Sentence examples for teachings often from inspiring English sources

Samurai, inspired by Zen teachings, often used meditation to develop their skills and overcome fear of death.

The result was that John Paul II's teachings often carried the imperative of infallibility, and Cardinal Ratzinger's theological imprimatur on those teachings, together with his power to enforce them, effectively ended the discussion.

Boys' schools are often private, with curriculums shaped by religious teachings, often in Yiddish, and lengthy school days.

As a result, their stories are mediocre, and their teachings are often banal.

They even seemed to take as a religious guide Aristotle himself, whose teachings were often said by the anti-Aristotelians to be "a jar of honey about which a dragon is wrapped".

It concludes that the church teachings, though often hostile to Jews, did not contribute to the crude anti-Semitic ideology of the Nazis, many of whose leaders were Catholics and whom the Vatican calls "neo-pagan". The document does not even mention Pope Pius's failure to speak out against Nazi atrocities.

The Pure Land teachings are often regarded as popularized, devotional extensions of a more philosophically demanding contemplative tradition based on a core doctrine of emptiness or voidness.

The Church's teachings are often perceived as satirizing Christianity and Scientology, earning them a reputation as a parody religion.

Religious teachings have often emphasized that following religious doctrine is more important than one's individual spiritual experience, and some have discouraged inner experiences altogether.

The result: much Catholic theology and even Church teachings all too often became timid and at times seemed irrelevant to the needs of today's world.

The world's teachings and thoughts often colored how we thought and became what we thought we were.