Sentence examples similar to devout plea from inspiring English sources

In Rome in 2014, he strongly denounced the Italian Mafia, telling mafiosi they would go to hell if they didn't renounce their "bloodstained money and bloodstained power". Such language can have an impact, for even drug traffickers have a hard time dismissing the pleas of devout family members who hear the pope's message, said Shirk.

A devout Catholic, Bartali accepted the plea.

Devout Jew.

He was devout – quite conventionally devout.

A plea.

He is deeply devout.

Five were devout Christians.

Are you devout?

Both were devout Methodists.

He is relentlessly devout.

Nancy, Jim and Anne were devout Christians.