Sentences with phrase «sacred words by»

In place of the solemn chants of the Church, ballroom ditties are taken and twisted, and adapted to the sacred words by some make - shift dabbler in the science of harmony, without art and in most cases without even intelligence.

Not exact matches

The Gregorian sound, and the practice of chanting, whether by specialists or by non-specialists, gives the most perfect context for the hearing of the words of the sacred scripture.

A parallel can be found in a civil right as sacred as that of free speech, which can not be infringed but does suffer some regulation: pornography, fighting words, and libel are not protected from state law by the First Amendment.

Alcoholics Anonymous, being «spiritual, not religious,» doesn't use the Bible at all; rather it uses another sacred text, the inspired Word of God as expressed through Bill Wilson, the Big Book... Unlike the Oxford Group, which claimed salvation and redemption by Jesus through the Oxford Group, AA proclaims «recovery» by one s «Higher Power» through the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous (Ken Ragge, The Real AA: Behind the Myth of 12 - Step Recovery [AZ: Sharp Press, 1998], pp. 82 - 83).

@ Bernardo, Yes, «anointed» and «sacred» and «holy» are words I would love to see atrophy in use — well, except perhaps as used by comedians.

And tomorrow when we rise and work all over again, I usually find it — whatever you call it, the Holy Spirit, your muse, your words, your inspiration — rushes into the vacuum left by the sacred act of imperfect creation and again, there is enough for yet another day.

This faithfulness stems from the church hearing anew the old time gospel of Jesus Christ in the sacred scriptures, tempered by the communal hearing of that Word, which is its collective memory.

Prior to this period of history, the traditional words of blessing before a meal were «Blessed be thou, O Lord God, King of the Universe»; in this era the focus shifted ever so subtly and the food itself became the object of blessing — «Bless, O Lord, this food» — for food was considered mundane or profane, and only when touched by the holy words of a Christian could it be brought into the realm of the sacred.

Hate is a pretty strong word, and coming from a person that studies the words and supposedly lives by the words of a sacred book they of all people should know what exactly the word HATE means.

Transformed by God's Word combines the ancient Western practice of lectio divina (sacred reading) with the Eastern Orthodox tradition of visio divina (sacred seeing) by pairing reflections on twenty gospel readings with a series of beautiful, never - before published contemporary icons.

He elaborated at length on what he had been saying for the previous fifteen years: «The holy Christian people are recognised by their possession of the holy word of God... the holy sacrament of baptism... the holy sacrament of the altar... by the holy possession of the sacred cross.

The sacred authors wrote the four Gospels, selecting some things from the many which had been handed on by word of mouth or in writing, reducing some ofthem to a synthesis, explaining some things in view of the situation of their churches and preserving the form of proclamation but always in such fashion that they told us the honest truth about Jesus.

This act is prayer, by which term I understand no vain exercise of words, no mere repetition of certain sacred formulæ, but the very movement itself of the soul, putting itself in a personal relation of contact with the mysterious power of which it feels the presence — it may be even before it has a name by which to call it.

«Unless I am convinced by sacred Scripture, or by evident reason, I can not recant,» he told the church authorities in 1521, «for my conscience is held captive by the word of God, and to act against conscience is neither right nor safe.»

Built on land once known by the indigenous word, Kalahuipua'a, the area's unparalleled beauty has become a sacred natural space.

Founded and directed by the Finnish avant - garde composer Petri Sirviö in 1987, originally to re-interpret well - known folk songs by singing the words at excruciating volumes, the choir has here reinterpreted a speech given by Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd simply by screaming at intervals in his apologies to the aboriginal population for exploiting their land and intruding upon their sacred sites.

It achieves today's sacred word of the times by being, «interactive» (aaahhooommm...).

One word changes everything... For more than twenty centuries, words within a sacred text have mystified, confused, and been misunderstood by almost all who read them.