Quotes about Devotion
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider to be God-fearing and pious.
- Aristotle
The nobelest expenditure is that which is made in the Divine Service
- Aristotle
Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
For the love of his art
- Arthur Conan Doyle
What distinguishes all love from lust is the fact that it bears an impress of eternity.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Only the one who descends into the underworld rescues the beloved.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The more he needs God, the more deeply he comprehends he is in need of God, and then the more he in his need presses forward to God, the more perfect he is... To need God is nothing to be ashamed of but is perfection itself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
What is the New Testament? A handbook for those who are to be sacrificed.
- Soren Kierkegaard
He who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.
- Soren Kierkegaard
That in which all human life is unified is passion, and faith is a passion.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The higher life begins for us ... when we renounce our own will to bow before a Divine law.
- George Eliot
I try to live a faith-filled life. I'm a believer.
- George W. Bush