Devotion Quote by David Sedaris

The custom of burning a beneficent god is too foreign to later modes of thought to escape misinterpretation.

— James G. Frazer

God only pours out his light into the mind after having subdued the rebellion of the will by an altogether heavenly gentleness which charms…

— Blaise Pascal

The discipline of daily devotion to God undergirds decisions.

— Edwin Louis Cole

“They prefer a God of an altogether softer flavor. Nothing too extreme. Complaisance, not magnanimity. They do not think upon the “God of God,…

— Geoffrey Wood

“For as the same fire causes gold to glow brightly, and chaff to smoke; and under the same flail the straw is beaten small,…

— Augustine of Hippo

What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a keeping place…

— Cormac McCarthy

The furnace of affliction refines us from earthly drossiness, and softens us for the impression of God's own stamp.

— Pierre Bayle

“O the sad frugality of the middle-income mind. O the humorless neatness of an intellectuality which buys mass-produced candlesticks and carefully puts one at…

— Robert Farrar Capon

“You have been led astray, my child, by the conflicting and vain opinions of mankind. You, like many others in the world, delight to…

— Marie Corelli

“But soon the steeples called good people all, to church and chapel, and away they came, flocking through the streets in their best clothes,…

— Charles Dickens

Devotion means a profusion of life.

— Jaggi Vasudev

Why couldn't the merciful God turn down the sunlight so it wasn't blasting like a red furnace against his aching eyes? Because he'd worshipped…

— Nora Roberts