Quotes About Devotion

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

Belief is better than anything else, and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever.

Those who serve a cause are not those who love that cause. They are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it - except in the case of the very purest, and they are rare.

Doubt the man who swears to his devotion.

Who loves me will love my dog also.

You're only a dog, old fellow; a dog, and you've had your day; But never a friend of all my friends has been truer than you alway.

The more one comes to know men, the more one comes to admire the dog.

Gentlemen of die Jury: The one, absolute, unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.

I regard England as my wife and America as my mistress.

What have I done for you, England, my England? What is there I would not do, England, my own?

Enthusiasm is the most beautiful word on earth.

And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily.

What is man but his passion?

He did it with all his heart, and prospered.

Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine.

Loving is half of believing.

Faith is hidden household capital.

You can see them alongside the shuffleboard courts in Florida or on the porches of the old folks' homes up north.... They are in love, they have always been in love, although sometimes they would have denied it. And because they have been in love they have survived everything that life could throw at them, even their own failures.

Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

He who endures penance and hardships for another delights in that person's company.

However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.

Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.

Nearer, my God, to Thee - Nearer to Thee - E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me; Still all my song shall be Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee!

A picket frozen on duty - A mother starved for her brood - Socrates drinking the hemlock, And Jesus on the rood; And millions who, humble and nameless, The straight, hard pathway trod - Some call it Consecration, And others call it God.