Sentence examples for religious relationship from inspiring English sources

In preliterate societies he was and is viewed in the light of his social, economic, and religious relationship to the tribe or clan.

"I never really knew any other conditions aside from my slightly terrifying and almost religious relationship to my work," he wrote.

We suffer in these ways only because we have some awareness that we are spiritual beings who are related to God, and that in many ways we fail to be true to this religious relationship.

It sells a small suite of expensive devices with which its customers have an almost religious relationship.

My relationship to the music is, in the most fundamental sense, the same as a religious relationship to the real world.

"Polygamy" literally means "many marriages," but since the term has been around for so long, it generally is only associated with a religious relationship structure.

This structure may lend stability to a society; the lineages are considered permanent groups and thus perpetuate concomitant political and religious relationships over time.

I'll be interacting with the works and letters of missionaries and organizations who lived religious relationships in a theologically meaningful way.

Analyzing the remarkable success of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness and their temple complex in Vrindaban (where Bhaktivedanta was buried in 1977), Brooks describes the intricate social, economic, and religious relationships between Westerners and Indians.

If one seeks the enhancing of life, one can likewise consider the conditions under which vulnerability fosters openings for deeper interpersonal or religious relationships, for love and for mutual trust.

But R. Chip Turner, national chairman of the BSA's Religious Relationships Task Force, hopes not.