Quotes About Devotion

Obedience is the best form of poverty, Billy. I think that is the kind of martyrdom you have been given.

for instinctively he knew that any abiding love would have a cost.

Not so, Tarek. The highest love is given without thought of cost or reward—anything less is not love.

Porphyria's lover was mad, of course, but what lover is completely sane?

We must love God more than the world, yet if we truly love God, we will also love the world, on his behalf. God matters more than the world, but because he loves it, the world now matters.

DIVIDE YOUR LIFE INTO SACRED AND SECULAR, HEAVENLY AND EARTHLY, CHRISTIAN AND HUMAN REALMS. DEVOTE THEM ALL TO CHRIST.

Faith requires knowledge, for we cannot believe in what we do not know. But it also requires commitment: we must place our entire weight on what we claim to know.

Anna go ubóstwia?a. Nie odst?powali siebie na krok, a cesarzowa dostraja?a si? do zmiennych nastrojów partnera i by?a na ka?de jego skinienie.

There were only two sorts of women so perfervid in their devotions: madwomen and saints, nor were the two species entirely distinct.

He's not just a dog, he's a member of the family

Family is not an important thing. It's everything.

Family it is not an important thing, it is everything.

The "myth of redemptive violence undergirds American popular culture, civil religion, nationalism, and foreign policy," argues Walter Wink.48 It underwrites the belief that killing and/or dying for the national interest is a sacred duty and even privilege. Service to the nation—especially military service, and particularly dying for one's country—is the highest form of both civic and religious devotion.

This is all birthed and nurtured in worship.

The function of propaganda is to make evil look good, the demonic divine, violence like peacemaking, tyranny and oppression like liberation. It makes blind, unquestioning allegiance appear to be freely chosen, religiously appropriate devotion.

My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection.

One of Cranmer's goals in writing and revising the Book of Common Prayer was to get Scripture into the ears of the people so that their hearts might be turned to God and their lives transformed by his love. Cranmer

The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.

Even when I'm old and grey, I won't be able to play it, but I'll still love the game.

This morning I awoke clutching your name with such reckless devotion that it turned to dust.

Birini can?n yanacak kadar çok sevdin mi hiç?

Once a person falls in the fields of love, all the rules are already broken; the lover becomes open an exalted in ways that transcend the local issues as well as the commonly held beliefs. Love, like genuine devotion, will find a way. Where duty becomes replaced with love, a greater and deeper faith will blossom forth.

There was no more dangerous kind of madman than one who devoted a good brain and a courageous heart to unhealthy ambitions.

I can hate you more, but I'll never love you less.