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Tag Name "Devout" (84)

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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.
Anatole France
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Devout Christians are destined to be regarded as fools in modern society. We are fools for Christ's sake. We must pray for courage to endure the scorn of the sophisticated world.
Antonin Scalia
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I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The aspect of nature is devout. Like the figure of Jesus, she stands with bended head, and hands folded upon the breast. The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I am trying to call attention to the elephant in the room that everybody is too polite - or too devout - to notice: religion, and specifically the devaluing effect that religion has on human life.
Richard Dawkins
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America was founded by religious people devout people who came here because they wanted freedom of religion, It's what made America different from every other country.
Rick Warren
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To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
Sri Aurobindo
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In contemporary American culture, the religions are more and more treated as just passing beliefs - almost as fads - rather than as the fundaments upon which the devout build their lives.
Stephen L. Carter
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And though I walk home alone, my faith in love is still devout.
Steven Morrissey
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I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this would have been enough to make me good, if I had not been so wicked.
Teresa of Avila
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Like the devout theologian seeing the Devil lurking everywhere, Menninger, the devout Freudian, sees aggression.
Thomas Szasz
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The desperate addict is closer to the heart of grace than the devout moralist.
Tullian Tchividjian
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Hearing the word is the devout receiving of the will of God.
William Ames
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I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.
William Shakespeare
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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.
P. G. Wodehouse
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Those who lift their hats shall see Nature as devout do God.
Emily Dickinson
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I honestly don't know what they mean by a devout Catholic.
Pierre Trudeau
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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 belief in the family.
Gene Cernan
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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 my relationship with God will also grow arid. It becomes merely 'proper', but loveless.
Pope Benedict XVI
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Tyrants and dictators will accept no other gods before them. They require disobedience to the First Commandment. They seek absolute control and are threatened by faith in God. They fear only the power they cannot possess - the power of truth. So they resent the living example of the devout, especially the devotion of a unique people chosen by God.
George W. Bush
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A habit of devout fellowship with God is the spring of all our life, and the strength of it.
Henry Edward Manning
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
Abraham Lincoln
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However great a sinner may have been, if he shows himself devout to Mary he will never perish.
Hilary of Poitiers
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Under the blessings of Divine Providence... 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.
James K. Polk
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