Sentence examples for holy from from inspiring English sources

Otto elaborated his understanding of the holy from this basic ambiguity.

The prayer distinguishes holy from secular, light from darkness, and Israelites from Gentiles.

During that intoxicating century, nearly everything holy, from royal rank to economics to science to the immortality of the soul, was challenged.

You can hear Brooksian turns of phrase in Chance's "Sunday Candy," or in "Holy," from Woods's 2016 album, "HEAVN," ("The lover may leave / The winter may not").

Tournemire's Choral Improvisation sur le Victimae Paschali; Byrd's "Haec Dies"; Viadana's "Exsultate Justi"; Hassler's "Cantate Domino"; Handel's "Worthy Is the Lamb"; Mendelssohn's "Holy, Holy" from "Elijah"; and other works; Dennis Keene, organist and choirmaster.

Even more so when questionable moral or political ideologies are smuggled into the holy – from menstruating women being ritually unclean (thus unable to be priests doing holy stuff in the sanctuary) to the Orthodox church's support for Putin.

Christianity also inherited from Judaism a strong sense of being holy, separate from idolatry and pagan eroticism.

He uses oils extracted from lizards and turtles, the dried tongues of certain fish, coyote skin, eggs, chickens, holy water from the church and less-than-holy water from the lake.

Unfortunately, nonbelievers are barred from entering mosques in Yemen, so I could only gaze at these holy places from outside.

Where does the holy come from?

A wizened saffron-robed Buddhist monk flicked holy water from a brush onto a passer-by.