Sentence examples for religious yearning from inspiring English sources

The impulse doubtless begins with a religious yearning for the Jerusalem of ancient times.

But in the event, the robot's religious yearning to keep the power flowing means that no harm is done.

But many surely have some religious yearning, and the other 60 percent have at least a nominal religious identity.

For Jeanette Kuvin Oren, Torah covers like those she made for Congregation Beth El in Fairfield satisfy a religious yearning.

Imber is in turn set against a convent of Benedictine nuns across the lake, a "buffer state" between the abbey and the real world in which Murdoch stages a clash of ideals: religious yearning, sexual passion, and the role of spirituality in a materialist era.

In keeping with the spiritual and religious yearning that she says is also part of the epileptic's personality profile, she falls into step with a chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous even though she does not have -- or has not yet chosen to write a book about -- a drinking problem.

The links he makes between his son's illness and his religious upbringing are heavy-handed at times, but such flaws do not lessen the worthiness of his overall point: the death of religious practice does not mean the death of spiritual yearning.

He and other religious nationalists, yearning to expand Israel eastwards into biblical lands still populated by Palestinians, find it hard to embrace the Negev project.

This leads her to meditate on yearning, religious and secular, for an unmediated grasp of reality.

Think about the Twin Towers, the Taliban, the Religious Right's yearning for Armageddon, the geometric progression of our global population curve and the Church's opposition to family planning as a moral responsibility.

Thomas A. Dorsey, the father of American gospel music, introduced ecstasy to old religious arrangements in escalating, yearning choruses.