Sentence examples for religious pillar from inspiring English sources

While Nadia doesn't need a spiritually religious pillar, religious rituals are deeply important to Saeed.

The altar has been converted into the reception area, which is still adorned with frescos, marble pillars and religious artwork.

Spiritual progress is measured by the believer's faithfulness in obedience to the "Five Pillars," or religious duties, including prayer, fasting, and the pilgrimage to Mecca.

Large crowds battled their way into mosques to kiss special New Year pillars carrying religious banners, a ritual forbidden by the puritanical Taliban as superstitious and un-Islamic.

Other notable sites in the city include Darbargadh, a fortified palace built by Rana Sartanji; Sartanji Choro, Sartanji's summer pavilion; the Huzar (Huzoor) Palace; and Bharat Mandir Hall, containing a huge relief map of India and painted pillars showing religious figures and persons from Hindu epics.

A respectable lifestyle rested on the three pillars of religious devotion, reverence for formal education and a desire for law and order.

In a recent New York Times op-ed, evolutionary biologist David Barash recounts telling the undergraduates in his animal behavior class that evolutionary science has "demolished two previously potent pillars of religious faith and undermined belief in an omnipotent and omni-benevolent God".

The governor's religious beliefs are a central pillar of his life and critical to his vision for the nation and the way he would govern.

This idea has long been used by the anti-abortion community as justification for its protests, constant attempts to pass anti-abortion legislation (like the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which the House passed last week, that would ban abortions after 20 weeks) and remains a pillar of the religious far-right's agenda.

In prose that bore the strong stamp of Michael Gerson, Mr. Bush's born-again chief speechwriter, the president said families, schools and religious institutions were the "unseen pillars of civilization," and then vowed to defend them.

Echoing the words of Mr. Bush, the anti-terrorist left maintains there is a moral imperative to defend a society that remains, whatever its flaws, a pillar of ethnic and religious pluralism and representative democracy.