Sentence examples for holy act from inspiring English sources
Were we shomrim, performing a holy act?
Dancing is a holy act, a vow of devotion.
"This was not just a human achievement it was a holy act.
Religion starts from the belief that sex is a fundamentally holy act, one that should be performed (if at all) only by a married heterosexual couple.
Murphy's defence is described as "noble cause corruption", in that he attempts to spin his abuse into a holy act, casting molestation as a form of sacrament.
The New Testament mentions a series of "holy acts" that are not, strictly speaking, sacraments.
The "holy acts" of the Eastern Orthodox churches are symbolically connected to its most important mysteries.
Though the Roman Catholic Church recognizes a difference between such "holy acts," which are called sacramentals, and sacraments, Eastern Orthodoxy does not, in principle, make such strict distinctions.
In the dim, bloodstained past of certain cultures, sacrifices of kings were holy acts, performed by priests to obtain for the king's subjects a great benefit — averting a famine or a plague.
In Judaism, for example, the Talmud records vigorous debates between the most educated and dedicated Rabbis in order to remind us that disagreements in search of truth are holy acts, that simple answers are to be questioned, and that we must resist the lure of certainty.
