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Example sentences for "religious life"

  • But nevertheless, in consequence of that idea of religion, religious life, and especially also religious service, has infinitely more room for rich development in Lange than in Spencer.

  • While thus Lange's conception of religion is superior to that of Spencer in admitting a richer development of religious life, a more various satisfaction of the religious need, in another direction Spencer is superior.

  • The quickening of religious life by pietism bore fruit in new missionary activity.

  • Hence, to make the comparison which my subject calls for, we must inquire into the home and religious life of the present generation.

  • In its character it is to be the representation of the highest standard of ethical deportment and the best example of religious life.

  • After all it does seem that being easily moved and swayed may furnish the lever by which the wise and prudent may begin to lift them to the higher ground of religious life.

  • In the sixth chapter I attempt to give a picture of religious life, both Brahmanic and non-Brahmanic, as it existed in India about the time when the Buddha was born.

  • What this may mean for the religious life of this country, we cannot yet tell, but it is certain that a new temper will be brought to bear on our divisions.

  • But it is clearly a gain to challenge an over-rigid standardization of religious life.

  • Consequently there could be a falling away from a higher level of religious life, as the Scriptures consistently say there was.

  • The Deuteronomist here reaches the highest stage of religious life, in that he shows himself in nowise afraid of human joy.

  • What it depicts as the essence of religious life is a set of the whole nature Godward, as deep and irresistible as the set of the tides-- "Such a tide as moving seems asleep, Too full for sound and foam.

  • Further, this story may be adduced with the object of showing the difficulty of finding companions for a religious life.

  • This story may be used with the object of showing the difficulty of finding companions for a religious life' (p.

  • Indulging in anger, forsooth, agitates the mind and destroys the glory of a religious life, since it tends to the detriment of it.

  • There had been indeed a marked decline in religious life.

  • Almost every other aspect of the life of our country, including even that of religious life as distinguished from religious thought, has gone ahead by leaps and bounds.

  • The domain of Saint-Cyr was purchased; and twelve young persons belonging to the establishment, and destined for the most part to a religious life, were selected as mistresses to direct the larger institution.

  • The ex-queen had married in her fifteenth year, and had overcome, by the advice of her mother and the Pope, her desire to devote herself to a religious life.

  • Against this sin of intellectual and spiritual sloth all the great churchmen of the middle ages inveigh, recognising in it the greatest menace of religious life, from which all other sins may follow[923].

  • It is not surprising, therefore, that the history of ecclesiastical celibacy is one of the tragedies of religious life.

  • She had one real calling and that was to a religious life.

  • The five sisters were apparently a unit in their predisposition to a religious life.

  • As a child in the midst of the Christmas gayeties at her father's house, she heard a miraculous voice that summoned her to a religious life.

  • As to the first element, God's call to embrace the priestly or religious life must be considered so necessary that in its absence the foundation upon which the whole structure is to rest is absent (Pius XII, Sedes Sapientiae).

  • Minors in the exercise of rights are subject to the power of parents or guardians, except where the contrary is declared by the law, as is the case for the reception of the Sacraments and the choice of a religious life (Canon 89).

  • I reserve what may be called the domestic side of this crowning event of Mr. Hope's religious life to a future chapter.

  • What he taught was the study of the Bible as the source of religious faith and the rule of a religious life.

  • There have been times when the religious life of England has been utterly divorced from the Church.

  • The reading of it formed one of the first epochs in Wesley's religious life.

  • The claim which the intellectual and religious life of England in the eighteenth century has upon our interest has been much more generally acknowledged of late years than was the case heretofore.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "religious life" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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