Sentence examples for spiritual function from inspiring English sources

So here the modernist "look" and the spiritual function of the tantric paintings come together.

"Doors and locks have a spiritual function, and a lock can keep out evil," Dr. Imperato said on a tour of the exhibition.

This quiet luminary did serve a spiritual function in the folk scene of the 1960's -- his music, although as somber at heart as that of fiercer bluesmen, provided a healing presence in a troubling time.

Similarly, in the acclaimed Glitchhikers, a car travelling a midnight road becomes the hub for multiple dreamlike conversations; the other founding member of Silverstring, Claris Cyarron, says they approached the car "as if it were a room... a meditation chamber whose ability to move you physically is secondary to its spiritual function".

Teaching is a spiritual function, but in a household the teacher does not direct the physician.

He explains that language is the "most important of cultural-psychological products [Erzeugnis]" (L III: 225), because "it expresses the lawfulness [Gesetzmäßigkeit] of thinking, [and] the different language types correspond to specific phases [Stufen] in the development of this basic spiritual function [geistige Grundfunktion]" (L III: 230).

Clement's principal concern was with his spiritual functions.

What authority there was rested with the abbots, and the bishops were limited to their purely spiritual functions.

One of Baron's spiritual functions, his most important, is to dig a person's grave and welcome him to the other side.

After all, amateur enthusiasm is our one trusty route to communion with the Old Masters, whose original social and spiritual functions have long since gone obscure, if not obsolete (though nothing can be wholly lost that lives in art).

Besides these vital spiritual functions, it also enjoyed prolific use in ancient medicine.