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“It’s just that I’m a very devout person, and I like to call all men of God Father.”

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

I have conversed with a remarkably devout person, on the numerous extraordinary stories related of Maadhaar's life, and the subsequent influence of his tomb.

From Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society by Crooke, William

His mother, a devout person, while at her devotions in the temple saw floating before her a bright colored feather ball, which she seized and placed in her bosom.

From The God-Idea of the Ancients or Sex in Religion by Gamble, Eliza Burt

I am not a particularly devout person, though I am a good Roman Catholic, and I do not recommend the Bible from any religious reason.

From Chapters of Bible Study A Popular Introduction to the Study of the Sacred Scriptures by Heuser, Herman J.

On account of the early renown for piety which they acquired, it became usual to style any devout person a Theatino or Chietino.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 19 of 55 1620-1621 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Robertson, James Alexander




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