Sentences with phrase «devout life book»
[17] Bishop of Geneva (1567 - 1622) Introduction to the Devout Life Book 3, ch23.
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In William Law's book A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, the author asks «why the generality of Christians fall so far short of the holiness and devotion of Christianity.»
i was a devout believer once... i have read the bible many times from an unbiased point of view — the issues came when i asked questions and people kept sayin you HAVE TO TAKE IT ON FAITH... if faith is all thats needed, why the book, why the 10 commanments????? i have seen horrors in life, and in my lifetime — stuff that if god existed then i find him no more worth worshiping then the pipe that helps me sleep at night.
The devout are not faithful, for the most part, because they read about God in a book, or have never got beyond a slavish innocent reliance on what their elders told them, but out of deep life experience.