Quotes About Devotion

Every man--I know this--turns weak, pliant, ridiculous as soon as he's in love.

The Greatest evils inflicted by man over the face of the Earth are wrought not by the self-seekers, the pleasure lovers, or the merely amoral, but by the fervent devotees of ethical principles.

A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.

The only man who has stolen my heart is my son.

Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. IF he worship not the true God, he will have his idols.

By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.

To keep a faith pure, man had better retire to a monastery.

Whatever a man seeks, honors, or exalts more than God is the god of his idolatry.

So holy and so perfect is my love, And I in such a poverty of grace, That I shall think it a most plenteous crop To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps.

It may be very well to do this and that for good fellowship; but it will never do to lose the friendship of God in order to keep on good terms with men.

Love for God is obedience; love for God is holiness. To love God and to love man is to be conformed to the image of Christ, and this is salvation.

No man of God does something against the Lord

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.

The world has yet to see what God will do with a man fully consecrated to Him. By God's help, I aim to be that man.

Generally he perceived in men of devout simplicity this opinion: that the secrets of nature were the secrets of God, part of that glory into which man is not to press too boldly.

The wise man comes to God without saying a word and stands in awe of Him.

Eva [Braun] loved [Adolf] Hitler and he was the only man in her life. She flirted and danced with other men but never would she have done more than that.

Men who have embraced one idea can live only by and for that idea. Beyond it, they have nothing but their memories.

It will cost you everything to follow the Lord. And it will cost you even more to be His man for this hour.

Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually, "Be thou exalted," and a thousand minor problems will be solved at once.

He who loves best his fellow-man, is loving God the holiest way he can.

Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.

A truly obedient man does not discriminate between one thing and another, since his only aim is to execute faithfully whatever may be assigned to him.

A basis for much of the pain women suffer in real life is they must somehow resolve their devotion to men.