Sentences with phrase «so devout»

Even though the HomePod is a relatively underwhelming smart speaker in terms of voice assistant features, Apple's brand loyalty is probably second to none, so devout fans will most likely flock Apple stores to buy this speaker.

Truth be told, apart from the all - wheel drive factor, this scribe never saw the appeal of the Impreza... but after spending a week travelling from coast to high - country and through the city, I'm beginning to see why buyers are so devout.

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

But they were not so devout that they were beyond bending a few rules.

Those ever so devout puritans who had no problems feigning charity so as to decimate an entire culture with smallpox blankets...

Little Betty is not praying so often, because she is so devout.

So devout and so certain that God heard his prayer».

Hey, Gabriel, since you're so devout and want to follow Biblical law to the letter, we're relying on you to turn yourself in if you've ever eaten shrimp or played with your weenie.

If she is so devout that she has to display a symbol in a specific place, then she can live in a place that allows her to do that.

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

Oh, Khalid, you are so devout and pious.

It's not like EVERYONE here is so devout during the month of December that they are thinking of Jesus... they're thinking of Christmas and presents, let's be real.

Not exact matches

So much for being devout.

When my time comes, I hope to find a clergyman devout and strong enough in his faith to challenge me to a duel and slay me in battle so that I might enter Odin's hall in Valhalla.

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.

So I believe the President and his devout to our Faith.

I also have a copy of Jewish religious texts, Islamic texts and a few other faiths texts and can speak intelligently with the devout of any of them and have done so.

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.

and second, the approach to God by way of animal offerings had been so central in Judaism that, while the sacrifices were always accompanied by supplications, they had competed with personal prayer, had furnished for many people a public substitute for it, so that when the bloody altars were gone a devout rabbi could mingle his exaltation of private communion with the lament «We have nothing to bring but prayer.»

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?

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.

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.»

Funny how those folks were «devout» in either the Christian, Muslim and Hebrew faith and feel they are right to do so for their «real» god.

So, to me, the real question becomes do you, as a devout Christian, vote for someone that has rejected the Bible and its Christian tenets in favor of a different path to salvation, or someone that actually does believe in the Bible and its Christian tenets but interprets those tenets in a less literal way that seems to run counter to your more literal beliefs?

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.

So in the end, the tough - minded, post-Story people and the more traditionally devout people may give the same short answer to our question.

For example, many people treat the possibility of rehabilitation behind prison walls with the same skeptical indifference that even devout Catholics now bestow upon purgatory: We can't even fathom how moral change happens, if at all, in either place, so we leave its remote possibility up to God.

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.

I know nothing which can so comfort the soul; so calm the swelling billows of sorrow and grief; so speak peace to the winds of trial, as a devout musing upon the subject of the Godhead.

In William Law's book A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, the author asks «why the generality of Christians fall so far short of the holiness and devotion of Christianity.»

The sun has set, and the Sabbath is technically over, so now devout Jews may bring their sick to Jesus without fear of breaking the law.

As others have stated, you don't just wake up one day and say, «I'm now an atheist» when you've been a devout believer in the supernatural for so long.

I have friends who are devout and prayerful Christians but who sincerely do not accept certain doctrines of the Catholic Church, and so continue within one of the various other Christian denominations.

... you can claim free will and by so cover all of the human actions done to the world but how can say that god is real and controls nature when nature has killed more purely innocent lives then anything in history ever... if god was just and comp@ssinate why send the wave that killed 300 thousand, why create the plague that killed nearly 75 million in the middle ages when nearly everyone was a VERY devout believer....

In a glowing review of a movie called A Perfect Family, Rex Reed writes that the main character Eileen is «a devout, self - obsessed Catholic so enslaved by dogma and ritual that she crosses herself and gives thanks to God before she so much as eats a vegetarian tamale.»

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.

So for the past 30 + years we've been told at loud volumes by Republicans that in order to be morally qualified to be POTUS, the candidate had to be a devout, god fearing Christian.

I was born to 2 devout Catholics so I ought to know.

If you are ok with a God that intentionally inflicts suffering on a devout and loving follower just to prove a point, so be it, the argument is over.

he was a devout xian and god - hating demons love the guy, so that answers that

If the nature miracles may be regarded as devout legends, the healing miracles can not be disposed of so easily.

Is the result of being devout that one becomes intellectually and aesthetically insensitive so that the actualities of this world are no longer available to us?

The two greatest physicists in the nineteenth century, Faraday and Maxwell, were not only devout but unusually so, even by the standards of their day.

On a more serious side, I have do have a problem believing in a personal God who supposedly has my best interests in mind — especially when I see thousands of certainly devout Christians rendered homeless by tornados, or dozens randomly killed by so - called «acts of God.»

I am a devout Christian and I do not hold those views and I know others that feel the same so... to cut and paste «sorry» but you are attempting to lump all Christians in together.

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.

The «My Take: An American tradition of bigotry» nonsense, written by some lily white (ironic that's the case, considering this guy is a devout follower of «tolerance») person claiming that whites are so bad.

So what makes you think that you know what the most devout sects of those who believe in Christ or God are doing or thinking or who they are?

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.

I learned a lot by observing and one of the things that just never could jive for me was how so many of the «devout» people I was around who touted those so - called «doctrines of grace» seemed to actually be all about doctrine... and none about grace.