Sentence examples for Full of devotion from inspiring English sources

After elaborate purifications, the worshipers who must be initiated, full of devotion toward the guru and God, have control over themselves, be well prepared and pure of heart, know the mysteries of the scriptures, and look forward to the adoration with eagerness make the prescribed offerings, worship the power of the Divine Mother, and recite the relevant mantras.

Woman should lean on man as her strong protector and guardian in the hard battle of life, [and should be] full of devotion as his spouse and the mother of his children.

Abraham Lincoln knew what he was doing at the graves of the fallen soldiers at Gettysburg when he vowed "increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion", rather than "increased devotion to that cause which they gave the last full measure of devotion for".

The dead had set a task for the living -- that we "take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion".

And they don't even try to comprehend the cause for which the Union dead gave the last full measure of devotion.

The soldiers who "gave the last full measure of devotion" at Gettysburg so that the "nation might live" were Union soldiers.

At the same time, we struggle to understand the courage of the men who fought and, as Lincoln said in the Gettysburg Address, "gave the last full measure of devotion".

Memorial Day began after the Civil War as Decoration Day, a ceremony to place flowers on the graves of those who had given the last full measure of devotion in America's bloodiest war.

"Four score and seven years ago" -- a sonorous way of recalling the founding of the nation 87 years before he spoke -- is a phrase many now recite by rote, as is "the last full measure of devotion".

Abraham Lincoln gave the last full measure of devotion to support-the-troops language 142 years ago, when he called on the nation "to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan". Yesterday, Clinton had this to say of the troops: "They don't have the luxury of passing the buck to somebody else.

"If we turn a blind eye and a deaf ear when totalitarian regimes brutalize the hopes and dreams of people, we demean the valor of every person who struggles for human dignity and freedom--and all those who have given the last full measure of devotion". Reagan used the speech to stress his defense buildup as well as his foreign policy.