DEVOTION

Related Subjects: Holiness, Love, Loyalty, Piety, Prayer, Religion, Sacrifice, Worship

1. For "ignorance is the mother of devotion," as all the world knows.—ROBERT BURTON, Anatomy of Melancholy

2. Give me a man that is capable of a devotion to anything, rather than a cold, calculating average of all the virtues!—BRET HARTE, Two Men of Sandy Bar
   

3. At thy command I would change, not merely my costume, but my very soul, so entirely art thou the sole possessor of my body and my spirit. Never, God is my witness, never have I sought anything in thee but thyself; I have sought thee, and not thy gifts. I have not looked to the marriage-bond or dowry.—HELOISE, to Abelard
   

4. All is holy where devotion kneels.—O. W. HOLMES
   

5. The most illiterate man who is touched with devotion, and uses frequent exercises of it, contracts a certain greatness of mind, mingled with a noble simplicity, that raises him above others of the same condition. By this, a man in the lowest condition will not appear mean, or in the most splendid fortune insolent.—SAMUEL JOHNSON
   

6. That sweet look of devotion which men have never been able altogether to love, and which still makes the born saint an object almost of suspicion to his earthly brethren.—WALTER PATER, The Renaissance
   

7. The private devotions and secret offices of religion are like the refreshing of a garden with the distilling and petty drops of a water-pot; but addressed from the temple, they are like rain from heaven.—JEREMY TAYLOR