Sentences with phrase «set of devotional»

In a way Westerners living thousands of miles away could never know, he learned that Islam was more than a creed or a set of devotional practices.

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His efforts are recorded in a set of letters to friends and colleagues, letters later printed in a book that has become a devotional classic, The Practice of the Presence of God.

a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs.

By the use of a brilliant analogy this twelfth section begins by describing the true and the false way of reading or listening to a devotional address and the following sections set forth with pointed directness the central issue of what it means to be an individual.

Although this is only a footnote to the main line of this address, we may properly note in passing that some of Protestantism's subsequent difficulties with prayer and the devotional life, and with religious symbolism, come from neglect of those aspects of the medieval image of ministry that ought not to have been set aside.

Religion — «a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs.»

More particularly in the Old Testament it is a term applied to that which is sacred, that is, set apart for devotional use, for the exercise of the religious function, for purposes pertaining to deity.

After reading a spiritual devotional in the morning and getting my dose of the noumenal, your posts are next to set my day just right.

I'm cataloging the process of getting my book to print through a set of daily devotional videos, discussing what I'm working on that day.

A Divine Light is designed as intimate encounter with the devotional art of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and explores the ways in which Northern Renaissance artists expressed the central mysteries of the Christian faith through setting, pose, gesture, and the objects of everyday life.

Wong's portraits (many of them set in New York's East Village) place hustlers and other denizens of the gay demimonde in the fantastical context of devotional Christian painting, with an element of fond caricature that recalls his early days as a street portraitist in California.

There is a devotional book that comes with the ornament set so the shapes correlate with the scripture passage that you read about Christ each day of December leading up to Christmas.