Sentence examples for Christian references from inspiring English sources

There were Christian references throughout the series.

Hubbe has secularized the ballet — Bournonville's original contained Christian references, entwining religious grace with physical grace.

Since 1999 these invocations have regularly included explicitly Christian references, including unmistakably religious mentions of "the life and death, resurrection and ascension of the Saviour Jesus Christ".

Publicly, Christian references permeate Bush's rhetoric, and sometimes in ways so subtle that they'll be picked up by devout listeners but won't be offensive or even noticed by others.

In Afghanistan, the Al Jazeera news service reported that sights with the Christian references had been distributed to some Afghan soldiers and that this would provide the Taliban with a propaganda coup.

They would go on to publish six more editions, polishing the stories, making them more child-friendly, adding in Christian references and removing mentions of fairies before releasing the seventh edition – the one best known today – in 1857.

Furthermore, critics note the Christian reference to Christ's crown of thorns at the conclusion of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

Tacitus, in one of the earliest non-Christian references to the origins of Christianity, notes that the population searched for a scapegoat and rumors held Nero responsible.

Supporters of the theory pointed to the lack of any known written references to Jesus during his lifetime and to the relative scarcity of non-Christian references to him in the 1st century, which they used to challenge the veracity of the existing accounts of him.

"We don't bat an [eye] when Christians reference their faith in victory speeches, in moments of silence, or opening prayers," Hill said.

In the Western world, the idea comes from Christian biblical references to Jewish forced migration.