Quotes About Devotion

Salvation is a gift. Godliness is the pursuit.

Not to us, LORD, not to us, but to Your name give glory because of Your faithful love, because of Your truth. Psalm 115:1

Happy are the people whose strength is in You, whose hearts are set on pilgrimage. Psalm 84:5

Some roles require less, and some roles require a great deal of commitment.

I despise lackadaisical behavior when it comes to our music. I mean, this is heavy metal music. You must be involved. You're required to be involved.

For a Nebraska kid in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Nebraska football was a quasi-religion, so I ran out to get The Omaha World-Herald every morning, salivating for the sports page. My dad, however, required that I read one front page story and one editorial before I was allowed to turn to the sports.

Fidelity is a gift not a requirement.

If nations perish, it is not because of their devotion to liberty, but for their disregard of its requirements.

Music is not a profession. Music is a way of life - one that requires much professionalism.

The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can't really explain - let's just say it's all I can really do while I'm doing it.

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

If you have other gods before the Lord, your heart will be turned away from serving the only true and living God, who requires the whole heart, the undivided affections. All the heart, all the soul, all the mind, and all the strength, does God require. He will accept of nothing short of this.

For if the honour paid to Him is shared by others, He altogether ceases to be worshipped, since His religion requires us to believe that He is the one and only God.

It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine.

Christians are commanded to pray in the name of Jesus. It is not a practice reserved just for personal prayers, or prayers rendered in church.

The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your conquest could be bought with the blood of your general, he would most cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to his country.

He that serves God is resigned up into him, and in all things has respect to truth and righteousness, and will promote that.

As both a student of history and a man devoted to living in the present, I admit that I do not spend a lot of time imagining how things might otherwise have been. But I do like to think there is a difference between being resigned to a situation and reconciled to it.

I don't ever remember not praying. Bedtime prayers, the rosary, praying for friends, relatives, for the sick and for those who had died. It was a natural part of our lives.

Let me be clear: I am sick of having to criticise the club which I gave my life to as a footballer.

I love Milwaukee! I'm going to be in Milwaukee 20 years! I'll be here so long, they'll be sick of me!

My wife Lucy was very sick for nearly three years prior to her death. At one time, I was in the hospital with her for six months.

In some ways, I feel like I was Nirvana's biggest fan in the Nineties. I'm sure there are a zillion people who would make that claim, but I was just so passionately in love with the music that it made me feel sick. It made my heart hurt.