Quotes About Devoutly

#1. By and large, reporters and editors are devoutly secular and deeply distrustful of those who act on faith.

Don Feder

#2. It is better to say one Our Father fervently and devoutly than a thousand with no devotion and full of distraction.

Edmund The Martyr

#3. Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs of men and of nations, has, by a resolution, requested the President to designate and set apart a day for National prayer and humiliation ...

Abraham Lincoln

#4. Love lost is a special kind of failure, I think. It's a reminder that some consummations, no matter how devoutly wished for, never come; that some apes will never be men, not in all the world's ages.

Ian Caldwell

#5. Neither clock nor weather-glass is ever right; but we believe in both, devoutly.

Charles Dickens

#6. And so I fell devoutly asleep and slept a long time, because young people seem to need sleep more than the old, who have already slept so much and are preparing to sleep for all eternity.

Umberto Eco

#7. I believe that people who are devoutly religious, within any specific religion, have no true respect for the ultimate vastness that is God.

Clair Huffaker

#8. Mary seeks for those who approach her devoutly and with reverence, for such she loves, nourishes, and adopts as her children.

Bonaventure

#9. Hopefully and devoutly focus on your greater possibilities.

Bryant McGill

#10. To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.

James Dickey

#11. O blessed Saviour, give me grace like Thee, to make Religion my first, and chiefest care, and devoutly to observe, all solemn times, and all holy Rites, which relate to Thy worship.

Thomas Ken

#12. Why doesn't their flesh creep? How can they devoutly believe everything they hear in church and then say the things they do and listen to the things they hear without throwing up?

Harper Lee

#13. Some of my best friends in LA are devoutly religious people. I'm completely supportive and interested in people doing their own thing. That's a motto that I try to live by, and I hope that's how other people treat me. Live and let live.

Amber Heard

#14. Michel de Lisle, Bishop of Salubre, who was a disciple and co-worker of Blessed Alan's in the re-establishment of the Holy Rosary said that the Angelic Salutation is the remedy for all ills that we suffer as long as we say it devoutly in honor of Our Lady.

St. Louis De Montfort

#15. I can't imagine falling in love with a devoutly religious person.

Susan Jacoby

#16. I believed devoutly in her power to fascinate him, in her dazzling loveliness. I believed her young, ardent, reckless, disillusioned, under sentence, feverish, avid of pleasure.

Willa Cather

#17. There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly.

Ernest Hemingway,

#18. Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream - For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause, there's the respect, That makes calamity of so long life

William Shakespeare

#19. As the first of every thing, in our situation will serve to establish a Precedent, it is devoutly wished on my part, that these precedents may be fixed on true principles.

George Washington

#20. Lay aside all rancor, all bitter sectional feeling, and to make your places in the ranks of those who will bring about a consummation devoutly to be wished - a reunited country.

Jefferson Davis

#21. Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die.

Stephen Jay Gould

#22. I feel devoutly thankful to have been born fond of writing.

Winston Churchill

#23. I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself.

Howard Hodgkin

#24. Pray devoutly, but hammer stoutly.

John Ray

#25. I grew up in a very devoutly Christian home.

Oscar Isaac

#26. Why don't people do what they really want to do, Reuben?" he asked. "Why do we so often settle for what makes us devoutly unhappy! Why do we accept that happiness just isn't possible?

Anne Rice

#27. Each time a dancer moves devoutly or a composer faithfully searches the silence for the veiled melodies, eternity is engaged.

Maya Angelou

#28. Might call it a great passion. When the true name of what we're dealing with is greed, or lust. We all have the special talent of believing in a falsehood, and believing it devoutly, when we want it to be true.

Barbara Kingsolver

#29. However devoutly a girl may worship the man of her choice, there always comes a time when she feels an irresistible urge to haul off and let him have it in the neck.

P.G. Wodehouse

#30. He who devoutly hears holy Mass will receive a great vigor to enable him to resist mortal sin, and there shall be pardoned to him all venial sins which he may have committed up to that hour.

Saint Augustine

#31. No one else holds or has held the place in the heart of the world which Jesus holds. Other gods have been as devoutly worshipped; no other man has been so devoutly loved.

John Knox

#32. I approached the idea of college with the expectation of taking part in an intellectual feast ... In college, in some way that I devoutly believed in but could not explain, I expected to become a person.

Margaret Mead

#33. Seducing one's neighbor to a good opinion and then afterwards believing devoutly in this neighbor's opinion
who can match women in this clever ploy?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#34. She devoutly put away in her drawers her beautiful dress, down to the satin shoes whose soles were yellowed with the slippery wax of the dancing floor. Her heart was like these. In its friction against wealth something had come over it that could not be effaced.

Gustave Flaubert

#35. My mother's sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in the strength of the Federal Government that she devoutly believed that the struggle could not last longer than six months at the utmost.

Buffalo Bill

#36. But alas! Like many another consummation devoutly to be wished, the actual performance was a disappointing one.

Fred Reinfeld

#37. I devoutly believe that there is no difficulty between two people for which both are not responsible.

Margaret Mead

#38. When you heard anyone in the middle of a talk which was being deliberately kept off the Affair announce furtively some piece of political news, generally false but always devoutly to be wished, you could induce from the nature of his predictions where his heart lay.

Marcel Proust

#39. Whether you accept or reject the idea of God, the sacredness of all life is a goal devoutly to be wished

Carlton D. Pearson