Sentence examples for holy images from inspiring English sources

I love monsters the way people worship holy images.

Consequently, the organ was dismantled and the holy images removed from the cathedral at Zürich.

By putting up holy images, he explained, you effectively make a shrine that everyone respects.

Their memory as saintly martyrs was henceforth perpetuated in icons, the Russian word borrowed from Byzantine Greek for holy "images".

Protestants began producing their own images — often, to appeal to children — and gradually became more comfortable with holy images.

Iconoclasts and iconodules agreed on one fundamental point: a Christian people could not prosper unless it assumed the right attitude toward the holy images, or icons.

The cover of a fashion magazine becomes a holy image.

"I will not always be here," Leonard murmurs, his holy image flickering in the ether.

"In the midst of terrible tragedy, here's a holy image, a sacred image, that made it through," Dr. Matovina said.

According to tradition, the holy image was brought from Jerusalem, via Byzantium, to the fledgling Russian state in the early 12th century.

The holy image became the devotional image; the worshiper placed himself before an image and became engrossed in his meditation of the mysteries of the Christian revelation.