Devoutness Quotes

I was a Muslim once, remember, and it was when I was most devout that I was most full of hate.

I don't think I am evangelical in my work.

There never was, perhaps, before seen such a body of pious people together on the face of the earth. For those who came over first, came for the sake of religion, and for that pure religion which was entirely hated by the loose and profane world. Their civil and ecclesiastical leaders were exemplary patterns of piety. They encouraged only the virtuous to come with, and follow them

I pray to God to give me perseverance and to deign that I be a faithful witness to Him to the end of my life for my God.

Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something of its golden glow, even as the glory of a noble love shines like a sort of light from a woman's face.

Let God's grace be the mosque, and devotion the prayer mat. Let the Quran be the good conduct.

I take my religion seriously.

He--the country parson--is not witty or learned or eloquent, but holy.

Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.

Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians.

Some persons think that they have to look like a hedgehog to be pious.

I must remain a child and pupil of the Catechism, and am glad so to remain.

The most important of your affairs in my view is prayer; whoever prays regularly has protected his faith, but whoever neglects it, is bound to be more negligent in other issues of faith.

Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given.

Piety is indifferent whether she enters at the eye or at the ear. There is none of the senses at which she does not knock one day or other. The Puritans forgot this, and thrust Beauty out of the meeting-house and slammed the door in her face.

The weaker sex, to piety more prone.

Suffering predisposes the mind to devoutness; and most young girls, prompted by instinctive tenderness, lean towards mysticism, the obscurer side of religion.

I know of nothing which I would choose to have as the subject of my ambition for life than to be kept faithful to my God till death.

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.

Where I'm from, you're a square if you go to church or if you decide to read the Koran or Bible.

The ruler should always be thirsting to meet devout religious scholars and ask them for advice.

I don't fly on account of my religion. I'm a devout coward.

You had to wear a hat to go to church. We weren't allowed to straighten our hair. We couldn't wear jewellery, nail polish, open backed shoes, skirts above the knee... trousers were forbidden because male apparel on a female was not godly.