Sentence examples for sustaining religious from inspiring English sources

The Obamas did not attend church every Sunday back home in Chicago and may follow the same pattern here, sustaining religious life at times with daily prayer, Bible readings and consultations with friendly pastors, some of his spiritual counselors say.

Disaster relief is an expression of social solidarity with victims, not a sophisticated method of transferring responsibility for sustaining religious institutions from the collection plate to the tax collector, the core point of separating church and state.

In the past a spiritually vital evangelical liberalism sustained religious communities that supported the entire liberal movement.

And so long as we sustained religious beliefs, he believed, we would continue on in a state of protracted childhood.

The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult.

If one is willing to accept the idea that educational attainment is related to cognitive ability, then it may be argued that the reform increases education levels only for less able individuals: those that, according to McCleary and Barro, have less capacity to make the speculative reasoning necessary to sustain religious beliefs.

Can a person who understands science, who practices science, also sustain religious faith?

This term dignifies ignorance with a label, for we know relatively little about the complex factors that interact to express and sustain religious traits.

Carl Esbeck, a conservative legal scholar, has written that religious organizations "can hardly be expected to sustain their religious vision without the ability to employ individuals who share the tenets of the faith".

Added to this, he had a cheerful buoyancy of mind, which, sustained by religious principle of a depth known only to his most intimate friends, was not depressed in the most gloomy times.

Like many other small Church of England schools, Elton is voluntary controlled so comes firmly within the local authority orbit and also gets support from the local diocese, which sustains its religious ethos.