Sentence examples for for devotion from inspiring English sources

It isn't quite that these women mistake abuse for devotion, though perhaps they do.

After one or two cups, you'll feel like the monks, renewed and ready for devotion.

Yet Hu has unwaveringly given priority to "morality," party-speak for devotion, above other qualities.

I was 55 years old and I had never seen her great capacity for devotion until then.

Despite this enrichment, however, Rogier's conceptions remained essentially iconic: he pushed the figures into the foreground and isolated them from their surroundings as subjects for devotion.

There is no time, no knowledge of good and evil, and no death in their world, and they have an almost gaudy capacity for devotion to their deities.

"Most of the images produced were meant for devotions, whether in public or domestic shrines," John Ayers, the show's guest curator, writes in his exhibition catalog.

To this end, cathedrals normally have a number of small chapels used for private devotion or for small groups.

Saint Francis (circa 1181) is famous in Catholic dogma for his devotion to care for the poor and the environment.

Thank you for many years of work, and for your devotion.

The work may have been intended for private devotion, perhaps as a portable altarpiece for a migrant cleric.