Sentence examples for devotion to a god from inspiring English sources

The devotional lyric, a short verse expressing the author's devotion to a god, is linked with both the hymnal poetry of the Rigveda though far less determined by a desire for compelling magic and the temple worship of Hinduism.

Harold Gerstel and Jack Berkovits are people who at least once a day reaffirm their devotion to a God who handed down commandments forbidding both murder and bearing false witness.

For a brief moment, my frustration turned to guilt for my lack of faith, then to jealousy for her overflowing devotion to a God I sometimes long to hear, likely due to my recent failure to ask for Him to speak.

The term bhakti, in the sense of devotion to a personal god, appears in the Bhagavadgita and the Shvetashvatara Upanishad.

Do you know how cute it is to see a little kid praying with pure devotion to a Buddhist god?

Unlike the Veerashaiva movement which preached devotion to the god Shiva with an insistence on a classless society and had its inspiration from the lower classes of society, the haridasa movement started from the higher echelons and preached devotion to the god Vishnu in a more flexible caste-based society, eventually becoming popular among the common people.

Between the 5th and 10th centuries ce it was the provincial capital of many Hindu dynasties and a centre of devotion to the god Shiva.

The Gita serves as the guidebook for many Hindus and non-Hindus on how to live a life of devotion to God, while also cultivating a healthy detachment from the things of this world.

The most powerful message of the day was the importance of including young people in prayer so that the very act of devotion to God may become a consolidation of young people's place in society.

As with all forms of Muslim worship, the Hajj must be undertaken with sincerity and out of a devotion to God (Allah).

The third, and perhaps superior, way of release is through a discipline of devotion to God (bhakti-yoga) in which the self humbly worships the loving God and hopes for an eternal vision of God.