Devoted Quotes - Page 3

• Ministry need not be an office; it's a lifestyle devoted to attracting the lost to Christ and encouraging other believers in the faith.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Office, Needs, Ministry

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• True joy, as it turns out, comes only to those who have devoted their lives to something greater than personal happiness. This is most visible in extraordinary lives, in saints and martyrs. But it is no less true for ordinary people like us.

  John Ortberg

  True Joy, People, Ordinary

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.73, Harper Collins

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• We amateur athletes are peculiarly devoted to our fitness, and our obsessions can sometimes be a burden to our loved ones and a mystery to everyone else.

  Peter Sagal

  Athlete, Mystery, Sometimes

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• Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to utilitarian ends [mathematics] has been able to arise in Egypt, the priestly caste there having the leisure necessary for disinterested research.

  Aristotle

  Math, Skills, Egypt

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• There's people who actually have a whole science devoted to what makes a sticky meme and that idea of that question of why some ideas about how civilizations work catch on and others don't.

  Jay Roach

  Civilization, Ideas, People

  Source: collider.com

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• We must be devoted to sound principles in word and deed: principle above party, principle above pocketbook, principle above popularity.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Party, Sound, Principles

  Ezra Taft Benson (1974). “God, family, country: our three great loyalties”

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• No matter how many pro-freedom politicians we elect to office, the only way to guarantee constitutional government is through an educated and activist public devoted to the ideals of liberty.

  Ron Paul

  Government, Office, Liberty

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• [Government] is apprehended, not as a committee of citizens chosen to carry on the communal business of the whole population, but as a separate and autonomous corporation, mainly devoted to exploiting the population for the benefit of its own members.

  H. L. Mencken

  Government, Population, Citizens

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.147, Vintage

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• If someone does learn about the world from reading a novel of mine, that makes me very happy. It's probably not what brings me into the novel in the first place - I usually am pulled in by some big question about the world and human nature that I'm not going to resolve in the course of the novel. But I'm very devoted to getting my facts straight.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Reading, Doe, World

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• I participated with great honor in becoming one of the first to land on the moon, and now I am devoting and have devoted many years of my life to enabling Americans to lead international nations to permanence on the planet Mars.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moon, Becoming One, Years

  "Ask Me Anything" on Reddit, www.reddit.com. July 08, 2014.

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• It's definitely safer to be single, especially with this cottage industry that's devoted to extorting celebrities.

  Charlie Sheen

  Cottages, Industry

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Friends, Clever, Men

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• My expertise lies in what I've devoted my life to. I wouldn't pretend to be a great gift to any other animal. My interest has always been in the horses.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Lying, Animal

  Source: www.sacurrent.com

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• Any survey of the free world's defense structure cannot fail to impart a feeling of regret that so much of our effort and resources must be devoted to armaments.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Regret, War, Effort

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1959”, p.9, Best Books on

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• I have SO many books I didn't sell. Some my agent rejected outright, others made it all the way to my editor to be turned away. Not everything is a winner, which is tough when you've devoted eight or nine months of your life to something.

  Sarah Dessen

  Book, Editors, Eight

  Interview with Claire Zulkey, www.wbez.org. January 13, 2012.

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• What I have done is yours; what I have to do is yours; being part in all I have, devoted yours.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Heart, Done

  'The Rape Of Lucrece' (1594) dedication

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• There is no emptiness of soul ever for those whose life is devoted to God.

  William Lawson

  God, Soul, Emptiness

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• The key to praying with power is to become the kind of persons who do not use God for our ends but are utterly devoted to being used for His ends.

  John Piper

  Prayer, Keys, Use

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• Seneca devoted much of his time to writing essays in praise of poverty, and in lending money at usurious rates.

  Josh Billings

  Writing, Poverty, Wealth

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• Devotion signifies a life given, or devoted, to God. He therefore is the devout man, who lives no longer to his own will, or the way and spirit of the world, but to the sole will of God, who considers God in everything, who serves God in everything, who makes all the parts of his common life, parts of piety, by doing everything in the name of God, and under such rules as are conformable to His glory.

  William Law

  Life, Men, Names

  William Law, P. G. Stanwood (1978). “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life ; The Spirit of Love”, p.47, Paulist Press

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• Lives devoted to Beauty seldom end well.

  Kenneth Clark

  Ends, Wells

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• I am not interested in being a role model, or in fulfilling the expectations of others. I know I am of most use to others and to myself by being this unique self: Nature, I have noticed, is not particularly devoted to copies, and human beings needn't be either.

  Alice Walker

  Unique, Self, Role Models

  Alice Walker (1997). “The Same River Twice”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• I have the most devoted and loyal following. I could probably type up my grocery list and they'd all want to read it. I love that they're willing to let me go wherever I need to go as an author, and they're happy to come along for the ride as the reader.

  Jodi Picoult

  Want, Lists, Needs

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• Atheism: the religion devoted to the worship of one's own smug sense of superiority.

  Stephen Colbert

  Religion, Atheism, Worship

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• Ugliness, squalor are breeding grounds for revolution. Beauty is conducive to tranquillity, happiness. Beautifying of homes and places of worship began with the dawn of civilization. Beautifying of workplaces is only in its infancy. Yet, since men normally spend more than half of their waking hours at work, surely it is important that adequate attention be devoted to elevating their working environment, whether office or factory, foundry or machine shop, mine or warehouse. Beautiful surroundings subtly encourage beautiful living. Drab surroundings, bad air, bad light, evoke bad reactions.

  B. C. Forbes

  Beautiful, Work, Home

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