It is pathetic in that Claire Mc-Auley, for all her religiousness, has never heard or received the Christian gospel's message of forgiveness.
But it is rather more attentive to religion, and its religiousness is not only free of pomp and sanctimony but is also human, dramatic and moving.
To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is something that our minds cannot grasp, whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly: this is religiousness.
Emma Bonino in International Herald Tribune We have a different sense of religion, less stiff, probably less bigoted, but together we express a deep religiousness,said Emma Bonino, Italy's minister for European Union affairs and foreign trade and a member of the Radical Party.
Ursula K Le Guin in Boston Globe (registration) Science fiction author Ursula LeGuin calls "Kim" by Rudyard Kipling "an exciting spy story, a vivid, fascinating picture of India, and a book whose profound, sweet religiousness has influenced me all my life."
Yoweri Museveni in Daily Monitor I thought 97 per cent religiousness in a country is a sign of righteousness but human sacrifice, superstition, prostitution, greed, and embezzlement of public funds are still high,Mr Museveni said.