(n.) Anything written; a writing; a document; an inscription.
(n.) The books of the Old and the new Testament, or of either of them; the Bible; -- used by way of eminence or distinction, and chiefly in the plural.
(n.) A passage from the Bible;; a text.
Example Sentences:
(1) If you don't know the scriptures you can't understand why.
(2) "The Remembrance Sunday Service at the Cenotaph has always contained prayers and readings from scripture, and the fact that it continues to be so central a part of our public life would suggest that it is meeting people's pastoral needs," said the Venerable Peter Eagles, archdeacon for the army.
(3) Unofficial Guardian scorecard Pacquiao 10 - 9 Bradley Manny's mom is getting to work in supporting her son - there's a lot of scripture and crosses involved - a spectacle.
(4) However, the age at which a mother has sole responsibility for her children is determined by scripture.
(5) It also tells us – on the firm foundation of Holy Scriptures – that policies intended to slow the pace of climate change represent a "dangerous expansion of government control over private life".
(6) Phil Johnson explains the continuing faith in these stories by reference to scripture: “The Bible says people like fables.
(7) The key point here is that while the words of scripture are fixed and unchangeable they are always subject to human interpretation, and interpretations may vary according to time, place and social conditions.
(8) The way I read scripture … I’m not sure what their values are and why they want to exclude, if we’re called to love one another and even love an enemy,” she said.
(9) There’s a passage in the scriptures that says, ‘Let the work that I do speak for me.’ “And Jeb’s record speaks for him.
(10) He later studied creative writing and religious studies: "It was scriptural interpretation, mainly, reading the Bible in different translations.
(11) In such a way, Poussin compressed his consummate knowledge of Rome's buildings, artworks and landscapes, and his deep, careful reading of scripture, epics, histories and science, into forms that would pass permanently out of his sight – since after 1642, he made no move to visit his native land again.
(12) That included Bob Jones University, a fundamentalist college in South Carolina that claimed a scriptural basis for segregation.
(13) My comments that you may have read are from the holy scriptures, and this is what I live from.
(14) John quotes him as writing in a letter to a friend: "By the end of the 80s I had definitely come to the conclusion that Scripture was not dealing with the predicament of persons whom we should recognise as homosexual by nature.
(15) Trouble was that, according to the scriptures, lending was a sin.
(16) The traveling religious workers who died, or were injured, would visit immigrant Sikh communities in America to help with duties such as reciting of the scriptures at the gurdwaras, and perform rituals in other community events like marriages.
(17) This is the most exceptional nation in the history of the world.” Carson said he had leaned on scripture to weather tempests on the campaign trail.
(18) The conference passed a resolution “rejecting homosexual practice as incompatible with Scripture” but also calling on “all our people to minister pastorally and sensitively to all irrespective of sexual orientation and to condemn irrational fear of homosexuals”.
(19) Some traditionalists fear the act of participating in the “shared conversations”, which are aimed at “good disagreement” within the church, implies an acceptance that differing interpretations of biblical scripture are possible.
(20) C of E fears talks on gay rights could end global Anglican communion Read more But the leaders of six African provinces are expected to walk out in opposition to any interpretation of the scriptures that could lead to greater acceptance of homosexuality and same-sex marriage, causing a de facto split between conservatives and liberals.
Sutra
Definition:
(n.) A precept; an aphorism; a brief rule.
(n.) A collection of such aphorisms.
(n.) A body of Hindoo literature containing aphorisms on grammar, meter, law, and philosophy, and forming a connecting link between the Vedic and later Sanscrit literature.
Example Sentences:
(1) We are Protestant Christians, so by sending monks to chant sutras they were trying to get us riled up,” a member of one Zhejiang church told Radio Free Asia , a US-funded news website.
(2) Updated at 3.33pm BST 2.34pm BST 58th over: England 124-6 (Ali 33, Prior 0) "From the middle of the bat to the edge is not a great distance", says Holding, who can make the Yellow Pages sound the Kama Sutra, only with one-liners.
(3) Instead, what we get is Cosmopolitan's recent Condom Kama Sutra, which attempts to "make condoms sexy" by suggesting a series of "moves" a woman could do, one of which involves applying one with your tits.
(4) He evidently knows little of Indian culture; hasn't he read the Kama Sutra or seen the sculptures at the Ellora and Ajanta caves?
(5) From a Kshara Sutra thread which is used in the therapy of fistula in the Ayurvedic medicinal system, euphol, 3,12-di-O-acetyl-8-O-benzoylingol, 3,12-di-O-acetyl-8-O-tigloylingol, curcumin, p-coumaroylferuloylmethane and di-p-courmaroylmethane were isolated and characterized.
(6) Ben & Jerry's has not been averse to cheeky product names itself, marketing flavours such as Karamel Sutra and Schweddy Balls, as well as putting out ice-cream in containers carrying the tagline "Size Matters".
(7) The old Indian literature describes a technique known as Sutra-Neti.
(8) Has collaborated with Akram Khan, and with Antony Gormley and the Chinese Shaolin monks on Sutra, at Sadler's Wells, London EC1 (0844 412 4300), until Saturday.
(9) Ashtanga is the focus (this is Mysore after all) but there’s a wide range of other classes to choose from, including hatha, shatkriya (cleansing), backbending and pranayama as well as instruction in Sanskrit and lessons in the yoga sutras.
(10) See also Les Ballets C de la B Pina Bausch Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker Now watch this A witty "composite creature" from D'Avant (2002) Sutra, with the Shaolin monks of China (2008) Apocrifu (2009) on religion and the power of the word Excerpts from Orbo Novo, "an old word for the New World", (2009) Dunas, a duet with flamenco dancer María Pagés (2009) Where to see him next Cherkaoui's Faune is part of the Spirit of Diaghilev programme on BBC4 at 7.45pm on 18 December 2009.
(11) Many European writers have been fascinated by Sufism - Richard Burton, the translator of the Kama Sutra, was initiated as a dervish, and Doris Lessing and Ted Hughes shared his interest ('the Sufis are the most sensible collection of people on the planet', Hughes once said).
(12) On top of that, if the user's home is wired up correctly, the app can control other the lights and music, as well as present a virtual Kama Sutra to anyone who needs inspiration.
(13) As Donna returned to sing Love To Love You, the couples assumed a variety of Kama Sutra positions.
(14) In 2010 he's back at Sadler's Wells with Sutra (13–17, 22–26 March) and Babel (18–19 May).
(15) For the Buddhist community acts of self-mutilation by burning reflect a tradition for which the direct precedent is set in the ancient scriptures of the Lotus Sutra.
(16) The exception is Sutra, his masterly 2008 work with a group of Shaolin monks: here, Cherkaoui sets the monks as a group, with himself as the outsider.
(17) Eunuchs are celebrated in sacred Hindu texts such as the Mahabharata and the Kama Sutra.
(18) There has been collateral damage, though: last year, Apple initially turned down Eucalyptus, an app written by the British developer Jamie Montgomerie, because it provided access to out-of-copyright books via the net – including the Kama Sutra.
(19) It is a theatrically cluttered space full of her varied knickknacks, including cushions embroidered with images of her beloved dogs , a DVD of a BBC docudrama on Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor and, quizzically, a book titled The Married Kama Sutra.
(20) What resulted is a truly random assemblage: an album of Beatles photographs, an anti-homosexuality screed called Gay is Not Good, multiple English-language Kama Sutras, popular 1970s memoir The Happy Hooker, a set of bawdy limericks, a coffee table book of Picasso paintings and Gore Vidal’s The City and the Pillar.