Paul welcomed hearbreak, disillusionment and tribulation for only one reason - - these things kept him immovable in his devotion to the gospel of God.
If we understand and feel that the greatest act of devotion and worship to God is not to harm any of His beings, we are loving God.
Devotion is like the candle which Michael Angelo used to take in his pasteboard cap, so as not to throw his shadow upon the work in which he was engaged.
Personally, I always find it especially piquant when cultural conservatives, usually quick to profess their devotion to the Free Market, rail against the success in said market of some product of which they disapprove.
Through the cold time she holds me with evergreen devotion she bears up my whiteness.
In Jewish tradition, death-defying devotion to scholarship was the stuff of saintliness.
The Bhagavad-Gita has a profound influence on the spirit of mankind by its devotion to God which is manifested by actions.
Physical scientists probably deserve the reputation they enjoy for incorruptibility and unswerving devotion to pure truth. The reason for this is that it is not worth while to bribe them.
Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm.
The devotion which God sends to the succor of His Church and of the nations at the present time is the devotion to the Most Holy Eucharist. It is the highest of all devotions.
Devotion is when your involvement with life is so absolute that you yourself do not matter anymore.
A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.
Knowledge without devotion to God produces hatred.
If you are weary of some sleepy form of devotion, probably God is as weary of it as you are.
My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
I want to know what real devotion is, but then that's just a word.
Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same.
A man is no true Christian if he has no devotion to the Mother of Jesus Christ.
Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
The doctrine of foreordination is not a doctrine of repose; instead, it is a doctrine for second- and third-milers, and it will draw out of them the last full measure of devotion. It is a doctrine for the deep believer but it will bring only scorn from the skeptic.