Devotion Quotes

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

When we contemplate the heroes of Christianity, and compare our feeble efforts with their astonishing performance and self devotion, we should fall into despair, were there not a few softening features, by which they are brought back to the ranks of humanity.

I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for the League of Nations.

Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Before you, I engage myself to serve my country with the devotion and the exemplary that this post demands. I understand responsibilities of the job and, as such, I give a republican salute to Nicolas Sarkozy who has led France for 5 years and who deserves all of our respect.

This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.

So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas.

There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.

I continue to do something I've done since I was 18, and that is read a chapter of Proverbs every day as part of my daily devotion. I still maintain that.

My greatest debt will always be to the movie-going public of yesterday and today, without whose love and devotion I would have had no story to tell.

As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences.

I'm a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of devotion.

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

This is a race in a heavily Democratic state that, for a Republican candidate, will require full-time devotion in order to win... I could not be a senator and a father during this campaign. I could only be a candidate.

The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that it is now protected by the sanctity of age and the glory of tradition. A strong religious feeling mingles with the respect and the devotion to the fatherland.

We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men.

May the spirit of devotion to duty which inspires us always dominate this Committee's conferences!

Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.

I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion.

Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.

From you we have learned what we, at least, value, to separate Church and State; and from you we gather inspiration at all times in our devotion to learning, to religious liberty, and to individual and National freedom.

I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

The discipline of daily devotion to God undergirds decisions.

What is required from members of Congress and the public alike is a new spirit of devotion to the national welfare beyond party or self-interest.

I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.