Next, in contrast with this first view of him, I have insisted on his singular freedom from ambition, and have traced it to that religiousness of mind which was so specially his; to his intimate sense of the vanity of all secular distinction, and his supreme devotion to Him who alone is 'Faithful and True.
"Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2"
Robert Ornsby
Anna Keller was older than Haydn, and the family religiousness that led the younger daughter to enter the convent, led Anna to contribute more of money to the Church, of food and society to the churchmen, and of her husband's compositions to the choir, than even so pious a Catholic as Haydn could afford or endure.
"The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1"
Rupert Hughes
They view it as a regrettable failing, perhaps, and glowingly point to the doer's lavish religiousness in return.
"A Midsummer Drive Through The Pyrenees"
Edwin Asa Dix