Quotes About Devotion

I think when I'm in love, I really am very good with calling, little faxes, and visiting and I really put a lot of effort into it. I'm really not the one that's not available because of work and I'm very sad when I actually leave.

I always admire the French and the Italians who are very devoted to their marriages. They take them extremely seriously, but it is understood that there might be other visitors at 5 o'clock in the afternoon. You just never boast about. They never say anything, but that's what keeps marriages together.

Writers need their totems, their altars. Mine, I feel, share the same randomness and utility of those belonging to painters I know, who are relentlessly visual and even poetic.

The visual for 'Holding The Gun' is a love story. It's about a ride or die and unapologetic type of love and a kind of loyalty that only comes once in a lifetime.

I don't want to be entertained. I don't want visuals or musicals. I don't want a vacation. I don't want to quit. I don't want sympathy. The cry of my heart is 'Just Give Me Jesus.'

And how can you achieve such concentration? By recognizing that everything you do is important to God, and is one vital piece of the larger picture of your life.

True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that - it is spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth.

Acquiring a repertoire in these days, when the vocal literature is so immense, so overwhelming, that the student with sense will devote all his energies to work and not imagine himself a martyr to art.

I listen to Handel's vocal music, almost exclusively.

The guys who like chinos and cords never went away. They've always been there. They're remarkably loyal, just not remarkably vocal.

I have this problem - I don't have hobbies. Everything that's interesting becomes a vocation.

My first vocation was dance.

And all the charms of face or voice Which I in others see, Are but the recollected choice Of what I feel for thee.

Our loyalty is not to our grandparents, the traditions, our volleyball team, our friends; as believers, our loyalty is to Scripture.

Belief, like love, must be voluntary.

Peyton Manning's been my guy since the sixth grade. My cousin bought me a Tennessee Volunteers No. 16 jersey. He's been my guy since then.

Oh my God, I love Max von Essen.

I am dedicated to my work, my voters and my family.

I love the Seekers, they're part of me, and always will be.

Let us die as soon as possible, and by whatever process God shall appoint. And when we are dead to the world, and nature, and self, we shall begin to live to God.

I'm a really selfish person. But I would do anything for my friends.

I am very selfish when it comes to work, and I only care about work.

I'll do whatever I need to. I'm not selfish.

When you have a child, you really understand what it means to love, to have something to be selfless for. I think that elevates you. It elevates your consciousnesses, your level of thinking, your art and the way you approach it - everything.