Devout
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Though she was a
devout
Catholic, she wasn’t afraid to explore the possibility of pious thought and unpious behavior co-existing in the same person.
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In his great novel, "The Brothers Karamazov," Dostoevsky gives these words to Ivan, addressed to his naive and
devout
younger brother, Alyosha: "If the sufferings of children go to make up the sum of sufferings which is necessary for the purchase of truth, then I say beforehand that the entire truth is not worth such a price.
This book, "Finding Darwin's God," by Kenneth Miller, is one of the most effective attacks on Intelligent Design that I know and it's all the more effective because it's written by a
devout
Christian.
And to my mother, Oprah is a greater moral authority than the Pope, which is actually saying something because she's a
devout
Catholic.
She was a
devout
conservative Catholic, a believer in traditional family values, stereotypical roles of men and women, and I was, well, me.
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