Sentence examples for purify itself from inspiring English sources

Those in the first movement, the Donatists, believed the church needed to purify itself and return to its core identity.

An environmentalist, he describes how the lake's ability to purify itself is down to one creature, an endemic microscopic shrimp called epischura baikalensis.

The soul was encouraged to purify itself through yearning for God (a tenet of Ṣūfism, Islāmic mysticism), celibacy was condoned (as in Catholicism), and the slaughter of animals was forbidden (as in Jainism).

May 16th marks the fiftieth anniversary of the start of the Cultural Revolution, when Chairman Mao launched China on a campaign to purify itself of saboteurs and apostates, to find the "representatives of the bourgeoisie who have sneaked into the Party, the government, the army, and various spheres of culture" and drive them out with "the telescope and microscope of Mao Zedong Thought".

In the rural and peri-urban areas, most of the groundwater supplies are usually untreated and it has been reported that it is difficult for groundwater to purify itself, often impossible and very expensive to treat, thereafter [14].

Rather than continuing to purify itself into its darkest, most cynical, most nihilistic self, the GOP must re-learn to be for things.

And, for others, like the young Angelina Grimké, the message of this "second great awakening" was a mixture of hope and urgency, the belief that America must purify itself in preparation for the impending judgment day.

By fasting, you're giving your body the chance to purify itself before you begin eating food again.