Devotional quotes and sayings

I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.

God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.

The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms -- this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the rank of devoutly religious men.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Vows are made in storms and forgotten in calm weather.

The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.

Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.

When I was a junior camp counselor and it was my job to tell the campers a bedtime story or devotional, I would tell them a rapture story.

Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.

If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.