Top 216 Devout Quotes & Sayings

The cleverest amongst you is he who is the loyal apostle of life, the true disciple of existence, the devout follower of love.

I like femininity, not of the devout, but of the self-assured, cool and sophisticated kind.

People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

Devout Anatolian masses rising from poverty have transformed Turkey politically and economically.

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

The devout have laid out gardens in the desert.

A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.

Hearing the word is the devout receiving of the will of God.

The success of the West, including the rise of science, rested entirely on religious foundations, and the people who brought it about were devout Christians.

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.

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.

I hold religious tendencies, but I'm not devout by any means.

To trifle with Scripture is to deprive yourself of its aid. Reverence it, and look up to God with devout gratitude for having given it to you.

I come from a family of very devout, praying people. That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.

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.

Ah! devout though I may be, I am no less a man!

I need the concept of mercy for me to have some semblance of self-admiration. So in real life, I'm probably somebody who is more devout.

Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.

Devotion as an act is vulgar. Devotion as a way of life is wonderful. If you are a great devotee, it is ugly. If you are devout, it is beautiful.

He who is devout to the Virgin Mother will certainly never be lost.

Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians.

A religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt about the significance of those superpersonal objects and goals which neither require nor are capable of rational foundation

My grandfather, a devout Christian, had the gift of healing.

I'm a devout individual so I remain faithful to my church.

I was a convert to Catholicism, and converts are much more devout.

In the ranks of the movement [National Socialist movement], the most devout Protestant could sit beside the most devout Catholic, without coming into the slightest conflict with his religious convictions. The mighty common struggle which both carried on against the destroyer of Aryan humanity had, on the contrary, taught them mutually to respect and esteem one another.

But as a kid, I loved 'Monty Python.' My Dad was a devout watcher. We used to watch it when we ate dinner!

My biggest asset is not cash - it's a large, growing, devout fanbase.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

I'm called Anne because my mother, who was devout, prayed to St. Anne every day of her pregnancy with me.

My children, if you desire perseverance, be devout to our Blessed Lady.

Those who lift their hats shall see Nature as devout do God.

Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at others, in devout reading.

The desperate addict is closer to the heart of grace than the devout moralist.

And though I walk home alone, my faith in love is still devout.

I came to feel how far above All fancy, pride, and fickle maidenhood, All earthly pleasure, all imagined good, Was the warm tremble of a devout kiss.

O name of Mary! Joy in the heart, honey in the mouth, melody to the ear of Her devout clients!

When holy and devout religious men are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence; so sweet is zealous contemplation.

It is a very good exercise, at least from a historian's point of view, to imagine oneself a devout pagan while reading various Christian writings.

However great a sinner may have been, if he shows himself devout to Mary he will never perish.

I know nothing that can so comfort the soul, so calm the swelling billows of grief and sorrow, so speak peace to the winds of trial, as a devout musing upon the subject of the Godhead.

Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.

This has nothing to do with ego. It is solely about my religion and me being a devout Christian. I chose my ring name because I regard myself as A Son Of God.

Faith is a devout belief in what one does not understand.

I honestly don't know what they mean by a devout Catholic.

I don't fly on account of my religion. I'm a devout coward.

The devout belief that the world is explainable is both a terrible vulnerability and a stout shield.

Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn't have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout.

One of my favorite authors is Robert Cormier. He was a devout Catholic and a very nice man, which might not be the impression you get from reading his books.

I stole that from Vito Russo. He said he was a devout believer in Judyism.

I was a Muslim once, remember, and it was when I was most devout that I was most full of hate.

The Simpsons has shaped my psychology to a degree one would usually attribute to a parent, or a particularly devout upbringing. I am a zealot.

To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.

A habit of devout fellowship with God is the spring of all our life, and the strength of it.

The life of a solitary man will be certainly miserable, but not certainly devout.

Like the devout theologian seeing the Devil lurking everywhere, Menninger, the devout Freudian, sees aggression.

Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Egypt has a devout population. People go out, they pray, they fast.

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 be blessed.