Sentences with phrase «from devout»

The mystery of John Houghton is not this paragraph, which is excellent, but why we have never heard a peep from the devout Methoodist about the IPCC failing to live up to it.

She goes from devout student to almost sociopathic in her attempt to reach the truth in her own way.

El Presidente and his entourage are pleased to hear from their devout followers.

Remember, there's one thing that sets the casual fan from the devout follower: belief!

The Monster Hunter series has garnered plenty of success in its native Japan, yet remains a relative stranger to western audiences, apart from a devout minority of fans.

The not - entirely - sympathetic central character aside, the movie also deserves recognition for its unexpectedly intimate focus on Vinny's close - knit Rhode Island brood (whose outrageousness Younger claims to have toned down for the movie), from his devout Catholic mother Louise (Katey Sagal) who can't bear to watch his fights to his fiancé - berating sister.

Julia @ Lord Still Loves me recently posted... Learning to Say «No» From A Devout People Pleaser

He and his wife Martha — with whom he has partnered to build his baby empire — converted from devout Catholics to devout evangelicals for many years (they have recently converted back).

Coming from a devout Catholic!!!

Though never baptized as an infant, Kateri had received rudimentary knowledge about Catholicism from her devout mother (who had once been a captive, before marrying into the Mohawk nation and receiving full rights).

By Dan Merica and Eric Weisbrod, CNN Washington (CNN)-- It has been a year since Matisyahu, the famed Hasidic reggae star, shaved his beard, separated from his devout following of Orthodox Judaism and said he was ready for a «rebirth.»

CNN: Q and A with Matisyahu: «Hasidic reggae superstar» sans the Hasidim has been a year since Matisyahu, the famed Hasidic reggae star, shaved his beard, separated from his devout following of Orthodox Judaism and said he was ready for a «rebirth.»

Whatever happened to the blind obedience that the Vatican always assumed it could count on from the devout laity?»

They prayed together as a matter of course - all came from devout and practising Catholic families.

Part of what seems obvious to me is that your comments, opinions, and writings appear to stem from devout solitude such as Henri Nouwen wrote of in «Clowning in Rome».

She was a devout woman from a devout family; all those prayers to save her life went unanswered.

But despite it's impressive concept, Activision is getting significant blowback from devout gamers over the plan.

Not exact matches

It took seven minutes of a «South Park» episode to change a devout Muslim's features from an entertained smile to complete disapproval.

The «religiously devout» is important, for Geck puts to death the notion, prominent from the early 1960s through the 1980s, that correct dating of Bach's cantata production proves that his interest in writing liturgical music was a professional obligation only and that Bach had no abiding commitment to the religious texts he was paid to set.

Got ta love how the Pope will endorse condoms for people he perceives couldn't possibly get any more immoral, but forbids the devout layperson from protecting their bodies, their personal temples, when they choose to sin.

As a devout Christian, he spent a lot of energy trying to keep his porn a secret, especially from his wife, Debbie.

An overly long article describing how the devout struggles over something no one cares about, and a professional opinion from BU telling us that these religious nutjobs are taking things way too seriously.

When Christians usurped Jesus from the Jews and made him over in the image they imagined for him it was easy to dismiss the truth in favor of the dogma, and therein lies the fundamental flaw in Christianity — Jesus was a devout Jew!

Paulo Kashaku, a devout Christian, had multiple divine visions — the first of which was from the spirit of his deceased daughter who told him to expect Heavenly visitation.

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.

Galileo, a devout Catholic, was anxious to prevent the Church from condemning a scientific theory that might eventually be proved to betrue.

The nonbelievers came from as far afield as Ireland and France, but most described themselves as refugees from the heart of the South - atheist anomalies amid fiercely devout friends, family and neighbors.

The mention of the resurrection evokes from one of the guests a devout ejaculation, «Blessed is he who shall eat bread in the kingdom of God!»

From a modern point of view we can only regard such a story as a devout legend.

A devout Christian believes God has an influence on everything in the Universe, from the structure of the Andromeda Galaxy to whether your favorite sandwich is still served at your favorite restraunt.

The call was clear to a sober, devout life, filled with a spirit different from that of the riotous passions and self - seeking lusts of the world.

But since Mary and Joseph were devout Jews, and Jesus quotes so often from the Old Testament, we can surmise that he grew up an eager, thoughtful boy, saturated in the wisdom of the Jewish Scriptures.

Christians wear a cross... Mormon cultists worship their Mormon Magical Underwear lol, they believe it protects them from evil and the most devout shall never take them off.Can you Imagine how nasty Romneys magical pantys are from never taking them off being a cult bishop lol.

Poor Rush, he is a devout puritanical Old Testament Christian (Puritans believed how prosperous you were determined your standing with God) While the new Pope is teaching from New Testament principles spoken by Christ in Mathew, Mark, Luke and John.

I'm actually a devout Christian and just came back from serving a two year mission for my church but I can appreciate good humor.

But fear not, my fellow Christians and other persons of moral (if not devout Catholic) beliefs... someday President Obama will be judge from the One on High.

The dominant interpretation, derived from Franco - German scholarship of the nineteenth century, emphasized material aspects: political contest and domination in the Near East; the social structures of the Levantine crusader principalities viewed, especially by Francophone scholars, through the lens of modern colonialism; cultural confrontation and exchange through settlement and trade, a topos made familiar by eighteenth - century Enlightenment writers seeking to integrate the Crusades into a narrative of European progress; military adventurism that exposed the mentality of crusaders — heroic, passionate, devout, or misguided according to taste.

There is a measure of validity in the mystical «ladder of perfection» which finds a progression in the devout life from purgation through illumination to communion or union with God.

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.

Jim came from a Scottish working - class background and was the son of devout Roman Catholic parents.

So if you find my beliefs wrong — then atleast know I am doing my best to keep distance from those that feel they are religious and devout — but their behavior, words and action > speak different.

@bleh64 Doesn't saying someone is a hypocrite automatically disqualify them from being devout?

Liberal Catholicism has many mansions, and depending on how the term is used, it can sweep in everything from worldly prep schools «in the Jesuit tradition» to passionately ascetic Catholic Worker houses, everyone from the all - but - lapsed Catholic who shows up at Mass twice a year to the devout Catholic who attends every Sunday but felt glad for his gay nephew when the Supreme Court ruled for same - sex marriage.

At the end of World War II, General de Gaulle, also a devout Catholic, received a letter from Boa Dia, the emperor of the Annamite Kingdom of Tonkin, written at the request of the leader of the local resistance to the Japanese, Ho Chi Minh.

While I commend Beck for advocating charity (even if he does it mostly to make political points), if people like Beck and Santorum are such devout, outspoken Christians, why were they not vocal in support of the long - standing Vatican and Christian position that the War in Iraq violated Christian Just War Criteria from the beginning, and vociferously denounce the draft - dodging, war profiteers and religious hypocrites who started it?

Available for the next few weeks, BBC iPlayer has an interesting exploration of astronomical possibilities for the Star of Bethlehem (though beware a juvenile short section from The Life of Brian, and a lazy equivalence of pre-modern science astrology and «devout Christianity».

The devout Jews thronging the streets of Jerusalem at Shabuot, or the Feast of Weeks, in celebration of the day the Ten Commandments were revealed to Moses, were in one sense not too different from Jesus» followers in the upper room.

You speak very differently from most any devout christian I have ever met.

Quite a contrast with the hubbub below of milling crowds of religious pilgrims, devout Jews from everywhere, Phrygia, Egypt, Cappadocia, Judea, Libya --

Devout Catholics gather in Intramuros to view the ninety statues of the Virgin Mary from different parts of the Philippines being carried through the streets of the walled city of Intramuros.