Brent, 17, 20: Brent describes augury as the "spiritual equivalent of consulting the polls."

"Yet without the spiritual equivalent of a carrot or stick, keeping some people on the narrow path is impossible, so some moralists consider predestination a lousy motivator."

The spiritual equivalent of your Friday.

Well, the spiritual equivalent of them, then.

They were the spiritual equivalent of the trivial activities that kept her busy and Henry subdued.

About the size of laptops, such pictures operate as the spiritual equivalent of wireless communication, linking earth and heaven.

A spiritual equivalent of Wutra's worm was now at large in the labyrinths of Yuli's thought.

Breathing under water, which, of course, is impossible, is, Mr. Baran-czak says, the spiritual equivalent to living under Communism.

The normal human feelings are transmuted into what seem on the surface their spiritual equivalents.

If I remembered my herb books correctly, lavender put a damper on the sensual passions and sage was a cleanser, the spiritual equivalent of Ajax.