Sentence examples for teachings themselves from inspiring English sources

The origin of the book is almost as intriguing as the teachings themselves.

The children have to work very hard, because they will one day be passing on the Buddhist teachings themselves.

As you would expect, he argues that much of the problem isn't with the religious texts or teachings themselves, but with the social conditions — the "facts on the ground" — that shape the sort of God we choose to create.

He hastens to suggest, however, that those teachings are themselves warranted by our own current empirical evidence the implication being that such truths and the concomitant rejection of Copernicanism might well be revisable.

Catholics, Jews or any other group that runs afoul of the Nation of Islam's teachings might find themselves excluded.

The gospel episodes that include descriptions of the miracles of Jesus also often include teachings, and the miracles themselves involve an element of teaching.

Absent in the crowd listening to Papa Mandela on this day are the pastors themselves, whose teachings have a huge influence on the day-to-day decisions of their followers.

In contrast to Muslims, these Christians characterised themselves and their teachings as disinterested in the physical world: In the Christian churches we teach people mainly about the spiritual life alone, but the body we leave behind.

These Nazi publications themselves cited Christian teachings -- some quite recent -- for support.

Several lawyers described their clients as followers of Mr. Batiste, desperate urban residents who smoked a lot of marijuana but hoped to better themselves through the teachings of the Moorish Science Temple.

Though they denied most of the traditional teachings of Christianity, they called themselves Christians, and most were content to remain in the Danish National Church or the Church of Sweden, the traditional national branches of Lutheranism.