Sentence examples for personal sanctity from inspiring English sources

But sainthood does not imply infallibility in either judgment or administration; since the second century there have been those who, whatever their faults, have been distinguished for their personal sanctity, and in those early days the primary constituent in determining who they were was usually popular acclaim.

Defenders of the late pope say that the abuse crisis is irrelevant to the question of John Paul's personal sanctity.

Since I started working a 9-5 last year, my listening sessions during my daily bus commute have acquired a level of personal sanctity similar in emotional intensity to Helga's shrine to Arnold in her closet.

It means we leave God for GOD, trade in the notion of an external God for the experience of our own personal sanctity -- and the sanctity of every breathing thing.

The government says the law is needed to defend "the sanctity of personal privacy".

No less impressively, it guaranteed the sanctity of personal correspondence by protecting letters from the prying eyes of government.

Its sacred tenets include protecting women's purity (namus), the right to personal revenge (badal), the sanctity of the guest (melmastia) and sanctuary (nanawateh).

A week later, Nixon issued a statement expressing his "personal belief in the sanctity of human life — including the life of the yet unborn".

The next week Nixon spoke of his "personal belief in the sanctity of human life – including the life of the yet unborn".

A week later, in a statement to the Department of Defense, Nixon borrowed the language of the Catholic Church to speak of his "personal belief in the sanctity of human life — including the life of the yet unborn".

We can fail to act, citing the sanctity of personal freedom and the encroachment of the dreaded nanny-state... or we can do something.