Sentences with phrase «sacred time because»

It's sacred time because it's transformative, even though it may not feel fun in the moment.

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For a long time the Temple in Jerusalem was actually a sacred place, it even was the most sacred place on earth, because the God of Israel had promised, to be present at the Temple (1 Kings 8, 29: That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, [even] toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall make toward this place.).

... The Jews (just like the church now) got flippant concerning divorce... I feel Jesus didn't have to mention homosexuality because the Law was clear to any Jew at that time... Paul had to mention it because he was an apostle to the Gentiles who I think were more prone to homosexuality behavior... I'm though not as learned as you... just my thought after 15 years of thinking about this issue... The church has a sacred duty to all... even gays... we need a unified loving answer to give them... but it must be the truth... because only the truth can set us free...

Interest in the Weberian study of Puritanism also remains strong because of the theoretical implications of Weber's work for understanding the sacred in our own time.

But we now have gone to «winter break» and «spring break», because people felt that giving children time off from school for religious holidays was pretty darn close to violating the sacred seperation of church and state.

In their time, they were sacred because they foretold of something greater that was coming (just as Passover and circumcision had).

Is not precisely the essential difference between natural and secular history on the one hand and the really personal, sacred history of redemption on the other, blurred, if God's action even outside the history of redemption receives a definite predicamental position within space and time, because a definite, precise individual reality in distinction to others and in a different way from others receives a privileged direct relation to God?

As much as I am outside of my comfort zone here (I do not attend church - nor plan on doing so ever again, I have plenty of non-christian friends but not one Christian friend in my current city, I DJ at a bar, I run a radio that plays secular music (yet everything is sacred), I work a regular day job, I struggle with financial hardship and responsibilities I never asked for..., I sometimes have fear of the future and many times my faith dwindles... Some days I cry because I support my family and I feel just really tired...) despite all this fractured humanity that I am....

In this culture, chia seeds were considered sacred because of their ability to increase stamina and energy over long periods of time.

I try not to have battles around meal times because that time is a sacred to me for connecting as a family.

He wasn't jealous of his little sister because he still had this sacred time with me.

The researchers speculate that couples avoid filing for divorce around Christmas and New Year's, as well as when school is out for the summer, because these times are considered sacred to families.

One of my favorite Buddhist teachings goes something like this: «the times we find ourselves in the ditch are sacred, because it is precisely when we find ourselves off the path that we recognize where the rightful path is and which direction to go to get back on!»

So much and so deeple engrained is the idea that if anyone wants to become a faster runner (s) he feels (s) he has to abandon the idea of sacred health, because than strengthtraining and plyometrics gain importance and takes time away from the times atletes used to run.

They drive around freely in India because, of course, tractors are sacred in India... I also laughed out loud one or two times, but the problem is that I can't remember when, where or why.

This time is sacred here because it's only a 9 - month program and will go by in a flash.

To those inside traditional publishing, the data (the sacred sales number) just isn't there yet because they still think that every book is produce, thus it must be priced high to return the correct investment over the correct time.

We are leaving that early because at this time the setting is less crowded so we take advantage of the tranquility of this sacred site.

At the time I remember talking about making a Sumo game with Sumo wrestlers from all over, many countries, and the Japanese rep there told me it was impossible because Sumo is a sacred Japanese sport with no foreigners.

Let it be such work that our descendants will thank us for, and let us think, as we lay stone upon stone, that a time is to come when these stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say, as they look upon the labor and wrought substance of them:

The New York Times style section, our sacred text, had begun printing same - sex announcements only a few years before, under the heading «Weddings and Celebrations» (because most were technically civil unions).