Sentences with phrase «of devout»

One associated challenge is the desire of devout individuals, especially women, to live unreservedly within the segregation of sexes or be subjected to it because of cultural, religious or marital obligations.

Perhaps because that state is the home of a large number of devout members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a.k.a. Mormons, and churches of all stripes care about such things as marriage — and sometimes hold beliefs about them that are at odds with those of civil society.

But generally, I agree that one's religious perspectives don't have much bearing on attitude to climate change, since I have met plenty of devout from all religious who are concerned about care of creation.

Inside, thousands of devout Muslims were preparing for Tarawih.

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.

This group of devout followers worship someone or something that they call Mother, which is, as Kyle soon finds out, the source of their immunity to the virus.

It's not quite as easy to skewer it when you've unwittingly become one of its devout followers.

Whether it's God or Volkswagen's engineers who need to be thanked depends on your own religious beliefs, but the prayers of devout worshippers at the church of GTI have been answered.

These filmmakers might have homed in on a disturbing truth that many of the devout refuse to confront: that people are actively fulfilled by the intolerance of their faith, resenting the idea of a God who loves everyone.

Mostly, his quandary comes down to the existence of God, with the salvation of his devout Grandpa the unspoken motivation.

Yet despite her achievements, she's remained strangely unknown outside a circle of devout cinephiles.

Turns out the man is «adopted» by a suburban family of devout Christians headed by exemplary character actors Jean Smart and Richard Jenkins.

INTO GREAT SILENCE is an intimate portrayal and examination of the life of the devout monks who live within the Grande Chartreuse, the head monastery of the reclusive Carthusian Order situated in the French Alps.

Into Great Silence INTO GREAT SILENCE is an intimate portrayal and examination of the life of the devout monks who live within the Grande Chartreuse, the head monastery of the reclusive Carthusian Order situated in the French Alps.

However, with the help of his devout follower Kaecilius, the Dark Dimension was allowed to bleed into Earth itself.

The spacecraft passengers are a mixed bag, too, including for some reason a band of devout Muslims and an antiquities dealer -LRB-!)

Online dating doesn't correct the well - documented imbalance of devout Christian women (abundant supply) to like - hearted men (a paucity), but it at least widens the net for Christians seeking partners.

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.

In Huxley's Church and Maxwell's Demon, Matthew Stanley uses the contrasting values of the devout Christian physicist James Clerk Maxwell and his contemporary — Thomas Henry Huxley, the agnostic biologist known as «Darwin's bulldog» to illustrate the transition from theistic to naturalistic science in the late nineteenth century.

He uses as his vehicle for the plot JFK's well known promiscuity, and the novel opens with the President's seduction of a devout, married, African - American woman.

I love that there's a place for a grandfatherly academic type in the ranks of managers, alongside the suave, charismatic Mourinhos and the granite - wrinkled Fergusons, and whatever brand of devout monk Pep Guardiola is.

Should I mourn, or thank him for all of his devout sacrificial service.

«1 If to be a Christian means to pray to a supreme person who can satisfy the prayers of the devout, or if a Christian is necessarily a supernaturalist who holds that God is a power who brought the world into being out of nothing, then Whitehead was not a Christian or a Christian philosopher, and it is ridiculous to try to make him the patron philosopher of a movement now called «process theology.»

For example, the bible offers no hint about needing to read either of the two contradictory creation accounts as metaphor and this fact is evidenced by the number of devout believers who, in the past or present, believe it to be «literal.»

Philomena traces the heart - wrenching journey of a devout Irish woman (played by the incomparable Judi Dench) who sets out to find her long lost son, whom she was forced to give up for adoption as a teenager by nuns who kept her like a prisoner in a convent full of other unwed mothers in the 1950s.

If the person vibrates to such concerns, the chord is religious whether or not it manages to resound in the temples and prayer houses of the devout.

Thanks be that the Lord is more forgiving and tolerant than some of the devout followers posting comments on this story.

«It's imperative that partners use a brand - new c.ondom for each act of v.aginal, an.al, or oral s.ex and put it on as soon as e.rection occurs,» the supreme pontiff said to thousands of devout Catholics while gripping the base of an anatomical teaching model and gently rolling a LifeStyles - brand condom down the shaft of the silicon p.enis.

In the eyes of the devout the «secular affairs» became so tainted that they were condemned out of hand or ignored, and the creative spiritual and intellectual movements became entirely otherworldly and divorced from reality or went into open revolt against the community, aiming at destroying rather than reforming it.

On the other side, there are millions of devout followers who wouldn't accept any evidence - no matter how concrete, that proves Jesus is not exactly what his followers have already decided he is.

But why should the worldview of a devout Catholic be more threatening than that of a thoroughly secular - minded justice?

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

And if theSacrament of Penance is linked in the minds of the People of God to a concerted effort to become saints, then it will be seen as a true life - line and an essential part of the devout life.

Many people are unaware of his devout Catholic faith — he was a daily communicant — and even fewer are aware of the fundamental importance of his faith on his creative work.

And such people ought to be the first rather than the last to understand the anxieties of the devout Christians — evangelicals, fundamentalists, orthodox Catholics and Protestants — about, precisely, the growing chaos in a country from whose public life religion has not so much disappeared but been banished.

[T] he number of the devout people in the country is increasing, as well as the number of secular people.

Hinduism is older than the Abrahamic religions and still has millions of devout followers.

In consequence, he arouses the interest of «many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes».

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.

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

The scientific pursuits of devout Christians, including clergymen, have been motivated by the belief that in studying the natural world, they would know more deeply the author of Creation.

The next time all of you devout christians feel like displaying your beliefs, talking about your delusions, just think of it this way.

During the «holocaust of Armageddo... the Antichrist will move into the Middle East and place a statue of himself in the Jewish temple... and demand that the whole world worship him as Go... Millions of devout Jews will be slaughtered (Zech.

The prevalent school of interpretation of the Psalms would see much of this testing of the king in the plaintive cries of many of these devout poems.

Leftist muslim appeasers don't understand the psyche of the devout muslim who takes things literally.

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

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.

And what about all of those devout catholic mexican democrats and baptist blacks.

This may explain the vile personalities of the devout.

Hundreds if not thousands of devout Christians paid with their lives for that cause and deserve our respect.