Sentence examples for devoted to church from inspiring English sources

Sundays were devoted to church.

Ryan is tall, laconic, devoted to church and family, rural by upbringing and current residence and urban only by the temporary necessity of playing major-league ball.

Though devoted to church ritual and personal prayer, he was a tenacious and realistic politician, not adverse to alliances with heathen powers.

All business connected with them was to be transacted in the name of the trust, the proceeds from selling them were to be handled by it, and the money was to be devoted to church work and education.

She also devised frequent programmes devoted to church music, for performance at Aldeburgh parish church.

Older students can bring professional experience, but they have fewer years to devote to church service.

I'm thinking of a scenario I've seen repeatedly in various iterations: someone discovers as they move through adulthood that their church does not reflect their core values – a realisation that undermines relationships with friends and family still devoted to the church.

He was devoted to the church, which he had served since boyhood and which gave his scholarship a practicality beyond performance.

The Holy See's spokesman added that some of the allegations – such as questions about how more than 50% of a charity called Peter's Pence was devoted to the church bureaucracy known as the Curia, and not the poor – could be subject to different interpretations.

He is not at all an "intellectual," has no special scholarly interest, but is much devoted to his church, the Syrian Jacobite Church, which long antedates the Greek and boasts that its line comes direct from the Holy See of Antioch, founded by Peter, and that it ruled at one time the whole Christian East.

At one point she tells her pastor: "I don't think people should be devoted to the church..