Quotes About Devotion

Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.

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.

The more men pray, the less worldly they become. The less they pray, the more worldly they become. I am, of course, speaking of professing Christians at this point.

A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented.

It is in the process of being worshipped that God communicates His presence to men.

A man who loves his wife will love her letters and her photographs because they speak to him of her. So if we love the Lord Jesus, we shall love the Bible because it speaks to us of him.

I deserve passion," she said. "I deserve to be loved- in every way. I deserve a man who'll give his whole heart, not the part he isn't using at the moment.

A son of the Immaculate Heart of Mary...is a man who unceasingly expends himself to light the fire of divine love in the world. Nothing stops him.

St. Joseph was an ordinary sort of man on whom God relied to do great things. He did exactly what the Lord wanted him to do, in each and every event that went to make up his life.

Give me one hundred men who love only God with all their heart and hate only sin with all their heart and we will shake the gates of hell and bring in the kingdom of God in one generation.

No man loveth God except the man who has first learned that God loves him.

All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself.

The pious sectarian is proud because he is confident of his right of possession in God. The man of devotion is meek because he is conscious of God's right of love over his life and soul.

Except a man fear the Lord, he is unable to renounce sin.

I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.

Art is a jealous thing; it requires the whole and entire man.

Each man is for his lord, do not give chase.

If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, you become something else entirely.

No man can be condemned for owning a dog. As long as he has a dog, he has a friend; and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has.

The secret of the Christian's passion is simple: Everything we do in life we do it as to the Lord and not to men.

I'm a dyed-in-the-wool party man. I don't know just what party I am in right now, but I am for the party.

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.

If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.