Sentence examples for secular benefit from inspiring English sources

The pilgrimage, which in medieval practice combined a fundamentally religious purpose with the secular benefit of a spring vacation, made possible extended consideration of the relationship between the pleasures and vices of this world and the spiritual aspirations for the next.

The secular benefit of this resolution, omitted by Hutson and others, was that it acknowledged "an instance of the progress of arts in this country".

Quite apart from its secular benefits, it has helped to purify Christianity.

So if researchers can't "go there" and instead only look at the very human, very secular benefits of prayer, why call it prayer at all? Doesn't that imply a known relationship with a deity, something that scientists can't touch with a 10-foot pole?

Some Hasidic leaders say that Mr. Weiner, as a secular Jew, benefits because the ultra-Orthodox community already assumes that many non-Orthodox Jews are engaged in behaviors they view as sexually immoral.

But the minister, Ibrahim Bahr al-Uloum, decided that the secular laws could benefit from a little spiritual enhancement.

"To be able to provide financial assistance to candidates who support secular government will benefit all Americans, including those who value the absence of government entanglement in religious beliefs".

In addition to the China stimulus effect, there are secular, long-term benefits.

Geomagnetic field and secular variation models will benefit from the successful Swarm ESA mission (Olsen et al. 2013).

Government officials generally dismiss any question about Alawite dominance either by saying Syria benefits from secular rule or noting the number of Sunni Muslims in top positions.

Following the example of the Berlin Haskala, a Russian Hebrew-language writer, Isaac Baer Levinsohn (1788 1860), published a pamphlet, Teʿuda be-Yisrael ("Testimony in Israel"), extolling the benefits of secular education.