From the very beginning our people have markedly combined practical capacity for affairs with power of devotion to an ideal. The lack… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The private devotions and secret offices of religion are like the refreshing of a garden with the distilling and petty drops of… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
One makes a gift of one's life and endeavors by sanctifying it with love, and devotion and selfless service. When seeking to… — David Hawkins Copy Share Image
When our individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for, we are in desperate need for something apart from us… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
My dog has the intellectual capacity of a lime wedge, yet even he possesses an elaborate set of assumptions, based on his… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
“I have seen this too many times before. The unwarranted devotion. Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I like when there are complicated relationships, that there's a little bit of self-serving parts of it as well as a devotion… — Lisa Kudrow Copy Share Image
This study is not for the amateur. It's not for the dilettante. It's not for the cult follower. It's not for someone… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Conversations are efforts toward good relations. They are an elementary form of reciprocity. They are the exercise of our love for each… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
If those friends who blame...could see what we see, and feel what we feel, they would be the first to wonder that… — Francois Coillard Copy Share Image
One is the path of devotion, what in India is called BHAKTI yoga, the path of love and devotion - a Meera,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. The superficial explanation is that a government resting upon popular suffrage cannot… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
It is not so much in buying pictures as in being pictures, that you can encourage a noble school. The best patronage… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I love the good in all the religions and respect people's religious beliefs. But, I'm more a spiritual being rather than religious.… — Chanda Kaushik Copy Share Image
“It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
If God is watching us, as some believers suggest, as though we were a television show and God had a lot of… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the… — Edith Stein Copy Share Image
The grief of losing my father has come in waves over the years, as it does with most people. His love and… — Jennifer Grant Copy Share Image
Although many swamis and yogis had come from India to the West, Prabhupada was the only one with the purity and devotion… — Mukunda Goswami Copy Share Image
My devotion to my job started from a personal defeat: my first girlfriend's parents rejected me because i wasn't rich. I decided… — Roberto Cavalli Copy Share Image
If you desire anything less for yourself than absolute obedience to God, a life of total devotion to the Lord, a life… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
If a young man is going to get ahead, if he is going to reach the top, he must be all wrapped… — Samuel Goldwyn Copy Share Image
I need you like I have never needed anyone before. I need you like you're all I'm living for. I need you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The soldier 's courage and sacrifice is full of glory , expressing devotion to country , to cause, to comrades in arms.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as… — Moliere Copy Share Image
“Can you please leave my ear alone? You gonna take care of it when it falls off from all the chomping you… — Hajin Yoo Copy Share Image
I was there. I saw your sons and your husbands, your brothers and your sweethearts. I saw how they worked, played, fought,… — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
Seeming devotion does but gild a knave, That's neither faithful, honest, just, nor brave; But where religion does with virtue join, It… — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image
Its from the deep waters that we come. And we are heartfelt and treacherous like those waters. We come with an unflinching… — Lisa Bonet Copy Share Image
From the start of the sunrise until the time when it sets, You are on my mind and this you should not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have abandoned all particular forms of devotion, all prayer techniques. My only prayer practice is attention. I carry on a habitual,… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
We must learn to recognize nature's truths even though we don't understand them, for some of those truths may still be beyond… — John E. Sarno Copy Share Image
I must secure more time for private devotions. I have been living far too public for me. The shortening of devotions starves… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Let us learn the meaning of economy. Economy is a high human office,--a sacrament when its aim is grand, when it is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Tony Bennett is still giving concerts, still singing. It's keeping him alive. He's in his late 80s now and he keeps going… — Frank Sinatra, Jr Copy Share Image
Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The efficacy of religion lies precisely in what is not rational, philosophic, nor eternal; its efficacy lies in the unforeseen, the miraculous,… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Godly enthusiasm is not a fire of our own kindling...If a man, however, has caught fire, let me not quench the Spirit… — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
If an uncompromising stand is to be smeared as 'extremism,' then that smear is directed at any devotion to values, any loyalty… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Sacrifice demands the surrender of things we cherish above all else. Only out of the agony of those loses can a new… — Emily Thorne Copy Share Image
