Sentence examples for spiritual rules from inspiring English sources

Since the time of Muhammad (A.D. 570-632), teachingsings of Islam have always linked political rules with spiritual rules, so governments like Egypt's need the mantle of institutions like Al Azhar as a seal of legitimacy.

Until 1642 the Dalai Lamas were principal abbots of the Dge-lugs-pa, and in that year they acquired temporal and spiritual rule of Tibet.

Zara was a Christian city, and under the spiritual rule not of the Greek Orthodox Church but of the Pope in Rome.

Though whole Daoist families lived under Tao's spiritual rule at Maoshan, he himself stressed the need for celibacy and full-time commitment to the work of the Dao.

Each poem in this substantial collection is just 15 lines long (though they are divided up in different ways), as if the poet were following a sort of spiritual rule to sharpen the senses through variant repetition.

Their presentation of the "perfect city", in which mutual love is the basis and the goal of the community, does not help us to ascertain whether the Ikhwân have in mind spiritual rule or a true government such as that of the Fatimid caliph, of whom they might be the du'â'.

He says forgiveness is a spiritual rule for him.

The case illustrates a conflict in Jewish and some Protestant denominations between the expectation of confidentiality in spiritual counseling and religious rules requiring members of the clergy to warn or protect others.

Remarkable as is this careful and comprehensive arrangement, the spiritual and human counsel given generously throughout the Rule is uniquely noteworthy among all the monastic and religious rules of the Middle Ages.

Spending so much time in church has had a spiritual effect on Rule, the 37-year-old Queens native born Jeff Atkins.

For many centuries, the process has been a journey into an arcane and proscribed world of recondite rules and spiritual imperatives that are a mystery even to many devout Jews.