Sentence examples for teachings led from inspiring English sources

… His syrupy teachings led millions astray.

Gandhi's teachings led Bhave to a life of austerity dedicated to improving Indian village life.

Spanish physician and theologian whose unorthodox teachings led to his condemnation as a heretic by both Protestants and Roman Catholics and to his execution by Calvinists from Geneva.

Michael Servetus, Spanish Miguel Servet (born 1511?, Villanueva or Tudela, Spain died Oct. 27, 1553, Champel, Switz)., Spanish physician and theologian whose unorthodox teachings led to his condemnation as a heretic by both Protestants and Roman Catholics and to his execution by Calvinists from Geneva.

Emphasis on this aspect of their teachings led, in the late 18th and early 19th century, to the modern understanding of cynicism as "an attitude of scornful or jaded negativity, especially a general distrust of the integrity or professed motives of others".

Barr's Part V is an example of how uncritical adherence to arbitrary religious teachings leads not only to bad science but behavior that discredits belief in God.

Descartes agrees with Plato about the body's confusion of the soul, adding that scholastic teachings lead to further confusion, especially in that they reinforce childhood prejudice, which is rooted in an overemphasis on the senses.

His lecturing and teaching led to the chartering of the fellowship in 1935, with headquarters in Los Angeles; there are now centres worldwide, as well as several independent groups influenced by his teachings.

These men were consistently exposed to religious teachings that led them to interpret the values of men and women textually, whereas at the same time they lived in a nation that endorsed gender equality.

Adaptation to social and cultural changes combined with lack of exposures to contextual and progressive religious teachings has led to the formation of three different positions of masculinity among the population in this study.

(Another of the Buddha's teachings: desire leads to suffering).