Sentence examples for devoting a life from inspiring English sources

But rarely in contemporary fiction do we come across a man or woman of God -- forget about devotees of the healing power of crystals; we're talking about old-fashioned nuns or monks, straight out of central casting -- who is also exhausted, who has lost faith not so much in God but in the point of devoting a life to him to the exclusion of everything else.

Then, when I was 17, writing a book seemed so impossible and like it might be a worthy thing to devote a life to.

It is hard to blame someone for accepting the bonus of money by anyone willing to pay for something one has devoted a life to.

He asks big questions: for example, is it possible to devote a life to passions misspent, climbing, as it were, the wrong mountain?

If this brilliant mind believed all this, and devoted a life to it, then clearly I needed to look at it again.

You devote a life to drawing fowl, enough to make Darwin scowl, and end up being known for the verse, or worse, and end being known for the verse.

Many of them have devoted a life's work to perfecting their craft.

"A person can devote a whole life to that".

At least when Auriemma states something so obvious, it is with the credibility of one who has devoted a professional life to fighting pejoratives, stereotypes and pointless apples-versus-oranges comparisons.

and by his characterisation of the ideal agent as someone devoted to a life of benevolence and virtue.

But on another level, it's a sad tale of a woman devoting her life to an endeavor that isn't worth devoting your life to.