Devotions Quote by E.M. Bounds

“Affection, homage, devotion, does not easily express itself. Its voice is low. It is modest and retiring, it lies in ambush, waits and waits.…

— Charles Dickens

“Rarely does the Spirit come to the hurried who are seeking more and more.”

— Andrew Root, Blair D. Bertrand

“Hurry is the great enemy of spiritual life in our day. You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.”

— John Ortberg

“Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the gratefully and appreciating heart.”

— Henry Clay

“Diplomacy and virtue do not make easy companions.”

— Iain Pears

“Misfortunes, blessings, I have no time to pick my words, I am in a hurry to be done. And yet no, I am in…

— Samuel Beckett

“Never expect anything less than devotion from someone who has claim on your heart.”

— Dannika Dark

“Tenderly, be not impatient, (Strong is your hold O mortal flesh, Strong is your hold O love.)”

— Walt Whitman

“It is the weak who are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.”

— Leo Roskin

“There are things more worthy of our devotion than our own desires.”

— Jerry S. Eicher

“What great good, then, we are to expect and hope from participating in his divinity, when even his distress calms us and his weakness…

— Augustine of Hippo

“I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which…

— Anonymous