This is why, many say, the devout prayer of many election officials on election eve is, "Please God, don't let this be a close election".
When one sees the well-behaved children attending Mass, with their parents kneeling in devout prayer, many of whom are very poor and have only the bare necessities of life, it makes a person think and remember that at home there are many such holy parents and children.
The tone of the household was devout: prayers were said daily and church on Sunday was compulsory and interminable.
Now they were more frequently named in wills merely as the source of "wise Advices", dispensed by "holy Examples" and "devout prayers".
Because dead spirits reputedly informed the god of all good and evil deeds within his jurisdiction, it was popularly believed that devout prayers offered in Cheng Huang's temple would be liberally rewarded.
"The old monks would say, 'Oh, look at Udouj, he's so devout in prayer, he's crying.'".
When he writes, he says, he often rocks back and forth — "like a junkie who needs a fix, a madman on the subway, a devout Jew at prayer," and "the more easily the words come, the more wildly I rock".
The radiant, redheaded Brea (Molly Kunz), the minister's daughter; the tall, skinny Tim Tyler Rosss), an aspiring filmmaker; and the intense, devout Laura Allison Toremm), whose prayers reiterate the words "amazing" and "awesome," are high school seniors and friends who will soon go their separate ways.
In a gesture that correspondents said showed solidarity between different groups of protesters, secularist demonstrators in Taksim Square joined devout Muslims for prayers on a traditional Turkish feast day on Wednesday.
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).
The construction of this panorama takes nine days, a period that constitutes a ritual novena of prayer and devout action.
