Best Devotion Quotes

Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.

Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.

The discipline of daily devotion to God undergirds decisions.

My weight fluctuates depending on my mood and my current devotion to my fitness routine.

If evils increase, the devotion of the People of God should also increase.

Destiny is the result of all your actions and the impressions that you have taken in.

Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm.

Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter’s or sculptor’s work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God’s spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

Shall we speak of the inspiration of a poet or a priest, and not of the heart impelled by love and self-devotion to the lowliest work in the lowliest way of life?

It is impossible to save one’s soul without devotion to Mary and without her protection.

Rational thinking which is free from assumptions ends therefore in mysticism. To relate oneself in the spirit of reverence for life to the multiform manifestations of the will-to-live which together constitute the world is ethical mysticism. All profound world-view is mysticism, the essence of which is just this: that out of my unsophisticated and naïve existence in the world there comes, as a result of thought about self and the world, spiritual self-devotion to the mysterious infinite Will which is continuously manifested in the universe.

A successful lie cannot be brought into this world and capriciously abandoned; like any committed relationship, it must be maintained, and with far more devotion than the truth, which carries on being carelessly true without any help.

Doubt the man who swears to his devotion.

… many a heart is caught in the rebound … Pride may be soothed by the ready devotion of another; vanity may be excited the more keenly by recent mortification.

Revival begins in the individual’s heart. Let it begin with you on your face alone before God. Turn from every sin that might hinder. Renew yourself to a new devotion to the Savior.

People think I’m disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great difference.

Only wisdom and virtue can truly win men’s devotion.

Be vigilant! Be vigilant! If an evil is minor, resist it nonetheless. If a good deed is trifling, perform it all the same. Only wisdom and virtue can truly win men’s devotion.

With the sincere devotion of our employees, Samsung has achieved stellar performances since its foundation.

Oh, only those whose souls have felt this one idolatry can tell how precious is the slightest thing affection gives and hallows.

The pious and learned Jesuit, Suarez, Justus Lipsius, a devout and erudite theologian of Louvain, and many others have proved incontestably that devotion to our Blessed Lady is necessary to attain salvation.

From religion … they will learn the only true lesson of equality – the conviction that our destinies are not in our own hands; they will see that no situation in life is without its share of suffering; – and this perpetual reference to a higher power ought equally to teach the rich humility, and the poor devotion.

a caring that gains only when losing; an obsessed desire to be bound, for love , in jail ; a capitulation to the one you’ve conquered yourself; a devotion to your own assassin every single day.

I like when there are complicated relationships, that there’s a little bit of self-serving parts of it as well as a devotion to a person, and that there’s a mixture of both in there. It’s just I think that’s a little more true to life. It’s not always purely one way or the other.

Be ye a refuge to the fearful; bring ye rest and peace to the disturbed; make ye a provision for the destitute; be a treasury of riches for the poor; be a healing medicine for those who suffer pain; be ye doctor and nurse to the ailing; promote ye friendship, and honour, and conciliation, and devotion to God, in this world of non-existence.

The half moon on the bank of the river’s devotion. That’s the stab wound, born from the killer emotion

I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion.

American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress.

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

Maybe I was afraid to trust him with something so personal as my devotion.

Discipline says, ‘I need to.’ Duty says, ‘I ought to.’ Devotion says, ‘I want to.’

The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.