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devotion
«To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.»
Author: Abdul Kalam
| About:
Success
| Keywords:
devotion, devotions, minded, mission, missions, must have, single-minded
«The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it.»
Author: Arthur J. Goldberg
| Keywords:
brooding, compelled, devotion, hostility, passive, pervasive, prohibited, secular
«The need for devotion to something outside ourselves is even more profound than the need for companionship. If we are not to go to pieces or wither away, we must have some purpose in life; for no man can live for himself alone.»
«This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.»
Author: William Law
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conformed, conforming, conforms, devotion, enjoyments, heavenly, holiness, piety, temper, turning, universal, worldly
«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»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
devotion, increased, industry, manifestly, morality, number the, priesthood, separation, The Church, The Industry, The State, total
«The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it - and the glow from that fire can truly light the world»
«The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotion, spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who have never tasted victory or defeat.»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
| Keywords:
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Olympic
«The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little. If this machine gave you the truth immediately, you would not recognize it,»
Author: Ursula K. LeGuin
(Writer)
| Keywords:
devotion, discovering, immediately, machine, scripture, spinning wheel, spins, The wheel, wheel
«The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
devotion, dice, dicing, encounter
«True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| About:
Dedication,
Strength,
Truth
| Keywords:
dedicate, dedicates, dedicating, devotion, one to, permits, submission, submissions