Sentence examples for holy purpose from inspiring English sources

"The vocation of marriage and its original, holy purpose has been resurrected".

Second, it gave the European nobles a cause that could distract them from warring with their neighbors a more or less daily occupation of knights in that period—and unite them, for a holy purpose.

Chinese museums received more than 500m visits last year, 100m more than in 2009.A time for worshipLess than a century ago Benjamin Ives Gilman, who served as secretary of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts for over 30 years, published a personal manifesto, "Museum Ideals: of Purpose and Method", in which he urged curators to treat museums as having a holy purpose.

For many, the violence that the song celebrated had little connection to Brown's holy purpose; to the extent that John Brown's soul marched on with these troops, it was re-animated not by the persistence of his antislavery principles so much as by his unembarrassed embrace of violence as a means of achieving them.

In his sermon at Friday prayers in Karbala, Sheik Abdulmehdi al-Karbalai said: "Citizens who are able to bear arms and fight terrorists, defending their country and their people and their holy places, should volunteer and join the security forces to achieve this holy purpose".

If you meet someone, there is a holy purpose in the encounter.

We are, by God's design and for God's holy purposes His own very good and beloved people.

WE DENY that adopting a homosexual or transgender self-conception is consistent with God's holy purposes in creation and redemption.

WE AFFIRM that self-conception as male or female should be defined by God's holy purposes in creation and redemption as revealed in Scripture.

If the God described in the Bible exists and if the fundamentalists are correct that the Bible describes his likes and dislikes then the greatest sin is taking God's name in vain and using God for non-holy purposes -- say, grandstanding in the Senate against health care reform and dragging God into it.

Since it is concerned with the holy and the purpose of human life as a whole, most scholars would hold that religious experience should be related in an intelligible way to all other experience and forms of experience.