Sentence examples for other devotion from inspiring English sources

For inspiration she drew on the biblical story of Mary and Martha, two sisters, one who symbolizes devotion to worldly affairs and the other devotion to the sublime — life, you might say, and the afterlife.

Larry Polansky's "Shma: Fuging Tune in G" (1978) shares with the Cowell a traditional sense of harmonic movement, but it explores other devotions as well.

Other devotions involve the cult of the saints, a practice of great antiquity repudiated by the Reformers of the 16th century as a denial of the total mediation of Christ.

He then revives the old-fashioned notion that Jews have special "characteristics," which interestingly coincide with ones he accords to himself: cosmopolitanism, of the rootless kind, sensitivity to the suffering of others, devotion to secularism, even a penchant for Marxism.

Poots is keen to allay any concerns about using places of worship for purposes other than devotion.

Alabama still has no teams in any of the four major professional sports, and a recent satire of the state's fervor for football Saturdays described it in terms of the South's other chief devotion: "Saban is Jesus.

It's a party that doesn't seem to care about anything other than devotion to a set of so-called principles that never amounted to more than cult-like rhetoric.

Performing the Tahajjud as a family allows you to come closer to each other in devotion to Allah and to show solidarity in your worship.

Thus, some theological schools emphasize self-control, while others stress devotion and divine grace.

In the Hindu and Buddhist traditions the careful articulation of complex finger and hand gestures came to play a vital role in sacred drama, yoga, meditation, and other personal devotions.

The only things the party has in common with the determined Bolshevik revolutionaries of the past who spared neither themselves nor others are devotion to the Soviet symbols and appeals to empty "Marxist-Leninist" phrases.