Other religious traditions also have what might be called "sacraments" in a sense, though not necessarily according to the Christian meaning of the term.
In the end of five years I made supplication to the king to go out of this land, desiring to see my poor wife and children according to conscience and nature. Will Adams
Kaftans were often embroidered on the front and on the sleeves, but like everything else under the Ottomans, there was a strict hierarchical order in the colours, patterns, ribbons and buttons, which were chosen according to the rank of the person to whom they were presented.
That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases.
Isaac Barrow
Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it. Michael Ende
The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome. Donald Norman
As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so important, to raise his hand as if to strike him.
Until the building of Solomon's temple the unity of worship according to it had, properly speaking, never had any existence; and, moreover, it is easy to read between the lines that even after that date it was more a pious wish than a practical demand. Julius Wellhausen
Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity. Stanislav Grof
The Catholic faith never changes. But the language and mode of manifesting this one faith can change according to peoples, times and places. Francis Arinze
