Sentence examples for religious disciplines from inspiring English sources

The two disciplines were related, because both followed the path of rational inquiry and distinguished themselves from traditional religious disciplines and from mysticism, which sought knowledge through practical, spiritual purification.

Ramakrishna, as a direct result of his own spiritual experiences with various religious disciplines, including Christianity and Islam, fully endorsed the Hindu tenet that all religions are paths to the same goal.

Thus, the burden of the old karma is added to the new karma that is acquired during the next existence until the jiva frees itself by religious disciplines, especially by ahimsa ("nonviolence"), and rises to the place of liberated jivas at the top of the universe.

Spiritual knowledge is integrated within (Saraswati) by cultivating values and understanding religious disciplines.

Rather than discard the old religious disciplines of our heritages, we redeploy them in the service of liberal theological ideals.

A variety of religious disciplines -- from certain forms of Judaism and Christianity to Buddhist monasticism and Islam -- often restrict or require certain foods for spiritual or religious practices.

Ash Wednesday expresses the pangs and the strain involved in the acceptance of religious belief and religious discipline.

They come from communities where the family is all-important and parental and religious discipline reign supreme.

I embraced my dereliction as a religious discipline; it was as if I were a monk sworn to an order devoted to affirming God's original world.

Folios produced under Shah Jahan are more formal than natural, with much attention paid to clothing as a sign of rank or religious discipline.

Traditionalists see this as the equivalent of barhopping by a generation that values self-fulfillment and personal freedom over religious discipline and duty.