#devout

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Moliere

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

— William James

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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

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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

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Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament. What we do may be godly, but this sacrament is God Himself! ↗

— Johannes Tauler

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

— George Eliot

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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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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

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

— William Ames

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