Quotes About Devotion

When you're in love with the work, the energy comes more naturally. You want to wake up in the morning to write more material, or to go on stage and give every shred of emotion you have.

And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love; and when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to God.

The principal form that the work of love takes is attention. When we love another person we give him or her our attention; we attend to that person's growth.

Consider six or eight hours a day sacred to the Lord and His work, and let nothing hinder your giving this time (to language study and practice) till you can preach fluently and intelligibly.

My husband and I were so closely united by our affection and our common work that we passed nearly all of our time together.

A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.

Prayer is the key discipline whereby all spiritual work is done.

Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.

In the matter of piety, poverty serves us better than wealth, and work better than idleness, especially since wealth becomes an obstacle even for those who do not devote themselves to it.

Prayer must carry on our work as much as preaching; he preacheth not heartily to his people that will not pray for them.

There is plenty of work for love to do.

The secret of the missionary is...I am His, and He is carrying out His work through me.

Work without love is slavery.

I've dubbed myself as an amateur, not because I work in different field, but because I do what I do for love.

There is no prayer or good work so great, so pleasing to God, so useful to us as the Mass.

Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.

We must plunge heart and soul and body into the work. And until we are ready to sacrifice everything else to one Idea and to one alone, we never, never will see the Light.

If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.

I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.

An interpreter must give his blood to the work interpreted.

The meaning of service is to do the work assigned ungrudgingly and without thought of personal reward material or moral.

When I work, I disappear into work, which I like to do, and sometimes I don't really have a choice. It's not a conscious thing. It's just total devotion to what I'm doing.

I still think that if you're excited about something, you have to work at it.

Money was their God; work their religion.