#devotion

He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it burning forever. ↗

— Gilbert Parker

#being #burning #came #declared #devotion

I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given to participate in that work as a representative of my country, Canada, whose people have, I think, shown their devotion to peace. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#been #canada #country #devotion #given

Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone. ↗

— Ramakrishna

#apart #cannot #devotion #god #helpless

We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men. ↗

— George Ripley

#attachment #cause #devotion #discussion #down

The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church. ↗

— Edith Stein

#church #degree #devotion #elevation #gift

I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude. ↗

— Anton Seidl

#crude #demonstrated #devotion #fact #feeling

In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail. ↗

— Josh Billings

#dog #happiness #love #love

I love you and it's getting worse. ↗

— Joseph E. Morris

#humor #love #humor

He himself, he realized, had always been most abominably frightened, even at the height of his divine power, a frail god upon a rickety throne, afraid of opening letters, of making decisions, afraid of the instinctive knowledge in the eyes of mules, of the innocent eyes of good men, of the elastic nature of the passions, even of the devotion he had received from some men, and one woman, and dogs. ↗

— Patrick White

#devotion #dogs #fear #gods #innocence

Should God create another Eve, and I Another Rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart; no no, I feel The Link of Nature draw me: Flesh of Flesh, Bone of my Bone thou art, and from thy State Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe. ↗

— John Milton

#love #art