"And your friend, for instance; what does he expect to have at the end of his devotion?"
"Only that?" said Mazarin, his eyes twinkling with joy on seeing that he could pay for Porthos's devotion without opening his purse; "only that?
I have time, and as you are here, as you have assured me of your
devotion, as you have allowed me to hope for your love, as we are alone "
"Yes,
devotion; for that is, I believe, the phrase for hopeful ambition."
The lady in black was reading her morning
devotions on the porch of a neighboring bathhouse.
On the top of this mountain is a little hill which the idolatrous Agaus have in great veneration; their priest calls them together at this place once a year, and having sacrificed a cow, throws the head into one of the springs of the Nile; after which ceremony, every one sacrifices a cow or more, according to their different degrees of wealth or
devotion. The bones of these cows have already formed two mountains of considerable height, which afford a sufficient proof that these nations have always paid their adorations to this famous river.
The most convincing aspect of Hurtado's study is his argument that
devotion to Jesus as divine emerged early within Jewish Christianity.
There was a
devotion in their music, as well as in the simple life that most of them lived.
At issue is a test of our character, a test that focuses on one small but profound word:
devotion.
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased
devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of
devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from this earth."
The analyses revealed that the greater a woman's personal
devotion, the lower her number of sexual partners in the previous year (coefficient,-.10), the lower her assessment of the risks associated with having intercourse (-.08) and the more she thought she would suffer if she became pregnant unintentionally or she acquired HIV (.10).
Rebolledo, a veteran cake decorator and visual artist, will showcase about 20 paintings inspired by his
devotion to the canonized Capuchin saint, Padre Pio.
Taiwanese horror video game "
Devotion" has been taken offline today, exactly one week after its launch and following an intense Chinese gamer backlash over mocking references to Chinese President Xi Jinping.
I started my
devotion when I was 16 years old, when my father brought me along, together with my uncles.
MANILA, Philippines There is a difference between
devotion and fanaticism to the Black Nazarene, Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle said yesterday.
