Devout

Famous quotes containing the word devout:

“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)

“Ah! devout though I may be, I am no less a man!”
—Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622–1673)

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