Sentence examples for religious striving from inspiring English sources

Volupté is an intensely introspective and troubling study of Amaury's frustration, guilt, religious striving, and final renunciation of the flesh and the devil.

At the foot of Mount Rushmore, with the sculptured heads of presidents in the backdrop, on Telstar's 123rd orbit since its launch, just after noon Mountain Time, the conjunction of technology, geopolitics and religious striving reached its apogee.

But just as religious striving for holiness does not constitute the whole of Muslim history, the accomplishments of individual writers and artists do not constitute the whole history of the Italian Renaissance.

If it isn't a game that endorses a particular religion, though, Pneuma might be styled a game of religious striving.

If it isn't a game that endorses a particular religion, though, Pneuma might be styled as a game of religious striving.

Arthur to Kim, Azores, 29.3.44...To me, being religious means striving to improve the world and the lot of every single individual in it.

It wasn't a reductive or depressing insight; it was almost a form of happiness, the kind of apprehension religious people strove for.

If we read the Bible as normative social literature, the absence of the Goddess is the single most important statement about the kind of social order that the men who over many centuries wrote and rewrote this religious document strove to establish and uphold.

It underlies religious notions of striving to live in an elevated, less carnal, more noble way.

Still, in many ways, Ms. Chenoweth was playing against stereotypes about religious women and striving to make her screen namesake "not judgmental" and not "a stick in the mud".

Maybe instead of waging war on women, being faithful to religious beliefs means striving to be better stewards as we make the tough choices about life and death.