Devotion Quote by Charles Dickens

“Success at Go requires the tactic of the soldier, the exactness of the mathematician, the imagination of the artist, the inspiration of the poet,…

— Zhang Yungi

“We speak of ‘inspiration,’ and the word should be taken literally. There really is inspiration and expiration of Being.”

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

The experience of not forgetting consciousness alone is the state of devotion which is the relationship of unfading real love, because the real knowledge…

— Ramana Maharshi

Complete self-devotion is woman's part.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“But nature will smile though priests may frown, and next day the sun shone brightly, and on the next, and the next again.”

— Charles Dickens

I'll tell you," said she, in the same hurried passionate whisper, "what real love it. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust…

— Charles Dickens

One day you and I will have to have a little talk about this business called love. I still don't understand what it's all…

— Oriana Fallaci

New Presbyter is but Old Priest writ Large.

— John Milton

My aim is to institute perpetual adoration," spoke St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe, Franciscan priest and founder of the Knights of the Immaculata. For he…

— Maximilian Kolbe

“It has been the practice of all Christian commentators on the Bible, and of all Christian priests and preachers, to impose the Bible on…

— Thomas Paine

I want to remind priests that the confessional must not be a torture chamber but rather an encounter with the Lord’s mercy which spurs…

— Pope Francis

Man preys on man; and you mourn for the idle tapestry that decorated a gothic pillar, and the dronish bell that summoned the fat…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

The four cautions: Beware a woman in front of you, beware a horse behind of you, beware a cart beside of you, and beware…

— Jamie O'Neill

“Tattooists are the new priests for the fucked-up and the thrown away. They speak the language of symbol, and administer penance in tiny metallic…

— Skyler White

Happy (if mortals can be) is the man,Who, not by priest but Reason, rules his span:Reason, to its possessor a sure guide,Reason, a thorn…

— Thomas Chatterton