Sentence examples for ancient teachings from inspiring English sources

When she was done, she concluded that the artifact was a "retired portal" — a transmitter of ancient teachings, now defunct.

Are Catholics less inclined today than a month ago to relativize ancient teachings about Jesus, or equate all religions?

When she was done, she concluded that the artifact was a "retired portal"—a transmitter of ancient teachings, now defunct.

In the Church's past, however, uncertainty has sometimes been the rule for decades, even centuries, before its ancient teachings have groped their way into coherence with the cultures and the times at hand.

The Hebrew term Talmud ("study" or "learning") commonly refers to a compilation of ancient teachings regarded as sacred and normative by Jews from the time it was compiled until modern times and still so regarded by traditional religious Jews.

We have known what we have been up against for a long time". The pertinence of ancient teachings to a here-and-now battle is a common theme on both sides of a now bitter and protracted divide which is steadily becoming the most serious schism between the two Islamic sects since a seminal dispute over who should succeed the prophet Muhammad nearly 1,400 years ago.

In the Talmud, a set of ancient rabbinical teachings, Jewish parents are instructed to teach their children three core things: the Torah, a trade, and how to swim.

The son of a Brahmin priest and astrologer, Mr. Jois was inculcated in ancient Hindu teachings from an early age.

"Mr. Speaker, your voting record is at variance from one of the church's most ancient moral teachings," the letter says.

The Government has won clerical support through a nine-year-old program to make Pakistan's laws conform to ancient Islamic teachings.

Dr. Lenz, under the name Rama, had used ancient Buddhist teachings to accumulate followers and wealth in Southern California in the 1980's.