None among the followers of Tolstoy took his teachings more seriously than Samuel Gold.

As well as taking the Church as its subject matter, it is Church-centered, and takes the Church's teachings at their own estimation:

Besides, Lord Rama and his younger brother Laxman took their teachings at Buxar.

It was his son, Christian Renatus von Zinzendorf who took his father's teachings on the relationship between sexuality and spirituality to an extreme.

I took his teachings at face value even after I unmasked him.

Even some seminary professors take his rock-hard teachings with a grain of salt.

Those interpretations, however, do not take into account many religious traditions' moral teachings about going to war and how they shape people's consciences.

But the Zen-tradition also warns against taking its teachings, the pointing finger, to be this insight itself.

The President has taken his grandfather's teachings to heart and he has worked every day to give all of us a better deal, an equal deal.

There are other pigeon experts who say people have taken St. Francis' teachings too far.