Sentences with phrase «devout men»

Traditionally, devout men and women meet spouses through friends and family.

ES: What does it look like to have Senator Rubio as president, who's obviously a devout man of faith, leading a nation that's moving in a secular direction?

It is about a devout man there, which the Bible else gives high praise for his zeal, regarding God's matter.

Acts 10:1 - 2 Now there was man at Caesarea named Cornelius, a centurion of what was called the Italian cohort, 2 a devout man and one who feared God with all his household, and gave many alms to the Jewish people and prayed to God continually.

And the Great Contraption shall be built by His humble children who dwell upon the earth upon which lays the tainted sand onto which the writing about the Great Contraption shall be written by Him... (10:15 - 21) And so shall the Great Contraption serve the humble children and transport them to all corners of the world in half the time of the fastest contemporary propeller - driven aircraft, thus shall the need no longer be great for the consumption of the foul in - flight meal, nor the mingling with the wicked air hostess in her offensive garment which does reveal the calfs of her shapely, comely and smooth white legs and nubile curvaceous buttocks which call as like a siren to the very soul of a devout man, and her breasts.

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.

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

In the temple, Luke goes on to say (2:25 - 35), Joseph and Mary encountered a righteous and devout man named Simeon.

Saul was a devout man and ardent in his faith.

Well, it is still in these richer animistic and dramatic aspects that religion delights to dwell, It is the terror and beauty of phenomena, the «promise» of the dawn and of the rainbow, the «voice» of the thunder, the «gentleness» of the summer rain, the «sublimity» of the stars, and not the physical laws which these things follow, by which the religious mind still continues to be most impressed; and just as of yore, the devout man tells you that in the solitude of his room or of the fields he still feels the divine presence, that inflowings of help come in reply to his prayers, and that sacrifices to this unseen reality fill him with security and peace.

Not of a devout man who was on his path toward enlightenment, or even balance, but of a man who lived like so many men live when they have no direction or awareness.

Russell Crowe leads the movie as the man of God who is warned of the coming disaster while Ray Winstone plays the villain of sorts, clearly not pleased at watching this devout man answering to a higher calling.

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).

Not exact matches

Entrepreneurs start out as a one - man band, add devout followers and then add skilled technicians.

Blankenship, a devout Christian who once struggled with sexual abuse, says his own ordeal has helped him to treat and «graduate» nearly 500 Christian men and women with similar addictions in the last five years.

Although he often expressed this vision obliquely, he was relentless in his criticism of those who despised faith as an anachronism: «I am not afraid to say that a devout and God - fearing man is superior as a human specimen to a restless mocker who is glad to style himself an «intellectual,» proud of his cleverness in using ideas which he claims as his own though he acquired them in a pawnshop in exchange for simplicity of heart....

«Rasputin was a man of peace, a man with an innate antipathy to bloodshed whose devout Christian faith taught him that war was a sin.»

A devout Baptist, Stutzman sold flowers to Robert Ingersoll, a gay man whom she counted as a friend, over a period of nine years.

Johan also reports the influence of his grandfather, a devout Christian, whom he saw as «the most religious man I knew.»

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

All who know him can testify that he is a devout Christian and a most amiable man.

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).

What gives the novel its gripping moral power, quite apart from the mechanics of the chase, is the fact that Brossard is not a simple hypocrite: a man who consciously pretends to repentance and devout faith merely to win the support of the churchmen who shield him.

He was a devout young man whose main sources of study were his Bible, his catechism and his hymnbook, and he read these many times over.

Never forget that the devout wise man wins his most beautiful of all victories, when the powerful one who had persecuted him wishes, so to speak, to release him, and the wise man replies: «I can not unconditionally wish to be released, for I can not know for certain that the persecution might not be good for me.»

one of my friends is a devout christian and a big sports fan, what's wrong with spending time with your fellow man and cheering for the same team.

Nothing will so enlarge the intellect, nothing so magnify the whole soul of man, as a devout, earnest, continued investigation of the great subject of the Deity.

The current special effort of some devout and sincere Baptist men to «keep women in their place» is based on their official assertion that «man was first in creation, and woman was first in the Edenic fall,» which twists the meaning of Eve's creation from Adam's rib and puts the blame for original sin on females.

Men like Washington, Payne, and Adams and many others were deeply devout Christians.

Donald Trump has essentially proven that, even for a likely non-Christian, a caucasian conservative can command the blessing and endorsements of Evangelical America in ways that a devout, black Christian man never could.

I was most deeply moved by the way this lovable man prayed, so devout and so certain that God heard his prayer.

I am a bit perplexed why the Democratic National Committee would invite Cardinal Dolan since clearly he is not a a subtle man and these are the issues that many devout Catholics are focused on right now (see this video for a widely distributed campaign commercial).

Though many were either illiterate or not very religious, many others could write and were indeed devout» men such as Colonel Patrick Guiney of Massachusetts, who lost his eye and his health at Chancellorville and wrote to his wife, «God rules in Peace and War» in the circumstances and the catastrophe.»

Place one man in front of a church full of devout people, place a second man in front of an emergency trauma center.

The early Ottoman sultans were devout Muslims and good commanders who knew how to surround themselves with men of merit and learning — which is perhaps the main reason for their success in building an empire.

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).

I see them as sincere, honest, devout young men who usually haven't seen an equal treatment of these two faiths.

A man manifestly intelligent and devout, but with a knack for making providence sound like karma, argued that all are guilty through original sin but some more than others, that our «sense of justice» requires us to believe that «punishments and rewards [are] distributed according to our just desserts,» that God is the «balancer of accounts,» and that we must suppose that the suffering of these innocents will bear «spiritual fruit for themselves and for all mankind.»

I have heard of a great many brilliant men and women in all areas of life and every vocation who were devout Christians.

I understand why some, including some devout religious conservatives, argue that they recognize the moral and temperamental unfitness of a man such as Trump for the nation's highest office, but feel they must cast their ballots for him in an effort to forestall the very real perils of a Supreme Court increasingly hostile to the most basic of religious freedoms and constitutional restraints.

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.

I honestly hesitate to criticise him, not least because he appears to be a personally devout, good and humble man, and a highly accomplished scholar, who will no doubt be enjoying the Beatific Vision while I am still trudging around the lower levels of Mount Purgatory.

It is becoming an incorporated, internal part of the fact of being a Christian that other intelligent, devout, and righteous men are Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists.

So the Recess spoke of a further German Diet at which a «Christian reformation by devout and peace loving men» would be discussed.

A science might come to understand everything about the causes and elements of religion, and might even decide which elements were qualified, by their general harmony with other branches of knowledge, to be considered true; and yet the best man at this science might be the man who found it hardest to be personally devout.

Tell a devout Christian that his wife is having an affair or that frozen yogurt can make a man invisible and he is likely to require as much evidence as anyone else and to be persauded only to the extent that you give it.

We all know of particularly devout persons who pounce upon their amazed fellow men at work, on the street, in the street - car with the sudden question, Tell me, are you converted?

Charlie Tate arrived at Miami in 1964, after five years assisting Bobby Dodd at Georgia Tech, but he had long been a devout Florida man.

And he's an uncommonly kind and self - deprecating man, a devout Christian who neither is bashful about his beliefs nor wears them on his sleeve.

When the revered and highly influential Sheik Abdulraheem Aduanigba, Chief Imam Yoruba Ilorin and Chief Imam of Yoruba land, a deeply courageous, wise, God - fearing, pious, devout and righteous man called for the emancipation of the Yoruba Muslims from Fulani domination and manipulation and insisted on the liberation of Ilorin from Fulani hegemony he was promptly arrested and briefly detained by Buhari's Fulani - controlled police.