Sentence examples for sacred essence from inspiring English sources

Just about every one of them, it turns out, imagined itself in the midst of an information crisis: overrun with new communication technologies that threatened to destroy the sacred essence of humanity.

The image and the temple are, in traditional societies, not simply productions by individual artists and architects; they are reflections of the sacred essence of life, and their measurements and forms are specified through sacred communication from the divine sphere.

It is surely because they were so ruthlessly true to their own instinctive susceptibility to the unique and the beautiful and shrugged off the imperatives of any institutional agenda -- academic, political, moral -- that each object in the collection retains its own distinctive character and radiates so arrestingly its own sacred essence.

The spiritual but not religious are calling for respect which softens us in the sacred essence of God's presence.

The precise meaning of the act is not clear, but may be to protect the bound object or to contain its sacred essence.

Both the day and the number were associated with the Great Goddesses, and therefore, regarded as the sacred essence of luck and good fortune.

Silent retreat is taking the time to receive the taste of something sacred, our own heart essence.

Critics charge that in following Otto's and Eliade's lead and positing the sacred as religion's essence, phenomenologists unduly favour a Western, and especially Christian, concept of religion.

The flimsiest but most seductive and persistent of those illusions, which the women's-wear industry now treats as a sacred truth, is that the essence of being in fashion is to live dangerously.

According to him, they failed to do justice to the unique, irreducible essence of religious experience: the sacred.

The words came but in written form only, dressed in strength and glory, borne in those sacred characters that symbolized for me the essence of the divine.