Sentence examples for stressed devotion from inspiring English sources

In contrast, the form of Hinduism that emerged after the mid-1st millennium bce stressed devotion (bhakti) to particular deities such as Shiva and Vishnu.

Later, with the rise of the bhakti movement, which stressed devotion to a personalized deity, the guru was venerated as the leader or founder of any of a number of sects (many of which now included women and some of which had women gurus).

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

Since dropping out of the race, he has stressed his devotion to the issue of poverty, and promoted his new antipoverty initiative, Half in Ten.

In 1860 Everett was the unsuccessful vice presidential candidate of the Constitutional Union Party, which sought to bridge sectional differences by stressing common devotion to the Union and the Constitution.

Polenberg suggests that friends may have stressed Cardozo's devotion to his sister to discourage rumors that he was sexually dysfunctional, or had an unusually low sexual drive or was homosexual.

Thus Nimbarka stressed bhakti yoga, the yoga of devotion and faith.

Another fitting way to observe this Feast Day, because Mary stressed that God Wished to Establish devotion to her Immaculate Heart.

The other approach, concerned with "Faith and Order," stressed the need for comparative study of doctrine, with critical devotion to the search for what was central.

Formal discipline, devotion to clarity through direct imagery, and a reduced vocabulary were stressed, and the social and human content increased.

Bhakti ("devotion"), a religious movement that emerged in India in the 7th to 10th centuries, stressed love of the gods Vishnu and Shiva and of the divine energy or goddess Shakti.