Sentence examples for secular reality from inspiring English sources

Many of us swear eternal fidelity to religious rules and then bend those rules to fit secular reality.

"But as with other works of religiously minded art, its aesthetic glories are tethered to a humble and exalted purpose, which is to shine the light of the sacred on secular reality".

In this way – unlike everyday life where the constant distractions of work, neighbours and family inevitably drag one back to mundane, secular reality – the devout become better able to realise their fundamental goal of living a spiritual life.

Just as many of America's deepest believers have accommodated themselves to the secular reality around them, so many of our country's most liberal and progressive thinkers have come to recognize the importance of the public uses of faith.

"The sheer beauty of this film is almost overwhelming," A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times, "but as with other works of religiously minded art, its aesthetic glories are tethered to a humble and exalted purpose, which is to shine the light of the sacred on secular reality".

While eschewing theological debate about the beginning of life, he argues for an undeniable secular reality: "The blastocyst," the five-day-old ball of some 64 to 200 cells on which the research would be done, "is not nothing; it is at least potential humanity, and as such it elicits, or ought to elicit, our feelings of awe and respect.

Then, as now, Holland Park School is trapped between the dreams of parents, teachers and an increasingly grim mix of social, racial and secular realities.

Keynes's Darwin, in other words, is a thinker facing up to the realities of the secular world most of us now live in.

The contest between religious and secular world views can't be resolved by force of argument, because both offer a vision of reality and human life that is, on its own terms, coherent and convincing.

But over the last five months Mr. Giuliani has also ascended to secular saint, a reality that puts a severe strain on the state of the column.

Westerners often describe the current Egyptian government as secular, when in reality it is not.