Exclusive Devotion Quotes

Islam is nothing but man's exclusive and total submission to God.

For if the honour paid to Him is shared by others, He altogether ceases to be worshipped, since His religion requires us to believe that He is the one and only God.

How, then, shall God give himself entirely to that one who, besides his God, loves creatures still?

Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work.

Above and beyond anything, we didn't have lives outside of the band.

If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself is for the time lost.

But men are now united in states; that work is done; why now maintain exclusive devotion to one's own state, when this produces terrible evils for all.

The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods.

God will put up with a great many things in the human heart, but there is one thing that He will not put up with in it--a second place. He who offers God a second place, offers Him no place.

I see Christ's love is so kingly, that it will not abide a marrow it must have a throne all alone in the soul.

I was born in the breezes, and I had studied the sea as perhaps few men have studied it, neglecting all else.

In the moment when you make the least petition to God, though it be but a silent wish that he may approve you, or add one moment to your life,--do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought? In that act, the soul stands alone with God, and Jesus is no more present to your mind than your brother or your child.