Sentences with phrase «devout father»

Persecuted at school for her beliefs and struggling with her distant, devout father at home, young Judith finds solace and connection in a model in miniature of the Promised Land that she has constructed in her room from collected discarded scraps - the Land of Decoration.

The main focus of the story is Chad Cutler (Fassbender) and his young family, and how this relationship is put under strain by the negative influence of his religiously devout father, Colby (Brendan Gleeson).

How about a poem to celebrate the unsung heroism of many a hard - working, devout father in our increasingly Feminist world?

Though he doesn't have tons of extra time, he's a huge music fan, Ironman athlete, devout father to three boys, amazing skier, small wave surfer, dog lover, philanthropic organizer, and fortunate to have a wonderful lady by his side every day.

Not exact matches

The FACT is that the vast majority of the founding fathers were devout, God fearing men.

Two comments.One, the atheist / materialist claims that he / she... «Did «nt believe in free will»... O.K.Should we take that to mean some mindless, heretofore unknown force apllied those words in your behalf?Did someone put the proverbial «gun to your head «and force you to post your comments?we await you presumably forced answer with bated breath.Two.As for Mr.Gingrich, beware.Politics aside, the one question yet remains for Calista: How did you, a professed «devout «Roman Catholic, carry on a 6 - year affair with a man you knew was married?How does that square with the Biblical prohibition against committing adultery?Oh wait!I know!As a «devout «Roman Catholic you can sin with impunity; just go to your priest, say a couple of «hail Marys and Our Fathers», ask the priest to bless your sinning, and resume.Of course!I had forgetton how easily Catholics excuse their trangressions (ex opere operato, anyone).

His father was reported to be lukewarm in his faith, but his mother was very devout.

In a statement released by the FCO, his family said: «We are all deeply saddened by the loss of Ian, a loving father, husband, and devout Christian, who dedicated much of his life in the service of others.

Raised by a devout Christian mother and a staunch atheist father, Jan followed in his father's footsteps, and spent his entire life looking down on organized religion.

My grandmother on my father's side was devout Russian Orthodox.

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.

He was a more impressive figure than our own Founding Fathers in at least three respects: He had been a slave for most of his life; he was a famously devout Christian; and his accomplishment remains unmatched to this day, for the Haitian Revolution is still the only successful slave revolt in history.

Rather than search for articles on him I would like to pass along my father's impression of him (he is a white man and devout Christian for what it's worth).

All this devout holy man did was say that grown men can't be blamed for raping a child when that child offers them the hugs and affection — hugs and affection they can't give to their absentee father.

Why does everyone care about what Billy Graham says, just because his father was a devout man of God doesn't make him a Christian or man of God that people should look up to, just as much as Obama's father being a Muslim doesn't make the President a Muslim.

Take the family of Augustine, for example; his mother was a devout Christian, but his father was originally a pagan.

My father is a devout man — a knight in the venerable Order of St. John in fact.

Apparently unknown to my mother's relatives, my father was a moderate, as well as a devout Christian.

His father is «a devout Christian who sings in his church every week.»

In the early 1980s, company founder Robert «Bob» Garcia divided his time between being a husband, father and devout golfer.

But when Tiger's protege and devout major planner, world No. 1 and defending champ Jason Day, played his first - ever 18 holes on the New Jersey track the day before the tourney kicked off, you know this is not your father's PGA.

Balancing all the unsavory characters: an eccentric aging writer (M. Emmet Walsh), Father James» devoted old Labrador retriever, his feisty altar boy and a Frenchwoman who remains devout after she loses her husband in a car crash.

Father Toller possesses a faith so devout that he nearly turns himself inside out trying to live up to it.

After the duo flee father / husband Christopher (Sean Bean) and a cop (Laurie Holden) and arrive at the titular town, mother and daughter are separated, instigating a maternal - instinct driven quest by Rose which involves descending into Hades, fleeing demons, and combating devout fanatics who, in their desire to avert the apocalypse by righteously burning supposed witches, have unleashed a plague of unholy, vengeful darkness.

As drama begins to surround Father Adam, «In The Name Of...» develops into a thoughtful, distinctive portrait of a truly devout man struggling to come to terms with himself (notably after developing a relationship with a Jesus lookalike youth at the center for difficult boys he devotes time to).

How these two seemingly disparate sides were reconciled in one man and what molded his obsessive need to accumulate wealth and disperse it makes Titan (6 hours) both an intimate portrait of the man as terrifying tycoon, loving father, devout Baptist, and quirky eccentric and an in - depth look at American business at its most flamboyant.

He may be a good devout churchgoing man as well, a man who loves his kids and his dogs and is a good husband and father, but so what?

Father of 5 and grandfather of 19, Dr. Rock, a devout Catholic, believed his church should accept the birth control pill, which he saw as comparable to the so - called «rhythm method» because it mimicked the body's natural endocrine chemistry.