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For devout unionists, the Constitution had been framed by the people rather than created as a compact among states.
— Gary W. Gallagher
History shows that the devout Muslim fundamentalists are one of the most lethal threats the world has ever known.
— Hal Lindsey
But as a kid, I loved 'Monty Python.' My Dad was a devout watcher. We used to watch it when we ate dinner!
— Wes Bentley
Father Mapple uplifted his closed eyes, and offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed to be kneeling at the bottom of the sea.
— Herman Melville
When holy and devout religious men are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence; so sweet is zealous contemplation.
— William Shakespeare
Adams was both a devout Christian and an independent thinker, and he saw no conflict in that.
— David McCullough
Satan leaves unbelievers and sinners alone because he already has them in his grip; he goes after believers who are faithful and devout.
— Thomas A Kempis
My grandfather, a devout Christian, had the gift of healing.
— Richard Paul Evans
He liked his souls devout. No Unitarians for him.
— Marie Sexton
The devout belief that the world is explainable is both a terrible vulnerability and a stout shield.
— Patricia Briggs
Devout or not, all owned and carried Books of Hours, the characteristic fashionable religious possession of the 14th century noble.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The devout Islamic woman becomes the antithesis of a certain kind of strident right-wing feminist.
— Nina Power
Hearing the word is the devout receiving of the will of God.
— William Ames
It is an occupational hazard of devout folk to become stuffy bores. This should not be. Of all people, we should be the most free, alive, interesting.
— Richard J. Foster
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.
— Ramsay MacMullen
I like femininity, not of the devout, but of the self-assured, cool and sophisticated kind.
— Jil Sander
Those who lift their hats shall see Nature as devout do God.
— Emily Dickinson
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.
— Charles De Secondat
To be a devout reader was to be an acolyte of solace.
— Tanya Egan Gibson
Anna, who has always been devout, knows well that Despair is a mortal sin, and now she knows that it is a luxury, as well.
— Robertson Davies
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
— Abraham Lincoln
A habit of devout fellowship with God is the spring of all our life, and the strength of it.
— Henry Edward Manning
The desperate addict is closer to the heart of grace than the devout moralist.
— Tullian Tchividjian
Great readers, great listeners, and all have great work ethics ... They work hard at what they do and they're devout to their reading and listening.
— Andy Wilkinson
Be who you are and be that well.
— Francis De Sales
I don't fly on account of my religion. I'm a devout coward.
— Henny Youngman
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.
— Charles Spurgeon
Like the devout theologian seeing the Devil lurking everywhere, Menninger, the devout Freudian, sees aggression.
— Thomas Szasz
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.
— Benedict Of Nursia
The cleverest amongst you is he who is the loyal apostle of life, the true disciple of existence, the devout follower of love.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Both creators of Dungeons & Dragons were devout Christians.
— Joseph Laycock
The devout life does not solely entail living as a monk or ascetic, though that is fine. The devout life requires bringing God into all things.
— David Paul Kirkpatrick
O name of Mary! Joy in the heart, honey in the mouth, melody to the ear of Her devout clients!
— Anthony Of Padua
Make someone a devout, fanatical anything, and his brain turns to mulch.
— Mercedes Lackey
What is wrong with being a devout follower? Is it not acceptable to be sad and alone, if you remain loyal and obedient?
— S.E. Lindberg
Nobody can always have devout feelings: and even if we could, feelings are not what God principally cares about.
— C.S. Lewis
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I was a Muslim once, remember, and it was when I was most devout that I was most full of hate.
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Like a lot of once devout people who have lost their faith, I had holes the size of heaven and hell in my head and in my heart.
— Sarah Vowell
Devout Anatolian masses rising from poverty have transformed Turkey politically and economically.
— Pankaj Mishra
A most elaborate theory may be constructed by a devout mind.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.
— John Milton
My family is Muslim. But I don't consider myself a very devout Muslim, but a cultural Muslim, whatever that means.
— Aasif Mandvi
Anywhere the devout gather to worship, there will always be a parade.
— David Ebershoff
I prefer to think of myself as a devout Narcissist.What does that mean?
If the sun is shining, I thank God. If it rains, I blame him. — Teresa Medeiros
He who is devout to the Virgin Mother will certainly never be lost.
— Ignatius Of Loyola
All the pretensions you make of attachment to your Master, and all the devout actions which you may perform, are no recompense for disobedience.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
There is, in short,something terribly wrong with claiming to be a devout Christian while hating one or another of the fellow believers. — Ben Witherington III
The charcoals of burned out religious philosophies are perceived by devout fanatics as pearls, which the heathen swine cannot appreciate.
— Dimitris Mita
Faith is a devout belief in what one does not understand.
— Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand
I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion.
— Franz Schubert
Untouchability of foreign cloth is as much a virtue with all of us as untouchability of the suppressed classes must be a sin with every devout Hindu.
— Mahatma Gandhi
He offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying at the bottom of the sea.
— Herman Melville
The devout have laid out gardens in the desert.
— Robert Duncan
However great a sinner may have been, if he shows himself devout to Mary he will never perish.
— Hilary Of Poitiers
Criminals kill journalists/hostages in France, devout Muslims pay the bill all over Europe.
— Paulo Coelho
