indevout

Mass, and at the same time passed a deserved censure on those who are irreverent or indevout during its celebration.

The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi Father Candide Chalippe

It was a beautiful picture, -- one worthy to be screened from indevout eyes, or revealed only to those who loved and worshipped.

My New Curate P.A. Sheehan

A lively and enlightened faith, a solid and fervent piety, and a superior mind, convinced him that since the time of the abasement of the Son of God, humiliation is honorable, and adds to the splendor of the highest dignities; a truth which is not understood by persons of little faith, by the proud, the indevout, and those of little mind.

The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi Father Candide Chalippe

Such discourse sanctions heresy and licentiousness; worldlings and the indevout applaud it, the tepid seem to consent to it, and the falsely devout approve it; it is a scandal to the weak, and a dishonor to religion.

The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi Father Candide Chalippe

You will become merry at one time and sad at another, now peaceful but again disturbed, at one moment devout and the next indevout, sometimes diligent while at other times lazy, now grave and again flippant.

The Imitation of Christ 1940

If they are not thoughtless and indevout, but servants of God, they are never dismayed at His mighty works, knowing perfectly well that it is in His power to perform far greater wonders.

The Interior Castle or The Mansions 1921

A lively and enlightened faith, a solid and fervent piety, and a superior mind, convinced him that since the time of the abasement of the Son of God, humiliation is honorable, and adds to the splendor of the highest dignities; a truth which is not understood by persons of little faith, by the proud, the indevout, and those of little mind.

The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi Chalippe, Father Candide 1917

Such discourse sanctions heresy and licentiousness; worldlings and the indevout applaud it, the tepid seem to consent to it, and the falsely devout approve it; it is a scandal to the weak, and a dishonor to religion.

The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi Chalippe, Father Candide 1917

St. Bonaventure remarks, that this animal, by the respect it manifested during the celebration of the Sacred Mysteries, taught the Christians the deep reverence with which they ought to assist at Mass, and at the same time passed a deserved censure on those who are irreverent or indevout during its celebration.

The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi Chalippe, Father Candide 1917

As long as thou livest thou art subject to change, howsoever unwilling; so that thou art found now joyful, now sad; now at peace, now disquieted; now devout, now indevout; now studious, now careless; now sad, now cheerful.

XXXIII. Book III: On Inward Consolation. Of Instability of the Heart, and of directing the Aim toward God 1909