Sentence examples for devotees to be from inspiring English sources

Like Vishnu, Shiva is held by devotees to be the entire universe, yet he is worshipped in various manifestations and in hundreds of local temples.

Ritual magic has also been used in those religions that require their devotees to be initiated by ceremonies of rebirth (e.g., baptism in water in Christianity, in bull's blood in rites of Cybele) and by symbolic communion with a deity through a ritual meal in the Eleusinian Mysteries, Mithraism, and Christianity (Eucharist).

Lebowski's quotability is unlike the uber-geekery you get with many other cult movies, where the banal repetition of circle-jerking fanboys is designed only to out-aficionado other devotees, to be the alpha male of the omega males.

The irony is that Bahari's well-meaning attempts to explain Iranian nuclear ambitions and other confrontational policies from the regime's standpoint, like Khatami's and Moussavi's attempts to "save the Revolution," are (correctly) taken by the Supreme Leader and his devotees to be even greater signs of counter-revolutionary perfidy than outright hostility.

See, Lebowski's quotability is unlike the geekery you get with many other cult movies, where the banal repetition of circle-jerking fanboys is designed only to out-aficionado other devotees, to be the alpha male of the omegas, akin to catching butterflies and pinning them to a cork board.

Rather, my intention is to ask a difficult question to practicing Hindus about the experience of dying for those who live, or chose to venture to what seems to them to be a ksethra or a tirtha -- both Sanskrit terms that denote a sacred geographical site whose sight (darshan) is beneficial -- and which seems to devotees to be the actual location for events in Hindu mythology.

He alludes to Ardhanarishvara several times and regards it the ultimate goal of a devotee to be united with Shiva as Parvati is in the Ardhanarishvara form.

The most fervent devotees seem to be the chamber musicians.

(Not coincidentally, perhaps, the chair's devotees tend to be clustered in the Northwest).

Moreover, because devotees tend to be able-bodied, there is an implicit power imbalance that is ever-present, and that can be worrisome.

But the biggest thrill for die-hard Benefit devotees is bound to be the original bottle of 1977 Benetint, the best-selling lip and check stain, displayed with all the reverence of an '82 Lafite.