Devout Quotes

113 quotes by 102 authors

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and â€“ I shall boldly add â€“ all can… — Desiderius Erasmus
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… — Marcus Aurelius
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… — P.J. O'Rourke
Tell a devout Christian that his wife is cheating on him, or that frozen yogurt can make a man invisible, and he is likely to… — Sam Harris
If in my life I fail completely to heed others, solely out of a desire to be 'devout' and to perform my 'religious duties', then… — Pope Benedict XVI
He (Intellectuals) claims that label to compensate for his own inadequacies. It's as old as that saying: tell me what you boast of and I'll… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
This faith transforms the whirlwind of despair into a warm and reviving breeze of hope. The words of a motto which a generation ago were… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
As a means of motivating people to be cruel or inhumane-as a means of inciting evil, to borrow the vocabulary of the devout-there may be… — Jon Krakauer
And though I walk home alone, my faith in love is still devout. — Steven Morrissey
When we stop believing in gods we can start believing in their stories, I retort. There are of course no such things as miracles, but… — Salman Rushdie
Certain sincerely devout and spiritually advanced people believe that the God of their understanding helps them find parking places and gives them advice on Mass.… — David Foster Wallace
Long, blue, spiky-edged shadows crept out across the snow-fields, while a rosy glow, at first scarce discernible, gradually deepened and suffused every mountain-top, flushing the… — John Muir
At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to… — John Muir
Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn't have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout. — Andy Rooney
I commit her to memory. When I'm alone, I feel a strange yearning, the hunger of a man fasting not because he believes but because… — Mohsin Hamid
Churchgoers feel righteous, responsible, and obedient to God's will. They view anyone unlike themselves as devoid of values, and therefore unworthy of God's love. By… — Deepak Chopra
Mom was always doing something for somebody. She came from a Czech background, one that made her a devout Catholic and gave her a strong… — Eugene Cernan
I think Judas was a very devout religious Jewish person. He realizes that Jews had been persecuted and enslaved for thousands of years, and he… — Josh Young
If you look within the United States, religion seems to make you a better person. Yet atheist societies do very well - better, in many… — Paul Bloom

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