11 sentences with 'sacred'

Example sentences and phrases with the word sacred and other words derived from it.

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« My grandmother always tells me that singing is a sacred gift that God gave me. »

sacred: My grandmother always tells me that singing is a sacred gift that God gave me.
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« The sacred writings compiled during these events were all in the mode of the new monotheism. »
« An important sacred site that would become even more important after the rise of Islam was the city of Mecca. »
« The world, Greek scientists thought, was not a sacred or impenetrable thing that could never be understood; they sought to explain it without recourse to supernatural forces. »
« An icon is an image of a sacred figure, almost always Christ, the Virgin Mary, or one of the saints, which is used as a focus of Christian worship both in churches and in homes. »
« Thus Leo III ordered the destruction of the sacred images, facing riots when workers tried to carry out his proclamation by removing the icons of Christ placed in the imperial palace. »
« Together, these three religions are known as the "Religions of the Book" in Islam, because they share a set of beliefs first written down in the Hebrew sacred texts and they all worship the same God. »
« The knowledge of the sacred formulas he offered - it was thought at the time - provided the dead with 'magical means' to enjoy an eternal life over which the sun god presided. At the same time, the texts deal with Osiris, an ancient mortuary god. »
« In the process, the Yahwist priesthood added the book of Deuteronomy to the ancient sacred writings (the priests claimed to have discovered Deuteronomy, but almost all historians of ancient religion believe that it was simply written at that time). »
« For example, despite the fact that Muslims and Jews worshipped the same God and shared much of the same sacred literature, medieval Europeans had no qualms about invading Muslim lands and committing horrible atrocities in the name of their religion. »
« Justinian felt it was his sacred duty as leader of the largest Christian empire in the world to enforce religious uniformity among his subjects and to stamp out heresy. He called himself "beloved of Christ", a title that later emperors would adopt as well. »

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