Quotes About Devotion

Let your minds be filled with the goal of being like the Lord, and you will crowd out depressing thoughts as you anxiously seek to know Him and do His will.

My mindset as an athlete and as a man is to accept what God is asking me to do and to live my life expressing God's word.

I'm one of the biggest Ghost Rider fans ever. He's been a hobby of mine ever since I was seven years old. I actually have a whole room in my house dedicated to Ghost Rider memorabilia.

I love going back to cities where I had a strong fan base - like San Antonio, Minneapolis - those were really good fan bases, like Iowa and Chicago.

I love Minnesota.

If you live to be 1000 years old, I hope I live to be 1000 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.

I don't want the George Clooney lifelong bachelorhood. If I found the right person, I would commit in a minute.

I spent pretty much every minute of my life with my mom.

And you realize that it was not those great minds and not those old masters which kept you alive for decades but that it was this one single person whom you loved more than anyone else.

It is not just Gould's playing but the fact that he stopped playing, turned his back on the world, that fascinated Bernhard. It

The power of religion and godliness lives, thrives, or dies, as closet prayer lives, thrives, or dies. Godliness never rises to a higher pitch than when men keep closest to their closets, etc.

It was a precept of Pythagoras, that when we enter into the temple to worship God , we must not so much as speak or think of any worldly business, lest we make God's service an idle ,perfunctory, and lazy recreation. The same I may say of closet prayer.

The sluggish Christian will be sleeping, or idling, or trifling, when he should be in his closet a-praying. Sloth is the green-sickness of the soul; get it cured, or it will be your eternal bane. Of all devils, it is the idle devil that keeps men most out of their closets. There is nothing that gives the devil so much advantage against us as idleness.

Y con ánimo sombrío pensó en que aún estaba muy lejos de llegar a algo con una chica si sólo pretendía idolatrarla y después morir noblemente por ella.

Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail...

To be loved to madness--such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.

That it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much of me as you have done through the past summertime!

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

You know, mistress, that I love you, and shall love you always

What a strange sort of love, to be entirely free from that quality of selfishness which is frequently the chief constituent of the passion, and sometimes it's only one!

When the love-led man had ceased from his labours Bathsheba came and looked him in the face. 'Gabriel, will you you stay on with me?' she said, smiling winningly, and not troubling to bring her lips quite together again at the end, because there was going to be another smile soon. 'I will,' said Gabriel. And she smiled on him again.

Having begun to love you, I love you for ever - in all changes, in all disgraces, because you are yourself.

But it was also obvious that man could not live by work alone; that the particular man Jude, at any rate, wanted something to love.

Because nobody could love 'ee more than Tess did! … She would have laid down her life for 'ee. I could do no more.