Quite a few of his ancestors had been men of the cloth, and he was raised in the faith by devout parents. |
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My parents don't have much of a religious background, but my maternal grandmother is a very devout southern baptist. |
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By what right does the developed world claim the moral high ground over poorer, but religiously devout, societies? |
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Their rudimentary shelters are spotless, and for church on Sundays the congregation is always neatly dressed, attentive and devout. |
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The group has many attractions, notably its high visibility, industry leading presence and devout customer loyalty. |
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It's something they can't do while being held hostage in their own cities, and the numbers of devout travelers have dropped to a trickle. |
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The kirpan has deep religious significance to devout Sikhs and is not a weapon. |
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A devout minimalist permanently clad in monochromatic shades of black and grey, she's the ultimate cartoon embodiment of design. |
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Albeit there is a wide spectrum of orthodoxy, ranging from the devout to those who ignore the Gods. |
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As the parable implies, the fervently devout may have a harder time admitting their sins of commission and omission than the less observant. |
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The surrounding area is full of mosques and its residents number many devout Muslims. |
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This prompted my question as to whether she was devout in her personal religion. |
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Sure, he is a driven man, pushed by the mystical forces that inform the devout. |
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These are reflections of unquestioning belief and acceptance, like the devout homages of the Master of Ghent or a Fra Angelico. |
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I was most deeply moved by the way this lovable man prayed, so devout and so certain that God heard his prayer. |
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All of which grounds him in a conventionally moral and religiously devout realm. |
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So we have an enormous amount of evidence of widespread religious behaviour and of devout behaviour as well. |
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Sometimes, though rarely, one may even find a devout religious exclamation. |
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A meal here is a devout religious observance, and also a session of psychotherapy. |
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Every desire is either a devout or a distorted enticement to the glory of heaven. |
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I'm a devout monarchist, a professed atheist, and I'm working on my fourth novel. |
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James was also a devout Presbyterian who saw his management system as an expression of his obligation to other human beings. |
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Corridors are floored with black linoleum, which deadens noise and adds to the devout atmosphere, as if science were some kind of holy order. |
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And it was from this popular pulpit that he delivered his 23-year preachment to a faithful congregation of devout and devoted readers. |
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A devout follower of Christ, Cora cannot understand or accept Addie's lack of religious observance. |
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As a political liberal who is also a devout Baptist, I have grudging admiration for my conservative coreligionists. |
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Now the third important point related to government regulation is the aim of religion education is to develop pious and devout students. |
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On the cross, Jesus wears the phylacteries of a devout Jew and holds the Torah scroll in his right hand. |
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Her grandma was very devout and the peal of bells was a familiar sound to her in the mornings. |
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Their members took the traditional monastic vows, but devoted their lives to pastoral work, aiming to produce a well-instructed and devout laity. |
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For the devout Hindus who pray at tiny ponds and puddles, the Saraswati is both a real river and a deity. |
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Ambrose, thought I to myself, my devout Ambrose is either at church, or abominably lazy this morning. |
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There are many traditional dispensationalists in the churches and many of them are very devout students of Scripture. |
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Salieri, who has risen from humble origins to his position of eminence through sheer hard work, is a deeply devout man. |
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Opponents relentlessly portrayed the quiet, devout Rachel as an adulteress at best, more often as a seductress and loose woman. |
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Before us was the devout audience, dimly shown by the light which streamed through the windows. |
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Here's a sort of companion post to the previous one, in being about some of the things said and done in the name of devout belief. |
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Few espouse political ideologies of any sort, since devout beliefs can impede one's effectiveness as a peacekeeper. |
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When I was brought back to faith it was through the prayers of my devout mother. |
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He is also noted as supervising a translation of the New Testament into English for a devout laywoman. |
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But this is just speculation and there may be many members of the Church who live devout lives. |
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Although a devout Sikh, he took part in religious acts with Muslims and Hindus as well. |
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At the same time he was a believer in all sorts of myths and mysteries, and a devout worshipper of divinities both Greek and Oriental. |
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Christina, like her mother and sister Maria, was a devout High Anglican, much influenced by the Tractarians. |
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With Choiseul gone, the devout party was in the ascendant and d' Aiguillon's appointment to the ministry imminent. |
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Most of my college professors and intellectual mentors were devout atheists. |
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No one struggling to live the devout life will fail to recognize that prayer. |
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Their singing is wonderfully mellow, noble, and, at the same time, devout, creating an atmosphere of calmness and reflection. |
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In the months following the death of our newborn daughter, I had remained steadfast in my faith, devout and prayerful. |
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The Austria-based restaurant was first noted by the scholar and monk Albuin, who was a devout follower of Charlemagne. |
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Tanner, son of a clergyman and a foe of drinking and smoking, was generally devout and upright. |
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Bob Marley was a devout Rasta, as many of his songs revealed. |
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Alicia is a devout atheist, if devout can be used to describe someone who does not believe in a God. |
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The Moravians were an industrious, inventive, highly organized, devout people who valued education for all. |
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Hobby Lobby, which sells arts and crafts materials, is owned by devout Southern Baptists. |
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Yezad, on the other hand, gradually reverts to the Parsi religious practice of his ancestors, in spite of his earlier skepticism and to the delight of his devout wife. |
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Hence it was that a certain devout soul compared the heart of Jesus to a burning furnace in which He voluntarily suffered from the ardent flames of Divine love. |
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Moreover, taking the life of a sentient being is repugnant, a sin that prevents many devout Buddhists from slaughtering animals. |
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One day, she might appear in the character of a devout young mother, peeping shyly from a giant mantilla as she explains the importance of the Virgin Mary. |
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To the vast majority of the devout, Pope Benedict XVI is infallible and the church has done nothing wrong. |
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It was MacLeod who came out with the view, which was extremely bold at the time, that a devout Highland Calvinist could have a place for the Mod and the culture. |
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It is informed, reflective, undemonstratively devout and confident. |
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Abstaining from alcohol or tobacco did little to soothe hunger pangs and gave rise to occasional bouts of short temper even among the more devout. |
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Second, individual killers rarely come from the most devout, philosophically consistent, or pure strands of their religion. |
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A devout presbyterian and crusading liberal, he struggled mightily to put his grand ideals into practice. |
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Hammer is a devout Orthodox Jew and the son of a synagogue cantor. |
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The kneeling nuns, roused from their devout abstraction, made their reverence and went away. |
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Like all the sects, its majority are devout families, headed by hundreds of orders of swamis and sadhus who follow the fiery, world-renouncing path to moksha. |
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Its protagonist, an earnest but questioning clergyman, resigns his orders for a life of social service in the East End, to the distress of his devout wife Catherine. |
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Many temples were built by devout first-generation Indian immigrants. |
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The work of a humble but devout countrywomen with considerable artistic talent, they provide a unique glimpse into traditional Ethiopian life and labor. |
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The devout unroll a small prayer rug and face Mecca to pray. |
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Piety tinged with pride created dozens of magnificent churches across the island as devout villagers strove to outdo one another in the grandness of their places of worship. |
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Raised as a devout Calvinist, he believed a conversion experience was necessary for salvation, but doubted he had had one. |
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She was not devout or overly religious but she went to temples and kirtans regularly. |
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George was deeply devout and spent hours in prayer, but his piety was not shared by his brothers. |
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In the ancien regime, new opportunities for nuns as charitable practitioners were created by devout nobles on their own estates. |
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It has come to be a mark of narrowness and fossilhood to be a devout believer in Christ and His Cross. |
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A major aspect of the French Revolution was the dechristianisation movement, a movement strongly rejected by many devout people. |
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Especially when it involves trying to force-feed Quinton Ross and his devout friends their last supper? |
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They prospered on this trade in potential disease among the devout, and the population grew. |
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In Judaism, the number of seeds in a pomegranate is said to be the exact number of mitzvah, or spiritual duties required of a devout Jew. |
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These young hip-hoppers, however, say they're devout Muslims who simply want to express themselves. |
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As with so many beer styles, we have monasteries to thank for doppelbock, in particular the devout monks of St. Francis of Paula. |
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Hezbollah has for many years actively discouraged violent self-flagellation and encouraged the devout to donate blood instead. |
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Howie is a humorlessly devout Scots Presbyterian, which makes him the brunt of much amusement among the more libertine villagers. |
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Raised in a Calvinistic Methodist home, he was a devout child who attended church regularly and memorized scripture at night. |
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It is there that the devout affections, undisturbed by other faculties, are incessantly in efflux. |
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One can imagine the devout Doylist wringing his hands over every fresh appearance of Sir Arthur in the character of an exponent of spiritualism. |
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Henry was known for his public demonstrations of piety, and appears to have been genuinely devout. |
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Brought up a devout evangelical, as a young man he suddenly lost his religious faith. |
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His mother, Mari Lewis, is a devout member of the Calvinistic Methodists and seeks to bring her two boys up in the same faith. |
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Stevenson's parents were both devout and serious Presbyterians, but the household was not strict in its adherence to Calvinist principles. |
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In the 19th century and well into the 20th, Basques as a group remained notably devout and churchgoing. |
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Members of this religious group were devout followers of a Dutch mystic named Hendrik Niclaes. |
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He was more devout in his faith, and persecution of Protestant subjects ceased. |
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Among these gifts was reputed to be a piece of the true cross, a true treasure for the devout Saxon king. |
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Johann Sebastian Bach, a devout Lutheran, composed music for the Lutheran church. |
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She loved to play cards and shocked devout Protestants by playing on Sundays. |
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Then the call to prayer is made as he cleans his teeth with a miswak, a special type of stick that devout Muslims use to clean their teeth and freshen their breath. |
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It is claimed that the next best thing a golf widow can do if she cannot fill her lonely hours with croquet is to assume a devout interest in her husband's game. |
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Expansion of the empire was guided by a militaristic interpretation of Nahua religion, specifically a devout veneration of the sun god, Huitzilopochtli. |
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In the older half of our sample the nondevout women are somewhat more orgastic than the devout, but in the younger half of the sample it is the devout who are more orgastic. |
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Bismarck, a devout pietistic Protestant, realized his Kulturkampf was backfiring when secular and socialist elements used the opportunity to attack all religion. |
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As a devout Anglican and believer in scriptural authority, Jennens intended to challenge advocates of Deism, who rejected the doctrine of divine intervention in human affairs. |
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Johnson was a devout, conservative Anglican and a compassionate man who supported a number of poor friends under his own roof, even when unable to fully provide for himself. |
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Where, that is, are its devout documentarians, its passionate novelists? |
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The label's most successful release to date featured Matisyahu, a famously devout Lubavitcher Hassid and highly accomplished reggae singer and beatboxer. |
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This fall, millions of devout Muslims will descend upon Mecca, Medina, and Saudi Arabia's holy sites in one of the largest annual migrations in human history. |
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Lord Shaftesbury, a devout Evangelical, campaigned to improve the conditions in factories, in mines, for chimney sweeps, and for the education of the very poor. |
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Occasionally, Hathaway says he experiences a culture clash when devout parents die and their nonpracticing children decide a traditional funeral service is unnecessary. |
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During the annual Sukkot holiday, devout families recreate the nomadic experience of their ancestors by erecting sukkahs in back gardens and on balconies. |
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Meanwhile, Edward was brought up as a strict and devout Protestant by numerous tutors, including Bishop Richard Cox, John Belmain, and Sir John Cheke. |
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