Quotes About Devotion

Give your heart to the trade you have learnt, and draw refreshment from it.

our own worth is measured by what we devote our energy to.

Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones

Remember what Marcus Aurelius said: Accept the things to which life binds you, and love the people with whom life brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

That I have such a wife, so obedient

the Imitation of Christ.

our own worth is measured by what we devote our energy to.  4.

be confident that my friends love me.

What art and profession soever thou hast learned, endeavour to affect it, and comfort thyself in it; and pass the remainder of thy life as one who from his whole heart commits himself and whatsoever belongs unto him, unto the gods: and as for men, carry not thyself either tyrannically or servilely towards any.

Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just. Then they will not care how devout you have been. But will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods then you will be gone but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of the loves ones.

Nothing, says the poet, is more miserable than to range over all things, to spy into the depths of the earth, and search, by conjecture, into the souls of those around us, yet not to perceive that it is enough for a man to devote himself to that divinity which is within him, and to pay it genuine worship. And this worship consists in keeping it pure from every passion and folly, and from repining at anything done by Gods or men. The work of the Gods is to be reverenced for its excellence.

As a faithful Jew, he would have recited the Shema upon rising and retiring each day, the heart of which affirmed: "Hear, O Israel: The LORD is our God, the LORD alone. You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might

And yet another word for infidelity in the biblical tradition is idolatry, namely, to be faithful to something other than God.

Faithfulness leads us to pay attention to our relationship to God—through such attention, we become even more deeply centered in God. Trust is the fruit of that deeper centering. It grows as we center more and more in God.

The Bible's function as sacrament is familiar to many Christians in its private devotional use. This common Christian practice involves spending time with a passage from the Bible and lingering over it. The passage is not read rapidly or for information, but space is left around it in the hope that a phrase or sentence will become the means for the Spirit to speak to us as individuals in the particularity of our lives, in the dailiness of our lives.

Dogs wait for us faithfully.

Faith is only a word, embroidered.

he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different.

Love is a discipline, like prayer," I said.

Her metaphors for her children included barnacles encrusting a ship and limpets clinging to a rock.

On impulse he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different. He has no talent for monotony.

He'd wanted to track down and personally injure anyone who had ever done harm to her or made her unhappy. He'd tortured himself with painful knowledge: every white-hot factoid he could collect he'd shove up under his fingernails. The more it hurt, the more--he was convinced--he loved her.

The more difficult it was to love the particular man beside us, the more we believed in Love, abstract and total.

The more it hurt, the more – he was convinced – he loved her.