Sentence examples for form devotion from inspiring English sources
Each individual poem is called a "Devotion," as if it were a new verse form: "Devotion: Redshift," "Devotion: Coin-Op".
Choir practice was more than a form of devotion, an expression of piety; it was a spiritual duty.
In a simpler form the devotion can be traced back (as a night observance) to the 13th century, but it did not become widely used until the 17th.
Bamba, who died in 1927, resisted French colonial rule in Senegal and founded the Sufi community called the Mourides, who prize physical work as a form of devotion.
Growing up in a family of activists and campaigners, her teenage rebellion took the form of devotion to the shopping mall and willing enslavement to the tyranny of the logo.
The new form of devotion to Jesus was expressed in writings by St. Bernard of Clairvaux and was subsequently epitomized in the life and works of St. Francis of Assisi.
For Hare Krishnas, this act of saying Krishna's name is a form of devotion. .
In his Niyamasara, Acarya Kundakunda, describes yoga bhakti devotion to the path to liberation as the highest form of devotion.
"Quakerism offers a very special 'form' that I personally find extremely appealing: A unique form of devotion, coming together, and worship, namely silent meditation," he said.
This was "bhakti --an intense form of devotion expressed in art, poetry, song, dance or any practice that cultivated divine ecstasy and love.
