Devout Quotes

“I commit her to memory. When I'm alone, I feel a strange yearning, the hunger of a man fasting not because he believes but because he's ashamed. Not the cleansing hunger of the devout, but the feverish hunger of the hypocrite. I let her go every evening only because there's nothing I can do to stop her.”
― Mohsin Hamid, Moth Smoke

“Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn't have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout.”
― Andy Rooney, Sincerely, Andy Rooney

“Nobody can always have devout feelings: and even if we could, feelings are not what God principally cares about.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Violinists wear the imprint on their necks with pride
For they are the players of harmony.

Pilgrims, too, wear the imprint on their foreheads with pride
For they are the conductors of unity.

And Lovers? Why, they are made humble by the imprint on their hearts
For they are merely the instruments of rhapsody.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Jesus was a penniless teacher who wandered about the dusty sun-bit country of Judea, living upon casual gifts of food; yet he is always represented clean, combed, and sleek, in spotless raiment, erect, and with something motionless about him as though he was gliding through the air. This alone has made him unreal and incredible to many people who cannot distinguish the core of the story from the ornamental and unwise additions of the unintelligently devout.”
― H.G. Wells, The Outline of History, Vol. 1

“May my family, household and I be a devout God-fearing men and women.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“Our devotion should center on the cause of the oppressed, the tyrannized, the humiliated and hurt masses that have no place at the table, given the system that is at hand.”
― Henry Johnson Jr

“Feyre,' he said against my lips, my name like a prayer more devout than any Ianthe had offered up to the Cauldron on that dark Solstice morning.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“There is a non-technical way to travel in time: Try to create religious generations in your country, then you will certainly travel back in time, into the old eras!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Everyone needs fun, especially the devout because the devout often limits his life with some irrational boring rules!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Women who were brought up devout and fearful get stirred, like anyone else. Want men. Want other women. Stink under the arms at the end of the day. Get that all too familiar mix of fear and discontent in the night. Want to do the things that they Must Not Do. Those dirty, bloody attractive things.”
― Yrsa Daley-Ward, bone