Quotes of Devout - somelinesforyou

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Man makes holy what he believes, as he makes beautiful what he loves. ”

- Ernest Renan

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

- Thomas Carlyle

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

- Ghose Aurobindo

“ BATH, n. A kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious worship, with what spiritual efficacy has not been determined. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science. ”

- Robert Green Ingersoll

“ Where there is sorrow there is holy ground. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber, Holy angels guard thy bed! Heavenly blessings without number Gently falling on thy head. ”

- Isaac Watts

“ When holy and devout religious men Are at their beads, 'tis much to draw them thence, So sweet is zealous contemplation. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and a happy life. ”

- William Law

“ We grant, although he had much wit, H' was very shy of using it, As being loth to wear it out, And therefore bore it not about; Unless on holy days or so, As men their best apparel do. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ Stoop, boys. This gate Instructs you how t' adore the heavens and bows you To a morning's holy office. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service. ”

- Christopher Columbus

“ There she shookThe holy water from her heavenly eyes,And clamour moisten'd. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine. ”

- Thomas a Kempis

“ If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is "holy war". ”

- Steve Allen

“ The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home. ”

- St. Augustine

“ God alone is the object of the godly man's worship. ”

- George Swinnock

“ The Holy Land needs bridges, not walls. ”

- Pope John Paul II

“ Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. ”

- Bible

“ A coward, a most devout coward; religious in it. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ I charge thee, Satan, housed within this man, To yield possession to my holy prayers, And to thy state of darkness hie thee straight. I conjure thee by all the saints in heaven. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ For friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity. ”

- John Dryden

“ God didn't promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow, sun without rain, but He did promise strength for the day, comfort for the tears, and light for the way. ”

- Unknown

“ Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope. ”

- Gandhi

“ The problem with Bush is that yes, he's religious in a fundamentalist sort of way, they read the Old Testament as a sort of charter for the chosen people to do what they like. ”

- Bruce Kent

“ We are aiming for political pluralism with a broad spectrum of parties - ranging from the left to the religious parties, as is the case in Israel. ”

- Mahmoud Abbas

“ Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing. ”

- Bible

“ O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood, The holy name of Grief — holy herein, That, by the grief of One, came all our good. ”

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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