Sentence examples for form of devotion from inspiring English sources

Choir practice was more than a form of devotion, an expression of piety; it was a spiritual duty.

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.

WHIRLING DERVISHES OF DAMASCUS This mystical dance form was created in the thirteenth century by the Sufi mystic Rumi, as a form of devotion and a path to enlightenment.

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. .

"The Passion" TM was taking up space that the crucifixes, rosaries, and other untrademarked forms of devotion once occupied.

Both forms of devotion were, no doubt, meant to be combined, just as the gardens and courtyards seem to extend the exquisite order of the interior outward.

The festival began on March 27 with a convocation centering on different forms of devotion and songs from the church's Lafayette Inspirational Ensemble gospel choir.

Pope John Paul II, fully respectful of the directions of the Second Vatican Council, nonetheless paid renewed respect to some of the pre-council forms of devotion which the reformers had tended to displace.

Much of the discipline and forms of devotion she practiced during those long years of solitude belong, in any case, to some of the more esoteric practices in Tibetan Buddhism known as Tantra, many of which remain largely secret to all but those who have advanced far enough along the path of practice to be able to truly comprehend their meaning.