Sentence examples for spiritual test from inspiring English sources

He saw it as half punishment and half spiritual test".

Racing is a business, an art, an athletic contest, a moral and a spiritual test.

"It was a spiritual test to get through," Mr. Shandling said.

The poem is an example of the medieval peregrinatio — the story of a journey whose hardships were meant to provide both a spiritual test and a life lesson.

By the next month, February, defense documents said, Mr. Jeffs was encouraging church members in their faith and describing his own low point as "a great spiritual test".

"I look upon it more as an occasion for spiritual testing.

What prompted this interest in DoD spending on religion was finding out what the DoD was spending on certain individual events and programs, such as the $125 million spent on the Army's Comprehensive Soldier Fitness program and its controversial "Spiritual Fitness" test, a mandatory test that must be taken by all soldiers.

They had just watched perhaps the most challenging film the celebrated director has ever made, a probing and deeply spiritual examination of faith tested by the seeming silence of God.

Some went as if steeled for an extreme spiritual endurance test.

Like it or not, there is a spiritual litmus test for the presidency and Trump undoubtedly would not pass.

Nike was right, as I've learned the hard way over the course of many long meditation retreats and other spiritual endurance tests.