Devotion Quotes - Page 24

• The best gifts to give: To your friend, loyalty; To your enemy, forgiveness; To your boss, service; To a child, a good example; To your parents, gratitude and devotion; To your mate, love and faithfulness; To all men and women, charity.

  Oren Arnold

  Loyalty, Gratitude, Children

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• Mary is the sure path to our meeting with Christ. Devotion to the Mother of the Lord, when it is genuine, is always an impetus to a life guided by the spirit and values of the Gospel.

  Pope John Paul II

  Mother, Path, Spirit

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• What I'm most deeply grateful for is that God's love for us, approval of us, and commitment to us does not ride on our resolve but on Jesus' resolve for us. The gospel is the good news announcing Jesus' infallible devotion to us despite our inconsistent devotion to Him. The gospel is not a command to hang on to Jesus; it's a promise that no matter how weak and unsuccessful our faith and efforts may be, God is always holding on to us.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Jesus, Grateful, Commitment

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• There are other books in a man's library besides Ovid, and after dawdling ever so long at a woman's knee, one day he gets up and is free. We have all been there; we have all had the fever--the strongest and the smallest, from Samson, Hercules, Rinaldo, downward: but it burns out, and you get well.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Get Well, Book, Men

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “The Book of Snobs: And, Sketches and Travels in London ; [Character Sketches]”, p.282

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• Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but woman's heart has holier idols.

  George Eliot

  Heart, Men, Idols

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• If you take this life to be simply what old religious folks pretend (I mean the effete, gone to seed in a drought, mere human galls stung by the devil once), then all your joy and serenity is reduced to grinning and bearing it. The fact is, you have got to take the world on your shoulders like Atlas, and "put along" with it. You will do this for an idea's sake, and your success will be in proportion to your devotion to ideas. It may make your back ache occasionally, but you will have the satisfaction of hanging it or twirling it to suit yourself.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Religious, Mean, Ideas

  Henry David Thoreau (1894). “The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: With Bibliographical Introductions and Full Indexes”

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• The abortion industry can try to improve its messaging all it wants. But unless abortion advocates change their devotion to abortion-on-demand, the only message Americans will receive is that the abortion industry is only really interested in improving its bottom line at the expense of the most defenseless among us.

  Gary Bauer

  Abortion, Trying, Demand

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• Yes, I pray that my pain might be removed, that it might cease; but more so, I pray for the strength to bear it, the grace to benefit from it, and the devotion to offer it up to God as a sacrifice of praise.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Pain, Sacrifice, Grace

  Joni Eareckson Tada (2010). “A Place of Healing: Wrestling with the Mysteries of Suffering, Pain, and God's Sovereignty”, p.35, David C Cook

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• Personally, I always find it especially piquant when cultural conservatives, usually quick to profess their devotion to the Free Market, rail against the success in said market of some product of which they disapprove.

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden

  Said, Free Market, Rail

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• Indian standards of artistry, and Indian standards of humanity, and Indian standards of love, and of family, devotion, commitment, stand for me as the standard for how one should behave.

  Clark Blaise

  Commitment, Humanity, Should

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• What is natural in me, is natural in many other men, I infer, and so I am not afraid to write that I never had loved Steerforth better than when the ties that bound me to him were broken. In the keen distress of the discovery of his unworthiness, I thought more of all that was brilliant in him, I softened more towards all that was good in him, I did more justice to the qualities that might have made him a man of a noble nature and a great name, than ever I had done in the height of my devotion to him.

  Charles Dickens

  Writing, Character, Men

  Charles Dickens (2012). “Four Novels: Great Expectations, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, and Hard Times”, p.997, Graphic Arts Books

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• A particular ikon an aid to devotion may be itself a word of art, but that is logically accidental; its artistic merits will not make it a better ... ikon. They may make it a worse one.

  C. S. Lewis

  Art, Poetry, Literature

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• Worship does not consist in prayers and in external devotion, but in a life of kindness.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Prayer, Kindness, Doe

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• Other people's devotions embarrassed me, perhaps because, like other people's kisses, they rarely looked genuine when viewed too closely.

  Walter Kirn

  Kissing, People, Genuine

  Walter Kirn (2006). “Mission to America”, p.170, Anchor

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• [Middleton] contended that the religious leaders of the fourth century had admitted, eulogised, and habitually acted upon principles that were diametrically opposed, not simply to the aspirations of a transcendent sanctity, but to the dictates of the most common honesty. He showed that they had applauded falsehood, that they had practised the most wholesale forgery, that they had habitually and grossly falsified history, that they had adopted to the fullest extent the system of pious frauds, and that they continually employed them to stimulate the devotion of the people.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Religious, Honesty, People

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1870). “History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe”, p.154

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• Are not the daily devotions conducted by these legal ecclesiastics already degenerating into a scanty attendance, and a tiresome formality?

  James Madison

  Atheism, Attendance, Tiresome

  James Madison (1999). “Writings”

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• Thou art my life, my love, my heart,
  The very eyes of me:
  And hast command of every part
  To live and die for thee.

  Robert Herrick

  Love, Art, Eye

  'To Anthea, Who May Command Him Anything'

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• The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion.

  Washington Irving

  Money, Dollars, Almighty

  'Wolfert's Roost' (1855) 'The Creole Village'

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• The best part of a woman's love is worship; but it is hard to her to be sent away with her precious spikenard rejected, and her long tresses, too, that were let fall, ready to soothe the wearied feet.

  George Eliot

  Fall, Love Is, Feet

  George Eliot (2016). “Felix Holt, The Radical: Top Novelist Focus”, p.299, 谷月社

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• If a young man is going to get ahead, if he is going to reach the top, he must be all wrapped up in what he is doing. He has to give his job - whatever it is - not only his talent but every bit of his enthusiasm and devotion.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Jobs, Men, Giving

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• We must cultivate our garden.
  Furia to God one day in seven allots;
  The other six to scandal she devotes.
  Satan, by false devotion never flammed,
  Bets six to one, that Furia will be damned.

  Horace Walpole

  Responsibility, Garden, Optimism

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• To be a good boss, you must be transparent. Theres a correlation between worker happiness and workplace transparency. Leaders and managers who offer transparency will earn the respect and devotion of their team.

  David Niu

  Team, Leader, Boss

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• Destruction is a true sign of devotion. As I always tell my girlfriend when she threatens to kill me. 'You should kill me and it would tell me that you love me.

  Billy Corgan

  Girlfriend, Destruction, Should

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• Man you can define; but the true essence of any man, say, for instance, of Abraham Lincoln, remains the endlessly elusive and mysterious object of the biographer's interest, of the historian's comments, of popular legend, and of patriotic devotion.

  Josiah Royce

  Patriotic, Men, Essence

  Josiah Royce (1952). “The Religious Philosophy of Josiah Royce; Edited, with an Introductory Essay, by Stuart Gerry Brown”

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• One sees a trend in our political and legal cultures toward treating religious beliefs as arbitrary and unimportant, a trend supported by a rhetoric that implies that there is something wrong with religious devotion.

  Stephen L. Carter

  Christian, Religious, Political

  Stephen L. Carter (1993). “The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion”, Basic Books

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