Sentences with phrase «supreme object of devotion»

Just as no religious forms are fully adequate to the supreme object of devotion, so also do all persons fall short of complete religious dedication.

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The object of supreme devotion has many names — or, perhaps better still, no name at all, for to name is to limit and confine and thus to negate the very ultimacy one seeks to affirm.

Beliefs or practices that do not express devotion or that refer to objects of less than supreme worth are by this definition not religious.

Generally speaking, a god is a supreme object of religious devotion.

The relationship of men in communities and races was viewed as a gift of God; but the elevation of Volk into an object of supreme devotion and the claim of superiority for one race over another and discriminations on the ground of race or color were declared to be contrary to the spirit of Christ.