Quotes About Devotion

Tu seras mon élève, tu seras mon maître, tu acquerras la gloire, tu me seras fidèle, tu m'abandonneras, tu me reviendras toujours. Et à l'aube se dire : Nous sommes ensemble.

Effort is one of the things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something, that something is important to you and you are willing to work for it. It would be an impoverished existence if you were not willing to value things and commit yourself to working toward them.

You need not see what someone is doing to know if it is his vocation,   you have only to watch his eyes: a cook mixing a sauce, a surgeon   making a primary incision, a clerk completing a bill of lading,   wear the same rapt expression, forgetting themselves in a function.   How beautiful it is, that eye-on-the-object look.   —W. H. Auden

Effort means you care about something, that something is important to you and you are willing to work for it. It would be an impoverished existence if you

I'd ruin any day, all my days, for those long nights with you, and I did.

Twenty-six," you said. "One for each day we've been together, Min."Somebody oohed. Somebody shushed them. "And I hope that someday I'll do another something stupid and I'll have to say it a million times because that's how long it'll be, together with you, Min. With you.

The only enduring motive for prayer is that our never-changing God is worthy to be sought. This

It is a good thing to let prayer be the first business in the morning and the last in the evening. Guard yourself against such false and deceitful thoughts that keep whispering: Wait a while. In an hour or so I will pray. I must first finish this or that. Thinking such thoughts we get away from prayer into other things that will hold us and involve us till the prayer of the day comes to naught.

He is worthy. I am needy." I have concluded that the more we seek the Lord, with a passion for His worthiness, the more we are gripped with our neediness. Adoration cultivates desperation.

I'm very lucky that I started out as a reader of the comic book and a viewer of the show. And I try to remain that, and make 'The Walking Dead' that I love watching. Luckily, I have the source material that I love, and I want to serve that as well.

I am obsessed with my viewers.

I actually have blissfully romantic views of marriage, because that has been my experience of it.

Ron Paul's CPAC appearances perfectly captured the nature and limits of his political appeal. His libertarian message, non-interventionist views and devotion to the gold standard attracted a sizable, committed following, but many of the true-believers weren't actually part of the Republican Party.

Keep up you conjugal love in constant heat and vigor.

I love vinyl, man.

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

Nelson Mandela went to jail believing in violence, and 27 years later he and his colleagues had slowly and carefully honed the skills, the incredible skills, that they needed to turn one of the most vicious governments the world has known into a democracy. And they did it in a total devotion to non-violence.

The violin is my mistress, but the guitar is my master.

I usually listen to the same thing over and over again: Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D Major. And Leonard Cohen.

Most kids are very seriously interested in something - friends, math, shopping, sports. For me it happened to be music and the violin. I had the chance to pursue it without having it get in the way of my life.

I do virtually nothing except my work. No hobbies.

Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness.

My Constanze is the virtuous, honourable, discreet, and faithful darling of her honest and kindly-disposed Mozart.

People say to me now, 'Oh, you've given up the piano.' How can you? Music is a virus.