Sentence examples for radical devotion from inspiring English sources

"Unconventional iconoclasm and a radical devotion to social justice" thrived, along with "gaiety and energy" and "religious modesty".

Convincing young women to eschew marriage and family for a life of complete service means offering them something they couldn't have outside the religious life: the discipline, structure, and community that support their vocation of radical devotion to God.

A major chunk of the day was given over to Mike Bickle, who runs the International House of Prayer (IHOP) movement, which recruits young people into "radical" devotion to prayer and fasting.

Many faith traditions talk about the obligation to see and help the poor, the sick, and the suffering, but The Church of the Saviour, which Gordon and Mary co-founded with a few others in 1947, went far beyond most congregations' traditional notions of "service" with a radical devotion to justice, compassion, sisterhood and brotherhood, and servant leadership.

The Catholic Workers' way of life, Danny said, was particularly appealing because of members' radical politics and devotion to the underdog.

"Punch was a Marine, radical only in his devotion to The Times," Mr. Frankel said.

Protest singers have come and gone through the decades – mostly notably Dylan himself, whose devotion to radical causes didn't last much longer than the proverbial five minutes – but Baez has remained true to her beliefs.

After the probe into Seeger's background, a report judged that Seeger was "potentially subversive" and "an idealist whose devotion to radical ideologies is such as to make his loyalty to the US under all circumstances questionable".

There is a very big difference, of course, between religious devotion or radical politics and violence, and while "many, many people start the journey" toward extremist Islam, only a "small number" of people are committed to bloodshed, the British counterintelligence official said.

From the start, his radical and distinctive designs won devotion from the fashion press.

Anyone who has felt aggrieved by the defanging of the music festival (these days, the lineups of most major summer events are interchangeable late-capitalist entreaties, their stages and Porta-Potties so branded as to be disorienting) will appreciate Smith's devotion to the radical convictions of the genre's forebears.