Quotes About Devotion

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

That we may live to see England once more possess a free Monarchy and a privileged and prosperous People, is my Prayer; that these great consequences can only be brought about by the energy and devotion of our Youth is my persuasion. We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

The secret to success is constancy of purpose.

Serving God is doing good to man. But praying is thought an easier service and is therefore more generally chosen.

How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!

Were I a Roman Catholic, perhaps I should on this occasion vow to build a chapel to some saint, but as I am not, if I were to vow at all, it should be to build a light-house. [Letter to his wife, 17 July 1757, after narrowly avoiding a shipwreck; often misquoted as "Lighthouses are more helpful than churches."]

To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.

O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.

For though our Saviour's Passion is over, his Compassion is not. That never fails his humble, sincere Disciples: In him, they find more than all that they lose in the World.

Work as if you were to live 100 years, Pray as if you were to die To-morrow.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

You promise you'll never leave?" "Not even death could make me leave.

I had fallen head over heels in love with him. He had made romance and love real for me. My soul was forever intertwined with his, for better or worse, until death does us part.

Meditations on Christ will help us deepen the connection to His qualities and make them our own.

Our meditation practice, as Christians, is dedicated to three main priorities: welcoming the Holy Spirit, living a more Christlike life, and building His kingdom on Earth as it is in Heaven.

the player who looks least engaged may be the most committed member of the group. A cynic, after all, is a passionate person who does not want to be disappointed again.

The amazing thing is that He loves you so much, and yet you're not always right with Him

The practice of the presence of the Lord begins when Jesus becomes more real to us than our problems, our families, our troubles, and even more real than life itself. At that moment, it is all about Jesus.

In spite of ups and downs, the union between Jacques and Marguerite remained essential and indestructible. Nothing could undermine it over the forty-eight years of their life together. According to Avital Ronell, 'Marguerite never considered anyone to be a rival. She always had something nice to say about the women who were close or too close to Jacques, which does not mean that she did not suffer because of them.

Why must we love the Lord? Because as we do so, we become refined, pure, and holy.

Sexual living is a reflection of God's love for us. It has two key qualities, which is faithfulness and creativity of new life.

As long I still have a breath left in me I will dedicate myself fully to China's reform.