DevotionHappy Wednesday! How is your week going? Welcome to another publication of Wisdom/Virtue Wednesday. Last week’s virtue was gentleness. This week’s virtue is devotion.

Devotion is the virtue that encompasses the spirit of loyalty. Devotion is, in fact, an immense loyalty, love or passionate keenness for a person, activity, or cause. It can also mean a strong commitment or dedication to a purpose.

10 Wisdom Wednesday/Virtue Quotes: Devotion

1. “True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding.”—Ellen G. White

2. “There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.”—Oscar Wilde

3. “Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.”—Morihei Ueshiba

4. “To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.”—A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

5. “Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.”— Albert Einstein

6. “There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.”— Mother Teresa

7. “Whatever I am offered in devotion with a pure heart – a leaf, a flower, fruit, or water – I accept with joy.”—Bhagavad Gita

8. “I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen”— Frank Lloyd Wright

9. “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”— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

10. “Of all the observations I have made on the strike, none has brought forth so much heat and emotion as the stress and emphasis we put on non- violence. Our most loyal supporters, whose courage and devotion has never been doubted, unanimously and stren”— Nelson Mandela