Sentence examples for sacred purpose from inspiring English sources
The gothic may be a gamut of disparate architectural styles, but what ties it together is its sacred purpose.
Explanations of the rite vary from the delineation of an area for a particular sacred purpose to an attempt to influence the course of events and produce good fortune by imitating the auspicious journey of the sun.
At the same time, Young's tenacity and faith brought tens of thousands of Mormons to the American West, imbued their everyday lives with sacred purpose, and sustained his church against adversity.
Connerty (Toby Leonard Moore), now Special Counsel with the FBI, and his boss get a visit from Jock, who says it's come to his attention that there are people within the bureau that are undermining their "sacred purpose" by leaking information to the press, among other things.
It consecrates the soldier's sacred purpose as surely as the one Dürer painted on his Virgin Mary, mother of sorrows.
Songwriters and performers "ultimately hope that the sacred purpose will trump the music's secular origins," he said.
But rather it is for us, both victors and vanquished, to rise to that higher dignity which alone benefits the sacred purposes we are about to serve".
Is it really appropriate for us to stand here admiring, purely from an aesthetic standpoint, figures for ritual — possibly sacred — purposes?
He told me that "the boom" offers no discussion of reciprocity, complementarity or harmony: "we can obtain the fruits of the Pachamama (mother earth), but we have to give back, provide a pago a la tierra (payment to the earth)." As anthropologist Marieka Sax has noted, even the practice of feeding has both significant secular and sacred purposes.
Flaminia, according to Festus and Aulus Gellius (X.15), was the house of the Flamen Dialis, from which it was unlawful to carry out fire except for sacred purposes.
In this country, allotting different spots for sacred purposes, they began to erect temples, the first of which was dedicated to Apollo Panionios, and resembled that which they had seen in Achaia, and they gave it the name of Doric, because they had first seen that species in the cities of Doria.
