Devout Quotes

People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate. (George Eliot)
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout. View quote
Montesquieu
I awoke with devout thanksgiving for my friends. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It becomes us, in humility, to make our devout acknowledgments to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe, for the inestimable civil and religious blessings with which we are favored. View quote
James K. Polk
Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble. View quote
Joseph Addison
Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one. View quote
Anatole France
Hearing the word is the devout receiving of the will of God. View quote
William Ames
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs. View quote
Sri Aurobindo
His eyes were rolling in their sockets, and his face had taken on the colour and expression of a devout tomato. I could see he loved like a thousand bricks. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
Some devout Christians are among the most fervent advocates of the death penalty, contradicting Jesus Christ and justifying their belief on an erroneous interpretation of Hebrew Scriptures. "An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth," their most likely response, overlooks the fact that this was promulgated by Moses as a limitation- a prohibition against taking both eyes or all of an offender's teeth in retribution. View quote
Jimmy Carter
Those who are the most devout, outstanding Unification Church members are they the most beautiful people externally or just so-so? Very often, those who have the features of an Idaho potato are the most loyal members of the Unification Church. (Sun Myung Moon)
In this way, Allah will love the pious person because He, the Most Exalted, loves those who are pious, truthful, charitable, devout, and are sincere to Him and to His Prophet. View quote
Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of his longings. Where we can describe, step by step, minute by minute, our not altogether unpleasant struggle to put ourselves into a viable and devout relationship to our beloved and mistaken world. View quote
John Cheever
A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical believer is not conscious of his envy, malice, pettiness and dishonesty. There is a wall of words between his consciousness and his real self. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Like the devout theologian seeing the Devil lurking everywhere, Menninger, the devout Freudian, sees aggression. View quote
Thomas Szasz
I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion. View quote
Franz Schubert
But I hope that by the decision and authority of wise princes that sometime devout and learned men from the churches of other nations and of ours may be summoned together to deliberate about all the controversies and that there be handed down to posterity one harmonious, true, and clear form of doctrine, without any ambiguity. Meanwhile, as far as possible, let us encourage the union of our churches with measured advice. View quote
Philipp Melanchthon
The second item in the liberal creed, after self-righteousness, is unaccountability. Liberals have invented whole college majors- psychology, sociology, women's studies- to prove that nothing is anybody's fault. No one is fond of taking responsibility for his actions, but consider how much you'd have to hate free will to come up with a political platform that advocates killing unborn babies but not convicted murderers. A callous pragmatist might favor abortion and capital punishment. A devout Christian would sanction neither. But it takes years of therapy to arrive at the liberal view. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
My grandfather, a devout Christian, had the gift of healing. View quote
Richard Paul Evans
Tony Hale is a devout Christian and is a complete retard when it comes to swearing. The script called for him to swear for about 30 seconds and he just couldn't do it. View quote
Jason Bateman
But as a kid, I loved 'Monty Python.' My Dad was a devout watcher. We used to watch it when we ate dinner! (Wes Bentley)
There is no doubt... Dadabhai served his country with a sacrifice and singleness of purpose which it may be rightly said, without exaggeration, was rare. A devout follower of Zoroaster, he faithfully followed the ethics of that Great Prophet - pure in thought, word and deed. View quote
Dadabhai Naoroji
Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout. View quote
William James
Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn't have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout. View quote
Andy Rooney
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones. View quote
Marcus Aurelius