade routes, about how we ought to stop judging each other over differences of opinion regarding religious festivals and food (I blush a little at this point and resolved to make peace with some rather opinionated friends before the next sacred meal), about how we should clothe ourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, and love, about how we must forgive one another, about how the things that once separated Jew from Greek and slave from free are broken down at the foot of the cross, about how we should sing more hymns.

The revelatory character of sacred writings results essentially from their powerful exemplification of the first two fundamentals of religious experience: In the first place, there is the marked element of surprise, of wonder and amazement at the new and wholly unexpected things that have come to pass (e.g., deliverance of the Hebrews from Egypt or from Babylon, the sense of a living presence among the disciples who had witnessed Jesus» crucifixion).

Jefferson, as is well known, believed that every generation had the right «to begin the world over again, and that: «Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man,» and it was he that felt it would be a good thing to have a revolution every 20 years.45 He was contemptuous of those who «look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed:: Profane and sacred all at the same time.

To make this point, Pope Francis appeals here in this address and elsewhere to John XXIII's words at Vatican II, Gaudet Mater Ecclesia: «For the deposit of faith, the truths contained in our sacred teaching, are one thing; the mode in which they are expressed, but with the same meaning and the same judgment [eodem sensu eademque sententia], is another thing.»

The things that define my life, my body, my relationships, the historical events and changes will be the opportunities I have for being reminded at some unique and particular times of an aspect of existence that I may call «sacred.»

Personally, I think what cost us most was poor tactic and wrong team selection, last season (u know this thing about favouritism at Arsenal: the sacred lambs).

At first, I didn't want my mom in the delivery room because I felt like there were certain things between my husband and myself that should be kept sacred.

Above all things, it is about ritual, and for me, it is a sacred ritual at that.

In between, The Wild Bunch presents coffin nails for every single thing sacred in the western genre: its heroes are broken - down, paunchy, exhausted, and driven by the wrong things; its whores are nasty; and its bloodshed is excessive and unconscionable.3 Other New American westerns could only pretend at this picture's level of absolute obscenity; like Apocalypse Now, it wasn't a movie about Vietnam — it was Vietnam.

Things we would change in hindsight: More time in the Amazon More time in the sacred valley, Peru An extra day at the amazing Iguassu falls (we only had 2 days there) Less time in Lima

«At first... I told the core team that nothing is sacred, and literally the first thing that [designer] Eric Williams talks to me about is like, «Okay, what about the jump?»»