Sentence examples for scripture such as from inspiring English sources

Reporters and Internet commentators began to pick through Hagee's writings and sermons, and the McCain campaign found itself trying to explain Hagee's inflammatory interpretations of Scripture, such as his implication that the Roman Catholic Church was the Biblical great whore of Babylon.

Many others take some body of scripture, such as the Bible or the Koran as of special authority, contrary to the evidentialist treatment of these as just like other any other books making various claims.

Belarusian literature began with 11th- to 13th-century religious scripture, such as the 12th-century poetry of Cyril of Turaw.

Mormons believe in the Bible, as well as other books of scripture, such as the Book of Mormon.

As we are willing to take a deeper look at the true meaning underlying scripture, such as 'an eye for an eye,' our vision becomes clearer.

It's a charge that is in direct contradiction to the position of Catholicism and the Christian right: that left to its own devices secular society can't be moral and, as a corrective, scripture (such as the Ten Commandments) must be invoked to ensure the moral stability and continuance of society.

Did you ever read Hindu scriptures such as the Bhagavad Gita or the Sikh scripture Guru Granth Sahib?

Although earlier scriptures, such as the Bhagavati-sutra, contained assorted ideas on logic and epistemology, the 2nd-century-ce philosopher Kundakunda was the first to develop Jaina logic.

Hindu scriptures such as the centuries old Vedas, Upanishads and Vedanta are replete with spiritual and poetic references to Mother Earth, where the environment is alive and teeming with life; where trees, mountains and rocks become shrines and the river is respected as a source and support of physical and spiritual life.

Many figures from the Buddhist and Hindu scriptures, such as gods and goddesses, heroes and princesses, hermits and magicians, demons and dragons, flying horses and winged maidens, became fused with similar native figures, and, gradually, folklore plots became merged in the general religious themes.

By the middle of the 17th century, the tragic figure of Dārā Shikōh, the Mughal emperor Shāh Jahān's son and disciple of the Qādirī Sufis, translated Hindu scriptures, such as the Bhagavadgita and the Upanishads, into Persian and in his translation of the latter closely followed Shankara's commentaries.