Devout

Famous quotes containing the word devout:

“in that seson on a day
In Southwerk at the Tabard as I lay
Redy to wenden on my pilgrymage
To Caunterbury with ful devout corage,
At nyght was come into that hostelrye
Wel nyne and twenty in a compaignye”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

“I suddenly realized that the devout Russian people no longer needed priests to pray them into heaven. On earth they were building a kingdom more bright than any heaven had to offer, and for which it was a glory to die.”
—John Reed (1887–1920)

“And in a soft and fundamental hour
a sorcery devout and vertical
beguiled the world.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)