Sentences with phrase «not devout»

I was brought up as a Catholic and whilst I'm not devout, I believe in loyalty and commitment and the values of the church.

I am a Christian who is engaged to marry a woman who was raised as one of Jehovahs Witnesses but she is not a devout member herself.

If you're not a devout vegan or if you don't keep up with the latest food trends, you might be wondering what exactly is jackfruit?

Being respectful of the opinions of others - if not devout themselves - they waited until the sabbath was over before they made their visit.

Muslims are not all devout fundamentalists, either.

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.

He grew up in a traditional, if not devout, Jewish household in Brooklyn.

I was one of them individuals, though, I wasn't a devout Lutheran I still attended the Church and I began to explore our history.

The World's End also isn't a devout love - letter to a specific genre.

The film isn't devout in its fidelity but it manages to cut right to the core of the book.

Not exact matches

He berated members of his local mosque and Muslim community who weren't as devout as he thought they should be.

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.

I've had 3 weeks to decide what to do about a replacement car and as much as I want to be a devout Financial Samurai, a car costing 1 / 10th my income would not work for me because I'm afraid of the mechanical issues I'll have to deal with having an older car.

Whitefield could further assume that the people who attended his outdoor assemblies thought religion a good and necessary thing, even if many individuals were not personally devout.

... The cultural divide in the United States is now almost absolute; Democratic Party liberalism, which once embraced devout Catholics and observant Jews, can not conceal its contempt for religion.

As a devout Christian, I was always taught that non-Christians would go to hell because they did not accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour.

Remember here that Jesus was a practicing and devout Jew who preached Judaism and was lammenting the fact that his people weren't doing what the Lord had asked them to do over and over again.

But in reality no one, not even the most devout religious leaders in the land believed that for a second.

I'm not the most devout Christian nor am I even sure about what I believe.

I'm a devout Christian, but I won't lie I would be crapping my pants if I was on that airplane and heard that.

You can not have your own version of Catholicism and call yourself a devout catholic; that is a convenient lie.

I won't judge this woman on how devout she thinks she is, but I truly think that she needs to understand the teaching behind this theology and how contraceptions actually disrespects a women's body.

Religion loves to capitalize on the suffering of people and chastise them for not being devout enough to avoid their unfortunate circ «umstances.

just because catholics don't believe in it that doesn't mean we can criticize others for using it and if you are a devout Catholic and believe that contraception is immoral then don't use it!

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....

I'll add that religion then puts the blame on the person for not being devout enough to avoid the unfortunate circ «umstances they have found themselves in.

Someone led the Church astray for a while, but all along there devout Christians who loved the Lord, and weren't led astray, and yes they were fighting the world, the spiritual world just like now..

You have your holy book and if you are to call yourself a true devout christian of any kind, you better follow that book to a T. I don't believe in that book, so I wouldn't dream of it.

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.

I am a catholic but I wouldn't classify myself as «devout» by any means.

I'm not widely known as a good person, much less a devout Chris tian.

Ultimately, there is every reason to believe that an atheist can be just as moral, if not more so, than the most devout religious follower.

Kind of blows holes in the Right's lies about him being a «devout Muslim», although i don't know what that means one way or another anyway...

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).

In our morally chaotic era of Hugh Hefner and Harvey Weinstein where even devout teenagers are drawn into online pornography, a fresh witness of true love is desperately needed; that it is love — not sex — that fulfils us as human beings.

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.

Interesting, has the good and devout «religious» pastor ever simply thanked God for what he does have, or even prayed for those Christians in the world who go unnoticed and for God's glory not their own?

Don't idolize sports stars (I would think the most devout would understand the concept of not praying to false idols).

But if the practices and homes of devout Mormons like the Romneys — not to mention his history as governor of Massachusetts — are any indication, we can begin to paint a picture of what a Romney - inhabited White House might look like.

If the head of some atheist coalition (I don't know what the appropriate job would be, but bear with me) became a devout Muslim, it would no longer make sense to have him on the board.

In not many years, the evidence of evolution will be too complete for even devout religious people to deny.

Nevertheless, the fact that this is true may be one reason why there is not a greater amount of devout, reverent, vital, and psychologically effective praying.

Not surprisingly, many of Europe's devout regarded the Revolution, and later its international embodiment in Napoleon Bonaparte, as a manifestation of the spirit of the Antichrist.

I can't help but wonder if all the devout religioners screaming that Hoffman doesn't merit a church funeral were quite so adamant about the Church's protection of all the child molesters and all their decades of masquerading in clerical costumes?

The disciples were devout Jews, trained not only in the ritual of their faith but in the more mystical fellowship that could say, «The nearness of God is my good,» (Psalm 73:28 as translated by J. M. Powis Smith in The Religion of the Psalms, p. 152) and

If to sophisticated thought the irrationality of bloody altars as a means of divine placation and fellowship became troublesome, the use of symbolism could come to the aid of the devout worshiper, as it has done in every other developing religion, Christianity not least of all.

Had not the sacrificial system itself, therefore, been adaptable to spiritual uses, so that devout souls could find in it ever deepening meanings, the religion of Israel would never have reached the heights that it attained.

You'd be hard pressed to find a single bit of modern scientific knowledge that wasn't discovered, or heavily influenced by, the work of devout Christians.

They didn't know about her NDR and successfully resuscitated her, and she didn't remember anything, and she was a truly devout Christian.

Funny, I heard a lecture by a devout Christian theologian who explained at length that God does not exist.