Sentences with phrase «devout believers»

But the two remain an extremely rare breed: devout believers in science whose teleological claims flout the rigors of scientific verification.

Something happened to him and he did a full 180 and became a believer — and not just a believer but one of the most devout believers of all.

Tom, I was a fairly devout believer for nearly 50 years.

Even for those not very devout believers, their belief is a part of how they think about themselves and for most of them god is very big.

They do believe that there are three degrees of heaven, though believing they are different planets is not as literal as you might think, they just believe that there is a place for people, even if they aren't the most devout believers.

they were devout believers trying to carry out the great commission.

I also think that many of the people who claim to be Christian are really just Pseudo-theists who just need that «God» father figure, and are not true devout believers who follow the Bible.

And many devout believers that are watch with fascination the discoveries that science uncovers.

I assume millions of devout believers pray for world peace every day.

The stillness of the picture is disarming, perhaps even glacial at times, but the tempo finds a purpose to accurately encapsulate the journey Charles was on, where he faced unimaginable displays of mortality and disapproval (his worst fear being the loss of support from devout believer Emma) as the book came together after decades of near - spiritual research.

The premise is that the Rapture occurs, in which devout believers are immediately transformed to unseen spirit form and called up to Heaven, leaving all of the sinners and non-believers on Earth to suffer the Devil's reign.

While AUTOMOBILE editors are already devout believers of winter tires, Bridgestone brought us down to South Bend, Indiana, where we sampled the latest and greatest arctic offerings from the tire maker on one of the most challenging surfaces possible: an ice rink.

Copernicus, Bacon (who developed the scientific method), Kepler, Galilei, Newton, Faraday, Mendel, Kelvin, Pasteur, Leeuwenhoek, Carver — all of whom were devout believers of one faith or another.

And whether you're a skeptic wanting more results or a devout believer overhauling your entire marketing department, many experts continue to believe it's the way of the future.

We hope ardent atheists, devout believers and every array of religion in between will join us on a pilgrimage to the new sanctuary... er, site.

One of my closest friends is a professor and a devout believer in god.

Christians and science have had a rocky history but some of the most outstanding scientific minds have been devout believers.

Otherwise, it seems insulting to people who have passed away and were devout believers of another religion other than Christianity.

As others have stated, you don't just wake up one day and say, «I'm now an atheist» when you've been a devout believer in the supernatural for so long.

As Galileo, a devout believer in God who once ended up in hot water with the Catholic church for «heretical» ideas about heliocentrism, said, «I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.»

According to a new study, that simple act could decrease your religious conviction — even if you're a devout believer.

The image a religious community or a devout believer forms of Jesus Christ is always a construct, in which some particular characteristics the New Testament ascribes to him become dominant: he is the master in whose footsteps we are to follow (Mark 1:17, etc.), the Savior who loved me and died for me (Gal.

The university is better served by an agnostic who wants the university to be Christian than by a devout believer who does not.

Prior to being athiest, I too was a devout believer inChristianity.

Listen, I was a devout believer for over 40 years.

Such churches, respecting the difference between church and state yet recognizing the cultural and practical interconnection of civic and religious life, can serve as schools for civic as well as personal virtue, for public - spirited citizens as well as for devout believers.

I am a devout believer in evolution.

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.

For any devout believer, the utmost desire is to apply the Qur» an and to imitate Muhammad.

Salvino, a devout believer in the application of body English, leaped high in the air as he rammed a strike.

Initially, we cringed at the thought of a girl coming to know Christ because she was falling for a guy who was a devout believer.

Violence is supposedly anathema to devout believers and certainly Washington is not a man to indulge in gratuitous brutality on screen.

He has already lost a son and a wife, and his insides are rotting from cancer, all of which might well drive even a devout believer to feel that God has abandoned him.

Leo was a devout believer; Patra tried to maintain an upbeat and positive attitude - to the point of exhaustion and some self denial - to keep her son alive.

The show is a particularly haunting and subtle meditation on American ignorance and superstition during our time of zealotry, demagoguery, and spectacle, where democracy is in question, and «flat earthers» have a substantial and growing following of devout believers.

People's beliefs and practices often exist on a spectrum: some devout believers seek no accommodation, while others, whose belief may not appear as deep, believe sincerely in observing rites and rituals.