It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
I continue to do something I've done since I was 18, and that is read a chapter of Proverbs every day as part of my daily devotion. I still maintain that.
To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.
We must guard against disrespectful, disparaging, and criticizing thoughts. We must try to practice reverence and devotion in our thinking at all times.
True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.
The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.
With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.
Personally, I always find it especially piquant when cultural conservatives, usually quick to profess their devotion to the Free Market, rail against the success in said market of some product of which they disapprove.
If nations perish, it is not because of their devotion to liberty, but for their disregard of its requirements.
It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine.
As Juan Gabriel, music is my religion, and mariachi is my devotion. And my songs are my prayers.
I'm a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of 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.
America and the world are paying a high price for devotion to the extreme anti-government ideology embraced by Donald Trump and his Republican party.
'Zeal' is essentially a compromising devotion to God, a commitment to cleansing the Holy Land of all foreign and pagan presences and to re-establish the kingdom of David as God had intended.
The odd thing is how, I think, the intensity and devotion to my craft and the intensity of certain performances or types of roles I've played overshadow the comedic stints that I've had. 'Darjeeling Limited' is a comedy; The 'Brothers Bloom' is a comedy.
Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
