As a lifelong Presbyterian with a devout and curious mind, he reckoned that the market price of the creator of the universe was probably 1% of its actual value.
The mind of a devout Catholic, thus voided of mundane reference, might well fill with Catholic sentiments.
It brought to mind self-styled devout Christians of the South who persist in defending what they consider traditions, and what their political allies wave away as such, which are actually soaked in the blood and brutality of slavery.
In Book One of De occulta philosophia, on natural magic, he notes that the practitioner of this type of magic can summon angels (that is, good demons) to assist with his works if he has prepared himself carefully "by good works, pure mind, mystical prayers, devout sacrifices, and the like," so that he can attract good supercelestial angels (and, presumably, not attract evil ones).
Later she realized she is gay: Now, try to tell that to devout Catholic parents, never you mind that the father had violated about every major biblical injunction.
In the minds of the devout, it is therefore a politically dangerous act to teach "godless" evolution in our schools rather than biblical "creationism".
It was never going to be easy, notwithstanding Davis' devout national following; winning hearts and minds on the liberal Westside of Los Angeles yields precisely zero votes in conservative West Texas.
Indeed, many of them were devout believers convinced they were exploring the mind of God.
That may satisfy some people, but it will not please either those zealots who think establishment clerics are too soft or those devout believers who think God does not mind very much about their hairstyle.
What first came to mind were the "Tracts" that devout Anglicans published and fiercely debated in the 1830s over the Church of England's 39 Articles of Belief.
