Sentence examples for sacred commitment from inspiring English sources

In Buddhism, they call it Samaya, which means a sacred commitment between a student and a Teacher.

As a nation, we have made a sacred commitment that no species that shares our land will slip into extinction.

The welfare of children and care of the sick are the most sacred commitments of good society.

The successful young adult is beginning to make sacred commitments — to a spouse, a community and calling — yet mostly hears about freedom and autonomy.

For some pluralists and other humanists, we must let a hundred flowers bloom -- religious diversity is a good thing and enriches society, so Americans should be transparent about their sacred commitments and religious identities.

Yet our modern identity at root is based on collective, even sacred, civic commitment.

Walter Cronkite became "the most trusted man in America" because he held as sacred his commitment to journalism that rigorously distinguished professional objectivity from personal opinion.

Our studies, carried out with the support of the National Science Foundation and the Defense Department, suggest that people will reject material compensation for dropping their commitment to sacred values and will defend those values regardless of the costs.

At the same time, I know that Judaism properly understood is not about either certainty or extremism; it is about hope, rooted in a commitment to sacred community and to God.

We need a president who holds sacred this country's commitments to its citizens.

His failure to give a consistently negative answer to question (2) lands him in flat contradiction with his official commitment to interpreting sacred texts in exactly the same way as profane texts (for, of course, as he indeed himself implies, in interpreting profane texts we may not assume that the texts are throughout true and therefore also self-consistent).