Devotion Quote by Christian Nestell Bovee Download Open image “Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.” — Christian Nestell Bovee ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Devotion Earnestness Faculty Religion
Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
To impress others we must be earnest; to amuse them, it is only necessary to be kindly and fanciful. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
If an earnest person has roused himself, if he is not forgetful, if his deeds are pure, if he acts with consideration, if he… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
Even virtue itself, all perfect as it is, requires to be inspirited by passion; for duties are but coldly performed which are but philosophically… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue;… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Even where there is talent, culture, knowledge, if there is not earnestness, it does not go to the root of things. — James Freeman Clarke Copy Share Image
What is taken from the fortune, also, may haply be so much lifted from the soul. The greatness of a loss, as the proverb… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Our courage is greater to dare a visible than an imagined danger. A visible danger rouses our energies to meet or avert it; a… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is the first to utter… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
In freedom can be found many devotions: a devotion to love, a desire to believe, a willingness to be happy, a perseverance to have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can remember coming downstairs before school every day and my mom would be reading her Bible and doing her devotion and praying. Both… — Mike Fisher Copy Share Image
I have fallen in love with you my angel. I sought nothing of you but only to see that dazzling smile of yours once… — Mahmoud El Hallab Copy Share Image
I’d never known it was possible to love as he did— with complete devotion yet devoid of promises. — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
Every Holy Mass, heard with devotion, produces in our souls marvelous effects, abundant spiritual and material graces which we, ourselves, do not know...It is… — Pio of Pietrelcina Copy Share Image
Daily simple, sincere, and mighty prayers lift our lives to a higher spiritual altitude. In our prayers we praise God, give thanks to Him,… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
Never despise a drink because it is easy to make and/or uses commercial mixes. Unquestioning devotion to authenticity is, in any department of life,… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
“It didn’t break the trance. She wasn’t sure that anything could, and briefly wondered if they’d stay like this until flesh rotted away from… — Ashton Morgan Copy Share Image
